Mcgregor theory of motivation

  

  

Title

Introduction

The Origins of the Anglo-American Industrial Age Class System

Taylor

Gantt & Williams

MacGregor and Theories X & Y

MBO, TQM, & ISO

Analysis of the Trends

The Hawthorne Effect

General Foods

Conclusion

Bibliography

 

 

 

  

Douglas McGregor taught psychology and industrial management at MIT and was president of Antioch College from 1948 to 1954.  In 1960 he published The Human Side of Management, in which he introduced the concept of Theory X and Theory Y styles of management.³³

Theory X was McGregor’s name for the style of management most in use at the time.  In this style, management and workers were pitted against each other in constant struggle.  Managers believed that employees were basically lazy, shiftless, undisciplined, and unconcerned about issues relating to the company, such as quality of product and/or service and maintaining cost controls.  In