An American social psychologist and management professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, who also taught at Harvard University and served as president of Antioch College from 1948 to 1954. His 1960 book The Human Side of Enterprise set out Theory X and Theory Y, contrasting assumptions about worker motivation that shaped decades of subsequent management thinking.
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BirthplaceDetroit, Michigan, U.S. 1 Defining ContributionFormulated Theory X and Theory Y, the contrasting managerial-assumption framework for how a manager's view of human nature shapes their approach to directing employees. 1 Notable WorkThe Human Side of Enterprise (1960). 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Formulated by McGregor in The Human Side of Enterprise (1960).
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