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Douglas McGregor

Also Known As Douglas Murray McGregor
Management Theorist

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. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Birth Date
1906-09-06 1
Birth Year
1906 2
Death Date
1964-10-01 1
Death Year
1964 2
Birthplace
Detroit, Michigan, U.S. 2
Death Place
Massachusetts 1
Nationality
American 2
Defining Contribution
Formulated 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. 2
Notable Work
The Human Side of Enterprise (1960). 2
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Theory X and Theory Y

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Theories and Models Developed

Theory X and Theory Y, Management Theories

Formulated by McGregor in The Human Side of Enterprise (1960).

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United States

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Source Wikipedia, Douglas McGregorLead sentence 1tier 2
Quote, Lead sentence 1
Douglas Murray McGregor (September 6, 1906 – October 1, 1964) was an American management professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and president of Antioch College from 1948 to 1954.
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1. Wikipedia, Douglas McGregor
  • Lead section, sentence 1, full name
    Douglas Murray McGregor
  • Personal life
    died at the age of 58 in Massachusetts
  • Early life and education
    September 6, 1906
  • Lead section, sentence 1, death date
    October 1, 1964
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2. Wikipedia, Douglas McGregor
Wikipedia
  • opening paragraph
    His 1960 book The Human Side of Enterprise had a profound influence on education practices.
  • In Group: Human Relations and Organizational Behavior Theorists, Lead section
    He has contributed much to the development of the management and motivational theory, and is best known for his Theory X and Theory Y as presented in his book 'The Human Side of Enterprise' (1960), which proposed that manager's individual assumptions about human nature and behavior determined how individual manages
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