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The Human Side of Enterprise

by Douglas McGregor

Theory that managing employees as self-motivated achievers yields better results than command-control

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Douglas McGregor

Douglas McGregor was an MIT management professor whose Theory X and Theory Y framework transformed thinking about human motivation at work. Theory Y, which assumes workers are intrinsically motivated and seek responsibility, became the philosophical foundation for participative management.

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