Loading...
Loading...
MIT management theorist · 1906–1964
How you see workers becomes how they work.
In The Human Side of Enterprise (1960), McGregor contrasted two assumptions managers make: Theory X (people dislike work and need control) and Theory Y (people are motivated and seek responsibility). The assumption you hold shapes the workplace you create.
Theory X vs. Theory Y
Theory Y managers — who assume workers want to do good work — design for participation and autonomy, creating the very conditions that make the assumption true.
Trusting, participative management raises engagement and performance at once; the self-fulfilling prophecy cuts both ways, so the generous assumption usually pays off for both sides.
Treat staff as partners who want the mission to succeed, and they more often will.
Source: Douglas McGregor, "The Human Side of Enterprise"
The framework they used
Labor-Management Partnership