Spring Q 606

McGregor (1996)

Theory X: Conventional Theory of Management

1. Management is responsible for all organizational elements
2. Management directs the employees’ efforts
3. Employees need to be persuaded through rewards, punishment and control in order for organizational needs to be met.
4. Employees are inherently lazy.
5. Employees resist change.
6. Employees don’t considered organization’s needs.
7. Those on the front line aren’t very bright so must be controlled and led for organization’s needs to be met

• Hard and Soft approach
• Conventional approach inadequate, author examines motivation as related to needs of employee.

Theory Y: New Theory of Management

1. Management is responsible for all organizational elements.
2. People become passive or resistant to organizational needs through experience in the organization.
3. Motivation is inherent in people, it is management’s responsibility to provide opportunities for their people to recognize this in themselves.
4. Management provides ways for people to set and achieve their own goals that will also meet the organization’s objectives.
5. Relies on self-direction and self-control

• Difference between 2 Theories is like difference between being treated as a child and treated as an adult.
• Some management claim to "buy" the Theory Y ideas but try to apply them within a Theory X framework

Have this article and others laid out on a table for easier comparison but can't use tables in a Blog so will bring to class next week. This form will have to do for now. Also have read Fullan article. Will post about it at a later date. I think we should put a link to this site on the class Blog so Willow and others can see our work. I can't see putting the work out three times: here, on our personal Blog and class Blog. What do you guys think?

Judy

# posted by J. Minion @ 8:42 PM