OL140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: William Ouchi, Theory Z, Theory X And Theory Y
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Ol 140 - oc2: lecture: week of january 24th 2018: Lecture notes: chapter 4: understanding philosophy and styles: At the time, the conventional thinking about management"s role in organization was to: Organize and oversee the key components of an organization including people, equipment, money, and materials. Guide and direct people, and control them so that they could extend efforts to help the organization reach its goals. Let"s go back one step to understand the standard management/leadership approaches and the assumptions about employees that mcgregor was hoping to shine light on. Mcgregor labelled these traditional assumptions and approaches as a theory x approach. In addition, mcgregor suggested that these same theory x managers also held the following. Less explicit, but widespread beliefs about the average employee: They are inherently self-centered and indifferent to organizational needs. They are gullible and not very bright. Some managers still operate under theory x views.
