ARTICLES A Kind Word for Theory X: Or Why So Many Newfangled Management Techniques Quickly Fail Michael P. Bobic Emmanuel College William Eric Davis Community College Southern Nevada ABSTRACT Forty-three years ago, Douglas McGregor’s The Human Side of Enterprise offered managers a new assumption of management (Theory Y), which would be more effective than what he considered then-current management assumptions (Theory X). While McGregor’s Theory Y model has been widely adopted in management
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Leadership can be described as the manner and approaches that leaders uses to direct, implement plans and motivate people. Basically, it describes how leaders react, interact and treat employees at work. According to Bass (2007, p. 1), leadership can be defined as “an interaction between two or more members of a group that often involves a structuring or restructuring of the situation and the perception and expectations of the members”. There are various leadership styles namely the autocratic
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Biological and Humanistic Approaches to Personality By, Keyanna PSY/250 10/05/15 Christine Hander Biological and Humanistic Approaches to Personality Abraham Maslow was one of the founders of humanistic psychology. Unlike the psychologist before him, he decided to study healthy human beings and their traits and come up with his own theory of why people are the way they are. While casting his studies, he came up with his hierarchy of needs theory. This theory is often explained
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the elderly. Carers must meet the holistic care needs of the client, including: physical, psychological, social, emotional and safety needs. Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a theory of motivation and personality developed by the psychologist Abraham H. Maslow (1908-1970). Maslow's hierarchy (1954) explains human behaviour in terms of basic requirements for survival and growth. The needs hierarchy provides a useful framework for understanding clients, and this framework has been incorporated into several
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An Overview of Motivation Theories Source: [pic] http://www.accel-team.com/motivation/theory_01.html Motivation theorists and their theories (1 of 2) Although the process of management is as old as history, scientific management as we know it today is basically a twentieth century phenomenon. Also, as in some other fields, practice has been far ahead of theory. This is still true in the field of management, contrary to the situation in some of the pure sciences. For instance
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Executive Summary Knowing how and why to motivate employees is an important managerial skill. A problem which usually produces significant amounts of attention from most supervisors, directors and those involved in Human Sources Management is the problem of how to efficiently motivate workers. While it is true that factors like staff recruiting, handling, handling, major, and many more are important to the success of a company, employee motivation is generally considered a primary factor in running
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In his paper, “A Theory of Human Motivation,” the famed American Psychologist Abraham Maslow outlined the basic human needs. These included Physiological, Safety, Belongingness and Love, Esteem, and Self-Actualization in that order. In his study, he points out that every human being has a need to feel safe (McLeod). It is innate to long for security for your person and your property. Even depictions of the earliest man show them with clubs in their hand. Keeping their home and family secure
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Leading and motivating a team effectively Connect the team with Vision and Strategy Wiltshire Sight is a local Charity Supporting people with Sight loss to reach their full potential in Wiltshire and Swindon. There are 2 distinct elements of work within the organisation the direct work with service users and the Administration of the organisation. Wiltshire Sight has recently gone through a significant period of change which saw the development of a new strategy and vision for the organisation
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In a person’s family relatives may say a person has his or her mother’s eye’s and has their father’s nose, or say that a person acts like his or her mother or father. Some say these factors can pass through a person’s genes and other’s say that some actions are human nature. In this paper Delores will discuss the biological and humanistic approaches to personality. She will also discuss how growth needs influence personality formation, describe biological factors that influence the formation of personality
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concept developed by Abraham Maslow and rlates to his hierarchy of needs. In Maslow's scheme, the final stage of psychological development comes when the individual feels assured that his physiological, security, affiliation and affection, self-respect, and recognition needs have been satisfied. As these become dormant, he becomes filled with a desire to realize all of his potential for being an effective, creative, mature human being. "What a man can be, he must be", is the way Maslow expresses it.
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