4 Discuss the assumption of Douglas Mc Gregor Theory X and Theory Y?
x assumes employees are unmotivated etc and have to be handled with severity like prison inmates
Y assumes employees want to be productive, helpful and creative and can be managed to maximize these efforts.
A theory X manager will soon beat the motivation out of a theory Y worker, thus proving to himself that X was right all along.
A theory Y manager will eventually figure out that a theory X worker believes people are unmotivated because the worker himself is unmotivated.
Thus, it is better for work teams to be all X or all Y. Given that, the Y teams will out produce the X teams.
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