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Douglas McGregor. Douglas Murray McGregor (September 6, 1906 – October 1, 1964) was an American management professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and president of Antioch College from 1948 to 1954. He also taught at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.
This is the only official Douglas Macgregor YouTube channel. Video chronicles of retired U.S. Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor's adventures around the world advocating military reforms...
Douglas Abbott Macgregor (born January 4, 1947) is an American retired colonel, government official, author, consultant, and political commentator. Macgregor was a leader in an early tank battle in the Gulf War and was a top planner in the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
The concept of Theory X and Theory Y was developed by social psychologist Douglas McGregor. It describes two contrasting sets of assumptions that managers make about their people: Theory X – people dislike work, have little ambition, and are unwilling to take responsibility.
MIT Sloan Professor Douglas McGregor was an influential management scholar whose book "The Human Side of Enterprise" had an enormous impact on management theory.
They were created by Douglas McGregor while he was working at the MIT Sloan School of Management in the 1950s, and developed further in the 1960s. McGregor's work was rooted in motivation theory alongside the works of Abraham Maslow, who created the hierarchy of needs.
May 20, 2024 · Douglas McGregor’s (1960) Theory X and Theory Y challenged the long-standing autocratic approach to leadership, offering several important insights into motivating and leading more effectively (Pearson, 2020).
