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Theories X, Y and various versions of Z have been used in human resource management, organizational behavior, organizational communication and organizational development. McGregor's Theory X states that workers inherently dislike and avoid work and must be driven to it, in contrast to Theory Y which states that work is natural and can be a ...
Theory X and Theory Y also have implications in military command and control (C2). Older, strictly hierarchical conceptions of C2, with narrow centralization of decision rights, highly constrained patterns of interaction, and limited information distribution tend to arise from cultural and organizational assumptions compatible with Theory X.
According to Ouchi, Theory Z management tends to promote stable employment, high productivity, and high employee morale and satisfaction. "Japanese Management" and Theory Z itself were based on Dr. W. Edwards Deming's famous "14 points" [citation needed]. Deming, an American scholar whose management and motivation theories were more popular ...
This psychological concept proposed that how one viewed human relationships to those of an enterprise determined their style of management. Theory X proposes that people inherently lack the motivation and desire for responsibility and need to be closely supervised, directed, and tightly controlled in order to achieve team objectives. [3]
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Ouchi first came to prominence for his studies of the differences between Japanese and American companies and management styles. His first book in 1981 summarized his observations. Theory Z : How American Management Can Meet the Japanese Challenge and was a New York Times best-seller for over five months.
He has contributed much to the development of the management and motivational theory, and is best known for his Theory X and Theory Y as presented in his book 'The Human Side of Enterprise' (1960), which proposed that manager's individual assumptions about human nature and behavior determined how individual manages their employees.