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  2. Theory X and Theory Y - Wikipedia

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    Instead, McGregor feels that an approach located in the middle would be the most effective implementation of Theory X. [7] Because managers and supervisors are in almost complete control of the work, this produces a more systematic and uniform product or work flow. Theory X can benefit a work place that utilizes an assembly line or manual labor.

  3. Douglas McGregor - Wikipedia

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    Having an attitude that workers generally lack motivation, enjoyment, and responsibility in their work is a manager that subscribes to Theory X. Having an attitude that workers are content, motivated, and long for responsibility is manager that subscribes to Theory Y. [9] He is responsible for breaking down previous management styles with The X ...

  4. Content theory - Wikipedia

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    Managers tend to believe one or the other and treat their employees accordingly. Theory X states that employees dislike and try to avoid work, so they must be coerced into doing it. Most workers do not want responsibilities, lack ambition, and value job security more than anything else. [2]

  5. Iron law of wages - Wikipedia

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    According to Alexander Gray, [5] Ferdinand Lassalle "gets the credit of having invented" the phrase the "iron law of wages", as Lassalle wrote about "das eiserne und grausame Gesetz" (the iron and cruel law). [6] According to Lassalle, wages cannot fall below subsistence wage level because without subsistence, laborers will be unable to work.

  6. Frederick Winslow Taylor - Wikipedia

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    Frederick W. Taylor was the first man in recorded history who deemed work deserving of systematic observation and study. On Taylor's 'scientific management' rests, above all, the tremendous surge of affluence in the last seventy-five years which has lifted the working masses in the developed countries well above any level recorded before, even ...

  7. Span of control - Wikipedia

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    Later on, this statement was diversified when Davis (1951) divided managerial work into two categories, one requiring the attention to physical work, the other one requiring mental activity. Depending on the type of supervision, a span of 3-8 subordinates for managers at higher levels was considered adequate, while first level supervisors, i.e ...

  8. Skepticism and confusion: Inside Elon Musk’s latest ... - AOL

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    Workers aren't banking on a recently offered stock grant and are in the dark about moving out of the social media service's headquarters, insiders told Fortune. Skepticism and confusion: Inside ...

  9. Job satisfaction - Wikipedia

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    Job satisfaction, employee satisfaction or work satisfaction is a measure of workers' contentment with their job, whether they like the job or individual aspects or facets of jobs, such as nature of work or supervision. [1] Job satisfaction can be measured in cognitive (evaluative), affective (or emotional), and behavioral components. [2]