Tag: Theory X

  • Theory Y Promises

    Theory Y Promises

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    Douglas McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y highlight two management styles: authoritarian control versus participative collaboration. While many organizations champion Theory Y values, they often enforce Theory X practices, prioritizing control over collaboration. This disconnect, amplified by modern workplace technology, erodes trust, rights, and wages. Performative “organizational Kabuki” masks these realities, leaving workers to misplace…

  • Knowledge Work and Outdated Management Theory

    Knowledge Work and Outdated Management Theory

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    I am a knowledge worker. What I do at work is based on my knowledge of law and regulations and processes for dealing with very specific and ultimately common events. I do not think that what I do is difficult, but it took me many years to get to the point where the job I…