In 1960, social psychologist and Professor of Management, Douglas McGregor, identified two very different styles of management that he termed Theory X and Theory Y.

Sixty years ago, social psychologist Douglas McGregor developed two different theories — Theory X and Theory Y — about how managers perceive employees. Theory X managers are authoritarian ...

In McGregor’s wake, one management guru after another rediscovered Theory Y, packaged it in new language, and claimed it as his or her invention. Tom Peters, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, and Charles Handy, ...

Douglas McGregor, an influential organizational psychologist, once described the managerial beliefs behind this approach as "Theory X," a perspective that assumes people are inherently lazy ...

Douglas McGregor (born 1906) ... Although McGregor's book on the theory was not published until 1960, he first outlined it in a speech at MIT's Sloan School of Management in April 1957.

Douglas McGregor, an influential organizational psychologist, once described the managerial beliefs behind this approach as "Theory X," a perspective that assumes people are inherently lazy ...