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" The average human being has an inherent dislike of work and will avoid it if he can. 2. Because of this human characteristic of dislike of work, most people must be coerced, controlled, directed, threatened with punishment to get them to put forth adequate... "
Corrections - Page 436
by United States. National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals - 1973 - 636 pages
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Perspectives in Defense Management

1967 - 76 pages
...McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1960), pp. 33-48. A person who believes In "Theory X" believes that: "(1) The average human being has an Inherent dislike of work and will avoid It If he can. (2) Therefore, most people must be coerced, controlled, directed, threatened with punishment to get...
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Human Resources Development: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Government ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations - 1968 - 316 pages
...and Theory Y", published in his book, "The Human Side of Enterprise." According to Theory X — 1. The average human being has an inherent dislike of work and will avoid It if he can. 2. Because of the human characteristics of dislike of work, most people must be coerced, controlled,...
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The Fabric of This World: Inquiries Into Calling, Career Choice, and the ...

Lee Hardy - 1990 - 236 pages
...nature employed by the traditional approach to management McGregor calls "Theory X." Theory X assumes that "the average human being has an inherent dislike of work and will avoid it if he can."ss Because of this inherent dislike of work, "most people must be coerced, controlled, directed,...
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The First Wave of Decolonization

Mark Thurner - 2019 - 294 pages
...managerial control. (Quoted in Peters and Waterman 1982: 94) His theory 'X' was that, (1) the average human has an inherent dislike of work and will avoid it if he can, (2) people, therefore, need to be coerced, controlled, directed, and threatened with punishment to...
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Motivating Your Sales Force

John Lidstone - 1995 - 148 pages
...skill in discovering how to realise abundant but latent human potentiality and resources. Theory X 1 The average human being has an inherent dislike of work and will avoid it if he can. This assumption has deep roots . . . The stress that management places on productivity, on the concept...
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Small Business Total Quality

N. Huxtable - 1994 - 248 pages
...leadership style. * McGregor, D. (1985) The Human Side of Enterprise, New York, McGraw-Hill. Theory X 1 . The average human being has an inherent dislike of work and will avoid it if he can. 2. Most people must be coerced, controlled, directed, threatened with punishment to get them to put...
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Designing Effective Organizations: Traditional and Transformational Views

David K. Banner, T. Elaine Gagné - 1995 - 506 pages
...beings: 1. The average person has an inherent dislike for work and will avoid it if he or she can. 2. Because of this human characteristic of dislike of...most people must be coerced, controlled, directed, or threatened with punishment to get them to put forth adequate effort toward the achievement of organizational...
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Answers to Questions Most Frequently Asked about Organization Development

Philip G. Hanson, Bernard Lubin - 1995 - 204 pages
...workers by reward and punishment. Its assumptions, as described by McGregor (1960), are as follows: 1. "The average human being has an inherent dislike of work and will avoid il if he can." (p. 33) 2. "Because of this human characteristic of dislike of work, most people must...
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Strategic Management of Teams

David I. Cleland - 1996 - 312 pages
...leading people toward the organizational purposes. For theory X, these assumptions are as follows: L The average human being has an inherent dislike of work and will avoid it if he or she can. 2. Because of this human characteristic of dislike of work, most people must be coerced,...
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Kellogg's Six-hour Day

Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt - 1996 - 276 pages
...The first and most important of these assumptions, from which the others flowed as corollaries, was: "The average human being has an inherent dislike of work and will avoid it when he can." With "deep roots" extending back to the punishment of Adam and Eve, this view naturally...
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