 | 1971 - 170 pages
...punishment to get them to put forth adequate effort toward the achievement of additional knowledge. • The average human being prefers to be directed, wishes...avoid responsibility, has relatively little ambition, and wants only to attain credit for his labors and not necessarily for the knowledge associated with... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations - 1968 - 316 pages
...of the human characteristics of dislike of work, most people must be coerced, controlled, directed, threatened with punishment to get them to put forth...responsibility, has relatively little ambition, wants security. Theory Y holds that — 1. The expenditure of physical and mental effort in work is as natural as play... | |
 | United States. National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals - 1973 - 682 pages
...punishment to get them to put forth adequate effort toward the achievement of organizational objectives. The average human being prefers to be directed, wishes...relatively little ambition, wants security above all." McGregor challenged the validity of these assumptions and proposed instead his Theory Y, which held... | |
 | Lee Hardy - 1990 - 236 pages
...average human being does not mind the authoritarian style of scientific management because he or she "prefers to be directed, wishes to avoid responsibility, has relatively little ambition, [and] wants security above alL"60 Theory X, then, assumes that the needs of the organization and the... | |
 | Information Resources Management Association. International Conference - 1994 - 564 pages
...towards your altitudes towards your workers Strongly Strongly Agree Agree Neutral Disagree Disagree 22. The average human being prefers to be directed, wishes to avoid responsibility, and has relatively little ambition. 23. Leadership skills can be acquired by most people regardless... | |
 | David K. Banner, David K.. Banner, T. Elaine Gagné, Professor David K Banner - 1995 - 506 pages
...this human characteristic of dislike of work, most people must be coerced, controlled, directed, or threatened with punishment to get them to put forth...avoid responsibility, has relatively little ambition, and wants security above all. The Theory Y model, in contrast, makes these assumptions: 1 . The expenditure... | |
 | N. Huxtable - 1994 - 248 pages
...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 forth...avoid responsibility, has relatively little ambition and above all wants security. Theory Y 1 . The expenditure of physical and mental effort in work is... | |
 | John Lidstone - 1995 - 148 pages
...these alone will not produce the necessary effort. Only the threat of punishment will do the trick .... 3 The average human being prefers to be directed,...relatively little ambition, wants security above all. This assumption of the 'mediocrity of the masses' is rarely expressed so bluntly. In fact a good deal... | |
 | Philip G. Hanson, Bernard Lubin - 1995 - 204 pages
...get them to put forth adequate effort toward the achievement of organizational objectives." (p. 34) 3. "The average human being prefers to be directed,...relatively little ambition, wants security above alL" (p. 34) Since the 1920s, management has moved more in the direction of humanitarian considerations,... | |
 | David I. Cleland - 1996 - 312 pages
...(Adapted with permission from Keith Davis, Human Relations at Work. 3d ed., McGraw-Hill, New York, 1967.) to get them to put forth adequate effort toward the...avoid responsibility, has relatively little ambition, and wants security above all.7 Theory Y assumptions about human behavior are in dramatic contrast to... | |
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The average human being prefers to be directed, wishes to avoid responsibility, has relatively little ambition, wants security above all. 
