Relational Concerns in Corporate Environments IX

Relational Concerns in Corporate Environments IX Douglas McGregor (Heil, Bennis & Stephens, 2000) referred to this as the X and Y theory of collaboration. One can think of X represented by workmen’s arms crossed in defiance and representing a lack of action, and Y as in the response, “why not”, a more open-minded and reasonable […]

Relational Concerns in Corporate Environments V

Relational Concerns in Corporate Environments V Industry will always outpace humanity, said Douglas McGregor (Heil, Bennis, & Stephens, 2000). True words in an industrialized age and even more so in a computerized, Internet era. Initial ideas for and assumptions one hundred years ago did not often focus on the individuals’ motivation or their sense of […]