Employee motivation

  Application of McGregor’s X and Y in Employee Motivation In the 1960s, Douglas McGregor, a management professor at MIT, presented the theory that a manager's attitude might affect staff motivation. McGregor developed two hypotheses for how managers understand and respond to employee motivation in his 1960 book, The Human Side of Enterprise   (Mohammad Atiqur Rahman Sarker, 2012 ) . He called these competing approaches to inspiring action "Theory X management" and "Theory Y leadership," respectively. A manager's job in both views is to make the most efficient use of available resources, including employees. Beyond this shared feature, however, their underlying worldviews and values diverge greatly. In the 1960s, Douglas McGregor, a social psychologist, established two competing ideas to explain how managers' perceptions about what drives their workers might impact their management style   (Pepitone, 2000) . These, he designated as Theories X and Y....