Metadata
- Author: Wikipedia
- Full Title:: Theory X and Theory Y
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_X_and_Theory_Y
- Finished date:: 2023-02-22
Highlights
Mnemonic device for the two theories: a person refusing to work (“X”) and a person cheering the opportunity to work (“Y”) (View Highlight)
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Because managers and supervisors are in almost complete control of the work, this produces a more systematic and uniform product or work flow. Theory X can benefit a work place that utilizes an assembly line or manual labor. Using this theory in these types of work conditions allows employees to specialize in particular work areas which in turn allows the company to mass-produce a higher quantity and quality of work. (View Highlight)
Theory X and Theory Y also have implications in military command and control (C2). Older, strictly hierarchical conceptions of C2, with narrow centralization of decision rights, highly constrained patterns of interaction, and limited information distribution tend to arise from cultural and organizational assumptions compatible with Theory X (View Highlight)
Mission Command, for example, is a command philosophy to which many modern military establishments aspire, and which involves individual judgment and action within the overall framework of the commander’s intent. Its assumptions about the value of individual initiative make it more a Theory-Y than a Theory X philosophy (View Highlight)