Question

Define traning discuss the three different purpose of learning according to dougler mc gregor

Answer 1

Many leading management figures of recent years, including Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Warren Bennis (see article—who was a student of McGregor's at MIT) and Tom Peters, have acknowledged that much of modern management thinking goes back to McGregor. Bennis says, “Just as every economist, knowingly or not, pays his dues to Keynes, we are all, one way or another, disciples of McGregor.”

Some, however, have criticised his ideas as being tough on the weaker members of society, those who need guidance and who are not necessarily self-starters. There are, moreover, conspicuous examples of companies that have followed Theory Y precepts and yet foundered: DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation), steered by its charismatic founder, Ken Olsen, for one.

Shortly before he died, McGregor was developing an outline for something he called Theory Z, an answer to many of the criticisms of Theories X and Y. But his thoughts were never widely published.

Notable publications

“The Human Side of Enterprise”, McGraw-Hill, 1960; annotated edn, McGraw-Hill, 2006