Douglas Murray McGregor was an American management professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and president of Antioch College from 1948 to 1954. He was a student of Abraham Maslow and contributed to the development of management and motivational theory. He is best known for Theory X and Theory Y, presented in his 1960 book The Human Side of Enterprise, which proposed that a manager's individual assumptions about human nature and behavior determine how that manager manages employees.
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is best known for his Theory X and Theory Y as presented in his book 'The Human Side of Enterprise' (1960)
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Douglas Murray McGregor (September 6, 1906, October 1, 1964) was an American management professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and president of Antioch College from 1948 to 1954.
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