Introduction In some ways, U.S. business has come a long way from the "leave your brain at the gate" era. Supervisors can no longer get by with saying "Do it because I said so," and executivesâ€"some of them at leastâ€"expect input from their managers, an...

Douglas McGregor's Theory X & Theory Y Douglas McGregor (1906-1964) was an industrial management professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1960's. He was also at one time, the president of Antioch College in Ohio. McGregor believed that the management thinking con...