Early Theories Of Motivation (cont. MeGregor's Theory X and Theory Y -assumes that workers have little ambition, dislike work,want to avoid responsibility,and need to be closely controlled assumed that lower-order needs dominated mcom -assumes that workers can exercise self- direction,accept and actually seek out responsibility,and consider work to be a natural activity assumed that higher-order needs dominated no evidence that either set of assumptions is valid 一 no evidence that managing on the basis of Theory Y makes employees more motivated ©Prentice Hall,2002 16-9Early Theories Of Motivation (cont.) McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y – Theory X - assumes that workers have little ambition, dislike work, want to avoid responsibility, and need to be closely controlled • assumed that lower-order needs dominated – Theory Y - assumes that workers can exercise self￾direction, accept and actually seek out responsibility, and consider work to be a natural activity • assumed that higher-order needs dominated – no evidence that either set of assumptions is valid – no evidence that managing on the basis of Theory Y makes employees more motivated © Prentice Hall, 2002 16-9