Humanistic Perspective

Identify the significant achievement with which each management scholar in this table is associated.

Achievement

Management Scholar

With Fritz Roethlisberger, he conducted the Relay Assembly Test Room experiments at the

Hawthorne Electric Plant.

This individual used Maslow's work as the basis for his own work defining two different

Douglas McGregor ${?}_{(})$ types of managers.

Using what you know about MCGregor's ideas, identify each assumption as belonging to Theory $x$ or Theory $Y.$

Assmption

Theory

The expenditure of physical and mental effort in work is as natural as play or rest. The average human being does not inherently dislike work.

Because of the human characteristic of dislike for work, most people must be coerced, controlled, directed, or threatened with punishment to get them to put forth adequate effort toward the achievement of organizational objectives.