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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. [1] He also taught at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. His 1960 book The Human Side of Enterprise had a profound influence on education practices.
Douglas Abbott Macgregor (born January 4, 1947) is an American retired colonel, government official, author, consultant, and political commentator. [1] Macgregor was a leader in an early tank battle in the Gulf War [2] and was a top planner in the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia . [3]
Theory X and Theory Y. Theory X and Theory Y are theories of human work motivation and management. They were created by Douglas McGregor while he was working at the MIT Sloan School of Management in the 1950s, and developed further in the 1960s. [1] McGregor's work was rooted in motivation theory alongside the works of Abraham Maslow, who ...
Theory Z is a name for various theories of human motivation built on Douglas McGregor 's Theory X and Theory Y. Theories X, Y and various versions of Z have been used in human resource management, organizational behavior, organizational communication and organizational development. McGregor's Theory X states that workers inherently dislike and ...
Ewan Gordon McGregor OBE (/ ˈ j uː ə n / YOO-ən; [1] born 31 March 1971) is a Scottish actor. His accolades include a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award . In 2013, he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services to drama and charity.
Kurt Lewin founded the National Training Laboratories Institute for Applied Behavioral Science, known as the NTL Institute, an American non-profit behavioral psychology center, in 1947. NTL became a major influence [1] in modern corporate training programs, and in particular developed the T-groups methodology that remains in place today.
After being trained, McGregor joined 23 Squadron at Baisieux on 20 April 1917 as a Spad VII pilot. He survived Bloody April to begin his streak of aerial successes on 13 May 1917. On that day, he teamed with Conn Standish O'Grady to set a German Albatros D.III aflame in midair. On 6 June at dawn, he shot up the German aerodrome at Chateau du ...
Gregor MacGregor. Involved in Amelia Island affair of 1817. Claimed to be Cazique of Poyais from 1821 to 1837. General Gregor MacGregor (24 December 1786 – 4 December 1845) was a Scottish soldier, adventurer, and confidence trickster who attempted from 1821 to 1837 to draw British and French investors and settlers to "Poyais", a fictional ...