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1.0 THEORY X
What is theory X? The “Theory X” management theory holds that the average employee has little ambition, dislikes work and must be coerced, controlled and directed to achieve organizational objectives. Those in management who believe the behavioral assumption of “Theory X” take an autocratic approach to get work done.
This theory which has been proven counter effective in most modern practice, management assumes employees are inherently lazy and will avoid work if they can and that they inherently dislike work. An example is the time clock. You have to clock in partly because the management thinks you'll arrive late and leave early if you don't.
This theory assumes human beings inherently dislike work and distasteful towards work. However, as we know, this theory also emphasizes that people do not have ambitions and they shirk responsibilities. As employees, we must do the work efficiently, responsibly, and make our managers proud with us.
This theory also assumes that people creativity. Each person has their own creativity. People nowadays lack of self-motivated and require to be externally controlled. So, they should be prepared if anything happen unlucky because of their lack-motivated. It emphasizes upon centralization of authority in decision-making process.
1.1 THEORY X ASSUMPTIONS
There are the Theory X Assumptions:
* Manager is responsible for organizing the elements of productive enterprises like money, material, equipment; people are in the interest of economic ends * People do not like work and try to avoid it. * Managers have to control, direct, coerce, and threaten employees to get them to work toward organizational goals. * People prefer to be