biography
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| (1906–64)
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| biography:
| US industrial psychologist. He studied at Harvard, and taught there (1935–7) before moving to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he helped set up an Industrial Relations section. He was president of Antioch College (1948–54), and returned to MIT to become the first Sloan Fellows professor (1962). His highly regarded book, The Human Side of Enterprise (1960), discussed two contrasting theories of motivation at work, which he called ‘Theory X and Theory Y’. |
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