The Front Line Guide to Creating a Winning Management Style

Creating a Winning Management Style

16

join-up process? Far too many managers choose not to make

the effort.

Reinterpreting McGregor

Douglas McGregor drew the dividing line between authori-

tarian management as the management norm and employee

participation as the management ideal. The either/or tenor of

his proposition that Theory X is the opposite of Theory Y

supports the interpretation by many consultants and academ-

ics that Theory X managers wear the black hats.

The Theory Y manager, conversely, has been positioned

as a hero and the ideal manager: the man or woman who

wears the white hat in the corporate combat between the

quick, productive, ...