Douglas McGregor on Power
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Douglas McGregor, catalogued under power, with dates where available.
This page displays 5 quotations attributed to Douglas McGregor and filed under "power" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Douglas McGregor, entry #223371: "The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management."
Attributed to Douglas McGregor, entry #75328: "Man will exercise self-direction and self-control in the service of objectives to which he is committed."
5 Quotes by Douglas McGregor on Power
"The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management."
"Man will exercise self-direction and self-control in the service of objectives to which he is committed."
"If there is a single assumption which pervades conventional organizational theory, it is that authority is the central, indispensable means of managerial control."
"Formal theories of organization have been taught in management courses for many years, and there is an extensive literature on the subject. The textbook principles of organization — hierarchical structure, authority, unity of command, task specialization, division of staff and line, span of control, equality of responsibility and authority, etc. — comprise a logically persuasive set of assumptions which have had a profound influence upon managerial behavior."
"The effectiveness of authority as a means of control depends first of all upon the ability to enforce it through the use of punishment. In the two organizations which have been the models for classical organization theory, the situation with respect to enforcement is clear. In the military, authority is enforceable through the court-martial, with the death penalty as the extreme form of punishment. In the Church, excommunication represents the psychological equivalent of the death penalty."