11 Quotes by Douglas McGregor

An objective without a plan is a dream.

Man is a wanting animal – as soon as one of his needs is satisfied, another appears in its place. This process is unending. It continues from birth to death.

Our goal should be minimum standardization of human behavior.

Man lives by bread alone, when there is no bread.

The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management.

Most teams aren’t teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with the boss. Each individual vying with the others for power, prestige and position.

Relationships is a growing part of life; not life growing apart.

It is probable that one day we shall begin to draw organization charts as a series of linked groups rather than as a hierarchical structure of individual “reporting” relationships. These.

Above all, it is necessary to recognize that knowledge cannot be pumped into human beings the way grease is forced into a machine. The individual may learn; he is not taught.