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    established by McGregor i.e. Theory X and Theory Y and also theory of The Open System View. The paper will initially introduce to the theory. This will be followed by their contributions and limitations in managing employees today. According to Douglas, human behavior is motivated by the style

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    His father Arthur MacArthur was a United States Army captain. Being born in a Barracks, Douglas MacArthur said that “it was here I learned to ride and shoot even before I could read or write—indeed, almost before I could walk or talk”. Being raised there was the first of many times Douglas MacArthur would ride and shoot a gun. In the year 1893, his family moved to San Antonio and at 13 years old, Douglas MacArthur attended West Texas military academy and there “he began to show academic promise”

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    Managers who believe in theory Y assumptions create trust based firms with empowered employees (McGregor, Douglas. The Human Side of Enterprise. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1960)”. I am a manger, who believes in Theory Y. Therefore, I have difficulty accepting employees who behave according to Theory X. b. What personal values seem to underline your

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    The Bataan Death March effect on war On December 7, 1941 the Japanese bombed the United States’ Naval Base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The Japanese did not stop there. Their attacks continued to the Philippines, where U.S. forces were stationed. After some time battling, the U.S. and Filipino troops had to surrender and the Japanese took them over. The Bataan Death March did not only affect the United States, Philippines, and Japanese, it affected how war trials were held and carried

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    Douglas McGregor was an American professor and psychologist who is most famous for his book, The Human Side of Enterprise, published in 1960. In this work, he conceives and examines two theories of behaviors in the workplace. They are known as Theory X and Theory Y. These distinct theories describe how individuals generally behave at work and how different types of managers might govern their employees. They have been used over the years to help managers to understand their employees’ needs, behavior

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    For this assignment I chose to visit the McDonald’s on Okeechobee Boulevard in West Palm Beach and the Chick-Fil-A on Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard in West Palm Beach. I visited McDonald’s first just after what could be considered the dinner rush. When walking into the store the first thing I noticed was the floor was fairly dirty, especially near the trash receptacles. There were clearly visible items of food that had fallen off of people’s trays as they attempted to clear their trays off. I got into

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    organization is a key element in encouraging and ensuring that employees to produce desired results. Some employees usually take great pride in their work and obtain satisfaction from performing their duties well. Such employees are innately motivated (Douglas McGregor: Theory X and Theory Y, 2015). Other employees are never proud of their work. They simply work because they believe that they cannot survive without their jobs. Such employees are externally motivated (they require an outside force to compel

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    I believe that Douglas Mawson endured the most adversity while contributing to science, he suffered in many ways, including losing his friends and his sled dogs, he also had a lack of food and energy, and lastly he had his soles of his feet were actually beginning to fall off. The seasoned explorer, Douglas Mawson had suffered a lot through his race; he contributed to science, yet still was able to survive. Henrietta Lacks had her cells taken for scientific purposes without permission from her family

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    The development and implementation of 3D in popular cinema shares many similarities with the introduction of color into films. If we examine the histories of both technologies, Moana’s color analogue is Douglas Sirk’s melodrama All That Heaven Allows. In terms of timeline, both come at a point when the art form is still in between the astonishment and absorption phases of using the technology. Though All That Heaven Allows was made around fifteen years after the first technicolor films, the movie

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    1. Refusal of the Potsdam Ultimatum 1.1 The End of the Pacific War As the Second World War was coming to a close, all that was needed for the war to end was the surrender of the Japanese. General Douglas MacArthur stated that he believed that the bomb was completely unnecessary from a military perspective and that Japan was “practically defeated.” Truman knew that Japan was in danger of losing the war, yet he still chose to make the decision to drop the bomb, which shows there were other factors

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