Spaces to support a variety of activities. In 1960, social scientist and MIT professor Douglas McGregor introduced the concept of Theory X and Theory Y management. Today, this concept can help ...

Henry Gantt’s management theory has had a profound impact on project management practices and continues to be widely used today. Gantt’s management theory incorporates a record of the work that has ...

Increasing productivity in the workplace has long been a focus for business owners and theorists alike. Prominent studies dating back a century focused on increasing human productivity in the ...

In the dynamic world of business management, one size rarely fits all when it comes to leadership and organizational strategy. Contingency theory in management recognizes this reality by proposing ...

Small-business owners are legendary for their gift of gab, but you may want to bolt the door before you suggest your next topic of deep-think conversation: crisis management theory. At first, the ...

The concept of sales "theory" or marketing "theory" is problematic. This is because these are really subsets of a broader microeconomic approach to the manipulation or creation of demand. The concept ...

Sixty years ago, social psychologist Douglas McGregor developed two different theories — Theory X and Theory Y — about how managers perceive employees. Theory X managers are authoritarian. They ...

Management theory books and disaster films have something in common. Both confront the prospect of the near-total destruction of life as we know it. In the movies, the hero invariably realizes what ...

NEXT year marks the 500th anniversary of the event which, more than any other, gave birth to the modern world: Martin Luther promulgated his 95 theses and called the Catholic church to account for its ...