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1MOTIVATIONAL THEORY- THEORY X AND THEORY YThe one of the motivational theory is theory X and theory Y which was given by Douglas McGregor in his famous book ‘The Human Side of Enterprise’ which he wrote in 1960. McGregor was an American social psychologist. The theory X and theory Y demonstrates the two distinct models of the workforce motivation which are being applied by the managers in the management of human resource, organizational behavior, development, and communication. Theory X focuses on the significance of supervision, penalties, external rewards, etc. Whereas, theory Y focuses on the job satisfaction and embolden workers in order to complete the task without any supervision. The theory X and theory Y remained as a basic principle through whichpositive style of management and techniques are being developed. The XY theory of McGregor remained central to the development of an organization and the improvement of a culture of an organization (Lawter et al., 2015). The theory X and theory Y are a simple and favorable reminder of the rules in order to manage people who are forgotten because of the pressure of day-to-day activities of the business. The ideas of McGregor are eloquently related to the modernunderstanding of the contract of psychology that offers various ways to accelerate the nature of theory X leadership and the constructive nature of theory Y leadership. The style of managementof theory X assumes that the employee has no or little ambition and they believe in achieving individual goals. This theory states that the managers are more intelligent than the employees and are less lazy as compared to the employees because of such issues employees require supervision in order to work efficiently and effectively. Whereas, the style of management of theory Y states that the employees are self -motivated and doesn’t require any supervision. The employees are considered as the assets of the company. The theory states that the employees are capable enough to take the responsibility of the tasks which are to be performed. McGregor

2stated that the theory X is applied to the employees who are disinclined to work and required to be passionate about work. The theory states that the style of authoritarian should be adapted in order to keep the employees on track. McGregor stated that the theory Y is applied to the employees who have a great level of autonomy in the workplace. The employees focus more on achieving long-term strategic goals of the company, and they are mainly motivated by intrinsic rewards. The employees are more committed towards their work (Gürbüz et al., 2014).Being an individual, I disagree with the theory X and theory Y of motivational theory because this theory makes the employment difficult and harder because the theory X states that supervision is required for the employees as they are lethargic and are not efficient. And theory Y states that the employees are self-motivated and doesn’t require any supervision by the managers. It is likely that the organization would reject an applicant as he is not coherent with the theory of X and Y which the organization uses. Furthermore, if the organizations will closely follow the theory X and theory Y, then it will be very difficult for the candidates to get the jobs according to their capability and potential because the organization will not be able to manage the various attributes of the candidate at the workplace. The candidates will get a bad impression of the company that they heavily discriminate among the candidates. In my opinion, using theoryX and theory Y of motivation theory will make the employment very difficult, and the company might lose the talented candidates because of the theory X and theory Y. The other reason for which I disagree with the theory X and theory Y of the motivational theory is that it works on the assumptions. As theory X states that the managers assume that they are more intelligent and passionate as compared to the employees. The managers also assume that the employees are lethargic in nature and works for own benefit rather than the organization’s benefit. Whereas, the theory Y states that the managers believe that employees are the valuable

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