10 Facts About Douglas McGregor

Douglas Murray McGregor was an American management professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and president of Antioch College from 1948 to 1954.

Douglas McGregor taught at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

When Douglas McGregor was in high school, he worked for his family business, the Douglas McGregor Institute.

Douglas McGregor originally dropped out of Wayne State to work as a gas station attendant in Buffalo, New York, and was a regional manager by 1930, though he later returned to school.

In 1954, Douglas McGregor returned to teaching at MIT, where he taught until his death in 1964.

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Douglas McGregor later served as a member of the Antioch College Ohio Board of Trustees.

Douglas McGregor is responsible for breaking down previous management styles with The X and Y Theory which created a new role for managers to assume.

Douglas McGregor pointed out that the manager's own behaviour would be largely determined by the particular beliefs that he subscribed to.

Douglas McGregor hoped that his book would lead managers to investigate the two sets of beliefs, invent others, test out the assumptions underlying them, and develop managerial strategies that made sense in terms of those tested views of reality.

Douglas McGregor's research focused on managerial leadership and the ways in which employees are affected by the management styles of their superiors.