\"What are your assumptions (implicit as well as explicit) about the most effective way to manage people?\" So began Douglas McGregor in this 1960 management classic. It was a seemingly simple question he asked, yet it led to a fundamental revolution in management. Today, with the rise of the global economy, the information revolution, and the growth of knowledge-driven work, McGregor's simple but provocative question continues to resonate-perhaps more powerfully than ever before. Heralded as one of the most important pieces of management literature ever written, a touchstone for scholars and a handbook for practitioners, The Human Side of Enterprise continues to receive the highest accolades nearly half a century after its initial publication. Influencing such major management gurus such as Peter Drucker and Warren Bennis, McGregor's revolutionary Theory Y-which contends that individuals are self-motivated and self-directed-and Theory X-in which employees must be commanded and controlled-has been widely taught in business schools, industrial relations schools, psychology departments, and professional development seminars for over four decades. In this special annotated edition of the worldwide management classic, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Senior Research Scientist in MIT's Sloan School of Management and Engineering Systems Division, shows us how today's leaders have successfully incorporated McGregor's methods into modern management styles and practices. The added quotes and commentary bring the content right into today's debates and business models. Now more than ever, the timeless wisdom of Douglas McGregor can light the path towards a management style that nurtures leadership capability, creates effective teams, ensures internal alignment, achieves high performance, and cultivates an authentic, value-driven workplace--lessons we all need to learn as we make our way in this brave new world of the 21st century.

The Human Side of Enterprise.

行銷硏究 : Marketing research

What makes a leader

Built to last: successful habits of visionary companies

The interviews in the first five episodes were filmed at George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch in California, with the sixth interview conducted at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, during the final two summers of Campbell’s life. (The series was broadcast on television a year after his death.) In these discussions Campbell presents his ideas about comparative mythology and the ongoing role ofmyth in human society. These talks include excerpts from Campbell’s seminal work The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

The power of myth

Human performance improvement and performance management are discussed through the visor of Confucian values. In line with the Way of the Tao and filled with Confucian values ('Heavenly directed'), the Confucian (person) leader, learns and grows in terms of his or her ability or competence, overall character and motivation. There is continuous learning and improvement, and he or she increases his or her ability to become efficient and productive. And not only that, not only being just and with moral courage - in spite of obstacles, he or she takes the challenges; he or she acts and stands tall. This article is an adaptation of Low's (2013a) 'Confucian Leadership, D Way'.

Human performance improvement and Confucian values

This paper through literature review, focus group sessions and in depth interviews with several Singapore corporate leaders, discusses fraud management and its key preventive measures. While several preventive measures are highlighted, the emphasis here is on creating a strong culture with the leader, the torchbearer and setting the undertone. In short, the heart-ware perspectives of fraud prevention are given a special focus.

Beyond the Financials: Fraud Management and Corporate Culture

Devoid of jargons and with reference to the founding father of Taoism, Lao Tzu’s Tao Teh Ching (the “Book of Meaning and Life”), the practitioner-academician examines the various Taoism principles or practical ways in managing stress; he examines them in clear and simple ways. These ten essentials or pearls of wisdom, when applied, can help readers to relieve or diminish their stress.

Managing Stress – Practicing the Taoism Principles to Reduce Stress

In this qualitative study, through interviews with 31 Taoists and proponents of Aikido, the researcher uncovers the relevance and applications of Lao Tzu's Tao De Ching in business negotiations. This paper's intention is to look at Tao De Ching, understand its key tenets, and interestingly relate how the esoteric Tao De Ching can still be relevant and practical. Indeed, this 2,500 years-old Chinese wisdom can and should be aptly applied in modern negotiations.

Tao and Negotiation - Excelling in Harmonizing with Others

Negotiation can be taken as an interpersonal decision-making process necessary whenever we cannot achieve our objectives single-handedly (Thompson, 2005: 2). This means that parties are committed to peaceful means for resolving their dispute; they have to make a decision about their interdependent goals or objectives (Lewicki & Litterer, 1985). Computer and communications technologies such as phone, faxes, e-mailing, internet, e-commerce, teleconferencing, instant messaging, and other information systems embedded with sophisticated negotiation algorithm (Grunbacher (2003)) are being used in the process of negotiations by involved organizations to achieve the goal of negotiation in their business deals. This papers deals with issues such as transparency in negotiations and e-negotiations versus auctions, negative and positive aspects of technology and human face to face negotiations. Last section presents a list of negotiation softwares, and some major trends in the technology (Information Systems) in relation to e-negotiations.

K C Patrick Low

Papers

Human performance improvement and Confucian values

Beyond the Financials: Fraud Management and Corporate Culture

Managing Stress – Practicing the Taoism Principles to Reduce Stress

Tao and Negotiation - Excelling in Harmonizing with Others

Computer and Communication Technologies for Negotiations