Day 2 Lectures

Lecture 3 and 4

Again its reasonable late to write at this hour or may be this is a new beginning, a day starting as early as 4 Am. Again am very thankful to Dr. Mandi for putting the deadline as 6AM as in the marathon of many awake nights of MBA this being the first one and I indeed needed this strength since a long time.

 The Theory

There are basically two theory about the managers.

1. The X-theory Managers

He or she is the one who believes employees are lazy and they should be kept under very high supervision.

 2. The Y-Theory Managers

He or she is the one who believes employees are good and keep motivating/appreciating them on regular basis.

Also there are two types of employees.

 a. The lazy employee

 b. The good employee

Now based on the above mentioned theories and types, there arise four type of cases in an organisation. These cases and their impact is mentioned below.

i. X- theory Manager & Lazy Employee

This is the worst case. In principle the employee is lazy and manager knows he is lazy. As an effect the manger will put higher control over the employee which will further decrease employee’s interest in work and thus productivity will be reduced

ii. X-theory Manager & Good Employee

The manger thinks employee is lazy but employee likes the work. The steps taken in this case will put higher control over the employee which will decrease employee’s interest in work and thus productivity will be reduced

iii. X- theory Manager & Lazy Employee

The employee is lazy but manager believes him/her to be good employee so he will keep appreciating the employee and resultantly soon the employee will get motivated and thus will contribute towards better productivity. 

iv. X-theory Manager & Good Employee

The employee is self-motivated and loves the work assigned to him, on top of it hi/her manager makes it a point to appreciate his /her work to him/her as well as higher authorities. This is the best possible case in an organisation and will surely boost the productivity greatly.

The Understanding

The productivity of an organisation largely depends upon the belief with which a manager is leading his/her employees and as seen in the different cases explained above a manager with a good faith I his employees will definitely lead to higher productivity. its absolutely inline with the Pygmalion Belief which put life in a stone sculpture.

Truly a positive belief can do wonders.

Abhishek Kumar

IM - 19 Batch Sec- A

NITIE Mumbai