Theories Of Mcgregor's Theory X And Y

ABSTRACT

This paper is introducing a cross sectional point of view by applying managerial theories of McGregor’s Theory X & Y as well as Principle of Compatibility to access students’ academic performance. Deriving from several theoretical supports, students’ academic performance is caused intrinsically by compatibility between their attitudes and behavior towards their learnings. Whereby, rather than measuring students’ personal traits, educators should take efforts to assess students’ learning attitudes so that their adequate learning behavior would be expected. Hence this paper is calling for attention from practitioners to engage in understanding the need to access students’ attitude towards learning. The significance of this paper is to

The theory of X & Y was developed when McGregor examined behavior theories of individuals at work and building on Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. McGregor argued that management style and decision making depended on which theory management believed it applied to their staff. Theory X proposed people are sharing attitudes of lazy, dislike work and need threat of job loss and financial incentives to work hard. They need direction and control and cannot take responsibility. The Theory X philosophy of management was described as the “stick and carrot” method of management where managers would have to constantly police their staff to do any work and where the workers would need to be coerced, intimidated and punished. This created an oppressive and frustrating atmosphere for the manager and the

WHY NOT INTROVERT-EXTROVERTS PERSONALITIES TRAITS?

The discussions of academic achievements are always linked to the perspective of Introversion-Extroversion personality traits. The proposition of Extroversion and Introversion involves how individuals prefer to "focus their attention" and "gain their energy" that will be in accordance with their personality traits (14). It categorized individuals into two distinct groups according to a person's dominant and auxiliary functions. An introvert's dominant function is to analyse and reason things within his head before using his auxiliary function to go out into the world and share.

The opposite personality, an extrovert, will use his dominant function to go out into the world and bounce ideas around, eventually ending up taking the data gained and analyzing it via his auxiliary function, dealing with the idea internally. For example, individuals with Extroversion personality focus their attention and gain energy through interaction with the external world of people, activities and things; in contrast, individuals with Introversion personality focus their attention and gain energy through the inner world of ideas, impressions, and emotions. Introverts may prefer indirect communication style such as written communication while extroverts may prefer a more direct communicate such as face-to-face discussion and interaction. In simple, an introvert is an individual who pose characteristics that is oriented toward the inner world, whereas