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Douglas Macgregor
U.S. Army colonel and government official (born 1947)
This article is about the military writer. For others named, see Douglas Macgregor (disambiguation).
Douglas Abbott Macgregor (born January 4, 1947) is a retired colonel in the United States Army, former government official, author, consultant, and political commentator.[1]
An Armor Branch officer by background, Macgregor was a leader in an early tank battle in the Gulf War[2] and was a top planner in the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.[3] His 1997 book Breaking the Phalanx argued for radical reforms inside the United States Army.[4]
After retiring from the military in 2004, Macgregor became more politically active. In 2020, president Donald Trump proposed him as the U.S. ambassador to Germany, but the U.S. Senate blocked the nomination. On November 11, 2020, a Pentagon spokesperson announced that Macgregor had been hired to serve as senior advisor to the acting secretary of defense,[5] a post he held for less than three months. Trump also appointed
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Douglas M. McGregor
Douglas McGregor, MIT professor and author of the highly influential book "The Human Side of Enterprise," was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1906. While in high school, McGregor worked as night clerk at the McGregor Institute, a family affair originally established by his grandfather, but managed by his father and his uncle to provide temporary accommodation for around 100 transient workers at a time. McGregor played piano there at its regular services. At 17, McGregor briefly considered becoming a lay preacher.
He chose instead to pursue a psychology degree at what is now Wayne State University in Detroit. After two years, he married, dropped out of college, and worked as a gas station attendant in Buffalo, New York. By 1930 he had risen to the rank of regional gas station manager.
When the Detroit Department of Public Works handed the McGregor Institute a large subsidy to increase its facilities, McGregor decided to resume his studies while also working part-time at the much expanded Institute. He completed a B.A. in 1932 from Wayne State Univ
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Douglas McGregor
American management professor (1906–1964)
This article is about the professor from MIT. For others named, see Douglas Macgregor (disambiguation).
Douglas Murray McGregor (September 6, 1906 – October 1, 1964) was an American management professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and president of Antioch College from 1948 to 1954.[1] He also taught at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. His 1960 book The Human Side of Enterprise had a profound influence on education practices.
McGregor was a student of Abraham Maslow. He has contributed much to the development of the management and motivational theory, and is best known for his Theory X and Theory Y as presented in his book 'The Human Side of Enterprise' (1960), which proposed that manager's individual assumptions about human nature and behavior determined how individual manages their employees.[2]
Early life and education
McGregor was born in Detroit, Michigan on September 6, 1906, to Murray James and Jessie Adelia McGregor. When he was young he volunteered in h
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