• DocumentCode
    637078
  • Title

    Quantitative simulation and qualitative analysis of theory X, Y and Z

  • Author

    Rui Zhang ; Xiwei Liu ; Xiuqin Shang ; Changjian Cheng ; Zichen Lu ; Yonghong Ma

  • Author_Institution
    State Key Lab. of Manage. & Control for Complex Syst., Inst. of Autom., Beijing, China
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    28-30 July 2013
  • Firstpage
    215
  • Lastpage
    219
  • Abstract
    Quantitative simulation has a significant influence on the research of management theories. Through a valid simulation, the motivation effect of the management theories can be seen directly from the simulation results. Then which theory is needed for a specific corporation and what we can do to develop the theory can be revealed. This research realizes the quantitative simulation of McGregor´s XY Theory and Theory Z by agent model, quantified appraising performance and qualitative analysis. Based on the quantitative simulation result, a new qualitative simulation is realized which can help us to analyze the effect of the three theories. At last, we make a conclusion that Theory X and Y are only suited to motivate workers with a special attitude or character, while Theory Z has more power on different attitude workers. Therefore, Theory Z is more advanced than Theory XY.
  • Keywords
    management science; simulation; Theory XY; Theory Z; agent model; management theories; qualitative analysis; quantified appraising performance; quantitative simulation; Analytical models; Companies; Computational modeling; Mathematical model; Simulation; Training; McGregor´s XY Theory; Theory Z; qualitative analysis; quantitative simulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics (SOLI), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Dongguan
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-0529-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SOLI.2013.6611412
  • Filename
    6611412