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  2. Theory X and Theory Y - Wikipedia

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    Theory X and Theory Y also have implications in military command and control (C2). Older, strictly hierarchical conceptions of C2, with narrow centralization of decision rights, highly constrained patterns of interaction, and limited information distribution tend to arise from cultural and organizational assumptions compatible with Theory X.

  3. Douglas McGregor - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. McKay equality - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, specifically in the field of group theory, the McKay equality, formerly known as the McKay conjecture, is a theorem of equality between the number of irreducible complex characters of degree not divisible by a prime number to that of the normalizer of a Sylow -subgroup.

  5. L. Fletcher Prouty - Wikipedia

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    Prouty was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on January 24, 1917, to Marie Ozias Desautels, age 32, and Leroy Fletcher Prouty, a municipal government employee, age 28. [3] [4] He was the first child in a growing family and would eventually become one of five, with two brothers and two sisters.

  6. Category:Motivational theories - Wikipedia

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    Temporal motivation theory; Theory X and Theory Y; C. Bertrand Thompson; Two-factor theory; Y. Yale attitude change approach

  7. Content theory - Wikipedia

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    McGregor personally held that the more optimistic theory, Y, was more valid. This theory holds that employees can view work as natural, are creative, can be self-motivated, and appreciate responsibility. This type of thinking is popular now, with people becoming more aware of the productivity of self-empowered work teams. [3]

  8. Character (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    The character: of a representation: of a group G on a finite-dimensional vector space V over a field F is the trace of the representation (), i.e. = ⁡ (()) for In general, the trace is not a group homomorphism, nor does the set of traces form a group.

  9. X+Y - Wikipedia

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    X+Y, released in the US as A Brilliant Young Mind, is a 2014 British drama film directed by Morgan Matthews and starring Asa Butterfield, Rafe Spall and Sally Hawkins. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The film, inspired by the 2007 documentary Beautiful Young Minds , [ 4 ] focuses on a teenage English mathematics prodigy named Nathan (Asa Butterfield) who has ...