Davison, H. Kristl; Smothers, Jack - In: Journal of Management History 21 (2015) 2, pp. 210-231
unmotivating. Because of the fundamental attribution error, managers would have assumed that workers were unmotivated by nature … attribution error, in which managers assumed that employees’ lack of motivation was a disposition rather than a function of …Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose that the Theory X style of management arose from a fundamental …