Managerial Strategy for the Future: Theory Z Management

Herzberg Fredrick , The Motivation to Work (New York: Wiley, 1959); see also Work and the Nature of Man (New York: World Publishing Co., 1966), pp. 196–197; see also Argyris Chris , Integrating the Individual and the Organization (New York: Wiley, 1964), pp. 228–240; see also McClelland David , The Achieving Society (Princeton: Van Nostrand, 1961); see also Blake Robert Mouton Jane , The Managerial Grid (Houston: Gulf Publishing Co., 1964).

Likert Rensis , New Patterns of Management (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1961); also Likert Rensis , The Human Organization (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967).

Weisbord Marvin , “Management in Crisis,” The Conference Board Record (February, 1970), p. 10.

Boulding Kenneth , “The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth,” Environmental Quality in a Growing Economy, Jarrett H. , ed. (Johns Hopkins Press, 1966).

Fischer John , “Survival U: Prospects for a Really Relevant University,” Harper's Magazine (September, 1969).

“The U.S. Economy in an Age of Uncertainty,” Fortune (January, 1971), p. 74.

Ibid.

Galbraith John Kenneth , The New Industrial State (Boston: 1967), p. 350.

Kahn Herman , The Corporate Environment (Hudson Institute, 1970), p. 3.

Forbes Magazine (August 1, 1970).

Weisberg B. , “Alaska—The Ecology of Oil,” Eco-Catastrophe, Horowitz D. , eds. (San Francisco: Ramparts Press, 1970), p. 111.

Peter Hollis , “Management Training for Cross-Cultural Application,” The Quarterly Journal of AIESEC International 4, 3 (1968), p. 21.

Ibid., pp. 21–22.

Meyers M. Scott , “Every Employee a Manager,” California Management Review 10, 2 (1968), p. 12.

These capsule descriptions are found in Lee James A. , “Behavioral Theory vs. Reality,” Harvard Business Review 49, 2 (March-April, 1971), p. 21.

“How Social Responsibility Fits the Game of Business,” Fortune (December, 1970), p. 105.

“The U.S. Economy in an Age of Uncertainty,” p. 75.

Gooding J. , “The Accelerated Generation Moves into Management,” Fortune (March, 1971).

Ibid.

Bluestone Irving , The Detroit News (1-21-72), p. 1.

Orr Ralph , Detroit Free Press (1-12-72), p. 1.

Thomas Jo , Detroit Free Press (1-12-72), p. 1.

The charms of the old game remain nonetheless magnetic. Addressing the growing clamor for the elimination of “blue collar blues,” the head of the company against whom the Lordstown workers were then striking, G.M. board chairman Richard C. Gerstenberg, concluded in a speech before the Tax Foundation of New York: “We get right back to the old adage that busy people are happy people.” Quoted in Detroit Free Press (12-7-72), p. 13.