Abstract

Douglas Mc Gregor.

Douglas Mc Gregor was born in 1906 in Detroit, in his youth worked as a laborer on a beach in the Buffalo service station, becoming supervisor of Detroit. He graduated in psychology from Wayne University and then did a PhD in Experimental Psychology at Harvard.

Throughout his career he worked as director of human resources in the chemical company from Dewy et Amy, and as consulting firms and unions in collective bargaining, union mediating conflicts, training and compensation management.

He was a professor at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Management and president of Antioch College from 1984 to 1954. He also taught at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. His book The Human Side of Organizations ", written in 1960, had a profound influence on education practices.

Implementation of surveys.

We thank the "Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado de Puebla" for providing us the tools to do this research,and also to the Faculty of Business Administration.

Our world population will be students of the seventh and eighth semester of Business Administration. The sample was randomly selected, will be a nonrandom sample because the items were selected according to characteristics of research and in this case students of Business Administration, they will be located inside the cafeteria located on the premises of the university.

The research instrument is a questionnaire consisting of 6 questions which will help us know if our hypothesis is true or not.

Important questions.

Do you know Douglas Mc Gregor?

Yes 63 %

No 27 %

Total 100 %

70% of students said yes and 30% answered no.

Do you know his theories?

Yes 40 %

No 60 %

Total 100 %

40% of students answered yes and 60% answered no.

At doing the list of results we realized some deficiencies since despite knowing Douglas Mc Gregor, students don’t know what he did on benefit of the administration.

The goals, general and specific, were achieved because we obtained the results that we were searching for.

What it was not achieved was hypothesis that said “If students from the Business Administration Faculty know Douglas Mc Gregor then they know his theories”, since it was showed that they know him but most of them do not know about his theories.

This research analyzed the knowledge that the students from the Faculty of Business Administration of UPAEP about Douglas Mc Gregor and the benefits that he has given to it. The research shows the most of students know Douglas Mc Gregor, however they don’t know about his work, which confirms that they can’t be applied to their career unless they know about theories “X” and “Y”.

We conclude that if students knew more about this they would have more tools to apply to their career in the future, that’s why we recommend them not to be closed to knowledge and to research more about this character who can bring benefits in the future.