6/23/2013---Evening Soup For Your Soul A Positive View And A Negative View Of Humankind The Negative View Of Human Beings 1. The average human being has an inherent dislike of work or responsibility and will avoid work or responsibility if he or she can. 2. Because of this human characteristic of dislike for work or responsibility, most people must be coerced, controlled, directed, and threatened with punishment to get them to put forth adequate effort toward the achievement of personal or organizational objectives. 3. The average human being prefers to be directed, wishes to avoid responsibility, has relatively little ambition, and wants security above all. The Positive View Of Human Beings 1. The expenditure of physical and mental effort to work or to assume responsibility is as natural as play or rest. 2. External control over persons and the threat of punishment are not the only means of bringing about effort toward personal or organizational objectives. 3. Human beings will exercise self-direction and self-control in the service of objectives to which he or she is committed. 4. Commitment to objectives is a function of the rewards associated with their achievement. 5. The average human being learns under proper conditions not only to accept but also to seek responsibility. 6. The capacity to exercise a high degree of imagination, ingenuity and creativity in the solution of organizational or personal problems is widely, not narrowly, distributed in the population. 7. Under the conditions of modern life the intellectual potentialities of the average human being are only partially utilized.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 01:56:25 +0000
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