Supervisor's Survival Kit: Your First Step into Management, Ninth Edition

MS. Y

(Note: Ms. Y is a typical Theory Y supervisor—that is, one who operates on a low-key and somewhat permissive basis but nevertheless often achieves high productivity.)

As Ms. Y, you are a recent college graduate who believes in participative management. You involve your employees in departmental decisions when possible and pride yourself on your sensitivity to individual needs. You have developed your own informal communications system. You are assertive in manner and consider yourself a scrambler rather than a stabilizer. Although you do not intend to stay with your present firm more than two years, you will not move until another employer ...