Which Do You Favor?

Week Five

I talked last week about how I believe I’m very much a Y Theory person, which most people are; but it wasn’t until I came across this quiz that I realized I might be a little more X Theory than I realized.

This would make sense, though. Because most texts specifically focus how the two theories are different, it’s easy for us to forget that the X and Y theory aren’t actually this black and white. We have the ability to apply or mix and match the two theories, because both ultimately have some good qualities that could be of great use.

My quiz results ended up being moderately Y, so there were some areas where I didn’t fully agree with Y and areas where X seemed to be the better choice. Here are my following results:

Y Theory:

I ended up being moderately Y theory. Most of my answers were 3s and 4s, and I only fully agreed with Y three times out of ten. While taking the quiz, I kept disagreeing with many X theory questions, but had to take into account that not every person works the same. For example, the first question ask "Most people will try to do as little work as possible. " I don't find this completely true at all. I personally like to go the extra yard with most everything I'm working on, but I'm not everyone. So I can't completely disagree, because some people may only care enough about a certain task, so they'll do as little as possible.

X Theory:

I didn't strongly agree once during the quiz, but did have one simple agree.  That was on question six, "Most employees would prefer increased job security to increased responsibility." With our currently economy, I find this question pretty true. We would much prefer to keep a solid job without the worry of losing it, than have the chance to move up and take a risk. That's it, most people are afraid of taking risks. Even I am.