Which of the Following Is an Assumption of Theory X

question 26

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an assumption of Theory X?

• A) The expenditure of physical and mental effort in work is as natural as play or rest and the average human being does not inherently dislike work.
• B) The average human being prefers to be directed, wishes to avoid responsibility, has relatively little ambition, and wants security above all.
• C) Under the conditions of modern industrial life, the intellectual potentialities of the average human being are only partially utilized.
• D) The capacity to exercise a relatively high degree of imagination in the solution of organizational problems is widely, not narrowly, distributed in the population.

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