Management is a study of human beings. To some extent, human nature determines the change of management mode.

So what is right and wrong is good sex or evil? This problem has aroused great interest among scholars in management field.

Almost everyone in China knows this sentence: "at the beginning of human nature, nature is good". In fact, the question of humanity is good and evil. Whether in China or in foreign countries, in modern times or in ancient times, it is a controversial topic.

The development of management thinking originated from Oriental thinkers and Western philosophers, that is, the advisers at that time. If they correspond to modern shopping malls, they are similar to the role of business consultant.

At that time, although these experts had schools of thought, most of them advocated taking human nature as the basis.

In China, Meng Zi's sexual goodness and Xunzi's sexual evil are the two schools of thought, while the McGregor X's theory of human nature, the theory of X and Y, is the watershed.

I remember one time in the global debate on Chinese speech, Fudan University won the championship with the "evil nature of human nature" to refute the opponent from Taiwan.

This shows that human nature has always been a concern.

To a certain extent, management has a lot of controversies on this topic as a research scholar.

We can see more interestingly that they can find similar situations in ancient China.

Mark and Twain once said, "it is not a gift from a butcher cook or a baker, but they are concerned about their profits so that we can have dinner to eat".

If we compare human nature to goodness and compare human nature to evil wolf, then the following question is interesting: is it a wolf or a sheep?

If human beings are sheep, why are people's lives so different from that of sheep?

Both sides of the debate are capable of finding arguments. The arguments on both sides have puzzled us. Should we assume that a small number of wolves live together with most sheep?

Perhaps the following statement is true after all. The wolf represents the aspect of human nature, but it is more obvious than most people show. Maybe people are wolves and sheep, or neither wolves nor sheep.

In ancient China, there were also Confucius schools of human nature, such as Xunzi and Han Feizi.

Now let's take a look at this difficult problem in the management field.

This is a basic topic in management science, the human nature hypothesis, thus establishing a new discipline -- management psychology.

Su Dongshui, the dean of East Asia School of management, is a Quanzhou native of Fujian. He began to study ancient Chinese management thoughts and created an Oriental School of management.

It can be seen that the assumption of humanity is a basic problem of management.

In the management science, the assumption of human nature can be divided into economic, social, complex and self actualization assumptions. The economic man assumes that the motive force of economic activities comes from the desire to improve their economic conditions. People are animals pursuing their own interests, and wages are the reasons for human work.

This is the traditional management view of people.

The social people assume that human beings are not only animals pursuing economic interests, but also need to have harmonious interpersonal relationship and others' identification. They have many social needs.

The motive of people's work not only lies in economic interests, but also in pursuit of all social needs, and is willing to seek pleasure and meaning in social relations; material stimulation has only minor significance in arousing people's enthusiasm; only social needs and respectful needs can stimulate the motivation of work.

The complex people assume that people are complex animals, and that each person needs are different. What we need is to analyze everyone's work motivation so as to achieve maximum efficiency.

The self actualization hypothesis assumes that the highest level of human beings is the pursuit of a self actualization and the pursuit of the greatest satisfaction. When a need is met, new needs are created. Human beings are a kind of animal that constantly realizes themselves. People need to develop their potential and discover their own talents and realize their ideals. Only when the potential of human beings is fully realized, can people feel the greatest satisfaction.

For the assumption of human nature, the management circles also have the elaboration of X theory and Y theory.

If we integrate Chinese and foreign theories, simply put forward, X theory advocates that the evil nature of human nature is a matter oriented thinking. It is believed that human beings are passive. Human beings naturally do not like work. They must be coercion, controlled, guided and punished for threats, so that they will work hard and achieve work performance, otherwise they will want to evade their responsibilities.

Y theory advocates that human nature is good, human oriented thinking, that people are active, and that human beings are naturally fond of work. As long as they give higher level of achievement, self-esteem and self actualization encouragement, they will exert great intelligence and creativity to solve problems and fulfill their responsibilities.

Is it a matter oriented management style with better leadership style or a man oriented management system?

So far, it is still a hot topic in management circles.

Basically, these two kinds of leadership styles are too extreme and biased. If we can integrate and apply the tasks, we will have better management results.

In the management quality, the management of things is only a part of the work goal; if we want to operate smoothly, more often, talent is the key to management.

All work must be done through people.

When people feel wrong, think wrong and do wrong, no simple things can be carried out smoothly.

After understanding the key to the management of human and matter dependence, we should timely apply the leadership traits of people and events, understand individual differences in subordinates' behaviors, motivate employees' achievement motivation, and make leadership easier to handle. Naturally, we can develop positive interaction between people and things.

Therefore, when you are in charge, the first thing you need to know is to manage people first and then do things.

The assumption of human nature helps us understand human nature and decide the way and style of management.

But these assumptions only provide us with a way of thinking instead of being absolutely right. We should learn how to view life and look at things objectively and completely in life.

A professor of psychology once visited a lunatic asylum to understand the life of a madman.

One day, these people feel crazy and act unexpectedly.

Unexpectedly, when I was about to return, I found that my tire had been dropped.

"It must have been a lunatic," Professor Jiao thought angrily. He began to install the spare tire.

Things are serious.

The people down the tire even dropped the screws.

Without screws, spare tire can't go up.

The professor was at a loss.

When he was in a hurry, a madman came bounce up and down, singing an unknown happy song in his mouth.

He found the professor in trouble and stopped to ask what had happened.

The professor was lazy, but he told him out of politeness.

The madman laughed and said, "I have a way."

He put a screw from each tyre, so he got three screws and fitted the spare tire.

Surprised and grateful, the professor was very curious: "how did you come up with this idea?"

The madman laughed and said, "I am a madman, but I am not a nerd!"

In fact, there are many people in the world. Because they find the joy of work, they always show different fanaticism from ordinary people, which is hard to understand.

Many people laugh at their idiot when they laugh at them for being insane.

Huang Yuejun: Master of management, a famous management scientist, former vice president of Hunan University, Mr. Li Shucheng, former president of Xiangtan University, devoted to research and practice in the fields of enterprise diagnosis, human resources, project planning, management training, scientific decision making, artificial neural network and so on.

He has worked as a human resource project manager for a number of foreign and private enterprises, engaged in university management education and theoretical research, management consulting and training, and served as a senior HR consultant of many consulting companies. He has a solid theoretical foundation and rich practical experience in the field of enterprise management and human resource consulting, and has published several articles in media magazines of several economic management fields.