Peter's Theory And Theories Of Human Relations Theory

Tom Peters is described as a “management guru” from his “Double Shot Interview with Tom Peters; Management Guru” on YouTube. Here he discusses says he was one of the first people who “associated excellence with business”. He goes on to further say that in a professional soccer/football team there are 53 professional players, his point being “that any organised group of human beings is attempting in some kind of fashion to be of service”, therefore, just like in a business you don’t measure excellence by just basing it on profit or losses, “in sport you don’t measure at all entirely by the score of the game, you measure significantly by the quality of the game”.

Furthermore, this may be why he believes teams are the best support systems to organise, manage and motivate in organisations, as just like in a soccer/football game, in a business you have people in different hierarchies. However, in the end, they all come together as one to perform a function, and what

This means it’s foci is on motivation, group motivation and leadership - assumptions about relationship between employer and employee, which is best summarised by Schein (1965) or Elton Mayo who were academic, social scientists. The Microsoft Word Encarta Dictionary: English (U.K) describes a motive as “capable of causing or producing motion (action)” (, motivation as “the act of giving somebody a reason or incentive to do something”, whereas to motivate “to make somebody feel enthusiastic, interested, and committed to something” . Thus “the process of motivation involves choosing between alternative forms of action in order to achieve some desired end or goal”