Theory X&Y at CWC

For this post, I will be looking at College Wesleyan Church and Dave Drury in the view of the theory X and theory Y in leadership.

I think that Pastor Dave has a good balance of these two views. I think in general, he is a theory Y guy. I think he would say that for the most part, people are good and are competent to do their job and have a passion for their job. Although he is like this, he does a good job at creating accountability.

One week when I met with Dave, he had just finished up a meeting with one of the staff members, which was a yearly review. He said that in these meetings, he would go over the personal and professional goals of the employee and talk about how they accomplished those things and if they hadn’t, they would talk about how they need to improve for next year and what they need to do to go about reaching and exceeding those things for the coming year. This would also be a time for those to present a new set of written goals and major things to accomplish.

I believe that even though Dave is a theory Y person, he knows that people are better workers when properly motivated. This doesn’t mean he has to micro manage, but he needs to help them manage themselves. I think that College Wesleyan in general has a theory Y type of management. Dave and the leadership has a great philosophy of management, one that allows them to push people to become better and grow in their ministry, but also allow people room to motivate and get things done out of their own passions and intrinsic motivation.