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SummarySixty‐Threeadministrators in the Italian Civil Service were rated by their peers on 18 traits pertaining to their job performance. The intercorrelations among persons were computed and cluster analysed. Each man was scored in terms of the degree to which his pattern of traits was dissimilar to those characterizing men in any of the clusters. The coefficient of correlation between these values, termed measures of individuality, and over‐all job success was found to be .

ISSN:0031-5826    

DOI:10.1111/j.1744-6570.1960.tb01514.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1960

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SummaryTheevaluation of training courses in human relations is a complex matter. Such evaluations may be conducted properly to answer a variety of questions. The study reported here was designed to determine whether the behavior of trainees in a particularly difficult role‐playing interview could be improved through their experiences in one such course.The trainees were students in three different semesters of an undergraduate course in the psychology of human relations, in which the students attended two one‐hour lectures and one two‐hour laboratory period per week. The three groups differed in the amount of training, in the course content, and in the amount of skill training they received before the test situation. Group 1 received lectures on causation and attitudes. Group 2, in addition, had lectures on democratic leadership and on a number of other topics in psychology, and participated in weekly role‐playing cases involving group decision. Group 2, in addition to the training received by Group 2, was introduced to the topic of nondirective counseling in the lectures and given practice in reflecting feelings.The Case of the Old Girls–a role‐playing interview situation which had been shown to be a difficult interview to conduct, because it usually degenerated into an argument based on attitudinal differences–was used as the evaluational instrument. Group 1 was tested during the second week of the course; Group 2 during the eleventh week; and Group 3 in the thirteenth week.Improvements in interviewing behavior as a result of training were evidenced by significant reductions in the total number of facts and in the total number of favorable facts introduced by interviewers in Group 3. Their ability to listen and accept feelings may be said to have substantially improved. In the failure of the interveiwers in Group 3 to elicit a greater proportion of favorable facts from their interviewees than were elicited in Group 1, however, the course may be said to have been less than effective.The discussion of the results suggests that the typical human relations training course is neither long enough nor does it include enough skill training to enable trainees to develop the skills that will change their behavior significantly. It is pointed out that the learning process requires a skillful mixture of lectures, discussion, and practice to alter the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors o

ISSN:0031-5826    

DOI:10.1111/j.1744-6570.1960.tb01515.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1960

数据来源: WILEY

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DOI:10.1111/j.1744-6570.1960.tb01516.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1960

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SummaryTwo previous articles (Lawshe&Bolda, 1958; Lawshe, Bolda, Brune,&Auclair, 1958) inPersonnel Psychologyhave discussed expectancy charts as methods of displaying data on predictor‐criterion relationships. The second of these articles (Lawshe,et al., 1958) dealt with charts based upontheoreticalin place ofempiricalexpectancies. A method, based on chi square, of testing the discrepancies between empirical and theoretical expectancies was described.The present article applies this test to 15 independent sets of predictor‐criterion data. In every case, the use of theoretical expectancies based on an assumed bivariate normal distribution was found to be justif

ISSN:0031-5826    

DOI:10.1111/j.1744-6570.1960.tb01517.x

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年代:1960

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SummaryInformationabout 21 petroleum salesmen was used to determine the relation of certain test scores to three criteria of proficiency in selling. A sales quota criterion was more predictable than ratings. Tests which gave significant differences between high‐ and low‐producing salesmen were the Otis Test of Mental Ability, four scales of the Bernreuter Personality Inventory, Tact and Diplomacy of the Moss‐Hunt Social Intelligence Test, and the Sales Manager scale of the Strong Interest Test. The scales of the Washburne S‐A Inventory did not differentiate between either the production or the ratings of s

ISSN:0031-5826    

DOI:10.1111/j.1744-6570.1960.tb01518.x

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年代:1960

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DOI:10.1111/j.1744-6570.1960.tb01519.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1960

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ISSN:0031-5826    

DOI:10.1111/j.1744-6570.1960.tb01520.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1960

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Book reviews in this article:Herzberg, Frederick, Mausner, Bernard,andSnyderman, BarbaraBloch.The Motivation to Work.Bass, BernardM.,andBerg, IrwinA. (Eds.)Objective APProaches to Personality Asessment.Anderson, HaroldH. (Ed.)Creativity and Its Cultivation.Saltonstall, Robert.Human Relations in Administration: Text and Cases.Jacobson, HowardBoone,andRoucek, JosephS. (Eds.)Automation and Society.Thorndike, RobertL.,andHagen, Elizabeth.Ten Thousand Careers.Dimock, MarshallE.Administrative Vitality: The Conflict with Bureaucracy.Bittel, LesterR.What Every Supervisor Should Know.Weber, C. A.,andKarnes, JohnW., Jr.Industrial Leadership: The American Way to Teamwork.Davis, Keith,andScott, WilliamG.Readings in Human Relations.Stogdill, RalphM.Individual Behavior and Group Achievement.Beach, LeslieR.,andClark, ElonL.Psychology in Business.Roberts, DavidR.Executive Compensation.Briefly Mentioned Niles, HenryE., Niles, MaryCushing,andStephens, JamesC.The Office Supervisor: His Relations to Persons and to Work.Book and Materials Received

ISSN:0031-5826    

DOI:10.1111/j.1744-6570.1960.tb01521.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1960

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