ISSN:0305-8107    

DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8325.1975.tb00291.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1975

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

An experiment was designed to test four hypotheses concerning the communications media that managers would choose for their business discussions. Six groups of 16 subjects experienced six different types of telecommunication system designed for small business discussions. They then made a decision about hypothetical participation in a business discussion, either (a) by using the telecommunication system they had just experienced, or (b) by travelling to a meeting between the discussants. Significantly more subjects chose to telecommunicate: when the discussion was given a non‐person‐oriented rather than a person‐oriented description; when subjects were told the discussion involved acquaintances rather than strangers; and when the travel time associated with holding the discussion by meeting face‐to‐face was long. The type of telecommunication system did not have a significant effect. It was concluded that technological improvements in telecommunication systems may be less important in determining the impact of communications technology on management styles than other factors unrelated to the technolo

ISSN:0305-8107    

DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8325.1975.tb00292.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1975

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Few existing measures of need for achievement are suitable for use on British managerial populations. This is because most scales fail on one or more of four criteria of acceptability: managerial standardization, industrial acceptability, control for social desirability and faking responses, and psychometric adequacy. The construction of an achievement motive measure, the Work Preference Questionnaire (WPQ), is described, which attempts to meet these criteria. The scale is in forced‐choice format comprising 24 pairs of statements each pair matched for social desirability, and logically related. The items are written in terms of hypothetical boss and organizational practices which have been chosen to represent various aspects of achievement motive theory and research findings. The WPQ shows satisfactory internal consistency on two managerial populations, and fairly good stability over a 12‐month period. There is no correlation with age. Concurrent, construct and criterion validity findings are presented, and also evidence of the scale's resistance to social desirability and faking influen

ISSN:0305-8107    

DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8325.1975.tb00293.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1975

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

A simple model is proposed to describe and classify a person's responses on leaving one job and moving to another.

ISSN:0305-8107    

DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8325.1975.tb00294.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1975

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Trainability assessments were designed for predicting apprentice performance in four skills in the shipbuilding industry. The results showed that the assessments were successful in predicting performance after a three‐month period in the skill for which they were designed. They were less successful, however, after a 12‐month period and no one assessment predicted performance for all skills. It is suggested that trainability assessments may be best suited to predicting performance for skills which require a short training per

ISSN:0305-8107    

DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8325.1975.tb00295.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1975

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Data are presented from a pilot investigation with managers and students. The Q‐sort and a simple questionnaire were used to enable the individuals to express what importance their work had for them and to suggest what satisfactions they wished to obtain at wor

ISSN:0305-8107    

DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8325.1975.tb00296.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1975

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

This article considers some of the current issues in the methodology of research evaluation in the managerial psychology and training fields. The purposes and functions, ethics and values, and philosophical and theoretical frameworks of evaluation are all explored. Finally, a number of practical problems of evaluation methodology are examined in the light of recent thinking about research design.

ISSN:0305-8107    

DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8325.1975.tb00297.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1975

数据来源: WILEY

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The results from a previously published study are used as the basis for proposing provisional norms for the ACER Mechanical Comprehension Test.

ISSN:0305-8107    

DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8325.1975.tb00298.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1975

数据来源: WILEY

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Data from the 16 PF test, used routinely with middle level managers, are compared with business executive scores from Cattell and with the general results from Eysenck and Harrell. While Eysenck makes the generalized observation that businessmen tend towards stable introversion, the evidence from Harrell and from this study suggests that at least some particular samples of managers tend to show significantly above average extraversion.

ISSN:0305-8107    

DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8325.1975.tb00299.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1975

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Book reviewed in this article:Current Developments in the Study of Leadership. Edited byedwin a fleishmanandjames g hunt.Prediction and Development of Industrial Work Performance. Byg salvendyand w.d seymour.Men At Work. Byc r bell.

ISSN:0305-8107    

DOI:10.1111/j.2044-8325.1975.tb00300.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1975

数据来源: WILEY