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Research reveal that managers achieving better performance (i. e., greater productivity, higher earnings, lower costs, etc.) differ in leadership principles and practices from those achieving poorer performance.
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A number of statistical assumptions are made in the application of his (Thurstone's) attitude scale e. g. that the scale values of the statements are independent of the attitude distribution of the readers who sort the statements assumptions which as Thurstone points out, cannot always be verified. The method is more over laborious. It seems legitimate to Enquirer whether it actually does its work better than the simple scales which may be employed and the same breath to ask also whether it is not possible to construct equally reliable scales without making unnecessary statistical assumptions.
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As people acquire more education, their expectations rise as to the amount of responsibility, authority, and income they receive.
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Interaction and decision making relies heavily on group processes.
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Conflict is viewed as the active striving for one's own preferred outcome which, if attained, precludes the attainment by others of their own preferred outcome, thereby producing hostility.
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To be effective in leading his own work group, a superior must be able to influence his own boss, that is he needs to be skilled both as a superior and as a subordinate.
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The superior in one group is a subordinate in the next group, and so on through the organization.
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How best to organize the efforts of individuals to achieve desired objectives has long been one of the world's most important, difficult, and controversial problems.
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All component parts of any system of management must be consistent with each of the other parts and reflect the system's basic philosophy.
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[It remains to be seen whether the newer management theories, based as they are on research in industrial concerns, will be] equally applicable to other kinds of organized human activity, such as schools, voluntary organizations, unions, hospitals, governmental agencies, scientific and professional organizations, and the like.
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A variety of studies in widely different fields show that supervisors who are getting the best production, the best motivation, and the highest levels of worker satisfaction are employee-centred appreciably more often than production-centred.
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[Each person] is a member of one or more functioning workgroups that have a high degree of group loyalty, effective skills of interaction and high performance goals.
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The leadership and other processes of the organization must be such as to ensure a maximum probability that in all interactions and all interactions and all relationships with the organization each member will, in the light of his background, values, and expectations, view the experience as supportive and one which builds and maintains his sense of personal worth and importance.
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As tasks become more varied and require greater training and skill, the relationship (between job attitudes and performance) appears to change progressively from the negative to positive.
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Rensis Likert
Born:
August 5, 1903
Died:
September 3, 1981
(aged 78)
Bio:
Rensis Likert was an American administrator and organizational psychologist based at the U.S. Department of Agriculture until 1946, then at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.
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