Social relations and morale in small groups / Eric F. Gardner, George Greene Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gardner, Eric F., author.

Thompson, George Greene, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interpersonal relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 312 pages)

Place of Publication:

East Norwalk, Conn : Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1956.

Summary:

"This book introduces a decidedly new approach to the measurement of social relations in small groups. We have developed a series of social-relations instruments which are firmly grounded in the psychology of human needs and which reflect the many advantages of modern psychometrics. It is our sincere belief that these new methods of appraising the social structure of small groups will prove extremely valuable to the social scientist. They will permit reliable and psychologically meaningful scaling of social relations in many kinds of small groupings--in face-to-face military units, in the classroom, in the industrial shop, to mention only a few. The newly developed scaled instruments of social relations permit an intercomparison of different groups' potentialities for satisfying their members' psychological needs. This is a goal which has not hitherto been achieved with previously developed sociometric instruments. This characteristic of the scales described in this volume provides the social scientist an approach to many important problems in organizations composed of nonoverlapping groups"--Chapter. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).

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