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A Needs Assessment in Employee Services — Industrial Recreation
Author(s) -
WHITLOCK MICHAEL,
GROVES DAVID L.,
DeCARLO WILLIAM B.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of employment counseling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.252
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 2161-1920
pISSN - 0022-0787
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-1920.1980.tb00711.x
Subject(s) - recreation , feeling , corporation , productivity , leisure studies , marketing , business , public relations , psychology , economic growth , economics , political science , social psychology , finance , law
Industrial recreation is a rapidly growing field in employee services. In fact, membership in the National Industrial Recreation Association (NIRA) has more than doubled in the last three years. American industry seems more willing to incorporate recreation expenditures in their operating budgets, realizing that higher productivity is directly related to the positive influence that recreation has in satisfying some of the psychological, physical, and social needs of employees. Harry Gray, president and chairman of United Technologies Corporation, has expressed these feelings ( Recreation Management , 1978) as follows: