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The Evaluation of Foremen's Performance in Relation to the Internal Characteristics of Their Work Groups
Author(s) -
Ghiselli Edwin E.,
Lodahl Thomas M.
Publication year - 1958
Publication title -
personnel psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.076
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1744-6570
pISSN - 0031-5826
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6570.1958.tb00012.x
Subject(s) - skewness , psychology , scale (ratio) , social psychology , work (physics) , relation (database) , statistics , mathematics , computer science , data mining , mechanical engineering , physics , quantum mechanics , engineering
Summary T his investigation is concerned with the relationship between merit ratings assigned to foremen and the distribution of managerial traits within their work groups. Data were available on 18 four‐man work groups and on the foreman of each. Measures of supervisory ability and decision making approach (DMA) were obtained from a self‐description inventory administered to all the subjects. Three variables were found to be related significantly to the merit ratings assigned to the foremen: the foreman's own score on the supervisory ability scale, the difference between the foreman's score and that of the highest man in his work group on the supervisory scale, and the skewness of the distribution of DMA scores among the four men in the work group. The sum of these three variables was found to correlate .92 with the merit ratings.