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SUPERIOR‐SUBORDINATE RELATIONSHIPS AND PERFORMANCE 1
Author(s) -
INDIK BERNARD P.,
GEORGOPOULOS BASIL S.,
SEASHORE STANLEY E.
Publication year - 1961
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.1744-6570.1961.tb01242.x
Subject(s) - generality , proposition , psychology , social psychology , test (biology) , cognitive psychology , epistemology , paleontology , philosophy , psychotherapist , biology
Summary T his study is concerned with the proposition that the nature of superior‐subordinate relationships in an organization, as perceived or evaluated by subordinates, affects the job performance of subordinates, whether the latter are considered as a group or as individuals. This rather widely accepted proposition was tested using four more specific hypotheses which were derived from it, and which involve certain aspects of superior‐subordinate interaction, as specified in the paper. The objectives were to test the hypothesized relationships between these variables and subordinate performance, and to examine the generality of these relationships.