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JOB‐ORIENTED AND PERSON‐ORIENTED LEADERSHIP
Author(s) -
RUBENOWITZ SIGVARD
Publication year - 1962
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.1744-6570.1962.tb00817.x
Subject(s) - psychology , social psychology , supervisor , two alternative forced choice , contrast (vision) , scale (ratio) , power (physics) , rating scale , production (economics) , management , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , microeconomics , physics , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , computer science , economics
Summary T he statements in forced‐choice rating forms for supervisors were analyzed before and after they had been combined into forced‐choice blocks. Considerable changes in the discrimination power of the statements appeared. The findings indicated that the over‐all attitude of a rater towards a subordinate supervisor is based in a very high degree on behavioral traits, which can be described by statements with production‐oriented content. In contrast, person orientation plays a relatively modest role. Thus in a forced‐choice rating scale those ratees who are primarily production minded get the highest mark at the expense of those who are primarily personnel minded. This seems to reflect an attitude which in some way stands in a contrasting relationship to the human relation attitude, to which so many people pay lip service.