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VALIDITY AND TEST‐RETEST STABILITY OF THE NASH MANAGERIAL EFFECTIVENESS SCALE ON THE REVISED FORM OF THE STRONG VOCATIONAL INTEREST BLANK 1
Author(s) -
JOHNSON JAMES C.,
DUNNETTE MARVIN D.
Publication year - 1968
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.1744-6570.1968.tb02031.x
Subject(s) - blank , psychology , vocational education , key (lock) , test (biology) , scale (ratio) , stability (learning theory) , social psychology , pedagogy , computer science , mechanical engineering , paleontology , physics , computer security , quantum mechanics , machine learning , engineering , biology
Summary M anagers ’motives (preferences for different activities or outcomes) probably determine, in part, their relative job effectiveness. This hypothesis was tested and confirmed by Nash (1966) when he developed and cross‐validated a Managerial Effectiveness Key for the 1937 edition of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB). We revised the Nash SVIB key for those items retained in the recently‐revised form of SVIB (Campbell, 1966). The new key has the same validity as Nash's key and high test‐retest stability for lengthy periods of time (up to twenty‐two years). Validity of the key is not extremely high (about .30), but its content does denote a pattern of stable and distinct manager motives which merit study along with cognitive, aptitude, and temperament factors as potential determiners of effective managing.