In this essay authors endeavored to analyse and understand variables that adversely affect level of motivation and performance of people within work organizations in developing societies. The authors analyse and identify the endogenous and the exogenous variables affecting worker motivation....

Relationship between attitude of job involvement and patterns of perceived need importance, need satisfaction, and need strength were explored. Data were collected from 64 high-involved and 77 low involved employees of two Indian organizations. Results revealed that the attitude of...

Prevailing conceptualizations of skills required for successful managerial performance are partial and a jumble. This paper examines the limitations to our understanding of the nature of managerial skills based on the analysis of managerial jobs that are often non-routine, unprogrammed, and...

In this paper a schematic framework towards systematization of “General Knowledge” as a selection tool has been suggested. The standardized methods for GK test construction, test-format and scoring procedure have been presented. It is hoped that the framework presented in this paper will...

This paper reports on the development of a new and standardized measure of family involvement. The family involvement construct is operationalized on the basis of the motivational formulation of involvement and alienation (Kanungo, 1979) and studied in a binational setting. Data collected and...

This paper extends the motivational formulation and measurement of job and work involvement constructs (Kanunge, 1982b) and tests its pan-cultural implications by reporting on two studies conducted in West Germany and India. Data on the empirical properties of the new job and work involvement...

Two hundred and fortynine male postgraduate students of management played the Prisoner’s Dilemma Game (Deutsch, 1960) and filled out a postgame questionnaire measuring attitude toward the “other player”. Striking differences resulted between trusting and trustworthy subjects on the one...

This paper presents some preliminary results of an ongoing study in two West German Universities and the University of the Philippines which examines the comparative effectiveness of the case vs. lecture method of teaching. The specific areas in which the comparative effectiveness of the two...

We present arguments for viewing decision making by managers in the context of both cognitive psychology and neuropsychology of planning. Individual differences in managerial decision making are explained within the framework of a model of cognitive processes that has for its components...

This chapter describes several approaches and techniques of attitude measurement. The approaches described are: direct observation, self-report, and attitude scales. The specific attitude scales described in some detail are: Thurstone’s scale, Likert’s scale, the scalogram techniques, and...