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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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An empirical study on the effect of age, education, and rank on managerial attitudes

Osborne, John Eugene January 1966 (has links)
In the past 30 years, the emphasis on the human relations aspects of management has greatly increased. As a result, new management theories have been advanced, acclaimed and criticized. The purpose of this empirical study was to determine what effect, if any, the biographical factors of age, education and rank had on managerial attitudes in a particular plant and whether the managerial personnel tended to identify with the assumption of Douglas McGregor's widely publicized managerial theories, known as Theories X and Y. Data for the study were gathered by means of attitude questionnaires which were mailed to randomly selected managerial personnel who represented all levels of plant management. The responses were tabulated and statistically analyzed for significance. Based upon the results of this statistical analysis and prudent logic and inference, certain findings were noted and conclusions drawn. The major finding was that in the plant studied, age, education, and rank were relatively unimportant determinants of managerial attitudes. The principal conclusion drawn was that the nature of the work performed and certain, local economic factors, rather than biographical factors, probably accounted for the particular managerial response patterns. / M.S.

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