This study utilized four plants of a large manufacturing organization to assess what impact implementing a Quality Circle program has on employee task and affective outcome response perceptions. The literature (nonempirical) supports the theory that employees' attitudes would improve following QC implementation. The Job Diagnostic Survey was used to obtain before/after measures on two plants that received Quality Circle intervention. In addition, two plants that did not receive QCs were used as comparison groups. The results indicated that there were no significant changes in employee perceptions following QC implementation. However, a trend analysis found a marginal decline in the variables, in that eight of twelve declined after QC implementation.
Examined humor appreciation of cartoons as a function of sex of subject and type of humor. Four broad types of humor were presented: sexual-exploitative, sexual-nonexploitative, nonsexual-hostile, and nonsexual-nonhostile. Sexual-nonexploitative humor was rated as funnier than the other three types but nonsexual-nonhostile humor was given a more positive overall rating than the other types. Relative to males, females gave greater ratings of hostility to the cartoons and rated them less positively. Correlational analyses further suggested that females were not as affected as males by variations in sexuality, exploitation, and hostility. For males, greater ratings of sexuality were associated with greater funniness ratings while the reverse was true for greater ratings of hostility. Possible interpretations of these data were discussed.
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