The Ability of Managers and Trade Union Officers to Predict Workers' Preferences*

Workers' Preferences in Concession Bargaining

“…A similar study was conducted by Howells and Brosnan (1972). In a follow-up to an earlier study (see Howells and Woodfield, 1970), these authors tested the ability of union officers and managers to predict workers' preferences. Using the same technique described above, Howells and Brosnan also concluded that both managers and union officers make fairly accurate predictions of member preferences.…”

Skill Requirements: Supervisor‐subordinate Conflict

“…tute for Social Research, 1951; Browne and Neitzel, 1952; Hamann, 1956;Evans, 1957;Kahn, 1958;Howells and Woodfield, 1970). Likert (1961) reports unpublished studies by Mann of power plants in a public utility showing the marked discrepancies between the perceptions held by supervisors and subordinates as to how well such communication processes are carried out.…”

United States Air Force Summer Research Program -- 1993. Volume 7. Armstrong Laboratory

“…Gillooly et al (1990) reported performance on most variables in a battery of cognitive tasks, similar to the one used here, to be lowest between 0230 and 0630 h. Other tasks including psychomotor performance, reaction time, symbol cancellation, digit summation, performance on a flight simulator, grip strength, time estimation, tapping and personal tempo tests have all been demonstrated to have a similar pattern with performance lowest between 0300 and 0600 h (Aschoff et al, 1972;Hockey et al, 1972;Klein et al, 1968;1970;1972). An overall feeling of fatigue is often associated with performance decrements on cognitive tests (French et al, 1993;Neville et al, 1993).…”