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To evaluate how an exclusive focus on managerial interests restricts industrial psychology and argue for expanding the discipline into a comprehensive social science addressing labor relations.

January 1, 1947American Psychologist

Industrial psychology as management technique and as social science.

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AKArthur W. KornhauserNational Bureau of Economic Research

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Conceptual analysis highlights limitations in management-focused industrial psychology, suggesting broader attitude and opinion research on labor relations is urgently needed.

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To evaluate how an exclusive focus on managerial interests restricts industrial psychology and argue for expanding the discipline into a comprehensive social science addressing labor relations.
Conceptual appraisal of historical and contemporary orientations in industrial psychological inquiry.
Evaluation of research gaps concerning employee viewpoints and broad-gauge attitude and opinion studies.
Industrial psychology frequently limits its scope to management priorities, leaving fundamental social problems in the workplace unstudied.
Comprehensive attitude and opinion research on labor relations remains broadly neglected despite its capacity to resolve critical workplace dilemmas.

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Arthur W. Kornhauser (1947) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69f7fee8a66f59c2557a2290 https://doi.org/10.1037/h0055215

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Conceptual analysis highlights limitations in management-focused industrial psychology, suggesting broader attitude and opinion research on labor relations is urgently needed.

Industrial psychology as management technique and as social science.

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Industrial psychology as management technique and as social science.

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