Role-Perceptions in Labor-Management Relations: An Experimental Approach

The personality variable in labor-management relations may be strongly influenced by the roles in which each of the parties sees himself as well as his opposite number. Empirical investigation of role-perceptions and their influence on behavior is, however, technically difficult. In this article, Mason Haire outlines two experiments in which techniques for uncovering the nature of role-perceptions were tested on labor and management representatives. (Author's abstract courtesy EBSCO.)