Twenty-four foremen assumed the role of "supervisor" in an industrial simulation experiment and directed the labors of two successive work crews. One crew exhibited characteristics of group stress and the other did not. Supervisors were observed to employ a more authoritarian style of control in the group-stress than in the neutral condition (P<.01).
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