Readiness for Management Development: An Exploratory Note

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Schein , “Management Development as a Process of Influence,” loc. cit.

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The classical statement of this theory is that of McGregor Douglas M. , “The Human Side of Enterprise,” M.I.T. Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Publications in Social Science, Series 2, No. 69 (1957). An excellent recent discussion of the effectiveness of material satisfaction on motivation is provided by Bass B. M. , Organizational Psychology (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1965), pp. 77–102.

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Schein , “Interpersonal Communication, Group Solidarity, and Social Influence,” loc. cit.

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A good precis of the Herzberg, Mausner, and Snyderman motivation studies is featured in Dunnette M. D. Kirchner W. K. , Psychology as Applied to Industry (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1965), pp. 148–153.

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Research references are often the product of the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center and Institute for Social Research. See the work cited in Likert Rensis , New Patterns of Management (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1961).

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Argyris Chris , Integrating the Individual and the Organization (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1964), pp. 26–28.