A scale measuring Machiavellianism and Social Desirability was administered to 28 Engineering Supervisors working for the government and 30 working in industry in order to compare their responses and to relate their scores to those of previous standardization samples. There were no significant differences between Government and Industrial groups in either Machiavellianism or Social Desirability and no apparent differences between the total sample mean or median and those of previous college student samples. Implications of these findings are discussed in terms of needs for future research.
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