SOCIAL PERCEPTION AND GROUP EFFECTIVENESS
Abstract
An investigation is being made of the extent to which personal characteristics of team members differentiate effective from less effective teams. An Assumed Similarity (AS) score was obtained by asking a person to describe himself and to predict the self-description given by another person. It is suggested that the person who assumes similarity is a warmer, less critical person. Studies on basketball and surveyor teams indicated that effective teams prefer co-workers with low AS. Preliminary evidence showed that the design of forced-choice instruments where each item has about equal scale value may be inferior to a design in which items grouped together differ in scale value. A method was derived for obtaining a hierarchy index from sociometric ratings.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 15, 1953
- Accession Number
- AD0001751
Entities
People
- Fred Edward Fiedler
- Lee J. Cronbach
Organizations
- University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign