COMMUNICATION, COOPERATION, AND NEGOTIATION IN CULTURALLY HETEROGENEOUS GROUPS

Abstract

The project seeks to identify culturally critical concepts and behaviors which are likely to affect interpersonal relations and task performance in culturally heterogeneous groups. Subproject I (Triandis) developed three techniques for identifying cultural differences in interpersonal behaviors: Role differential, behavioral differential, and semantic feature analysis. The techniques measure the ways individuals from different cultures perceive and interpret interpersonal behaviors. Subproject II (Stolurow) developed a programmed self-instructional training system (the Culture Assimilator), which has been utilized successfully in a number of laboratory and field investigations. Subproject III (Fiedler) continued work on a theory of leadership effectiveness (the Contingency Model), a theory which aids in the prediction of group and organizational performance and which provides a rationale for modifying the group structure, the task, and group composition to increase performance in heterocultural situations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 31, 1967
Accession Number
AD0657630

Entities

People

  • Fred E. Fiedler
  • Harry C. Triandis
  • Lawrence M. Stolurow

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Birds
  • Cognition
  • Concept Formation
  • Foreign Policy
  • Frequency
  • Interpersonal Relations
  • Judgment
  • Leadership
  • Personality
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Students
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Organizational Psychology.