COMMUNICATION, COOPERATION, AND NEGOTIATION IN CULTURALLY HETEROGENEOUS GROUPS

Abstract

The major emphasis was on the preparation of the following technical report studies: A 130 page report entitled 'Interpersonal Verbs and Interpersonal Behavior' which summarizes five years of research on semantic feature analysis; 'Role differentiation in Thai social structure in terms of a semantic analysis of Thai pronouns and roles'; The semantic feature analysis of a procedure which has been named the 'semantic game'; A second report also concerned with the semantic game considers the group dynamics aspects which result from the composition of groups on the basis of semantic similarity; A study on the methodological and theoretical consideration of the implicative meaning procedure; 'Cultural influences upon the perception of implicative relationship among concepts and the analysis of values'; 'Interpersonal influence and employee selection in two cultures'; Research on leadership and productivity continues to identify task and organizational variables which affect performance; Studies of heterocultural groups in Central America; 'Cross-cultural training as a means for improving situational favorableness'.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0673548

Entities

People

  • Fred E. Fiedler
  • Harvy C. Triandis

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Psychology
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Central America
  • Cognition
  • Concept Formation
  • Contracts
  • Geography
  • Group Dynamics
  • Human Behavior
  • Leadership
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personality
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Students
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

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  • Computational Linguistics
  • Organizational Psychology.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.