Rensis Likert: Group

Rensis Likert was American statistician. Explore interesting quotes on group.
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“Interaction and decision making relies heavily on group processes.”

Rensis Likert

Source: The Human Organization, 1967, p. 50

Decision

“[Each person] is a member of one or more functioning workgroups that have a high degree of group loyalty, effective skills of interaction and high performance goals.”

Rensis Likert

Source: New patterns of management, (1961), p. 104

Personality , Loyalty

“The superior in one group is a subordinate in the next group, and so on through the organization.”

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Source: New patterns of management, (1961), p. 105.

“To be effective in leading his own work group, a superior must be able to influence his own boss, that is he needs to be skilled both as a superior and as a subordinate.”

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Source: New patterns of management, (1961), p. 144

“The preceding analysis shows that a manager who has high performance goals and excellent job organization but who relies solely on economic needs and direct pressure to motivate his men is very likely to be to be disappointed by their achievements. The noneconomic motives must be used fully, along with the economic needs, to create high performance goals and establish the level of motivational forces which yield high productivity. Since the principle of supportive relationships and group methods of supervision enable a manager to make effective use of the noneconomic motives, some valuable insights can be obtained by examining how these managerial principles appear to affect the motivations, satisfactions, and behavior of the members of an enterprise. A substantial body of research findings demonstrates that the greater the loyalty of the members of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater is the probability that the group will achieve its goals.”

Rensis Likert

Source: The Human Organization, 1967, p. 64: About "Building Peer-group Loyalty"

Men , Disappointment , Behavior , Motivation