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Shelton, Michael – Camping Magazine, 2000
The employee-supervisor relationship is critical to a camp's success. Ideas from psychology, biology, and organizational dynamics illuminate how supervisors interpret certain staff traits and behaviors. The "set-up-to-fail" syndrome is described. Recommendations cover building good relationships and improving communication between supervisors and…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Camping, Interpersonal Relationship, Job Performance
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Holt, John; Keats, Daphne M. – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1992
Investigates the influence of ethnic cultural background and multicultural interaction for 120 males drawn from Aboriginal, Anglo-Saxon, Chinese, and Lebanese cultural communities in Australia. Responses to the Work Cognitions Questionnaire reveal differences in the structure of achievement goals and work values for the 4 groups of 30 subjects…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Adults, Behavior Patterns, Chinese
Ashley, William L.; And Others – 1980
A study of adaptation to work as both a process and an outcome was conducted. The study was conducted by personal interview that probed adaptation with respect to work's organizational, performance, interpersonal, responsibility, and affective aspects; and by questionnaire using the same aspects. The population studied consisted of persons without…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Employee Attitudes, Entry Workers