Job complexity was measured for jobs in a public agency. Perceptions of job complexity were obtained from self-reports. Independent measures were obtained from interviews with subjects. Career stages were found to moderate relationships between job satisfaction and perceived job complexity and between job-performance and independently rated job…

Information-processing ideas are used to develop a set of hypotheses to test a contingency approach to subunit structure directly; whether high-performing subunits with different information-processing requirements have systematically different degrees of communication structure. (Author)

In an experiment conducted with southern white college students, a sex-neutral task was used to test male-female paired students for dominant behavior. Males were found to challenge their partners' opinions far more than females were, even though the task was not one culturally defined as either masculine or feminine. (GC)

A review of literature thought to be relevant for understanding situational contributions to ability performance relationships was conducted. When organizaions establish work conditions that facilitate task-relevant individual ability, then validity for ability measures, average performance levels, and levels of satisfaction will be high.…

Effective appraisal depends on three essential elements: employees who are motivated to achieve goals, who have the necessary mental and physical ability, and who clearly understand the demands of the job. What this implies for systems touching on these elements is spelled out in detail. (Author/MLF)

With 40 disadvantaged preschool children, it was found that reinforcing long latencies in choice tasks did not increase accuracy and vice versa, and that reinforcing both long latencies and accuracy was no more effective than reinforcing accuracy alone. (Author/SBH)

The relationship between a group's power and prestige or status hierarchy and group members' patterns of reward allocation was investigated. The addition of evidence concerning actual task performance results in the alignment of reward and status rankings and encourages the use of distribution rules stressing equity as opposed to equality.…

Ways to turn wasted minutes into productive time are outlined. Problems and their solutions are grouped under planning, organizing, and controlling. (Author/MLF)

Summarizes five task analysis approaches to determining what people need to know and do to perform their jobs successfully. (EM)

Explores the effects of field independence (FI) and dogmatism (D) on a programmed learning task with and without strong prompts in an aptitude-treatment interaction (ATI) framework. These two cognitive styles have been demonstrated to affect performance on various cognitive tasks and reflect characteristic, self-consistent ways of functioning in…

The self-perception theory which predicts that the introduction of extrinsic rewards for behavior that was intrinsically rewarding may decrease overall motivation was tested on 44 mildly retarded institutionalized adolescents. (Author/CL)

A set of decoding tests and picture-word interference tasks was administered to third and fifth graders to explore the relationship between single-word decoding, single-word semantic processing, and text comprehension skill. (BRT)