A recent interest in the organizational literature has been to identify the circumstances under which people exercise upward influence in order to achieve individual and organizational goals. To examine the circumstances under which administrators in a variety of firms exercised upward influence, i.e., influence on their superiors, to achieve…

Self-initiation of activities by individuals may have an affect on their mood. To study the relationship between the appraisal of self-initiated activities and dimensions of positive or negative affect 36 graduate students (22 female and 14 male) engaging in a total of 202 activities appraised dimensions of the activities and responded to a…

Job restructuring and worker participation in decision making is humanizing technology in the land of Volvo and Saab and cutting down employee alienation and absenteeism. (Author)

Slave families and rural Southern black families afterward were remarkably stable; black women during and after slavery were supportive of their men; man and wife were close to today's ideal of individual strength and development. (Author/KM)

The self concept literature generally shows that different measures of self acceptance and self satisfaction are positively related to psychological adjustment and several measures of defensiveness. (Author/DEP)

In 1960, French and Raven postulated five bases of supervisory power: legitimate, expert, referent, reward, and coercive. Research studies in the middle and late 1960s in various work settings revealed the effectiveness of legitimate and expert supervisory power on worker behavior and satisfaction. The purpose of this study was to determine if…

Self-efficacy theory maintains that self-efficacy expectancy, a belief about one's ability to perform a behavior successfully, is independent of outcome expectancy, a belief about the likelihood of the behavior leading to a specific outcome. To examine this hypothesis, subjects (N=95) read communications that differed in descriptions of the…

University autonomy is discussed in detail in the first paper, which suggests that there is full recognition of the principle that the duty of the universities is to serve the public interest, rightly conceived; that their claim to a high degree of autonomy rests not on privilege, but on the teaching of experience; that only under that condition…

The purpose of this book is to examine the nature and operation of power in interpersonal relations. Designed for general use in communication, political science, business, and the social sciences, this book shows how power operates and affects us in everyday encounters. The first section of the book is an historical overview of the influences of…

The plight of the approximately 500,000 Metis, people of Indian and mixed blood, and Non-Status Indians, people of Indian ancestry who have lost their status for one reason or another, has been ignored both by the Federal Government and the Provincial Governments of Canada. The Metis and Non-Status Indians have won group recognition by organizing…

The article views power as a potential tool for human resource development (HRD) practitioners and focuses on personal power (the ability to influence others) rather than on role power (the right to influence others). Manipulation is discussed as a way to exercise personal power. (Author/BP)

The article examines briefly certain powers of American Indian governments in order to show that they deserve to be treated as nations by the United States. (Author)

The significance of the Criminal Justice Codification, Reform and Revision Act of 1975 (S.1) is discussed. (NQ)

Assesses the utility of a control-based analysis of crowding by examining the relationship between prolonged exposure to architecturally mediated social density and motivational deficits characteristic of learned helplessness. Subjects were 120 freshmen residents of long- and short-corridor dormitories. (MP)

Foreclosure occurs when individuals prematurely make a firm commitment to an occupation or an ideology. If the pressure of having an occupational identity can be eased, then it may be possible to establish an environment in which foreclosed students could move toward the consolidation of their unique identities. (Author)