Psychometric score patterns, social characteristics, and productivity of small industrial work groups

Abstract

How can workers be best combined to obtain maximum effectiveness where teamwork is especially important? 65 groups of aircraft maintenance workers were given a self-description inventory, a sociometric questionnaire and their need for group cooperation was rated by supervisors. Time standards data was the criterion of productivity. "The strongest effect of score patterns on productivity will be found in groups where necessity for cooperation is high… some consideration must be made of the managerial situation of the group leader." The inventory scores were negatively related to productivity, "as was the leader's percentile score position within his own group. These variables were also negatively related to group chohesiveness and the leader's sociometric popularity with his men; cohesiveness and the leader popularity were in turn positively related to productivity." From Psyc Abstracts 36:01:3LH73L. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)