Relationship of employee morale to ability to predict responses

Abstract

A sample of 227 employees and 25 supervisors took a questionnaire comprising 20 items from How Supervise? and 20 morale questions. The supervisors were asked to give their own responses to the How Supervise? items, and to predict the responses of each of several employees to both sets of items. Each subordinate was asked to give his own responses to the 40 items, and to predict his supervisor's responses to the 20 How Supervise? items. "The results indicate that supervisors are not able to predict the responses of high morale subordinates with any more success than the responses of low morale subordinates. The results also indicate that high morale subordinates are able to predict their supervisor's responses better than low morale subordinates." (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)