Attitudes of personnel managers and student groups toward labor relations

Abstract

The Allport-Vernon Study of Values and the Labor-Relations Information Inventory were administered to 51 Industrial Psychology students, 61 Personnel Management majors, and 43 Personnel and Employment Managers. Results showed that students as a group have significantly higher mean scores in their attitude toward labor than people working in the field. On the scale of values test, Industrial Psychology majors have significantly higher mean scores for the "theoretical" and the "aesthetic" values than either of the other two groups. They have significantly lower mean scores than the other two groups on the "economic" and on the "religious" values. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)