Vocational guidance of executives

Abstract

Application of an interest analysis blank of the Cowdery type to 80 executives indicates that this group is not homogeneous. The interests of its members are most like those of life insurance salesmen, office workers, engineers and lawyers. In this group the correlations between scores representing degree of interest resmblance to various occupational groups (e.g., engineer interest and banker interest) are all low. The question of definition of an executive is raised, and methods of attacking the problem of securing a clear-cut index of interest for this group are suggested. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)