Clayton P Alderfer

Biographic Data

ID251962
NAMEClayton P Alderfer
GIVEN NAMESClayton P
FAMILY NAMEAlderfer
SIGNATUREALDERFER C P
AFFILIATIONSYale University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS10
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
H-INDEX2

  • A field experiment for studying race relations embedded in organizations

    Open AccessClayton P Alderfer, Robert C TuckerARTICLEJournal of Organizational Behavior1996References: 6

    When social scientists conduct research in organizations, they engage in relationships with respondents in order to obtain information. For studies of race relations in organizations, questions arise about how researchers take account of their organizational and racial group memberships. This field experiment tests hypotheses derived from embedded intergroup relations theory about the effects of questionnaire administration procedures and race of…

  • The Race Relations Competence Workshop

    Open AccessClayton P Alderfer, Charleen J Alderfer et al.ARTICLEHuman Relations1992Cited by: 4References: 7

    This paper presents the theoretical basis and the associated perceptions of race relations that characterized a race relations competence workshop which served as the educational component of an overall program to improve race relations among managers within the fictitiously named XYZ Corporation. Workshop activities combined didactic and experiential methods and focused on group and individual levels of learning based on embedded intergroup rela…

  • Reflections on race relations and organizations

    Open AccessClayton P AlderferARTICLEJournal of Organizational Behavior1990Cited by: 2

  • Commentary on “Responsible to whom? Responsible for what?”

    Open AccessClayton P AlderferARTICLEAmerican Journal of Community…1989

  • A New Design for Survey Feedback

    Open AccessClayton P Alderfer, John HolbrookARTICLEEducation and Urban Society1973References: 4

    Survey feedback is a social technology without much theory to offer alternative design strategies or to explain why it works when it does. The present study presents a theoretical discussion analyzing and explaining the use of group methods in feeding back diagnostic data to organizations. A new design the peer group-intergroup model is presented and compared to the traditional family group model. Data evaluating one implementation of this design…

  • Beyond Words

    Clayton P AlderferARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology1973

  • Existence, relatedness, and growth

    Clayton P AlderferBOOKExistence, relatedness, and growth1972Cited by: 1

  • An empirical test of a new theory of human needs

    Open AccessClayton P AlderferARTICLEOrganizational Behavior and Human…1969

  • Organizational Diagnosis from Initial Client Reactions to a Researcher

    Clayton P Alderfer, Clayton AlderferARTICLEHuman Organization1968Cited by: 3

    A field researcher faces complex issues in establishing and maintaining contact with the people he studies. In the sizeable literature dealing with the problems of participant-observer roles and researcher-client relationships which has developed over the years, a number of themes can be detected. One broad subject has to do with understanding the dynamics of client-researcher roles and finding ways to utilize this knowledge to obtain more valid …