GEORGE SHOUKSMITH
Biographic Data
| ID | 5706142 |
|---|---|
| NAME | GEORGE SHOUKSMITH |
| GIVEN NAMES | GEORGE |
| FAMILY NAME | SHOUKSMITH |
| SIGNATURE | SHOUKSMITH G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massey University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Preferred Interaction Styles of Managers of Different Status
Members of three levels of management from a major New Zealand manufacturing organization rated their preferred participative or decision-making styles: Tough Battler, Friendly Helper or Logical Thinker. A two-way analysis of variance indicated a significant simple effect establishing logical thinking as the over-all preferred style and an interactive effect between selected style and the status of the manager. When major problems or conflicts ha…
Variables Related to Organizational Commitment in Health Professionals
Three measures of organizational commitment were related to scores from the Multidimensional Job Satisfaction Scale in a sample of 1121 health professionals to ascertain the organizational factors which were associated with commitment. Opportunity for personal growth or self-actualization and physical working conditions were related to all three forms of commitment. Affective and Normative Commitment were also enhanced in organizations with promo…
Construction of a Multidimensional Scale of Job Satisfaction
A comprehensive, multidimensional scale measuring job satisfaction was constructed for use in a major project concerned with personnel recruitment and retention of health professionals. 11 dimensions relating to opinions of immediate supervisors, physical working conditions, satisfaction with coworkers and with pay, aspects related to promotion and work motivation, are identified. These dimensions are shown to distinguish among health professiona…
Construction of a Multidimensional Scale of Job Satisfaction
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Job and non‐job activities, job satisfaction and mental health among veterinarians
This study examines the relationship between dimensions of job and non‐job activity, job satisfaction and mental health among veterinary professionals and tests specific predictions arising from the work of Broad bent (1985) and Karasek (1979). Results are based on an analysis of 411 questionnaires returned in a postal survey. Job and non‐job activities contributed a significant proportion of unique variance in total mental health as measured, an…
Stress in Prison Staff
A survey was conducted into the sources of occupational stress and their effects on levels of health for a group of New Zealand prison staff: Staff were categorized into three groups: Prison Officers. Ranking Prison Officers, and Instructors In addition, a control group of noncommissioned Army personnel was used as a comparison sample. Subjects were administered a job‐specific “sources of stress” questionnaire, a life events measure, a personalit…
The Factor Structure of “Most Preferred Co-Worker,” and “Assumed Similarity of Opposites” Scores
Scores from a 10-item measure of Fiedler's leadership style variables, together with the Least Preferred Co-worker and Most Preferred Coworker summed scores and Assumed Similarity of Opposites profile difference measure were obtained from 272 subjects involved in leadership training courses. These were factor analyzed to determine the similarity or dissimilarity of the three measures. The first two measures are factorially distinct, though reflec…
Creativity, Visual Imagination and Suggestibility
S ummary . An experiment is described in which 147 10‐year‐old children were tested for their creative ability. The same children were then placed in an experimental situation and exposed to peer suggestion. Results show that those children who were highly creative were very open to suggestion. Those measured high on visual imagination were not. It is concluded that by the nature of the creativity process itself, creative people are suggestible
Response Bias Produced by Changing the Answer Format of a Test
A number of recent smdies (e.g., Taylor, 1966) have confirmed that both part and whole performances on cognitive tests are influenced by the direction given to Ss as to their general approach to those tasks. The present study investigates a related problem; if instructions and test conditions are held constant, will a difference in response format alone produce differences in performance? A test of high level reasoning, The Canterbury Reasoning T…
A Sequential Guessing Game for Studying Problem Solving
A binary guessing game was used to study non-verbal problem solving. Results suggested that inappropriate expectancies interfere with performance on this task. A distinction between simple and complex learning was made and a concept learning paradigm presented for these findings
The Effect of Counselling on the Achievement of High‐ability Pupils
S ummary . The under‐achievement of high ability children is a growing and important problem. This paper reports the effect of counselling on the level of educational attainment of high ability under‐achieving intermediate school pupils. Three matched groups of under‐achieving pupils were chosen, known as the Counselling, Placebo and Control Groups, respectively. The Counselling group received non‐directive counselling following the administratio…
Words vs Phrases in a Verbal Guessing Game
Recently, Battig (1957) used a word guessing game to study verbal problem solving. The task involved in this game was to find a particular word by guessing at the letters composing it. S is told the number of letters in the word and when he correctly, the position of that letter in the word is indicated. A subsidiary finding of the experiment suggested that performance improved as the length of the word to be guessed increased. The present experi…
Fluency and Essay Writing
S ummary . A general interest in essay writing and speculation as to what was meant by ‘fluent’ writing, led the author to undertake the following investigation. A group of Edinburgh school children were given various fluency tests and the results from these, together with the scores from essays and intelligence tests, were analysed. The main conclusion reached was that a minor ‘ideational’ fluency factor did seem to enter into essay writing, tog…
Stress in Prison Staff
A survey was conducted into the sources of occupational stress and their effects on levels of health for a group of New Zealand prison staff: Staff were categorized into three groups: Prison Officers. Ranking Prison Officers, and Instructors In addition, a control group of noncommissioned Army personnel was used as a comparison sample. Subjects were administered a job‐specific “sources of stress” questionnaire, a life events measure, a personalit…
Job and non‐job activities, job satisfaction and mental health among veterinarians
This study examines the relationship between dimensions of job and non‐job activity, job satisfaction and mental health among veterinary professionals and tests specific predictions arising from the work of Broad bent (1985) and Karasek (1979). Results are based on an analysis of 411 questionnaires returned in a postal survey. Job and non‐job activities contributed a significant proportion of unique variance in total mental health as measured, an…
Fluency and Essay Writing
S ummary . A general interest in essay writing and speculation as to what was meant by ‘fluent’ writing, led the author to undertake the following investigation. A group of Edinburgh school children were given various fluency tests and the results from these, together with the scores from essays and intelligence tests, were analysed. The main conclusion reached was that a minor ‘ideational’ fluency factor did seem to enter into essay writing, tog…
Words vs Phrases in a Verbal Guessing Game
Recently, Battig (1957) used a word guessing game to study verbal problem solving. The task involved in this game was to find a particular word by guessing at the letters composing it. S is told the number of letters in the word and when he correctly, the position of that letter in the word is indicated. A subsidiary finding of the experiment suggested that performance improved as the length of the word to be guessed increased. The present experi…
The Effect of Counselling on the Achievement of High‐ability Pupils
S ummary . The under‐achievement of high ability children is a growing and important problem. This paper reports the effect of counselling on the level of educational attainment of high ability under‐achieving intermediate school pupils. Three matched groups of under‐achieving pupils were chosen, known as the Counselling, Placebo and Control Groups, respectively. The Counselling group received non‐directive counselling following the administratio…
A Sequential Guessing Game for Studying Problem Solving
A binary guessing game was used to study non-verbal problem solving. Results suggested that inappropriate expectancies interfere with performance on this task. A distinction between simple and complex learning was made and a concept learning paradigm presented for these findings
Response Bias Produced by Changing the Answer Format of a Test
A number of recent smdies (e.g., Taylor, 1966) have confirmed that both part and whole performances on cognitive tests are influenced by the direction given to Ss as to their general approach to those tasks. The present study investigates a related problem; if instructions and test conditions are held constant, will a difference in response format alone produce differences in performance? A test of high level reasoning, The Canterbury Reasoning T…
Creativity, Visual Imagination and Suggestibility
S ummary . An experiment is described in which 147 10‐year‐old children were tested for their creative ability. The same children were then placed in an experimental situation and exposed to peer suggestion. Results show that those children who were highly creative were very open to suggestion. Those measured high on visual imagination were not. It is concluded that by the nature of the creativity process itself, creative people are suggestible
The Factor Structure of “Most Preferred Co-Worker,” and “Assumed Similarity of Opposites” Scores
Scores from a 10-item measure of Fiedler's leadership style variables, together with the Least Preferred Co-worker and Most Preferred Coworker summed scores and Assumed Similarity of Opposites profile difference measure were obtained from 272 subjects involved in leadership training courses. These were factor analyzed to determine the similarity or dissimilarity of the three measures. The first two measures are factorially distinct, though reflec…
Job and non‐job activities, job satisfaction and mental health among veterinarians
This study examines the relationship between dimensions of job and non‐job activity, job satisfaction and mental health among veterinary professionals and tests specific predictions arising from the work of Broad bent (1985) and Karasek (1979). Results are based on an analysis of 411 questionnaires returned in a postal survey. Job and non‐job activities contributed a significant proportion of unique variance in total mental health as measured, an…
Stress in Prison Staff
A survey was conducted into the sources of occupational stress and their effects on levels of health for a group of New Zealand prison staff: Staff were categorized into three groups: Prison Officers. Ranking Prison Officers, and Instructors In addition, a control group of noncommissioned Army personnel was used as a comparison sample. Subjects were administered a job‐specific “sources of stress” questionnaire, a life events measure, a personalit…
Construction of a Multidimensional Scale of Job Satisfaction
A comprehensive, multidimensional scale measuring job satisfaction was constructed for use in a major project concerned with personnel recruitment and retention of health professionals. 11 dimensions relating to opinions of immediate supervisors, physical working conditions, satisfaction with coworkers and with pay, aspects related to promotion and work motivation, are identified. These dimensions are shown to distinguish among health professiona…
Construction of a Multidimensional Scale of Job Satisfaction
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Variables Related to Organizational Commitment in Health Professionals
Three measures of organizational commitment were related to scores from the Multidimensional Job Satisfaction Scale in a sample of 1121 health professionals to ascertain the organizational factors which were associated with commitment. Opportunity for personal growth or self-actualization and physical working conditions were related to all three forms of commitment. Affective and Normative Commitment were also enhanced in organizations with promo…
Preferred Interaction Styles of Managers of Different Status
Members of three levels of management from a major New Zealand manufacturing organization rated their preferred participative or decision-making styles: Tough Battler, Friendly Helper or Logical Thinker. A two-way analysis of variance indicated a significant simple effect establishing logical thinking as the over-all preferred style and an interactive effect between selected style and the status of the manager. When major problems or conflicts ha…
Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Applied Psychology (4 works) · Applied Psychology (4 works) · Job satisfaction (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior (3 works)