The Appropriateness of Management-by-Objectives for Development and Research Personnel.

Mossholder, Kevin W.; Dewhirst, H. Dudley

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ERIC Number: EJ252024

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1980

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The Appropriateness of Management-by-Objectives for Development and Research Personnel.

Mossholder, Kevin W.; Dewhirst, H. Dudley

Journal of Management, v6 n2 p145-56 Fall 1980

Examined the differential effects of a management by objectives (MBO) program on work satisfaction of development and research employee groups. Analyses indicated that these groups differed in perceptions of their work group climates and that facets of MBO explained significantly different amounts of variance in the groups' work satisfaction. (Author)

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Employee Attitudes, Engineers, Job Satisfaction, Management by Objectives, Personnel, Scientists, Staff Development, Work Attitudes, Work Environment

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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