Workers Under Stress: The Impact of Work Pressure on Group Cohesion

By Stuart M. Klein

This important book reexamines old assumptions concerning the nature of group cohesion in industrial firms as it is influenced by management actions. Based upon a carefully controlled study, it offers a sound theoretical base and a replicable method, both vital to students of group processes and organizational theorists. The study indicates that high stress was positively related to intragroup conflict regardless of group sanctions encouraging cohesiveness but that when managers rewarded group b

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081315281X
• ISBN13: 9780813152813
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher