Human Relations Training Research Articles

Human Relations Training for the Elderly

The authors desribe a structured group experience designed to improve communication and to encourage support among a population of elderly persons residing in a retirement community. Group activities and suggestions for counselors are provided.

The effect of CAM technologies on training activities

Abstract Training programs that plants use to help their employees adapt to different types of CAM technologies are examined based on a national probability survey of manufacturing establishments. The types of training programs offered are first described, then the relationship of type of training to the type of CAM equipment in place is examined. For managers implementing CAM, the data suggest that training programs must be tailored to the hardware and needs of individual plants, that training needs dramatically increase as equipment is integrated, and that training programs generally teach the minimum about machine operation, safety, and knowledge of technological advances in the plant to at least machine operators and shop floor supervisors. Additional training needs will depend on the specific equipment introduced (e.g., robots necessitate training in human relations).

Women's health from a woman's point of view: a review of the literature.

The literature on the current health problems of women is reviewed, clarifying the conditions and updating present knowledge of women's health within the context of medical and social research. Both medical professionals and women have begun to address women's health issues with 4 major issues receiving particular emphasis: the charge that physicians fail to take women's complaints seriously; the allegation that the population of women is being drugged; the accusation that women experience excessive surgical procedures; and the notion that sexism is inherent in American medical education. Focus on these issues is not the answer. Women, individually and collectively, need to clarify issues of women's health within the context of modern research and understanding. The literature is reviewed in the categories of prepubescent females, adolescence and the young woman, women's reproductive lives, life styles of the middle years, external and internal abuse, and aged women. The estimated annual occurrence of 60,000-100,000 cases of incest and/or sexual abuse among prepubescent females makes it a women's health issue of serious dimension. The victims are overwhelmingly female with a ratio of 10 females to 1 male child. Appetite disorders, known as patharexia, are a major public health problem of female adolescents. After depression, they represent the most common emotional illness among young girls and women. Anorexia nervosa, bulimarexia, and bulimia all are characterized by body image and distortion and the victim's obsessive desire to be thin. A more conforming, but still inappropriately adapted, response to social expectations for women is teen pregnancy. Teenagers who decide to have their babies often are those with the fewest options. Voluntary childlessness, late age childbirth, and issues of reproductive freedom are having social, political, and economic impact on the lives of all women. The prevailing social context of sexism and inequality contributes to the origin and persistence of problems of women patients, as demonstrated by the correlation between subordinate group status and mental health. Many changes have been initiated as a result of pressure from individual women and from the women's health care movement. For example, medical schools are reforming their training in values, ethics, and human relations. Women have begun to assume more control over their own lives and well being. Women's groups such as the Boston Women's Health Collective have set the pattern for a proliferation of self-help manuals available to the general readership. Recent media attention has focused on such women's health issues as family violence, incest, and battering. Women have challenged the medical professionals in their treatments, and medical professionals need to see beyond individual symptoms to the context of illness in women. Complete health for women can be a new model for other social movements.

In-Service Courses in Human Relations: One Teacher's Learning

Abstract Human relations training includes counselling as an important ingredient. This case-study reports the learning of one primary deputy headteacher during a six-day course, and her continuing efforts to use and extend that learning during the following year. She reported an improvement in classroom discipline, and less stressful and more effective relationships with colleagues and pupils, linking these gains with insights and skills developed on the course. The value to course designers of goal-setting structures is illustrated by the study. Such structures provide an opportunity to take part in, and study, counselling interventions which have real problems as their focus.

In-service courses in human relations: One teacher's learning

Abstract Human relations training includes counselling as an important ingredient. This case-study reports the learning of one primary deputy headteacher during a six-day course, and her continuing efforts to use and extend that learning during the following year. She reported an improvement in classroom discipline, and less stressful and more effective relationships with colleagues and pupils, linking these gains with insights and skills developed on the course. The value to course designers of goal-setting structures is illustrated by the study. Such structures provide an opportunity to take part in, and study, counselling interventions which have real problems as their focus.

Taking control of stress in teaching.

Summary. An evaluation of two 6‐day in‐service courses in human relations for teachers, using a structured diary before, during and after the course, and a follow‐up interview, produced data on teacher stress which was qualitatively different from earlier research using questionnaires. The courses were experiential and were perceived as stressful. In the follow‐up diaries and interviews there was evidence that training in human relations produced changes in behaviour and a reduction in stress.

A Review of Progress toward State-Mandated Police Human Relations Training

A Review of Progress toward State-Mandated Police Human Relations Training

An Investigation of the Generalizability of Human Relations Training

An Investigation of the Generalizability of Human Relations Training

A Study on the Self-Disclosure of Nurses After Human Relations Training

A Study on the Self-Disclosure of Nurses After Human Relations Training

Short-Term Human Relations Training for Corrections Personnel

Short-Term Human Relations Training for Corrections Personnel

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Book Reviewed in this article:RONCO, WILLIAM AND PEATTIE, LISA. Making Work: Sev‐ Created Jobs in Participatory Organizations.HENDERSON, RICHARD I. Performance Appraisal.ROCK, MILTON L. (Ed.) Handbook of Wage and Salary Administration.LEVINE, EDWARD L. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Job Analysis (and More!…A Job Analysis Primer).DREHER, GEORGE F. AND SACKETT, PAUL R. Perspectives on Employee Stafing and Selection: Readings and Commentary.NEILSEN, ERIC H. Becoming an OD Practitioner.SCHRANK, ROBERT (Ed.) Industry Democracy at Sea: Authority and Democracy on a Norwegian Freighter.HOPKINS, ANNE H. Work and Job Satisfaction in the Public Sector.RUCH, RICHARD S. AND GOODMAN, RONALD. Image at the Top: Crisis and Renaissance in Corporate Leadership.MITROFF, IAN I. Stakeholders of the Organizational Mind: Toward a New View of Organizational Policy Making.PFEIFFER, J. WILLIAM. (Ed.) A Handbook of Structured Experiences for Human Relations Training Vol IX.HUCZYNSKI, ANDRZEJ Encyclopedia development Methods.MUNSON, LAWRENCE S. How to Conduct Training SemiCARROLL, STEPHEN J. AND SCHULER, RANDALL S. (Eds.) Human Resources Managment in the 1980s: Supplement to the ASPA Handbook of Personnel and Industrial Relations.DESATNICK, ROBERT L. The Business of Human Resource Management: A Guide for the Results Oriented Executive.WEXLEY, KENNETH N. AND YUKL, GARY A. Organizational Behavior and Personnel Psychology. (Rev. Ed.)KOLB, DAVID A., RUBIN, IRWIN M. AND McINTYRE, JAMES M . Organizational Psychology: An Experiential Approach to Organizational Behavior, (Fourth Ed.) and KOLB, DAVID A., RUBIN, IRWIN M. AND McINTYRE, JAMES M. Organizational Psychology: A Book of Readings.LAU, JAMES B. AND JELINEK, MARIANN. Behavior in Organizations: An Experiential Approach.WALSH, W. BRUCE AND OSIPOW, SAMUEL H. (Eds.) Handbook of Vocational Psychology. Vol. I: Foundations. and WALSH, W. BRUCE AND OSIPOW, SAMUEL H. (Eds.) Handbood of Vocational Psychology. Vol. 2: Applications.PAGE, TERRY. (Ed.) Computers in Personnel: Papers for the First National Confence and Exhibition of Computers in Personnel (22‐24 June 1982). and PAGE, TERRY, (Ed.) Computers in Personnel: Toward the Personnel Ofice of the Future.TAYLOR, A ROBERT. How to Select and Use an Executive Search Firm.

Human Relations Training for African Public Officials

Conditions in African cultures, particularly Nigeria, are considered and the role of training, notably human relations training, as a force in cultural change and modernization is examined.

Enhancing Teacher Affective Sensitivity by a Videotape Program

AbstractForty-three teachers were randomly assigned to one of three groups-two treatment and one control. The two treatment groups, which received slightly different instructions, viewed a 38-minute interpersonal communication skill development videotape program and then responded to the three stimulus vignettes. The control groups simply viewed and responded to the stimulus vignettes after being instructed to be helpful and understanding as possible. The vignettes consisted of classroom simulations of an anxious, depressed, and angry student expressing concerns to his/her teacher. The results indicated that the treatment groups had significantly greater scores on em pat hie responding on all three stimulus vignettes, and thus this model of human relations training appears promising. No differences were found between the treatment groups. These results and implications of this study are discussed.

Measuring Attitudes Toward Human Relations Training

This article reports a study designed to develop an instrument to measure attitudes toward human relations training. Test‐retest stability and internal consistency reliabilities were established.

The Critical Incident Method, An Overlooked Way of Human Relations Training for Small Business

The paper presents an outline of Pigor's critical incident method for human relations training. The method parallels a real life process of decision making consisting of searching for information, formulating the problem, and deciding upon a course of action based upon explicit reasoning. The method also provides for making generalizations that will be useful in dealing with or preventing future human relations situations. It is pointed out that the critical incident method has advantages for small firms beyond those it shares with large firms. These consist of the special appropriateness for small management groups, the low cost because training sessions can be handled by members of the small organization, the relevance of the cases discussed which come from members of the organization, the flexibility of the format of the method, and finally the number of human relations goals that can be simultaneously developed by those in the same training session.

The human side of systems: an experiential approach

Research is presented on the effect of human relations training on the interpersonal orientation of information systems professionals. The results indicate that training can make a difference. Interpersonal orientation is significant because the more systems professionals can effectively express their feelings on substantive issues and help others to do so, the more likely they are to be effective in problem solving and decision making. Increased effectiveness is a meaningful step towards the important goal of effective management information systems that truly meet the needs of their users.

The Effect of Response and Presentation Modes on Trainees' Responding

Sixty undergraduate students enrolled in human relations training were randomly assigned to one of six treatment groups and asked to respond either orally or in written form. Mode of response was shown to have a significant effect on participants' level of responding, perceptions of their helpfulness, and length of response.

The Impact of Developmental Issues on Human Relations Training for Preservice Teachers

The developmental stage of an individual receiving human relations training is of critical importance in determining whether the training will be effective and whether it will be incorporated easily or only after overcoming stiff resistance.

A study of staff development programs for improving school discipline

This paper reports two phases of an ongoing study of the effectiveness of teacher training programs related to school discipline. An exhaustive review of efficacy studies of programs such as Reality Therapy, Teacher Effectiveness Training, and Human Relations Training revealed serious methodological weaknesses. Most studies indicated programs involved teacher attitudes towards more humane discipline, but there were few demonstrations of actual behavior change in students. After phase 1, programs were examined for teaching strategies and processes taught to teachers to improve school discipline. A list of 38 processes were identified and each program examined for their presence. Phase 2 reports the incidence of these processes across programs and suggests further approaches to using these data for continuing research.

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Book reviewed in this article:Fastback Series; Phi Delta Kappa Bloomington, Ind.Evaluate Your School Testing Program; Robert B. Cormany Harrisburg, Pa.Career Skills Assessment Program; College Entrance Examination Board Princeton, N. J.Strategies for Helping Students; Calvin D. Catterall and George M. Gazda; Springfield, Ill.Listening–Responding: Human Relations Training for Teachers; Lynette Long Monterey, Calif.Healing: Implications for Psychotherapy; James L. Fosshage and Paul Olsen, Eds.; New YorkInterpersonal Communication: Innovations in Instruction; Paul G. Friedman Washington, D.C.