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- Title
Sensitivity, or Laboratory, Training in Industry.
- Authors
Buchanan, Paul C.
- Abstract
This article attempts to make explicit the strategic goals and the rationale of various ways sensitivity training has been used in industrial and business organizations. Much has been written regarding the design and effectiveness of sensitivity training. Instead of covering this material again, this study attempts to make explicit the strategic goals and the rationale of various ways such training has been used in industrial and business organizations. Doing this provides a basis for considering how effective such training has been indoing what it was intended to do in the organizations where it was used. A wide variety of activity is called sensitivity training. Training so called varies in length, in focus, in the qualifications of the trainer and in participant mix. Such diversity in usage of the team has led to considerable confusion, as witnessed by articles which have recently appeared in several popular magazines in which activities as different as nude marathons and in-company team development sessions are referred to as "sensitivity training." Even in technical journals studies purporting to assess the effectiveness of sensitivity training fail to specify the design of the training.
- Subjects
GROUP relations training; SOCIOLOGY; BUSINESS enterprises; SOCIAL psychology; INTERPERSONAL relations; ORGANIZATIONAL sociology
- Publication
Sociological Inquiry, 1971, Vol 41, Issue 2, p217
- ISSN
0038-0245
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1475-682X.1971.tb01143.x