ABSTRACT

The worker's judgement of his bosses is a compound of two independent judgements, of his immediate boss and of the factory management as a whole. The analysis of the worker's judgements of his bosses and mates is limited to rather speculative conclusions drawn from insufficient evidence, and based on parts only of the whole number of persons investigated. The analysis of the workers' judgements of their immediate bosses was therefore to sort out the usable records of interviews with bosses. The immediate boss who is approved by his workers is, on the whole, the boss who is co-operative, even if in some respects he is bossy or authoritarian. The analysis of the worker's range of social contacts is easily disposed of number relation was found between the number of persons the man says he works with and his judgement of his mates.