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Interpersonal Skills REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE Introducti

The study explores for relationships between supervisors' personality temperament and the levels of interpersonal skills effectiveness with which supervisors are perceived by their subordinates. So that the study may be placed within the context of the existing literature on these variables, this chapter presents an overview of the research on interpersonal skills effectiveness in general as well as in the work-place in particular.

The review emphasizes those studies that deal with factors contributive to variance in interpersonal skills effectiveness. Further, there is a discussion of the use of subordinates' ratings as a measure of interpersonal skills effectiveness since this study utilized this index in measuring skill effectiveness. The review begins with a discussion of the underlying theory on which the study is based.

Interpersonal Skills Effectiveness: General Theory

The theoretical orientation of this study is based on the writings of Harry Stack Sullivan (1947) who stated that individual personalities could not be understood apart from the social environments in which they develop and are maintained. Specifically, Sullivan (1947) defined personality as:

. . .the relatively enduring pattern of recurrent interpersonal situations which characterize a human life. (p. xi)

What Sullivan is suggesting in his definition is that a full understanding of personality cannot be attained apart from the content of that social interaction in which a personality engages.

Given Sullivan's views, it seems reasonable to suggest that the proper and important arena for studying supervisors' personality (and the influence thereof) is that of their interpersonal interaction with subordinates. With respect to supervisory effectiveness, Sullivan's views also suggest that the variable translates to their interpersonal skills effectiveness with workers. It is upon these conceptual assumptions that the theoretical foundations ...

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