Some Developments of a Study of Industrial Relations in Israel

Résumé du livre

The development of a program of research in industrial relations in Israel is described against the changing sociological and ideological background of an industry in rapid expansion. Three stages of the program are considered: (1) morale surveys; (2) the investigation of the foreman-worker relation; and (3) the development of a dynamic theory of interpersonal relations. The substantive, methodological and applied problems encountered at each stage and the attempted solutions are briefly described. It is also shown that a continuous line of development runs through the various stages. Each successive step was indeed stimulated by the problems and the findings that preceded it. This account has been motivated by the hope that the results obtained may prove useful to other countries and in particular to those areas where the possibility of industrial development depends on the absorption into industry of large masses of unskilled manpower, trained in patterns of living different from those of an industrial culture. (Author).