A STATISTICAL REPORT OF INDUSTRY'S EXPERIENCE WITH ROLE PLAYING

Abstract

For the first time on a nationwide scale we have statistics on industry's experience with role playing. The data to be presented and discussed in this article were supplied by training directors who cooperated in one or more of three annual surveys initiated by the author and supported by sponsoring organizations. The first nationwide survey was made by the author in 1951 in his capacity as director of training of the National Foremen's Institute, Inc., of New London, Conn., and New York. The second was a recheck by the Management Development Center, of which the author is chairman. The third was made in 1953. It was initiated by the author, and through the interest of Mr. Matthew J. Murphy, then industrial relations editor of Factory Management and Maintenance, who later became editor-in-chief, was taken over as a McGraw-Hill Publishing Company project