PERCEPTUAL DIFFERENCES IN SOCIOMETRIC PATTERNING

Abstract

By establishing the sociometric design of any working unit, the researcher endeavors to discover some· of the major unifying forces in the hierarchy. To determine the preferences of one person for another in a specific situation allows for a better restructuring of the organization based on what some may consider a frame of reference of interpersonal relationships. So important are these relationships that satisfaction and productivity in one form or another of a unit can be labelled and more important, result in their increase.