Types of sensitivity training groups are distinguished according to their general orientations, practice and aims. Observations are made on the Esalen, Tavistock, and NTL approaches as well as on some sources of the different approaches and suggestions as to their advantages and disadvantages.
Characteristics of interpersonal feedback and responses to feedback, as a function of time (early versus later sessions), sender (trainers, male members, female members), and individual group, were studied in four NTL Bethel Tgroups. Over time, member feedback became more expressive and less focused upon here-and-now events, while trainer feedback became more nondirective. During early sessions, trainer feedback was less expressive, less focused upon self-other relationships, less here-and-now, more negative and confronting, more abstract, and more interpretive than member feedback, although these differences diminished by later sessions. No significant differences were apparent between male and female senders. Group differences outweighed their similarities. Acceptance versus rejection of member feedback was related only to the extent to which feedback was positive and supportive.
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Over the last 25 years the sensitivity training movement has steadily expanded. Growing out of the behavioral sciences, selected interrelated concepts underlie its development and distinguish it sharply from group therapy. The central role of feedback is carefully defined and described and its impact upon individual members as well as upon the evolving group culture are explicated in detail.
The study was intended to examine whether gender differences exist with regard to equity sensitivity between Korean female and male workers. Employing equity sensitivity theory to represent gender and individual differences in a collectivistic country such as Korea may allow internationally located organisations and their managers to understand and accommodate different behaviours of individuals in a different culture. Understanding individual and gender differences in a particular culture can enable organisations and managers to design equitable reward systems. A total of 400 survey packets were mailed to two regional universities in Korea. A total of 380 survey packages were returned, and 374 surveys were useable for data analysis. The results of the study illustrated that gender differences in equity sensitivity exist in Korea. Korean workers felt more entitled than did workers from other countries in earlier studies. The significant finding was that Korean female students felt more entitled than did Korean male participants and their behaviours as 'entitleds' was consistent with the dimensions of equity sensitivity theory.
This study is a hybridized research which consists of the qualitative and quantitative data. It determined the trend of manifestation of the different themes of gender sensitivity in short stories and looked into the difference in the trend of manifestation of the different themes and the relationship with the sex of the short story writers. The findings revealed that the theme on how women are hindered for political career was the theme that mostly occurs on the selected short stories written by males with nine or 45 percent trend of manifestation. However, with the selected short stories written by females, the themes on women's vulnerability to poverty and the discrimination of women for employment appear with the most number of occurrences of four or 23.53 percent. There was an observed difference in the trend of manifestation between the males and the female writers. However in the Kruskall Wallis statistical test revealed that there was no sufficient evidence to conclude gender differences in the themes. Furthermore, the sex of the short story writers does not affect the trend of manifestation of the different themes embodying the different gender sensitivity issue in the selected short stories except with the gender sensitivity issue on Poverty. The researcher concluded that short stories contain different themes reflecting the various gender sensitivity issues which vary in the trend of manifestation.The study recommends that Filipino writers should write more stories depicting the role of Filipino woman and emphasize their importance in the society.
This study examines the impact of structured sensitivity training on teachers' perception of their pupils. Thirty-four female teachers were exposed to one of four programs: Group 1, the main experimental group, took part in structured training in which everyday situations in school were analyzed. Case-study protocols from the Bar-Ilan Picture Test for Children, a semiprojective interview, were used as a didactic tool Group 2 participated in unstructured sensitivity training focused on group processes according to the classical model of T-training. Groups 3 and 4 were comparison groups. Group 3 discussed topics concerning school proposed by the group. Group 4 listened to lectures on the topics raised in Group 1. The results showed a significant improvement in sensitivity for Group I (experimental) The rate of improvement for Group 2 (unstructured) fell between those for Group 1 (experimen tal) and Groups 3 and 4 (comparison).
The social institutions of modern technological culture often fail to provide adequate opportunity for the exchange of emotions and personal feelings of affect and esteem. The widespread development of alternative institutions such as sensitivity training can be seen as an attempt to compensate for the scarcity of this type of interpersonal communication. Reasons for this scarcity are examined in terms of a structural model of individual and societal resource differentiation.
