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This study was designed to investigate the relationship between critical flicker fusion (CFF) thresholds and five personality characteristics namely, alienation, social nonconformity, discomfort, expression, and defensiveness under three auditory stimulus conditions, such as quiet,
noise, and meaningful verbal stimuli. Sixty undergraduate students, 30 males and 30 females, participated in this experiment. They were between 18 and 26 years of age. Personality characteristics and CFF thresholds were measured by the Arabic version of Lanyon's Psychological Screening
Inventory and by a Visual Perception Control apparatus respectively. The results showed that (1) auditory stimulation did not have any significant effects on CFF thresholds, (2) subjects who scored high in the social nonconformity scale had higher CFF thresholds than those who scored low,
and (3) no other personality characteristics had any significant effects on CFF thresholds. This finding suggests a possible connection between higher CFF thresholds and an inner tendency to revolt against an established order.

Investigates the attitudes of managers, supervisors and workers to
participative management and identifies obstacles to implement it in
Bangladesh: 306 employees, 181 workers, 73 supervisors, and 52 managers,
from eight medium‐sized industrial plants were interviewed by using a
questionnaire. The results showed that workers expressed more positive
attitudes than managers and supervisors. Supervisors expressed more
favourable attitudes than managers. Managers expressed a lukewarm
support to participation. Both workers and supervisors perceived certain
organizational situations as barriers to participation. Managers did not
perceive these situations as barriers. The implication is that a
participative management system is likely to meet with resistance from
managers, while workers and supervisors will support it. It is therefore
suggested that training and educational interventional programmes should
be introduced to change the attitudes of managers.