Political Science · Public Administration
UGC NET January 2017 Political Science
'Squealer' in the Human Relations theory is:
AOne who does too much work
BOne who does too little work
COne who absents himself from work
DOne who communicates detrimental information about others to the supervisor ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) One who communicates detrimental information about others to the supervisor — A squealer is one who passes harmful information about others to the supervisor, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★A squealer is one who passes harmful information about others to the supervisor, so that is the answer.
★The term comes from the Hawthorne studies of the human relations school.
★Workers in an informal group set their own norms of acceptable output and conduct.
★They identified roles that broke these norms, with their own slang names.
★A squealer is the informer who tells the supervisor about fellow workers, breaching group loyalty.
★Elton Mayo, the father of human relations theory, showed how such informal norms shape behaviour.
★Hence the squealer is the one who reports detrimental information to the supervisor.
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