Executives' and Union Leaders' Perceptions of Each Others' Attitudes to Industrial to Industrial Relations.

The article presents an investigation which executives and leader's perceptions have for each other's attitudes to industrial relations in Australia. The investigation that relates to a particular groups of union leaders in one country at a particular time show a broader issue which concerned with the sources of perceptual distortion. The union leaders and executives were given a questionnaire which contained 17 forced-choice items and one open-ended item. After expressing its opinion, the results reveals that there is a strong net tendency to overestimate or underestimate on a number of items. However, the degree of consensus of predictions varies widely on the different items and the correlation with accuracy of perceptions.