AN APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF THE ATTITUDES OF WORKERS ON CONVEYOR BELT ASSEMBLY LINES.

The paper describes a study covering 409 workers in the assembly factory of a large Belgian automobile company. It was desired to identify the factors which contributed, in both a positive and a negative way, to the attitudes of the men toward their work. The technique adopted was a free, but standardised, interview with each man whilst working on the line with him, the research worker having previously been trained and having worked on the line as an assembler. The data were subjected to an analysis of variance, and factors at work groups lying at the extremes of the distributions are discussed, reasons for their contribution to the total variance being drawn from the interview data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]