Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, 1951-55

Containers:

Box 5, 6, 7, 8

Component identifier:

Series 3

Content Summary:

As visiting lecturer, Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, Gibb further developed methods of leadership assessment, based in part on his work with Cattell. He further refined the view of leadership that emphasised 'syntality' and context, by application and evaluation of 'p-technique' and other analytical methods. This view proposed leadership as a function of personality and the social system in interaction.

The series contains extensive research notes and correspondence, publications, questionnaire and associated material, correlation data and punch-cards relating to research projects: 'Australian Cultural Pattern by p-technique', 'Teacher Behaviour Description', further leadership and group behaviour research. Minutes of the Social Science Research Council to which Gibb reported his work on leadership in July 1952, and related correspondence for an American Psychology Association symposium on 'Theories of Leadership' in 1954 are also included.

Research matter from this period is followed by details of Gibb's innovative Human Relations course, spanning psychology and sociology disciplines. The course information held here includes background notes, syllabi, lectures, examination and laboratory material. This is followed by correspondence, notes and test material connecting industrial psychology and personnel development, culminating in a Ford Foundation-sponsored summer school conducted by Gibb for Du Pont in 1955.

Miscellaneous draft papers and reprints complete the series.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Gibb's wife Margaret donated the papers to the Library in 1994.

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