Management Attitude Questionnaire

Abstract

The Management Attitude Questionnaire (MAQ) is a historically significant psychological instrument designed to evaluate the attitudes, behaviors, and values held by managers within various organizational settings. Comprising 99 items, the MAQ served several crucial functions upon its development. These included providing substantive input for professional development initiatives, such as motivation seminars for supervisors; offering detailed insights to facilitate personal and professional self-development among participating managers; and establishing reliable normative data against which future managerial trends could be evaluated.

The questionnaire utilizes diverse response methodologies, featuring both forced-choice selections between paired statements and traditional multiple-choice questions. Its application domain is classified under Organizational, Occupational, and Career Development. This historical document is currently preserved and made available through collaboration with the University of Akron, Archives of the History of American Psychology. The original PDF of the questionnaire can be downloaded here: MANAGEMENT ATTITUDE QUESTIONNAIRE.

Keywords

Management Attitude Questionnaire, Organizational Commitment, Job Satisfaction, Occupational Stress, Managerial Attitudes, Middle Level Managers, Supervisor-Employee Interaction, Attitude Measures, Organizational Environment.

Authors

No authorship is indicated for the development of the Management Attitude Questionnaire. The instrument is held as an anonymous historical record within the Archives of the History of American Psychology.

Purpose

The primary purpose of the MAQ is the systematic assessment of the psychological disposition of organizational leaders. Specifically, it seeks to quantify the core attitudes, behavioral tendencies, and underlying values that influence a manager’s effectiveness, commitment, and interaction style within the corporate environment. The resulting data was intended to support managerial training and self-evaluation processes.

Construct

The central psychological construct measured by this instrument is Managerial Attitudes. This broad construct encompasses a manager’s disposition towards various organizational facets, including subordinates, superiors, organizational change, job requirements, and the working environment itself. Related sub-constructs implicitly assessed include Organizational Commitment and Job Satisfaction.

Validity

No specific information regarding the validity of the Management Attitude Questionnaire (MAQ) is currently indicated or documented in the preserved records. Given the instrument’s historic nature, modern psychometric documentation concerning criterion, construct, or content validity is not readily available.

Reliability

The reliability of the MAQ, including measures such as internal consistency (e.g., Cronbach’s alpha) or test-retest reliability, is not indicated in the associated documentation. Researchers intending to utilize this historical instrument should conduct preliminary reliability studies appropriate for their specific population.

Factor Analysis

No factor analysis or structural modeling data is indicated for the Management Attitude Questionnaire. Therefore, the underlying factor structure or dimensional components that constitute the scale’s 99 items remain undocumented in the source materials.

Instrument

Test Type: Inventory/Questionnaire

Format: The survey utilizes a diverse range of response formats, including a forced-choice method requiring the selection between paired statements, as well as standard multiple-choice options. The questionnaire contains 99 items.

Language Available: English (Implied)

Population Group: Human; Male; Female

Age Group: Adulthood (18 yrs & older)

Population Details: Sample primarily consists of Organizational Managers, including middle and top-level managers.

Test Methodology: The original administration method was primarily Paper-based.

Keywords

Management Attitude Questionnaire, Managerial Commitment, Job Satisfaction, Organizational Environment, Job Stress, Organizational Commitment, Supervisor-Employee Interaction, Top Level Managers, Normative Data.

Authors

Author ORCID Identifier: Not applicable (No authorship indicated)

Affiliation Email addresses: Not applicable (No authorship indicated)

Correspondence Address: Preserved in collaboration with the University of Akron, Archives of the History of American Psychology.

Permissions & Fee and Test Year

Information regarding permissions, licensing fees, or the specific year of the instrument’s development is not explicitly indicated in the available records. As a historical document, researchers should consult the University of Akron Archives for current access and usage policies.

Reference’s

No specific primary publication reference or citation is indicated for the development or initial validation of the Management Attitude Questionnaire.

Items of the Management Attitude Questionnaire

IMPORTANT: The following scale items must be preserved in their original language and must not be changed in any way.

Test items are available, consisting of 99 items utilizing paired statements and multiple-choice options, but the specific text of the items is not provided in the source documentation.