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his group, to insist on a short check of their communication and securing skills, and to
attach importance to precise and prompt instructions during the climb.
Results of previous job analyses
Which criteria resulting on the one hand from surveys and on the other from real-life
situations can be provided by aptitude psychologists for a basic assessment in order to
get concepts and measurements of leadership in small groups of aptitude testing?
Surveys with officers from different divisions of the Central Personnel Office (Mentges,
1990) point in a very definite direction that can be paraphrased with
-personal authority and the attending executive techniques,
- assertiveness, taking consideration of the situation and of the people involved,
- cooperation in the sense of commitment to the success of the team,
- comradeship and carei
- courageous and honest acceptance of responsibility.
Anyhow, it does not include the ability to cause conflicts and to test the extent to which
such conflicts can be endured and managed. Ideas of this kind should have been
discharged once and for all from modem group psychology.
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