ARCHIVES OF THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGY

The University of Akron

 

 

                            COLLECTION NAME:      Katzell  (Raymond & Mildred) Papers    

 

LOCATION:       M688

 

Folder 1: New York State Psych. Assn.

 

Correspondence of 1953-56, mostly form letters and flyers from the Joint Council of New York State Psychologists on Legislation circulated to psychologists in New York state to educate them re. legislation being proposed to establish guidelines for licensing of psychologists in New York State.

 

Reprints and newspaper articles on the subject.  A copy of a NY Senate Bill of 1-6-54 – an amendment to the state’s mental hygiene law.

 

Correspondence of 1953-54 is a record of the history of legislation in New York.

 

Involved in the correspondence in this folder:

 


Stuart Cook

Albert S. Thompson

Roger Lennon

Eugene McGowan

Doris Kraemer

Ewald Nyquist

Harry McNeill

Charles Cofer

Herbert Zucker

Margaret Hall Powers

Hilding B. Carlson

Raymond Katzell

Harold Seashore

Elinor Barnes

Theodore Landsman

Daniel Broida


 

Carbon copy of a letter of 8-15-055 from Raymond Katzell to Percival Symonds re. scrapping of a plan for a series of articles on psychology originally planned for Life Magazine.


LOCATION:       M2989

 

Folder 1: Job Mobility in the Fields of Social Work: 1970 (AHAP)

Ø       Various info. from the Social and Rehabilitation Service Office explaining its experimental research program.  Incl. paper entitled “Social Welfare Manpower Research Branch: Research on Social Welfare Rehabilitation Workers, Work and Organizational Contexts” with hand-written annotations (6/17/70).

Ø       Letter to Katzell from the Dept. of Health, Edu. and Welfare detailing the process for submitting a proposal.  Incl. hand-written annotations (7/28/70).

Ø       2-part proposal submitted by New York University entitled “A Study of Determinants of Worker Job Mobility and Implications for Service Delivery.” Part I: Technical Plan, Part II: Cost & Pricing Data (8/21/70).

Ø      Curriculum Vitas of Katzell, Abraham Korman, Edward Levine, John MacNaughton, Walter Neff, Joseph Weitz and several non-psychologists.

 

Folder 2: Moral Issues in Psychology and its Impact on Industrial Behavior: 1959-1966 (AHAP)

Ø      Copy of the Virginia Law Weekly from Oct. 15, 1954 that contains an article written by Katzell on the violations of privacy.

Ø      Drafts of Katzell’s presidential address entitled “Moral Issues in Psychology.”  Delivered before the New York State Psychological Assoc. (NYSPA) in 5/59.  Incl. hand-written corrections.

Ø      Katzell’s speech entitled “Some Psychological Developments Relevant to Industrial Engineering.” Prepared for the Industrial Engineering Summer School in 1960.

Ø      Katzell’s speech entitled “Involuntary Psychological Testing in Employment Settings.” Presented at the APA symposium on Involuntary Psychological Testing on 9/3/66.

 

Folder 3: Hiring Discriminations and Group Productivity: 1967-1969 (AHAP)

Ø      Final report to the Ford Foundation entitled “Differential Selection Among Applicants from Different Socioeconomic or Ethnic Backgrounds.”  Written by Katzell, James Kirkpatrick, Robert Ewen, and Richard Barrett (5/67).

Ø      Final report written by Katzell that details a study on “The Effects of Leader Style, Leader Power, and Leader-Member Relations on Group Processes and Outputs” (Grant #  MH 06932-04).  Incl. appendix of 6 tables and charts (12/23/69).

 

Folder 4: Implications of Racial Differences for Employment: 1970-1973

Ø      Several of Katzell’s hand-written drafts on “Implications of Racial Differences for Employment” dated 5/70.

Ø      Hand-written notes for APA on the “History and Status of OFCC Order on Testing” dated 9/71.

Ø      Katzell’s draft “Twenty Years of Legal Regulation of Psychologists.”  Incl. hand-written annotations (NYSPA-1973).

Ø      Katzell’s draft “The Re-examination of Work” (GE Conference on Employee Motivation—3/26/73).

Ø      Katzell’s hand-written outline “Approaches to Diagnosing and Resolving Productivity Problems” (undated).

Ø      Katzell’s draft “How Do People Feel About Their Jobs?”  Incl. some hand-written corrections (undated).


 

Folder 5: Miscellaneous Transparencies and Gain Sharing Transparencies

Ø      Various transparencies regarding job satisfaction.  Topics incl. motivation, performance, financial value, percentage gains, gain sharing, supervision, and employee attitudes.

 

Folder 6: Various Papers: 1972-1987

Ø      Report from the 1972 Conference on the Use of Psychological Tests in Employment (Particularly with Minority Group Members) which was held from 11/2 to 11/4.  Incl. papers written by Katzell, Chairman Kenneth Clark, Alexander Wesman, Marvin Dunnette, Floyd Ruch, Robert Guion, Philip Dubois, and several other non-psychologists as well as a distribution list (Project NR 150-337).

Ø      Katzell’s remarks entitled “Structural Approaches to Increasing Both Job Satisfaction and Productivity.”  Presented to the APA on 8/31/74 (Summary of the preliminary findings of a project).

Ø      Final report to the U.S. Army Institute for Research in the Behavioral and Social Sciences, entitled “Effects of Communication and Related Factors on Work Motivation.”  Written by Katzell and assoc. in Jan. 1979.  Incl. ability test project.

Ø      Katzell’s draft entitled “Are We Leaders or Followers?”  Written for the APA in 1979.  Incl. hand-written corrections.

Ø      Katzell’s draft entitled “Income Sharing: System-Wide Incentives.”  Delivered at a Conference on Productivity in 1982.  Incl. handwritten corrections.

Ø      Hand-written notes for the APA on Managerial Motivation (1983).

Ø      Version of Katzell’s essay entitled “How Leadership Works” (see 2nd version in Folder 10).  Presented at the U.S. Naval Academy conference on, Military Leadership: Traditions and Future Trends (6/12/87).

 

Folder 7: Various Papers for Seminars, etc.: 1960-1968

Ø      Katzell’s speech “The Sixties—An Authoritative Appraisal as Seen by a Psychologist.” Presented at a Seminar of the Life Insurance Advertisers Assoc. on 9/21/60.  Incl. hand-written corrections.

Ø      Katzell’s working paper entitled “Organizational Functions and the Problem of Optimum Design.”  Prepared for a seminar on the Social Sciences of Organizations (June 1963).  Incl. hand-written corrections.

Ø      Katzell’s 1966 draft for the APA entitled “Remarks on Teacher Selection.”  Incl. hand-written corrections.

Ø      Katzell’s essay entitled “Management Motivation and Development.”  Incl. short letter regarding the contents of the essay (7/10/67).

Ø      Katzell’s outline of aforementioned essay incl. hand-written corrections.

Ø      2 page abridged version of Katzell’s speech entitled “Improving Attitudes to Work Especially by Participation.”  Presented before Congress in 1968.  Incl. hand-written corrections.

 

Folder 8: PAQ (Positions Analysis Questionnaire: 1970

Ø       Manual explaining use of PAQ (1970).


 

Folder 9: OFCC (Office of Federal Contract Compliance) Advisory Committee: 1971-1974

Ø      Memos from the U.S. Dept. of Labor Employment Standards Administration to the Contract Compliance Officers (distribution list incl.).  Topics incl. testing by state employment services, validation of wonderlic personnel test, and OFCC selection order (2/12/73, 1/21/74).

Ø      Letter to Marian Kelty of the APA regarding OFCC testing (3/5/73).

Ø      Correspondence between Katzell and the OFCC regarding the status of contract compliance officers.  Incl. hand-written annotations (4/9/73-7/12/73).

Ø      Robert Guion’s chronology of events related to OFCC (undated).

Ø      Various informational documents from the Department of Labor incl. guidelines on employee selection.

 

Folder 10: Productivity, Leadership, I/O Psychology: 1986-1989

Ø      Draft of Katzell’s invited address entitled “From Here to There to Where: The Development of I/O Psychology.”  Delivered at convention of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology held in Chicago on 4/10/86.

Ø      2nd version of Katzell’s essay “How Leadership Works” dated 6/12/87 (see version in Folder 6).

Ø      Draft of Katzell’s invited address entitled “Boos and Bravos: Some Comments on Contemporary I/O Psychology.”  Delivered to the 8/14/89 convention of the APA in New Orleans, LA.

Ø      Report by Katzell and assoc. entitled “Productivity Experiments: A Review of the Evidence” (undated).

Ø      Typed notes regarding key topics that emerged at the turn of the century (undated).

 

Folder 11: Effects of Three-Leader Related Variables: 1973

Ø      Manuscript entitled “Effects of Three-Leader Related Variables on Group Processes and Outputs.”  Co-written by Katzell, Edward Levine and Richard Lonetto in 1973.  Incl. hand-written corrections.

Ø      Correspondence regarding publication of the aforementioned manuscript.  Incl. letters to the Journal of Social Psychology, Edward Levine and Richard Lonetto and also and a corrected version of the manuscript.

 

Folder 12: Reports to the U.S. Army: 1965 (AHAP)

Ø      Part A of a report to the Office of Civilian Personnel, Dept. of the Army entitled “Interaction of the Executive and His Position” (Contract DA 49-092-ARO-24).  Submitted by Katzell, Richard Barrett, and John Hogan on 6/30/65.  Incl. blank sample instruments.

Ø      Part B of the report titled “Selecting First Line Supervisors.”  Incl. work analysis form.

Ø      Outline of Part B.


LOCATION:       M2990

 

 

Folder 1: Development of Instruments for National Survey: 1973 (AHAP)

Ø      Final report entitled Development and Pre-Testing of Instruments for National Survey of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Workers, Work and Organizational Contexts.  Submitted by Katzell, Mary Collins and Edward Levine to the Social Welfare Manpower Research Branch of Social and Rehabilitation Services on 6/13/73 (Part of requirement for Contract No. SRS 71-74).

 

Folder 2: Appendix—Volume I: 1973 (AHAP)

Ø      1st volume of the appendix for the aforementioned report.  Incl. instrument coverage, questionnaires, and interviews.

 

Folder 3: Appendix—Volume II: 1973 (AHAP)

Ø      2nd volume of the appendix for the aforementioned report.  Incl. questionnaires, interviews, and various letters.

 

Folder 4: “Sample Design and Testing Operation:” 1972 (AHAP)

Ø      Final report on “Sample Design and Testing Operation” (Contract No. SRS 71-74).  Submitted by Katzell and subcontractor Daniel Yankelovich in 5/72.

 

Folder 5: Supplement to “Sample Design and Testing Operation:” 1972 (AHAP)

Ø      Supplement to aforementioned report that explores sampling strategies (6/72).

 

Folder 6: NIMA Report—“Effects of Leadership:” 1966

Ø      Katzell’s NIMA report on “Effects of Group Leadership and Other Inputs on Group Processes and Outputs.”  Project period: 9/1/64 to 8/31/66.  (Grant No. MH-06932).

 

Folder 7: How Race Affects Job Attitudes: 1970 (AHAP)

Ø      Report to the U.S. Dept. of Labor entitled “The Job Attitudes of Workers From Different Ethnic Backgrounds” (Contract NO. 41-8-006-34).  Submitted by Katzell, Robert Ewen and Abraham Korman on 6/30/70 (Revised 12/31/70).


LOCATION: Depot General Box #43

 

 

 

Pamphlet: Ethical Standards for Psychologists,  Committee on Ethical Standards, APA, September 1952.


LOCATION: Katzell Depot Box 1

 

 

Duplicates of vault materials

 

Published materials (in most cases Raymond Katzell is the author).  Generally materials are related to Labor, Hiring, Personnel Testing.

 

Packet of materials, “Testing, Laws and Interpretations”.  Many are from the Federal Registry, EEO Guidelines from the State of CA; conference papers of the 1960’s and 70’s.

 

“Working Papers No. 1” From the National Study of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Workers, Work and Organizational Contexts.  Study conducted by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, May, 1971.

 

“An Action Research Program for Organization Improvement (in Esso Standard Oil Co.)  By The Foundation for Research on Human Behavior, Ann Arbor, MI, October, 1959.

 

The Selected, Annotated Bibliography for the Wonderlic Personnel Test, 1966 plus the 1967 Supplement.