COMPARISON OF THE EFFECTS OF TWO LABS ON THE LOCUS OF CONTROL OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES

This study was designed to compare the effects of an unstructured training lab with the effects of a lab based on neurolinguistic programming techniques on the locus of control of government employees. Both were two day labs dealing with male-female relationship issues. The subjects were 11 male and 13 female professional employees of the Juvenile Services Commission of the state of Maryland, ranging from juvenile counselors to regional supervisors. Subjects were randomly assigned to the two labs. Each group took Rotter's Internal-External Scale as a pre-test to determine whether the two groups were equal. Group one received a two day unstructured training lab on male-female relationship issues, and group two received a two day training lab on the same topic using neurolinguistic programming techniques. At the end of each lab, subjects took Levenson's Locus of Control Scale as a post-test. Scores were analyzed using a two way analysis of variance. No differences were found between the scores of subjects in the two labs. This condition of no difference was true for both males and females. The results of this study showed no differences between the two labs in their effect on subjects' locus of control. There were no differences between the effect of the labs on women and on men.