렌시스 리커트

소개

렌시스 리커트(Rensis Likert, 1903년 8월 5일 ~ 1981년 9월 3일)는 미국의 조직심리학자, 사회심리학자이다. 심리측정의 척도인 리커트 척도를 개발한 것으로 알려졌으며, 관리체제론을 개발하고 참여적 관리(participatory management)를 주창하였다.

Rensis Likert was an American organizational and social psychologist known for developing the Likert scale, a psychometrically sound scale based on responses to multiple questions. The scale has become a method to measure people's thoughts and feelings from opinion surveys to personality tests. Likert also founded the theory of participative management, which is used to engage employees in the workplace. Likert's contributions in psychometrics, research samples, and open-ended interviewing have helped form and shape social and organizational psychology.