| Abstract: | Industrial recreation is a rapidly growing field in employee services. In fact, membership in the National Industrial Recreation Association (NIRA) has more than doubled in the last three years. American industry seems more willing to incorporate recreation expenditures in their operating budgets, realizing that higher productivity is directly related to the positive influence that recreation has in satisfying some of the psychological, physical, and social needs of employees. Harry Gray, president and chairman of United Technologies Corporation, has expressed these feelings (Recreation Management, 1978) as follows: |
