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Explaining Gender Differences In Salary Negotiations, Meisha -Ann Martin
Explaining Gender Differences In Salary Negotiations, Meisha -Ann Martin
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The current study explores the effects of gender on salary negotiation behaviors and expectancies and the relationship between these variables and starting salary outcomes. College students from a variety of different majors were surveyed prior to and then approximately two to four months after graduation. Though there was no gender difference in final salary or difference between initial and final salary offer, men reported using more aggressive and active salary negotiation behaviors. The results also suggest that men may have felt more empowered in the salary negotiation context. They expected higher salaries than women did, anticipated less discomfort and believed …
Study Of The Ethical Values Of College Students, Victor Mercader
Study Of The Ethical Values Of College Students, Victor Mercader
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This study focuses on five main purposes, all of them interrelated and each focused on ethical values, virtues, or character values. The five purposes are: a) Investigate college students' perceptions of ethical values, including their importance, application, usefulness, origin, benefits, need for education, and courses proposed to be included in the curricula; b) Review literature in areas related to ethical values, virtues or character values of college students; c) Develop and pilot an instrument to assess the ethical values of college students; d) Improve and use the developed instrument to describe the status of college students' ethical values; and e) …
Spring Break: Image, Identity, And Consumer Culture In A Florida Rite Of Passage, Meeghan Kane
Spring Break: Image, Identity, And Consumer Culture In A Florida Rite Of Passage, Meeghan Kane
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This thesis is a social history of spring break, examining the economic and social aspects of this youth culture phenomenon in Florida. Spring break follows the evolution of youth culture's increasingly complex relationship with an expanding consumer culture. I am exploring its many manifestations in music, film, and popular fiction, but also its rebellious expressions in the riots and arrests on Florida's beaches. I intend to focus on the small beach communities that were transformed by spring break, particularly Fort Lauderdale.Spring break in Florida dates back to the late 1920s in Palm Beach. Wealthy New England families spent their winters …