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A Reliability And Validity Assessment Of Husband-Wife Decision Making Measures., Jo Anne Stilley Hopper
A Reliability And Validity Assessment Of Husband-Wife Decision Making Measures., Jo Anne Stilley Hopper
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The study focused on an assessment of the validity and reliability of self-report instruments used in contemporary family research. A multitrait-multimethod matrix was used to investigate the validity of the instruments. Cronbach's alpha was used to assess reliability based upon the internal consistency of the items. The questionnaire incorporated three "frames of reference" for each decision task item. Each spouse responded to the three frames of reference, thus six methods were used in the study. The three "frames of reference" included perceptions of joint activity by both spouses, each spouse's perception of himself, and each spouse's perceptions of his spouse. …
Competitive Environment, Business Strategy, And Organization Structure: An Analysis Of Firm Performance., Masoud Hemmasi
Competitive Environment, Business Strategy, And Organization Structure: An Analysis Of Firm Performance., Masoud Hemmasi
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This research attempts to develop and empirically test an integrative model of business economic performance. The research framework includes certain concepts and relationships that emanate from the literature in Industrial Organization Economics, Business Policy, and Organization Theory. In general, the key tenet of the study is threefold: (a) that there are industry differences in types of challenges confronting top level management; (b) that strategic and organizational responses that different environmental challenges elicit are quite different and somewhat predictable; and (c) that the combination of the environmental, strategic, and organizational characteristics of the organizations affect their economic performance. The sample for …
The Interrelationships Between Organizational Communication, Organizational Climate, And Job Satisfaction In A Local Government Agency., William Chambliss Sharbrough Iii
The Interrelationships Between Organizational Communication, Organizational Climate, And Job Satisfaction In A Local Government Agency., William Chambliss Sharbrough Iii
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The interrelationships between three multivariate concepts: Organizational communication, organizational climate, and job satisfaction were studied in a local government agency. Demographic data were also studied as they, as a group, related to the three multivariate concepts. Questionnaires were collected from 175 of the 220 employees. Canonical analysis was utilized to analyze the respondents' perceptions of the three concepts and to determine their relationships to the demographic data set. Organizational climate significantly correlated (p < 0.001) with job satisfaction. Only very small, but significant (p < 0.01) redundancy was found between the two concepts. Organizational communication and organizational climate were significantly correlated (p < 0.001). Redundancy analysis indicated that small to moderate redundancies are shared between the concepts for the sample under study. Organizational communication and job satisfaction also exhibited significant correlation (p < 0.001). Redundancy analysis indicated that communication explains a small but significant (p < 0.05) amount of the variance in job satisfaction. However, job satisfaction did not not explain a significant amount of the variance in the communication variable set. For each of the canonical analyses studied, some of the values of the loadings on the components possessed positive signs while others possessed negative signs. Thus, the direction of the relationships between the three concepts remains unclear. Canonical analysis of demographic data and each of the three multivariate concepts was undertaken to determine whether the demographic makeup of the sample was affecting the relationships between the concepts. No significant relationship was found between demographics and organizational climate at the p < 0.05 level. Canonical correlations between the demographic data set and the communication data set were significant beyond p < 0.01. Redundancy analysis indicated that demographics did not explain a significant amount of the variance in communication (p < 0.05). The reverse relationship was significant at p < 0.01, thus clouding the question of the importance of demographics in explaining variance in the communication set. Canonical analysis of the demographic/satisfaction relationship was also significant (p < 0.01). Redundancies yielded similar mixed findings as in the demographics/communication relationship. Conclusions from the analysis were drawn. Limitations to the usefulness of the findings were discussed. Finally, suggestions for further research were made.
Toward The Development Of A Model To Evaluate The Effect Of The Accelerated Cost Recovery System Of Depreciation As Enacted By The Economic Recovery Tax Act Of 1981 On State Of Florida Corporate Tax Revenues., Chula Greenwell Ensley
Toward The Development Of A Model To Evaluate The Effect Of The Accelerated Cost Recovery System Of Depreciation As Enacted By The Economic Recovery Tax Act Of 1981 On State Of Florida Corporate Tax Revenues., Chula Greenwell Ensley
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
In 1981, Congress passed the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 (ERTA). One of the major provisions of ERTA is the Accelerated Cost Recovery System (ACRS) of depreciation. ACRS allows for a more rapid recovery of the cost of a depreciable asset than existed under prior law. At the federal level, this accelerated cost recovery is expected to result in substantial revenue loss. The benefit of the revenue loss is a hoped for stimulation to capital investment to spur economic recovery. During the deliberations leading to the enactment of ERTA, much attention was focused on this revenue loss at the …
The Social Strategy Implementation Process: An Exploratory Investigation., Jean Garner Stead
The Social Strategy Implementation Process: An Exploratory Investigation., Jean Garner Stead
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The ability to formulate and implement social strategies has become increasingly important as a means for firms to manage the socio-political elements in their environments. This dissertation is an exploratory study designed to examine the internal process of corporate social strategy implementation. Specifically, the study is an in-depth, one-firm research case analysis of the implementation process in an organically structured organization. The literature is in agreement that in today's turbulent socio-political environment it is necessary for a firm to formulate and implement effective social strategies. Yet, only two previous studies (Ackerman and Murray) have examined the process of implementing social …
The Effect Of Feedback Frequency On Performance In Applied Behavior Analysis: A Field Study., Jagdeep Singh Chhokar
The Effect Of Feedback Frequency On Performance In Applied Behavior Analysis: A Field Study., Jagdeep Singh Chhokar
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Occupational safety continues to be a major social concern in spite of the attention which it has received over the years. While unsafe acts and behaviors have been major contributors to accidents, the attention paid to increasing safety by changing human behavior has only been sporadic. This study used an applied behavior analysis package of training, goal setting, and feedback as a behavioral approach to improving safety in an industrial setting. In addition, the effects of changing the frequency of feedback on safe behavior performance were investigated. All the employees in a plant engaged in the manufacture and repair of …
The Effect Of Alternative Buffering Techniques To Protect A Multi-Product, Multi-Stage Production Inventory System Against Supply-Uncertainty., Mohamed-T. Aly Mady
The Effect Of Alternative Buffering Techniques To Protect A Multi-Product, Multi-Stage Production Inventory System Against Supply-Uncertainty., Mohamed-T. Aly Mady
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
This research has been an experimental investigation of some of the operational aspects of a hypothetical multiproduct, multistage production inventory system operating in a supply uncertainty environment. The main objective of this study was to explore the relative effect of different multilevel buffering strategies on system performance in order to establish some guidelines for choosing among different buffering techniques when buffering the system against different conditions of supply uncertainty. Several performance criteria, including holding cost, inventory cost, total cost, number of shortages, number of stockouts, service level and buffering cost effectiveness, were used to evaluate system performance. The independent variables …
A Taxonomy For Industrial Salesforce Job Activities., William C. Moncrief Iii
A Taxonomy For Industrial Salesforce Job Activities., William C. Moncrief Iii
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A taxonomy developed of specific selling activities of industrial salespeople was developed to differentiate "types" of salespeople. The taxonomy was developed based on the responses of 1393 salespeople from 51 companies to a survey of the frequency with which they performed activities, and the time spent to perform each activity. The first stage of the research was the compilation of an exhaustive list of sales activities. These activities were collected from a series of focus groups and personal interviews. The questionnaire was formulated based on the 121 sales activities collected from the focus groups. Two scales were designed and implemented …
Models For The Economic Allocation Of Sampling Inspection Effort In Multi-Stage Production Systems., Hassan Dabbaghi
Models For The Economic Allocation Of Sampling Inspection Effort In Multi-Stage Production Systems., Hassan Dabbaghi
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Appropriate inspection and control are significant components of production systems. Many products are manufactured in multistage production lines. At each stage the process can produce defective units. In order to produce finished products with desired quality in an economical way, considerations must be given to the explicit costs of inspection, repair, processing and disposal associated with particular levels of control and inspection. In this dissertation models and solution techniques are developed for simultaneous selection of sampling inspection plans and manufacturing operations control levels within multistage production systems. Per unit expected minimum cost of output quality, which satisfies specified consumer's and …
An Empirical Assessment Of The Mall Intercept As A Method Of Data Collection., Alan John Bush
An Empirical Assessment Of The Mall Intercept As A Method Of Data Collection., Alan John Bush
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Over the years, survey researchers have devoted significant effort toward conceptualizing and empirically investigating all facets of the survey research process. Recently, the mall intercept method of data collection has emerged as one of the most popular methods among market researchers. However, little progress has been made in the way of assessing the mall intercept method. Consequently, either data has been collected in these central locations without knowledge of its quality or market researchers have stayed away from this method entirely because of the possible biases associated with a nonprobability sample. Based on this scenario, this empirical investigation is an …
An Empirical Investigation Of The Extent Of Disclosure In Municipal Annual Reports., Franklin James Plewa Jr
An Empirical Investigation Of The Extent Of Disclosure In Municipal Annual Reports., Franklin James Plewa Jr
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The purpose of this study is to critically examine the current state of the adequacy of reporting and extent of disclosure practices in the published annual reports of a sample of U.S. cities. The term "extent of disclosure" denotes the extent to which selected items of information are presented in municipal annual reports. To facilitate the annual report examination, a questionnaire (consisting of ninety information items) was constructed and mailed to a random sample of 996 security dealers. The responses to the questionnaire resulted in a mean score for each item that was used to recognize differences in information importance. …