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Parallel Evaluation And Promotion Programs For Staff Specialists, Gerald L. Schapman

Open Access Master's Theses (through 2010)

The primary purpose of this thesis is analyze objectively present methods of evaluation and promotion based on the findings of a questionnaire, which was sent to various selected companies in the nation with the cooperation of the Bureau of Business Research of the University of Nebraska. These companies represent different fields of business and were randomly selected from the various industry classifications from Moody’s Handbook of Widely Held Common Stocks.After reviewing the results, there will a further discussion of need and feasibility for changed and improved methods of evaluating and promoting staff specialists.

Advisor: Keith Broman

Commercial Farm Law: The Uniform Commercial Code, Thomas B. Allington, Clayton K. Yeutter

Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications

Commercial law includes such topics as sales contracts, notes, checks, shipping and storage documents, and a variety of financing instruments. Over the years much of the law on these topics has become complex, confusing, and often obsolete. The Uniform Commercial Code, or U.C.C., is designed, first, to bring about uniformity in state laws governing commerce, and second, to clarify, simplify, and modernize these laws. The Code's success in this respect is shown by the fact that it has now been adopted by almost all states. It became effective in Nebraska on September 2, 1965. Drafting of the U.C.C. dates back …

Business In Nebraska #264- September 1966, E. B. Schmidt, E. L. Burgess, T. W. Roesler, Dorothy Switzer

Business in Nebraska

Nebraska State and Local Tax Collections: 1965 (E. B. Schmidt)

Information concerning the amounts of tax revenue derived from the various taxes in Nebraska is in scant supply. No single agency is charged by law with responsibility for collecting and reporting such data, and without such central direction it is impossible to coordinate a system of comprehensive reporting. While the Bureau of the Census of the United States Department of Commerce collects and publishes such information every five years, the latest report covering the period ended June 30, 1962:, is considerably out-of-date. This study is intended to supply reasonably comprehensive …

Business In Nebraska #262- July 1966, E. S. Wallace, E. L. Burgess, Edward L. Hauswald, Dorothy Switzer

Business in Nebraska

Recent Income Growth in Nebraska (E. S. Wallace)

The latest official (preliminary) figures on Nebraska income published by the Department of Commerce show that total personal income in Nebraska increased by 9.4% in 1965 as compared with a national increased of 7.2% and that per capita personal income rose 9% in the state, but only 5.8% in the nation. Estimates published by Business Week indicate that his favorable relationship is continuing in 1966. They show, in fact, that only two states in the continental United States- Iowa and Vermont- exceeded in Nebraska's 11.3% increase in personal income during the first …

Business In Nebraska #266- November 1966, Dorothy Switzer, E. L. Burgess

Business in Nebraska

Growth of Nebraska Homegrown Industries (Dorothy Switzer)

Nebraska is still in need of some impetus to change its sluggish performance in the field of employment and to offset or absorb the continued exodus in agriculture, as was pointed out in an article on the state employment situation in the October issue of Business in Nebraska. In many Nebraska communities precisely this impetus has been given by the ingenuity and business acumen of men and women who have developed homegrown industries. The story of some of these industries was told in the February, 1966, issue and elicited much interest not only …

Business In Nebraska #257- February 1966, E. S. Wallace, Dorothy Switzer, J. Timothy Wilson

Business in Nebraska

Homegrown Industries in Nebraska (Dorothy Switzer and E. S. Wallace)

In July, 1965, we reprinted from the Texas Business Review an article dealing with "Homegrown Industries" in that state. At that time we expressed the hope that we might find the ingenuity of Nebraskans was at least equal to that of Texans and asked for information on similar industries in Nebraska.

Business Summary (J. Timothy Wilson)

In November, the dollar volume of business for Nebraska increased 9.0% from November, 1964, and decreased 0.4% from the previous month. The same index for the U.S. shows an 11.7% increase from November, 1964, …

Business In Nebraska #259- April 1966, Edward L. Hauswald, J. Timothy Wilson, Dorothy Switzer

Business in Nebraska

Nebraska County and City Population Estimates for 1965 (Edward L. Hauswald)

Nebraska's population is estimated to have been 1,498,733 at the end of 1965. This represents an increase of 0.9 percent for the year as compared with an increase of 0.4 in 1964. In the five years since 1960, the state's population rose by about 6 percent. (A Census Bureau estimate places Nebraska's mid-year 1965 population at 1,477,000 of 0.4 percent above that at mid-year 1964 and 4.7 percent above that of April, 1960). Our county estimates appear in Table I, page 4; their pattern of change is shown in …

Business In Nebraska #263- August 1966, Ronald A. Wykstra, E. L. Burgess, Dorothy Switzer, V. Lewis Bassie

Business in Nebraska

Income and Employment Growth in Nebraska (Ronald A. Wykstra)

Overall changes in the income, population, and labor force characteristics of the Nebraska economy during the present century provide sweeping insights into the long-term performance or the economy of the state.

Business Summary (E. L. Burgess)

May's dollar volume of business in Nebraska increased 17.2% from May, 1965 and decreased 1.8% from April, 1966. The U.S. dollar volume followed the same pattern increasing 9.8% over last year and decreasing 2.1% from last month. Compared to last year Nebraska's physical volume index rose 8.1% and the U.S. physical volume index rose 6.4%. …

Business In Nebraska #265- October 1966, E. B. Schmidt, E. L. Burgess, E. S. Wallace

Business in Nebraska

Nebraska State and Local Taxes in Perspective (E. B. Schmidt)

Last month we showed how overwhelmingly important the property tax is in the financing of state and local governments in Nebraska. If we are to see Nebraska's state and local finances in perspective, we may compare our state with all states with respect to the percentage of state and local tax revenue obtained from the various tax sources. Of even greater value would be a comparison with our neighbor states. Such is the purpose of this investigation.

Business Summary (E. L. Burgess)

July's dollar volume of business increased in both …

Business In Nebraska #267- December 1966, E. L. Hauswald, E. L. Burgess

Business in Nebraska

Manufacturing in Nebraska (E. L. Hauswald)

This article is based on data from the last complete census of manufacturing taken in 1963. Developments subsequent to 1963 have been sufficient to modify the situation described herein. The efforts of the Nebraska Division of Resources have produced results not recorded in the 1963 census. Recent reactivation's of operations related to the national security and expansions of industries in several of the state's communities could not be incorporated in this analysis. The aggregate impact of these developments will not be ascertainable until the next census of manufacturing.

Business Summary (E. L. Burgess)

In …

Autopoint Business Aids Catalog 1966, Autopoint, A Division Of The Cory Corporation, Robert L. Bolin Depositor

Autopoint Pencils Trade Catalogs

The Autopoint company was founded around 1920 in Chicago. The founders pioneered using molded plastic to make mechanical pencils. In the mid1920s, the Bakelite Corporation took over ownership of Autopoint. Over the next 50 years Autopoint had several different corporate owners, but it continued to operate as a stand-alone company with its own officers, employees, manufacturing plant, sales force, etc.

By 1966 Autopoint had developed an extensive product line of pencils, ball-point pens, desk top accessories, and specialty advertising products like cigarette lighters and pocket knives. They got much of their business as a job shop manufacturing personalized pencils, pens, …