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Organizational Climate And Commitment: A Case Study Of An Urban Nonprofit Organization, William Sawyer Grant
Organizational Climate And Commitment: A Case Study Of An Urban Nonprofit Organization, William Sawyer Grant
Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Management
This qualitative study investigates the relationship between the two constructs: Organizational Climate and Organizational Commitment.
Litwin and Stringer (1968) suggested that a molar model is needed to explain employee behavior and motivation. Climate was proposed as this molar construct. Research concerning Organizational Climate resulted in multiple definitions and little consensus concerning the number and use of multiple dimensions of this construct. The almost exclusive use of survey methods coupled with methodological confusion with Organizational Culture created difficulty with the use of this important construct.
Organizational Commitment research resulted in a number of competing definitions. Research by Meyer and Allen (1997) …
Complementarity Of Politics And Administration: An Empirical Examination, Jothi S. Themozhi
Complementarity Of Politics And Administration: An Empirical Examination, Jothi S. Themozhi
Theses and Dissertations in Urban Studies
This dissertation is designed to examine the impact of the complementarity of politics and administration on local governments' fiscal performance. The study adopts Svara's Politics-Administration Complementarity Model, which explains the mutual interdependence and reciprocal influence of administrative relationships between the elected and appointed officials of local governments towards a General Management City (a traditional mayor-council city that appoints a professional city manager to conduct the city's administration without formally adopting the council-manager form).
By adopting the politics-administration complementarity model to a general management municipal administrative structure, this thesis hypothesizes that cities with general management administrative structures achieve measurable fiscal …