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Leadership Behavior Of Community Mental Health Centers' Program Supervisors In Michigan As Perceived By Program Supervisors, Immediate Superordinates, And Immediate Subordinates, Mamie Pang Campbell

Dissertations

The study examined the leadership behavior of community mental health centers' program supervisors in Michigan as perceived by program supervisors and their immediate superordinates and immediate subordinates. Consideration and initiating structure were the leadership behaviors examined in the study. Consideration and initiating structure were the leadership behaviors examined in the study. Consideration was defined as: "behavior indicative of friendship, mutual trust, respect, and warmth in the relationship between the leader and the members of the staff." Initiating structure was defined as: "the leader's behavior in delineating the relationship between himself and members of the work-group and in endeavoring to establish …

The Perceived Utility Of The Job Model As A Planning Document For Faculty Members, Victoria Kai-Cacho

Masters Theses

A job model for faculty activity plans was developed based on an interview and a questionnaire response from 14 Western Michigan University professors. Perceived accuracy and usefulness of the job model were measured by a questionnaire designed by the investigator. Responses were analyzed by computing the mean ratings of each item included in the questionnaire. The job model was perceived as an accurate and useful instrument for faculty activity plans, self-development and faculty evaluation. However, methodological limitations suggest that further empirical research with a large sample and participation of administrative officers and students, in addition to faculty members, will be …

A Report Of An Internship In Central Office Administration In The Forest Hills Public Schools, Joyce M. Newhouse

Masters Theses

This is a report of an internship experience in central office administration. It is a study of the Forest Hills School District, Grand Rapids, Michigan, following a millage defeat, and depicts the central office administrators as they accept the challenges thrust upon them. It is an analysis of the roles and responsibilities inherent in the positions of the superintendency and assistant superintendencies of business, instruction and personnel as they emerged during a crisis period. The information is presented from the vantage point of the administrative intern who functioned as an additional staff member.

Prompts And Feedback As A Means Of Increasing A Customer Service Behavior In A Family Restaurant, David B. Lennox

Masters Theses

Although waiters and waitresses traditionally receive a gratuity based upon quality of service from customers, it may be difficult for them to interpret the amount of the gratuity as an indicator of good service or bad service. This ambiguity could be a result of different amounts of customer checks or faulty comparisons of total dollar amounts (total for the working shift) without taking into consideration the total dollar amount of the customer checks or the number of customers served. This study was conducted to provide accurate information for waitresses regarding gratuity percentage received from customers while monitoring its effects on …

Distributive Fairness: An Exploration Of Male-Female Differences In Allocation Behavior, Daryl G. Kelley

Masters Theses

Previous research has shown that males and females follow different strategies in allocating rewards for unequal performance on a team task: Males tend to utilize an exploitive allocation strategy, while females tend to be more accommodating in their, allocations. Research has also shown that allocation strategies may differ depending on whether the allocation of rewards is to be made public or is known only to the allocator. Public reward allocations of males tend to be more exploitive than females, while this difference is reversed for private allocations. The present study sought to replicate and extend previous studies, using a factorial …

Structural Analysis Of Precambrian Metasedimentary Rocks Of The Swede Gulch Formation, Nahant, South Dakota, Richard G. Cookman

Masters Theses

Precambrian X tectonites deformed between thermal domes in the northern Black Hills 1.7 B.Y.B.P. display variably trending isoclinal folds cross-cut by southeast trending slip-folds developed in discrete shear zones. Eugeosynclinal sedimentary rocks consisting of shale, quartzarenite , sublitharenite, and graywacke were metamorphosed to phyllite, quartzite, and metagraywacke during two syntectonic phases and one post-tectonic phase. The earliest syntectonic metamorphism was associated with development of isoclinal folds and may have produced amphibolite or greenschist facies. It was succeeded by retrograde metamorphism of greenschist facies syntectonic with and post-tectonic to development of southeast trending folds.

Mica, chlorite, iron oxides, and graphite are …

Welfare Legislation And American Poverty Traps: Ironies And Characteristics, Theresa Villanueva, Richard J. Caston

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

We argue that legislative attempts to establish bureaucratic programs to eradicate American poverty will invariably result in ironic inconsistencies that will doom such programs to only limited or partial success. As an illustration, we examine the ironic history of the AFDC program as it has been legislated to deal with American poverty. Three sociological accounts for the ironies of welfare programming are then drawn together. One account suggests that undue concern over the work ethic has overridden more direct concern for the deprecating living conditions of the Door. A second account suggests that poverty is so functionally beneficial to a …

Magnitude Estimation Of The Quality And Intelligibility Of Degraded Speech, Theresa Smith

Masters Theses

The purpose of the study was to identify within-group and between-group differences in perceived quality and perceived intelligibility of degraded speech for listeners with normal and impaired hearing. Following a visual magnitude estimation task, 10 subjects with normal hearing and 10 subjects with sensory-neural hearing impairment listened to connected speech samples degraded by seven levels of harmonic distortion and estimated the magnitude of their quality and intelligibility. Log average quality estimates and log average intelligibility estimates varied linearly with log degradation values for each group. The slopes of the log-log functions were interpreted as measures of perceptual sensitivity. Slopes for …

Self Care As An Innovation In Health Care Delivery: The Health Systems Agency As Medium And Barrier, Yvonne Marie Vissing

Dissertations

This is an inquiry into the attitudes of Health Systems Agency Boards of Directors toward the use of self care as part of the health and delivery system. Self care is viewed as a current social movement in health care. Contributions and limitations of both classical social movement theory and resource mobilization theory were examined for their utility in understanding and making predictions about the self care movement. Self care attitudes of the boards of directors from all eight Michigan Health Systems Agencies (HSAs) were analyzed through the Self Care Attitude Index (SCAI). Data were gathered via self-administered, mail questionnaires. …

A Model For Inservice Professional Development Of Educational Administrators, Rofithah Hashim

Dissertations

The factor most influential in the decision to undertake this developmental study was a directive received from the Director General of Education, Ministry of Education, Malaysia. The second factor was the perception that the obsolescence of previously learned skills and understandings dictates a need for a systematic, comprehensive, and task-oriented inservice professional development of educational administrators within the contemporary system.

The purposes of this study were twofold. The first was to develop a model and the second was to propose a set of task descriptions appropriate and necessary for implementing the model.

The model developed has three crucial stages, i.e., …

A Comparative Study Of Student And Faculty Morale Determinants And Relationships In Southern Baptist Institutions Of Higher Education, Jack Elliotte Brown Jr.

Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to identify morale determinants and then to determine the extent of morale relationships and similarities among various categories of students and between students and faculty members in Southern Baptist institutions of higher education.

The study was conducted with randomly selected students and faculty members from four Southern Baptist institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Two similar research instruments were used to collect data from 230 of 300 students and from 50 of 60 faculty members.

Selected morale studies of the 50's, 60's and 70's were studied in the review of related …

A Report Of An Internship In The Kalamazoo Police Department, Roy C. Aslanian

Masters Theses

The modern police or law enforcement agency in America has evolved into a highly sophisticated organization in terms of technology > quality of personnel, organizational and managerial methods, procedures, and tasks performed. It is recognized that in order to adequately perform its public mission, law enforcement agencies must be politically sensitive, and publicly responsive, be able to manage its resources to a high degree of cost effectiveness, and select, train, and retain police officers who are professionally competent. Police administrators and supervisors are continually confronted with the problem of how to best develop a quality police officer in a short period …

A Study Of Job Satisfaction Of The Elementary School Secretary, John Raymond Chirco

Dissertations

The importance of the role of the elementary school secretary was established along with the findings that job satisfaction may be related to job performance. It was also pointed out that the relationship between job satisfaction and the independent variables that may be related to or influence it have not been identified. This led to the problem of how job satisfaction may be improved and therefore possibly increase performance. Thus, the purpose of this study was to identify those independent variables that may be related to job satisfaction.

Literature regarding job satisfaction varied greatly and was very scarce in terms …

The Development Of Instructional Materials To Facilitate The Interaction Of Handicapped And Nonhandicapped Third Grade Students In Selected Parochial Schools, James Nicholas Gonwa

Dissertations

This study focused on the development and use of instructional materials for teaching handicap awareness to elementary third grade children. The purposes of the study were (1) to determine if there is a need for instructional materials to teach handicap awareness, (2) to determine how teachers and experts would use instructional materials, (3) to determine the opinions of teachers and experts about the Handicap Awareness Series developed in this study and (4) to determine the opinions of children about the Handicap Awareness Series. The materials developed in this study were evaluated as an instructional method which could be used to …

The Domain Of Social Work: What Is It, Mary L. Waring, Gerald O'Connor

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Cast within a framework derived from general systems theory, the authors examine the domain of the social work profession. Domain is first defined as having several components. These are specified and fully expanded as Claimed Domain, Domain Competition, Emerging Domain and Unclaimed Domain. This elaboration is followed by a discussion of some of the constraints that impinge upon the profession's ability to define and to choose its domain.

Social Work Practice In Health Care: An Ethnic Sensitive Approach, Elfriede G. Schlesinger, Wynetta Devore

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The relationship between ethnicity and modes of response to illness has been well documented. One example is stoicism as contrasted with volatile behavior in response to pain of different groups. Another is increasing awareness of the fact that non-traditional healers (eog., espiritistas, cuaranderos) are used extensively by members of various ethnic groups.

Insufficient attention has been paid to how such knowledge can be incorporated in social work practice.

This paper reviews prevailing social work interventive procedures and skills and suggests needed adaptations if social work practice is to be more sensitive and responsive to different health behaviors and beliefs of …

The State Correction Officer As Keeper And Counselor: An Empirical Investigation Of The Role, Robert B. Blair, Clifford M. Black, Henry J. Long

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This paper addresses two essential research needs in criminal justice literature: (1) the need for an assessment of the content of the role of block officer; and (2) the need for an empirical test of the presumed irreconcilable goals of custody and treatment as these are embedded in the role of state correction officer. A Task Inventory approach was adapted and a random sample of 100 correction officers in four heterogeneous state institutions were interviewed. Results of the study reveal that custodial staff spend at least sixty-percent of their on-job time performing duties not classified as security in nature. Results …

A Comparison Of Reading And Listening Performances Of Braille And Print Readers, Betty P. Zook

Masters Theses

Blind and sighted subjects were tested on their capability to retain information after both reading and listening to specially prepared printed and taped materials. The sample consisted of graduate students and professional individuals. It was found that, on the average, subjects retained more after reading than listening. This effect was more pronounced in the braille reading subjects. As the level of complexity of the material increased, the difference in the points earned between the two modalities, reading and listening, increased significantly. A behavioral analysis suggested some reasons for this difference. It was suggested that further research into reading and listening …

Western News, November 24, 1981, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Board approves mid-year tuition; fees increases, Harkenrider discusses financial aid reliefs, Business Center named for entrepreneur John E. Fetzer, Student is Ebony Fashion Fair model on U.S. tour, Libraries set hours for Thanksgiving break, Board appoints Akers; promotes Passkiewicz, University wins Energy Management Award, Dietrich named to national advisory council

Wmu Board Of Trustees Regular Meeting November 20, 1981, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• Acceptance of the Agenda
• Minutes
• Correspondence
• Remarks by the President
• Academic Personnel Report
• Non-Academic Personnel Report
• Gift and Grant Report
• Recommendation re Winter Semester 1982 Tuition
• Naming of the Business Development Center
• Authorization to Confer Degrees
• Board Committee Reports
• Public Comments
• Adjournment

Western News, November 19, 1981, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Dybek; Woods get national arts endowment grant, Clarke: Changes to be made; some of them will hurt, 27 employees designated description writers in U Classification and Compensation Study, Seek Distinguished Faculty Scholar nominees

Western News, November 12, 1981, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Noted industrialists to speak to Detroit area alumni, More than 60 faculty; staff and emeriti volunteer to participate in mentor program, Telephone directories issued; money-saving tips noted, Rides to MSU; U of M libraries to begin

Western News, November 5, 1981, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Parents Day; Brown and Gold Day to attract 3,200 Saturday, Freshmen here found brighter than at other schools, Panel to review communications audit results, Grant enables Council for Humanities to be formed by Council of College Presidents, Jimenez named fellow in Washington, Woman Researcher Conference is Friday

Western News, October 29, 1981, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: $1-million gift to 'Partners' from John E. Fetzer, Western; DMB officials share concern over economy, Woman Researcher Conference here on Nov. 6, Two U videotapes in U.N. Festival finals, Mallinsons to be honored at luncheon in Ohio, Pontello coordinates Friends of the Arts, It was a GRAND Homecoming; including a football win, Already done a good job bringing business; education together-Kemp

Western News, October 22, 1981, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Groundbreaking Friday for Business Center, Homecoming is building to a grand finish Saturday, Brickley to speak at Friday meeting of U Foundation, Campus United Way campaign gets underway; President urges support, Zupko wins music award, Three talks on racism; sexism will be Tuesday, Largest archaeology project in state history

Wmu Board Of Trustees Regular Meeting October 16, 1981, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• Acceptance of the Agenda
• Minutes
• Correspondence
• Academic Personnel Report
• Gift and Grant Report
• General Fund Operating Budget 1981/82
• 1982/83 Capital Outlay Budget Request
• Departmental Merger and Name Change
• Program Revision Requests
• Proposed Amendment to Faculty Senate Constitution
• Resolution re Incorporation of Michigan Association of Governing Boards
• University Distinguished Service Award
• Board Committee Reports
• Honors College Report
• Public Comments
• Adjournment

Western News, October 15, 1981, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Bernstein, Earhart and; Maier get Faculty Scholar Awards Tuesday, Five faculty members recognized with Alumni Teaching Awards, Improvement of academic life remains Ehrle's goal, 'Gold Rush '81' to begin here Sunday, 'People helping people' sets tone of letter seeking support for United Way campaign, Opera composer Hugo Weisgall to speak

Western News, October 8, 1981, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Merze Tate establishes research-information center, Mindpower: The real energy of society; backers say, Academic Convocation to be Tuesday, Grand Rapids Consortium Center reorganized, Senate OKs new policy on staff studies

The Westerner Vol. 2 No. 2, Western Michigan University

The Westerner (1980-1997)

• University still faces fiscal crisis, Bernhard declares in address • Tate establishes information center • WESTOPS opens for business • Kalamazoo All-Business campaign sets $150,000 goal • Contract signed with AAUP • Clark Equipment gives $25,000 to campaign • 'Laundered' money returned to student • A stadium is for touchdowns, not puddly-eyed fathers at commencement • OT offers re-entry program • Mindpower: the real energy of society • Board passes Mindpower resolution • Brinn, Beam assume posts with Board • Sports • Wonderling: not the traditional AD: How WMU's new athletic director views financial pressures, the future of intercollegiate …

Western News, October 1, 1981, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Academic Convocation will be Oct. 13 in Shaw, Plans announced to improve 'sense of unity', Faculty Senate to meet 7 p.m. tonight in Trimpe, Mentor /Mentee Program registers 50 minority frosh, CEO program to give students academic help, Noted Catholic educator Hans Kung speaks Oct. 5, 6, 'In every sense you should be proud of Western,' Bernhard says, French Horn Fandango to be given Sunday