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The Integration Of Three Multihandicapped Children Into Regular Classrooms: A Focus On Educational Personnel, Marva Dombrowe Gellhaus

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This study used qualitative research methods to determine what happened when special educators and regular educators came together in the process of integrating three multihandicapped students into a kindergarten or a first grade classroom. Of particular interest were the actions, interactions, and perceptions of the people involved.

The writer spent two months at the field site which was located in an elementary school in a rural agricultural region in the Great Plains. Although observations were made of the children and the educational personnel, only the educational personnel and the parents were interviewed.

In this study: (1) Regular educators and special …

An Assessment Of The Factors In Office Automation Systems Affecting Air Force Middle Managers And Clerical Workers In The Information Management Career Field, Loy C. Cook

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The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the attitudes and opinions of personnel affected by two office automation systems. Reprographics Automated Management System (RAMS) and Records Information Management System (RIMS). Eight investigative questions were posed: (1) How receptive were information management personnel to the office automation systems (RAMS and RIMS)? (2) Were information management personnel's perception different now from the period prior to installation of the office automation systems? (3) What is the frequency of use for each office automation system? (4) What major factors impede these office automation projects (RAMS/RIMS)? (5) What major factors facilitate these office automation …

A Survey In Hard Times: Work Attitudes Of North Dakota State Employees, Michael D. Dorsher

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A telephone survey with a random sample of 317 is used to measure the work attitudes, experiences, and satisfaction levels of North Dakota state employees. These findings are compared to bureaucratic stereotypes and research. The data refute most negative stereotypes about bureaucrats, and support many previous research findings, such as the positive relationships between job satisfaction and income, status, and fulfilled expectations. The data also indicate state employees voted heavily for tax hikes in the Dec. 5, 1989, special election, and that support rose with the income, job status, and education level of employees. Lastly, the survey shows North Dakota …

Microcomputers And Managements Role, Bev Collings

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It is a manager's responsibility to plan, organize, staff and control to the best of his/her ability. To operate within the company in the most efficient and effective way possible, while using company resources in a productive way to accomplish its goals. This paper will discuss how a manager can accomplish this by using computer resources and how these resources must be implemented properly and the affects evaluated. Most, if not all, the material addressed could apply to managers of all size businesses. It would be poor Judgement for a manager to ignore computer applications for their business

The Relationship Between Top Management Tenure And Middle Managers' Job-Related Stress And Job Satisfaction, Joyce M. Richard

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Change and adaptation are consistent and major characteristics in most of the activities of modern society. The nursing profession is not exempt from constantly changing theories, practices, and environment. Recent literature suggests a great interest in turnover, stress, and job satisfaction of staff nurses. However, few published studies pertain to top management turnover as it relates to middle managers. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between top management tenure and middle managers' job-related stress and job satisfaction.

The perceptions of job-related stress and job satisfaction of sixty middle managers in six Midwest Veterans Administration Medical Centers …

Work Energy And The Character Of Organizations: An Orgonomic Framework For Organization Development, Martin D. Goldberg

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To date, the field of organization development (OD) has lacked the kind of unifying approach to theory and practice that would enable it to be considered a discipline. The present study, in conception and methodology, commences building a unified framework for OD based on the work of psychiatrist and natural scientist Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957). By conceptually merging the field of OD with the science of orgonomy, that body of knowledge based on Reich's discoveries, this project lays the foundations for a comprehensive theory that can lead to greater understanding of the nature, development, and functioning of organizations, a theory with …

The Financial Performance Of System Acquired Hospitals, Janet Lynch

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This study investigated the financial performance of not-for-profit hospitals in 10 Southern states acquired by either the for-profit or not-for-profit multihospital systems between the years 1978 through 1982. The impact of system affiliation on acquired hospitals was investigated by looking at average financial performance from the two years before acquisition to 1984/1985. Differences between the performance of hospitals acquired by for-profit and not-for-profit multihospital systems were examined as well. with regard to the latter, major findings revealed both for-profit and not-for-profit multihospital systems increased debt in acquired hospitals and made improvements to plant and equipment. For-profit multihospital systems additionally increased …

Perceptions Of Professional Developmnet Needs Of Selected Principals Serving American Indian, Other Minority, And Non-Minority Students, Mary Sue Hall

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Principals need appropriate knowledge, attitudes, and skills to be leaders in school improvement:. Continuing education for principals seems essential due to the changing nature of knowledge as weld as the obligation of being a professional. Principals should be treated as colleagues who are capable of describing their own professional development needs.

The purposes of the study were to compare the perceived professional development needs of principals employed in schools with a concentration of American Indian students to (1) those principals In schools with a concentration of students representing other minorities and to (2) those principals in schools with few …

Accounting For Business Combinations, Johnathan Holter

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Presidential Management Of The Federal Bureaucracy: Tools, Limits, And Improvements, Curtis L. Haats

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An Assessment Of The Attitudes And Perceptions Of Selected Elementary School Teachers Who Serve Native American Children Toward Instructional Supervision And Evaluation, Teresa Delorme

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The Problem: This study was designed to assess the attitudes of selected teachers in North Dakota schools serving Native American students toward current and ideal instructional supervision and staff evaluation. Teacher attitudes were also compared on the basis of age and school type.

Procedure: One hundred classroom teachers participated in a survey designed to assess teacher attitudes and perceptions toward current and ideal instructional supervision and staff evaluation processes. Resulting data were statistically tested for significant differences at the .05 level. Reported data resulted from the responses of teachers employed by Bureau of Indian Affairs schools and public schools in …

Burnout Among Rural Special Education Specialists: An Investigation Of Selected Variables, Linda Jean Reetz

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Stress induced burnout among special education specialists has become a concern of administrators. This study was conducted to investigate burnout among the rural itinerant and non-itinerant specialists specifically.

Purpose. The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent of burnout among rural itinerant and non-itinerant specialists and the relationship of selected demographic and situational variables to this burnout. The relationship of role ambiguity and role conflict to burnout of this group was also investigated.

Design of the Study. The Maslach Burnout Inventory, the Role Questionnaire and a demographic/situational data sheet were mailed to rural special education specialists in North …

The Influence Of Sex-Role Stereotypes On Managerial Models, Janet L. Westra

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Assessing The Durability Of Sociotechnical Systems Interventions: Toward A New Paradigm, William Ogden

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The United States House Of Representatives: An Organizational Analysis, Edith Lowry

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An Analysis Of Alternative Educational Delivery Systems In Northwestern Minnesota., Adeline Katie Jaeger

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The study purpose was to learn the perceived general desirability and also the perceived specific feasibility of nineteen alternative educational delivery ideas, many of which required inter-district cooperation. The population included individuals who had formally served the fifty-two school districts of northwestern Minnesota as representatives for areawide educational planning, or as superintendents of schools, or as both superintendents and representatives. The instrument used to gather data was based upon delivery ideas which resulted from long-range educational planning activities. These activities had been mandated by the Minnesota Legislature in 1976.Five research questions considered (1) role of the respondent during planning, (2) …

Public Employment Vs. Private Employment : Is The Grass Really Greener On The Other Side?, Richard A. Espeland

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Privacy - A Contemporary Management Problem, Harvey Greenberg

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The Role Of North Dakota Health Council In State Government, Terry Brosseau

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A First Aid Teaching Unit For The Missionary System Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, Glenn R. Schiraldi

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The intent of this study was to develop a sixty minute, mediated practical first aid teaching unit for the missionary system of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Pre-Implementation Evaluation And Refinement Of A Schoolwide Model For Eliciting Parent-Owned Information Regarding School Program Effectiveness, Alfred M. Mcglinskey

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Problem: This study was concerned with the design, evaluation and refinement of a model which would attempt to organize all the parents from a given school, into a structure and process which would enhance, elicit and legitimize parent contributions to the information base utilized in the schools' decision-making processes.

Procedure: The population of the study included (1) Grand Forks residents whose children attend one of two public elementary schools selected for differences in socio-economic variables, (2) the teachers in those schools, (3) all the district's elementary principals and (4) the district's central office administrators. Each member of the population was …

The Development Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints In Hawaii, Richard C. Harvey

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This thesis depicts the development of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Hawaiian Islands from the landing of the first LDS missionaries in 1850 up to the 1970's. Church policy in Hawaii may be seen as an ordered, phasal development respectively involving spiritual, educational, and cultural spheres of interaction.

Human Resource Accounting, Charles William Morgan

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A Study Of Organizational Climate And Educational Change In Selected North Dakota High Schools, Edward J. Hill

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Purpose: This study is postulated on the theory that a direct relationship exists between organizational climate and educational change. The primary purpose of the study was to analyze the relationships between organizational climate and educational changes in selected high schools. A further purpose was to determine if there were significant differences between the principals' and faculties' profile scores on each of the eight subtests of the Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire (OCDQ).

The study also attempted to determine which set of selected teacher biographical variables contributed most to the predictability of each subtest score of the OCDQ.

Method and Procedures: The …

The Rifle Volunteers 1859-1861 : Mid-Victorian Xenophobia Manifested, William L. Adams

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Edp Induced Modifications Of Internal Control, Michael R. Schwindt

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Command Post Consolidation At Minot Air Force Base, George F. Lunsford

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The Effect Of Perceived Message Importance On Certain Communicative Aspects Within A Business Organization, Thomas A. Haller

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The Key Future Product Success, Walter Kujawa

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An Organizational Study Of The Operations Division, 455th Strategic Missile Wing, Ralph D. Scott

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