Motivating Employed Professionals, Kenneth M. Kamerman

Anderson School of Management Theses & Dissertations

This study is directed to the problem of determining the properties of a task motivation method for employed professionals that will increase their productivity without creating employe-supervisor problems and without adding administrative burdens to the organization. The second problem is to identify a task motivation method which possesses the properties identified in the solution to the first problem. A descriptive-analytic approach to solve the first problem involves a review of human relations observations and conclusions bearing on motivation of employed professionals. The solution to the second problem identifies the contingency management motivation method, used in progressive education settings, as a …

Satisfaction, Dissatisfaction, And Self-Actualization Among Top Level Employees Of The City Of Albuquerque - An Appraisal Of Organizational Climate, Vern H. Curtis

Anderson School of Management Theses & Dissertations

Having problem areas and potential problem areas identified within one's organization would be welcomed by most, if not all, administrators. It was the purpose of this thesis to identify and isolate any potential problem area or areas concerning high level personnel of the City of Albuquerque; also to establish any relationship between self-actualization and Rensis Likert’s organizational climate model. The primary tools for determining problem areas were a self-actualization test and Likert’s semantic differentials which characterize an organization's climate. Each department in the City was compared to the City in total to determine any differences with respect to those two …

Predicting Success In The Master Of Business Administration Program At The University Of New Mexico, James Dee Rose

Anderson School of Management Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not success in the Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) program at the University of New Mexico could be predicted from known variables. These variables were both intellective and non-intellective and included such things as:

1. Undergraduate grade point average (g.p.a.)

2. Upper-division g.p.a .

3. Major g.p.a. for business majors.

4. Score on Admissions Test for Graduate Study in Business (A.T.G.S.B.).

5. Age.

6. Graduate g.p.a.

7. Undergraduate major.

8. Type of undergraduate institution and whether or not it was the University of New Mexico.

9. Student status (part-time or …

Marketing Barriers To Entry In The Ready-To-Eat Breakfast Cereal Industry, George C. T. Lin

Anderson School of Management Theses & Dissertations

The purposes of this study were: (a) to explain the nature of the existing bilateral oligapolistic situation in the ready-to-eat (RTE) breakfast cereal industry; (b) to clarify the role of marketing as an instrument in the product and service competition within the industry; and (c) to develop an explanatory framework which describes the causal relationships among the possible marketing barriers as well as the attendant risk and uncertainty in new cereal investment.

Although the rate of return on cereal investment appears to be relatively high and attractive, there are substantial barriers to entry. Industrial organization theory (i.e .. scale economy, …

No. 75 1970 April Review

International Journal for Business Education

This initiative documents the preservation and digital release of the organization’s historical print archives, representing decades of scholarship in international business education. By converting legacy issues into accessible online formats, the project enhances global access to foundational research, pedagogical innovations, and early thought leadership that shaped the field. The digitized collection provides educators, researchers, and practitioners with a comprehensive record of evolving theories, instructional practices, and international business trends. Making these archival materials publicly available supports continued inquiry, enables longitudinal analysis, and strengthens the discipline’s historical continuity. This effort reflects the organization’s commitment to advancing international business education by ensuring …

An Attempt To Make A Comparative Investigation Of Domestically And Internationally-Oriented Organizational Structures In Terms Of Organizational Barriers To International Marketing Situation Communications, Douglas T. Mears

Anderson School of Management Theses & Dissertations

It is quite evident that global marketing has expanded in fantastic proportions during the past fifteen years. Current estimates show that sixty per cent of all United States’ enterprises with more than one hundred employees are now marketing their products and services abroad. Since all indications are for even a larger expansion during the next fifteen years, it is important that a company adopt a global strategy to administer successful marketing program in foreign communities. To properly administer any program, it should be recognized that communications play a vital part in the operation of an efficient organization at home and …

No. 74 1969 November Review

International Journal for Business Education

This initiative documents the preservation and digital release of the organization’s historical print archives, representing decades of scholarship in international business education. By converting legacy issues into accessible online formats, the project enhances global access to foundational research, pedagogical innovations, and early thought leadership that shaped the field. The digitized collection provides educators, researchers, and practitioners with a comprehensive record of evolving theories, instructional practices, and international business trends. Making these archival materials publicly available supports continued inquiry, enables longitudinal analysis, and strengthens the discipline’s historical continuity. This effort reflects the organization’s commitment to advancing international business education by ensuring …

A Behavioral Experiment On The Bayesian Decision Norm, James Ying-Sheng Huang

Anderson School of Management Theses & Dissertations

This study attempts to explore the possibilities of developing Bayesian decision theory as a descriptive behavioral model for depicting and predicting the general and basic rationality underlying managerial decision-making behavior under certain circumstances. A laboratory controlled experiment approach was employed for this study, In May of 1969, forty sophomores on the campus of the University of New Mexico were selected to serve as subjects. None of the subjects had knowledge of Bayesian statistical decision theory. Each subject was required to make Independent managerial decisions based on intuition. The experiment consisted essentially of two different types of experimental designs, one with …

A Comparison Of The Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire And Assumed Similarity Of Opposites Scales As Measurement Of Elementary School Organizational Climate, Robert Matthew Devine

Educational Leadership & Workforce Development Theses & Dissertations

No abstract.

A Replication Of Gouldner's Latent Role Identifications Of Cosmopolitan And Local In A Public High School, Ronald S. Godwin

Educational Leadership & Workforce Development Theses & Dissertations

No abstract.

Bank Asset Management: A Study Of A Linear Program Model Developed By D. Chambers And A. Charnes, Christopher Crosby Inman

Anderson School of Management Theses & Dissertations

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

Bank management is constantly faced with the task of maximizing asset profitability within the constraints of liquidity and safety. In an attempt to aid management in the solution of this problem, several asset management models and theories have been developed. One such model was developed by D. Chambers and A. Charnes and was presented in the July, 1961 issue of Management Science. This model utilizes a linear programming approach to determine an optimal asset portfolio which maximizes profits while satisfying a bank's liquidity and safety needs. The purpose of this thesis is to critique this model. …

An Application Of The Factor Analytic Approach To The Construction Of An Overall Business Activity Index, Jay Quigley Butler

Anderson School of Management Theses & Dissertations

Business economists attempting to determine and to describe the changes in the business activity of metropolitan areas and other geographic sections are seriously limited in their work by the absence of a satisfactory Overall Business Activity Index (OBAI). Although there are several methods for constructing such a composite index, this thesis examines the application of factor analysis to the construction of an OBAI. The difficulty of applying this statistical technique has been in developing a set of weights for combining the extracted factors into an OBAI. Among the objectives of such an overall index are that it should preserve the …

No. 73 1969 April Review

International Journal for Business Education

This initiative documents the preservation and digital release of the organization’s historical print archives, representing decades of scholarship in international business education. By converting legacy issues into accessible online formats, the project enhances global access to foundational research, pedagogical innovations, and early thought leadership that shaped the field. The digitized collection provides educators, researchers, and practitioners with a comprehensive record of evolving theories, instructional practices, and international business trends. Making these archival materials publicly available supports continued inquiry, enables longitudinal analysis, and strengthens the discipline’s historical continuity. This effort reflects the organization’s commitment to advancing international business education by ensuring …

Horticulture Chief Retires, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

The Chief of the Department of Agriculture's Horticultural Division, Mr. H. R. Powell, retired last month after a long career of service to Western Australia's horticultural industries.

No. 72 1968 November Review

International Journal for Business Education

This initiative documents the preservation and digital release of the organization’s historical print archives, representing decades of scholarship in international business education. By converting legacy issues into accessible online formats, the project enhances global access to foundational research, pedagogical innovations, and early thought leadership that shaped the field. The digitized collection provides educators, researchers, and practitioners with a comprehensive record of evolving theories, instructional practices, and international business trends. Making these archival materials publicly available supports continued inquiry, enables longitudinal analysis, and strengthens the discipline’s historical continuity. This effort reflects the organization’s commitment to advancing international business education by ensuring …

Risk And Uncertainty As Barriers To Entry To The Ready-To-Eat Breakfast Cereal Industry In The United States, James Hyland Ryan

Anderson School of Management Theses & Dissertations

This paper examines entrance barriers to the ready-to-eat breakfast cereal industry in the United States. Research studies and primary data are examined for the purpose of demonstrating the existing product-market synergy differential between industry participants and potential entrants to this market. This synergy differential is then examined in relation to the perceived risk associated with a breakfast cereal product investment, when viewed by a potential entrant vis-a-vis an industry participant. Explanatory models are formulated and developed which describe the relationship between the rate of return on investment and the risk/uncertainty inherent in the cereal industry.

Risk Classes And The Required Rate Of Return On The Common Stock Of A Firm, Robert Lee Cheek

Anderson School of Management Theses & Dissertations

This paper proposes a method of examining the assump­tion that there are homogeneous risk classes of firms which will have the same required rate of return on the common stock, the risk classes being defined as those firms whose expected average income is subject to the same degree of uncertainty. This assumption, proposed by Franco Modigliani and Merton H. Miller in their famous work on the cost of capital to a firm, has tended to be neglected in the empirical studies, and in particular the tests of Alexander Barges, which have been made during the recent years. The method proposed …

Boulwarism: A Study Of A Collective Bargaining Technique, Candelario Trujillo Jr.

Anderson School of Management Theses & Dissertations

The collective bargaining technique labeled "Boulwarism" derives its name from Lemuel R. Boulware who introduced a program of job marketing at GE in 1948. The major precepts of Boulwarism are:

1. That management is in the best position to allocate the resources of the company.

2. That a company offer will be changed only on receipt of new information supplied by the unions, but this should not occur because of the year round research conducted by the company.

3. That a direct communications approach with its workers is more desirable.

This study has attempted to evaluate "Boulwarism'' on the basis …

An Empirical Test Of Financial Theory Relating To Utilities In The Capital Market, Gary Owen Glenn

Anderson School of Management Theses & Dissertations

By observation of the average cost of new debt capital, average market price per share of common equity, average earnings per share of common equity, and average price-earnings ratios, it is apparent that utilities are facing a deteriorating competitive situation in the capital market in relation to industrials. It was the purpose of this study to determine if these deteriorating characteristics were statistically significant or whether they were strictly attributable to chance. It was also to be determined if the movements in the utilities' average cost of new debt capital were significantly related in a statistical sense to the movements …

An Empirical Study Of Superior-Subordinate Personal Values And Performances Evaluation, Robert T. G. Lassiter

Anderson School of Management Theses & Dissertations

Although numerous performance evaluation techniques have been developed, such as graphic rating scales, check lists, paired comparisons, critical incident, etc., there remains an element of human judgement in their application, ad judgment is affected by personal values. The relationship of value or orientations to interpersonal relations, understanding, communications, decision making, and the evaluation of decision has clear-cut implications to the problems associated with performance evaluation. In the administrative setting, the white collar worker' performance is interpersonal relations, communications, and decision making. This is particularly true of the 68 people who participated in this study, since they were all engaged in …

No. 71 1968 April Review

International Journal for Business Education

This initiative documents the preservation and digital release of the organization’s historical print archives, representing decades of scholarship in international business education. By converting legacy issues into accessible online formats, the project enhances global access to foundational research, pedagogical innovations, and early thought leadership that shaped the field. The digitized collection provides educators, researchers, and practitioners with a comprehensive record of evolving theories, instructional practices, and international business trends. Making these archival materials publicly available supports continued inquiry, enables longitudinal analysis, and strengthens the discipline’s historical continuity. This effort reflects the organization’s commitment to advancing international business education by ensuring …

The Emerging Importance Of Mental Health Programs In Industry And The Implications Of Related Legislative Action, Jack D. Rex

Anderson School of Management Theses & Dissertations

At the close of the nineteenth century, the accepted common law defenses of Contributory Negligence, Assumption of Risk, and Negligent Acts of Fellow Servants were interpreted by the courts as being too harsh on the claims of inured workers. As a consequence, the principle of common law declaring the employer responsible for the injury or death of employees resulting form a negligent act on his part became the accepted recourse. By 1910, many state legislatures had adopted the principle that employees do not assume the risk of their employment, thus setting the stage for the enactment of Workmen’s Compensation laws …

No. 70 1967 November Review

International Journal for Business Education

This initiative documents the preservation and digital release of the organization’s historical print archives, representing decades of scholarship in international business education. By converting legacy issues into accessible online formats, the project enhances global access to foundational research, pedagogical innovations, and early thought leadership that shaped the field. The digitized collection provides educators, researchers, and practitioners with a comprehensive record of evolving theories, instructional practices, and international business trends. Making these archival materials publicly available supports continued inquiry, enables longitudinal analysis, and strengthens the discipline’s historical continuity. This effort reflects the organization’s commitment to advancing international business education by ensuring …

A Queuing Theory Approach To Short-Haul Movements Under Constraints Of Time, Volume, And Unknown Behavioral Considerations, James Gerard Morris

Anderson School of Management Theses & Dissertations

The problem of parking in general and student parking in particular has become a matter of considerable interest on the University of New Mexico campus. Open parking space within a five-minute walking distance to central classroom buildings has become virtually non-existent during the peak hours of classroom activity. Evidence of student discontent over this problem is readily apparent in their letters to the student newspaper. Unbeknownst to most students, the situation is due to worsen. The University of New Mexico architect and Chief Planner, Robert Riley, has stated that within three years, no central campus parking will be available to …

Measurement And Analysis Of The Image Of An Automobile Dealership, John Harry Zoller

Anderson School of Management Theses & Dissertations

Every entity, human or not, projects an image to its public, and this image is an important factor in determining how that entity is received by and interacts with that public.

An Empirical Investigation Of Employee Need Expression During A Crisis Situation, Wade Raymond Helm

Anderson School of Management Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this research project was to test the effects of a crisis situation upon employee need expression. Two hypotheses were tested. The first stated that a group of employees experiencing a crisis would have needs lower in the need-structure, as theorized by Abraham Maslow, than would a group of employees not in a crisis situation. The second hypothesis stated that the group of employees in crisis would exhibit depressed future expectations as compared to the group of noncrisis employees. Ninety-nine employees were used as subjects. Fifty-four were in the experimental group. Forty-five were in the control group. The …

An Evaluation Of The Accounting Systems Presently Used By Certain Non-Profit Corporations Engaged In The Activities Of Medical Education And Research, Harold E. Snider

Anderson School of Management Theses & Dissertations

Foundations as humanistic institutions have existed for centuries. The foundation as an American institution has come of age in the last fifty years. Many types exist in this country and their purposes for existence are quite varied. In recent years the foundation has increasingly been used as a legal entity for conducting medical education or research. Several of these foundations have joined together in an association to discuss solutions for their common research and business problems. This association is known as the Association of Independent Research Institutes.

An Investigation Of Accounting Report Usage In New Mexico's Wholesale Alcoholic Beverage Industry, Robert B. Whitham

Anderson School of Management Theses & Dissertations

The purposes of this study of internal accounting reports in the alcoholic beverage industry in New Mexico are to determine the types of reports being prepared, to determine the uses being made of the reports, and to relate, by means of a sample, the costs of preparing these reports to the effects of their usage on profits. The term "internal accounting reports" is used in this study to mean reports containing accounting information which are directed to non-accounting personnel within the firm.

A Criterion Of Rationality In Performance Evaluation, Louis Herbert Pitts

Anderson School of Management Theses & Dissertations

Employees very likely will be judged on performance whether or not there exists a formal program complete with a professionally trained staff to perform that important function.

A Critical Evaluation Of The Sources Available For Dividends In New Mexico, D. Dennis Royer

Anderson School of Management Theses & Dissertations

Only four UN member nations–the U.S., the U.S.S.R., Great Britian, and France—did more than that.