scholarly journals Employee Attitude Surveys in the United States

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 150-160
Author(s):  
David G. Moore
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Employee Attitudes ◽  
Attitude Survey ◽  
Employee Attitude ◽  
Attitude Surveys

Summary The Author first discusses generally the employee attitude survey, describing the techniques commonly used, evaluating the ordinary questionnaire technique with its many drawbacks and limitations; these, however, can be — and have been — gradually corrected with time, and one of them has been refined into an instrument called the SRA Employee Inventory. The rest of the article is spent describing and assessing the Inventory, and finally giving the results and trends in employee attitudes which it has yielded.

High and Low Levels of Dogmatism in Relation to Personality, Intellectual, and Environmental Characteristics of Medical Students

1970 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 535-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel R. Juan ◽  
Harold B. Haley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
The United States ◽  
General Information ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Attitude Survey ◽  
Low Levels

High and low scorers on dogmatism (Rokeach Form E), selected from among 514 students entering 5 medical schools in various parts of the United States, were compared on values (SIV and AVL), Cancer Attitude Survey (CAS), MCAT, and a biographical questionnaire. The over-all SIV and AVL patterns of the 2 groups differed. High dogmatics favored conformity, recognition, and religious values; low dogmatics, independence and aesthetic and social values. High dogmatics scored significantly higher on belief in personal immortality (CAS III); low dogmatics, on belief in patients' inner resources (CAS I) and on MCAT verbal, quantitative, and general information. Specific biographical differences were also noted. Results implicate basic personality factors in doctors' reception and application of medical knowledge.

Learning from Japanese Transplants and American Corporations

1995 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim D. Rhody ◽  
Thomas Li-Ping Tang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Personnel Management ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
The United States ◽  
Employee Attitudes ◽  
American Business ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Past

In the past ten years, many Japanese manufacturers, especially automobile manufacturers, have opened plants in the United States. The Japanese have, in that time, increased their market share from one in five to nearly one in three cars that Americans drive. There are clear differences in Japanese and American business practices in the areas of organizational culture, leadership style, selection, training, employee attitudes, job satisfaction, and quality. American businesses must understand these differences and realize the most effective and efficient approach to produce goods and services that will fit in with our culture. The lessons we have learned from Japanese transplants and American corporations may have important implications to managers in public personnel management.

Attitudes of Elite Athletes with Impairments Toward One Another: A Hierarchy of Preference

1996 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
James V. Mastro ◽  
Allen W. Burton ◽  
Marjorie Rosendahl ◽  
Claudine Sherrill
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cerebral Palsy ◽  
Visual Impairment ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Elite Athletes ◽  
The United States ◽  
Attitude Survey ◽  
Sports Team ◽  
Disabled Sports ◽  
Paralympic Games

Hierarchies of preference by elite athletes with impairments toward other athletes with impairments were examined by administering the Athletes With Impairments Attitude Survey (AWIAS) to 138 members of the United States Disabled Sports Team as they were traveling to the 1992 Paralympic Games. The AWIAS uses 12 statements concerning social and sport relationships to measure social distance from a particular impairment group. Five groups of athletes participated—athletes with amputations, cerebral palsy, dwarfism or les autres, paraplegia or quadriplegia, and visual impairment—with each participant filling out a separate survey for the four impairment groups other than his or her own. For all groups combined, the participants’ responses toward other impairment groups, ordered from most to least favorable attitudes, were amputations, les autres, para/quadriplegia, visual impairment, and cerebral palsy. The preference hierarchies for individual groups were very similar to this overall pattern.

Convergence or Divergence? Web Usage in the Workplace in Nigeria, Malaysia, and the United States

2004 ◽  
pp. 158-185
Author(s):  
Claire A. Simmers ◽  
Murugan Anandarajan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Employee Attitudes ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Internet Usage ◽  
Web Searches ◽  
Organizational Policies ◽  
Web Usage ◽  
General Support ◽  
Usage Patterns

This study sets out to examine whether employee web usage patterns, attitudes toward web usage in the workplace, and organizational policies are more similar (convergence thesis) or less similar (divergence thesis) in three countries: Nigeria (n = 224), Malaysia (n = 107), and the United States (n = 334). Our results show general support for the divergence thesis. We found strong differences in employee usage patterns by country, even after controlling for differences in several demographic variables. However, there is less support for the divergence thesis in attitudes and organizational policies. In half of the eight indicators of employee attitudes, there were no differences among the three countries. Agreement that personal web usage at work is acceptable behavior is widespread. Other common perceptions are that companies tolerate personal web searches and that Internet usage policies are not enforced.

Correlative microscopy in distrubuted (client/server) computing environments: tools for catalyzing the rapid dissemination of information about the cell biology of the human prostate

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 682-683
Author(s):  
A. Hakam ◽  
J.T. Gau ◽  
M.L. Grove ◽  
B.A. Evans ◽  
M. Shuman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Tissue Bank ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prostate Adenocarcinoma ◽  
Correlative Microscopy ◽  
Client Server ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Transplant Organ

Prostate adenocarcinoma is the most common malignant tumor of men in the United States and is the third leading cause of death in men. Despite attempts at early detection, there will be 244,000 new cases and 44,000 deaths from the disease in the United States in 1995. Therapeutic progress against this disease is hindered by an incomplete understanding of prostate epithelial cell biology, the availability of human tissues for in vitro experimentation, slow dissemination of information between prostate cancer research teams and the increasing pressure to “ stretch” research dollars at the same time staff reductions are occurring.To meet these challenges, we have used the correlative microscopy (CM) and client/server (C/S) computing to increase productivity while decreasing costs. Critical elements of our program are as follows:1) Establishing the Western Pennsylvania Genitourinary (GU) Tissue Bank which includes >100 prostates from patients with prostate adenocarcinoma as well as >20 normal prostates from transplant organ donors.

Digital image acquisition, processing, and analysis in a polymer microscopy laboratory

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 454-455
Author(s):  
Vinod K. Berry ◽  
Xiao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Image Analysis ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Image Transmission ◽  
The United States ◽  
Quantitative Image Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Image

In recent years it became apparent that we needed to improve productivity and efficiency in the Microscopy Laboratories in GE Plastics. It was realized that digital image acquisition, archiving, processing, analysis, and transmission over a network would be the best way to achieve this goal. Also, the capabilities of quantitative image analysis, image transmission etc. available with this approach would help us to increase our efficiency. Although the advantages of digital image acquisition, processing, archiving, etc. have been described and are being practiced in many SEM, laboratories, they have not been generally applied in microscopy laboratories (TEM, Optical, SEM and others) and impact on increased productivity has not been yet exploited as well.In order to attain our objective we have acquired a SEMICAPS imaging workstation for each of the GE Plastic sites in the United States. We have integrated the workstation with the microscopes and their peripherals as shown in Figure 1.

Silence of the Land: On the Historical Irrelevance of Territory to Congressional Districting and Political Representation in the United States

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (01) ◽  
pp. 53-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Rehfeld
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Representative Government ◽  
Congressional District ◽  
Congressional Districts ◽  
Communities Of Interest

Every ten years, the United States “constructs” itself politically. On a decennial basis, U.S. Congressional districts are quite literally drawn, physically constructing political representation in the House of Representatives on the basis of where one lives. Why does the United States do it this way? What justifies domicile as the sole criteria of constituency construction? These are the questions raised in this article. Contrary to many contemporary understandings of representation at the founding, I argue that there were no principled reasons for using domicile as the method of organizing for political representation. Even in 1787, the Congressional district was expected to be far too large to map onto existing communities of interest. Instead, territory should be understood as forming a habit of mind for the founders, even while it was necessary to achieve other democratic aims of representative government.

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