Analysis of public service performance through strengthening employee motivation in the organization and society sub-sector in the national and political unity agency of Maluku Province

Analysis of Public Service Performance through Strengthening Motivation of Employees of the Organization and Society Sub-Sector at the National Unity and Political Agency of Maluku Province is the core of this project. With a sample of 30 people and the technique of percentage analysis and conversion through the sociometric choice status index (ISP) in determining improvement priorities by paying attention to the relationship between strengthening employee motivation and public service performance. Strengthening employee motivation has a "strong" relationship and contribution to the performance of public services in percentage and sociometry based on the preferred status index (ISP. 0.740) or 74% with other intervention factors 26%. There is a follow-up to strengthening employee motivation and public service performance in the form of normalization of improvement, which is realized through a sociogram as the final result. The findings of this study prioritize the normalization of strengthening employee motivation and public service performance as a follow-up process that tends to lead to maximization and has implications for the development and progress of public services in the organizational and community subsectors.

Peer Acceptance and Friendship Patterns among Italian Schoolchildren within a Cross-cultural Perspective

Sociometric choice nominations, as well as peer nominations for friendship, aggression, isolation, and prosocial behaviour, were administered to middle class Italian primary school youngsters. Socially rejected children were found to be more aggressive, more withdrawn, and less prosocial than members of the other social status categories, and to have fewer friends. The proportions of subjects in the neglected and controversial categories were very low, although the proportions of rejected and popular children were similar to those found in North American studies. These findings are discussed within the framework of cross-cultural differences in children’s peer relations.

On My Mind: Cooperative Groups Can and Often Should Be Homogeneous

To maximize the benefits of cooperative learning groups, the students within each group should be heterogeneous in ability and personal characteristics” (Artzt and Newman 1990, 449). “Although groups can be formed by random assignment, heterogeneous grouping ensures a mixture of mathematical achievement, gender, and race/ethnicity. An occasional use of sociometric choice by students is possible, but homogeneous grouping is usually not recommended” (Davidson 1990a, 57). “Groups may organize themselves on the basis of friendship or common interests or they may be carefully composed by the teacher to be heterogeneous with respect to abilities, sex, personality types, race, or other variables” (Dees 1990, 175).

Physical Attractiveness and Popularity: A Predictive Study

The purpose of the study was to identify physical attractiveness as a causal antecedent to sociometric choice in kindergarten children. This required an assessment of attractiveness, unbiased by prior friendship among peers. Nominations of physical attractiveness were elicited from 48 kindergarten children and from their mothers in the family homes prior to the beginning of the school year and so prior to social interaction among peers. Social status was assessed after 5 wk. of social interaction in the kindergarten. Physical attractiveness nominations by girls were highly correlated with popularity for girls but not for boys. Attractiveness ratings by mothers of girls were highly correlated with popularity but there was no relationship for mothers of boys.