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- Moving Towards Fairness and Diversity? An Analysis of Perceptions from Employees Working in the United States Department of the Interior.
- Creator
- Beals, Stacey Lisbeth, Sapat, Alka K., Florida Atlantic University, College for Design and Social Inquiry, School of Public Administration
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This dissertation examines how different United States Department of the Interior (USDOI) employees’ perceive fairness and support for diversity. The USDOI is an agency with numerous STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) employees who have the opportunity to influence future generations through their STEM internship. Specifically, this dissertation examines the relationship between: (1) the perceived fairness of performance appraisals and the empowerment index, demographic...
Show moreThis dissertation examines how different United States Department of the Interior (USDOI) employees’ perceive fairness and support for diversity. The USDOI is an agency with numerous STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) employees who have the opportunity to influence future generations through their STEM internship. Specifically, this dissertation examines the relationship between: (1) the perceived fairness of performance appraisals and the empowerment index, demographic characteristics, satisfaction, accountability and recognition; and (2) the perceived support (or lack thereof) of departmental programs and supervisors to foster diversity in the workforce and the empowerment index and demographic characteristics. This dissertation accomplishes several things. First, it provides a review of literature relating to gender diversity. Second, it provides a brief history of organizations that were created and acts/executive orders that were passed in order to support women in their fight against gender discrimination. Fourth, it provides a review of the USDOI’s recruitment, promotion, and employment policies. Finally, it presents an analysis of how USDOI employees’ perceptions of diversity differ by gender. This inquiry utilizes a theoretical framework based on Thomas and Ely’s (1996) and Selden and Selden’s (2001) four diversity paradigms; “discrimination and fairness,” “access and legitimacy,” “learning and effectiveness,” and “valuing and integrating.” These paradigms suggest that the true benefits of diversity can only be realized in the valuing and integrating paradigm where employees’ individual differences are used for the betterment of the organization. It is found that women tend not to perceive that their organization supports diversity. It is also found that the empowerment index, federal tenure, pay category, satisfaction, accountability and recognition are important in explaining employees’ perceptions of fairness and that the empowerment index, federal tenure, supervisory status, gender, and minority status are important in explaining employees’ perceptions of support for diversity.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2016
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004754, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004754
- Subject Headings
- Employee motivation., Personnel management., Diversity in the workplace., Organizational justice., Organizational behavior--Social aspects., Corporate culture.
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- Document (PDF)
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- RESEARCH ON THE IMPLICATIONS OF AN INTRAURBAN RAIL RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM FOR AN URBAN AREA.
- Creator
- CAHILL, RONALD MARTIN., Florida Atlantic University, Sanford, Donald G., College for Design and Social Inquiry, School of Public Administration
- Abstract/Description
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This is a study of intraurban rail rapid transit systems in relation to possible implications for an urban area over a period of 250 years. Two digital computer simulation models using the DYNAMO computer language are integrated to explore the results of assumed relationships between intraurban rail rapid transit usage and an urban area under highly pure conditions that are also assumed. One computer simulation model is developed for use as a rail rapid transit sector with Forrester's urban...
Show moreThis is a study of intraurban rail rapid transit systems in relation to possible implications for an urban area over a period of 250 years. Two digital computer simulation models using the DYNAMO computer language are integrated to explore the results of assumed relationships between intraurban rail rapid transit usage and an urban area under highly pure conditions that are also assumed. One computer simulation model is developed for use as a rail rapid transit sector with Forrester's urban model and is then integrated with the urban model as a sector. The conclusions reached in the study are related to the simulation results and state that an intraurban rail rapid transit system may serve as a catalyst for an urban area's revival under conditions where it is used in place of automobiles to a high degree. However, it is also concluded that the rail transit usage may need to be accompanied by other specific policies in order to produce any tangible long run changes in the urban area equilibrium conditions.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1975
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13725
- Subject Headings
- Urban and Regional Planning
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- Document (PDF)
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- Technologies of language and money: A study of stock manipulation and Internet communication.
- Creator
- Beresford, Annette D., Florida Atlantic University, Miller, Hugh T., College for Design and Social Inquiry, School of Public Administration
- Abstract/Description
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Internet technologies provide a criminal opportunity for stock manipulation and fraud that costs investors millions of dollars every day. In order to reduce this loss and craft policies and procedures to deter future losses, securities regulators have been seeking to understand the process of Internet securities fraud, including the actions of investors and fraudsters that contribute to that process. The purpose of this study is to determine the properties of the Internet communication...
Show moreInternet technologies provide a criminal opportunity for stock manipulation and fraud that costs investors millions of dollars every day. In order to reduce this loss and craft policies and procedures to deter future losses, securities regulators have been seeking to understand the process of Internet securities fraud, including the actions of investors and fraudsters that contribute to that process. The purpose of this study is to determine the properties of the Internet communication environment associated with fraudulent stock schemes in order to contribute to these efforts of securities regulators. In addition, an aim of this study is to introduce Foucault's concept of power/knowledge as a means for theory development in the fields of finance, criminology and public administration that specifically addresses manipulation and fraud in the stock market.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2002
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12012
- Subject Headings
- Foucault, Michel, Internet fraud, Securities fraud
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Is operating budget execution really a coherent process?.
- Creator
- Campbell, Kenneth Alan, Florida Atlantic University, Mendell, Jay S., Lynch, Thomas D., College for Design and Social Inquiry, School of Public Administration
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Most of the debate within public budgeting has centered on whether the incremental or non-incremental approach is best. In a theoretical context, little attention has been paid to the actual execution of an entity's budget. Specific theoretical objectives must be met for execution to take place: the objectives have been arranged in different ways, yet the basic requirements have remained constant. The dissertation compared these established theoretical objectives with actual budget execution;...
Show moreMost of the debate within public budgeting has centered on whether the incremental or non-incremental approach is best. In a theoretical context, little attention has been paid to the actual execution of an entity's budget. Specific theoretical objectives must be met for execution to take place: the objectives have been arranged in different ways, yet the basic requirements have remained constant. The dissertation compared these established theoretical objectives with actual budget execution; it concentrated on whether actual budgeting practice met the requirements of budget execution as depicted in normative theory. The research question asked to what extent is practice consistent with theory. The reality of budget practice was determined through survey responses. The questions were based on the procedures required for carrying out the theoretical objectives of execution. Surveys were sent to budget practitioners within the two-county area in southeast Florida. These individuals are responsible for public sector budgeting within their various entities on a state, county, and local level. The survey asked for the respondents perceptions of actual practice as it related to budget execution within their entity. The individual responses were evaluated and analyzed. Factor Analysis was used to determine the loading of eleven specific objectives. The patterns created by the factor loading were explored; it established how the objectives were viewed and whether there was a monolithic approach to execution. The results of the factor loading suggested that, in practice, budget objectives are not recognized as a cohesive process. Theory failed to match actual budget execution. Established procedures found in theory are only partially recognized by those who practice budgeting. A chi-square analysis of the survey results were examined to establish internal validity of the survey instrument and determine whether the responses were influenced by the independent variables. The results of the chi-square failed to note any influence on the responses.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1994
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12374
- Subject Headings
- Fiscal policy, Finance, Public, Budget
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A STUDY OF APPROACHES AND PROCESSES OF RESOLVING EMPLOYEE/UNION GRIEVANCES IN BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY.
- Creator
- EVANS, JEAN C., Florida Atlantic University, Abbott, Jarold G., College for Design and Social Inquiry, School of Public Administration
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This descriptive study investigates and highlights the approaches and processes of resolving employee/union grievances in private business and industry in the United States. Dealing exclusively with unionized companies, the study examines the nature of grievances in the industrial world, contractual and actual approaches and processes followed in resolving grievances (union-management discussions, mediation, arbitration, right to strike, etc.), and analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of...
Show moreThis descriptive study investigates and highlights the approaches and processes of resolving employee/union grievances in private business and industry in the United States. Dealing exclusively with unionized companies, the study examines the nature of grievances in the industrial world, contractual and actual approaches and processes followed in resolving grievances (union-management discussions, mediation, arbitration, right to strike, etc.), and analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of the various approaches and processes. Resources include research of current literature and a survey of practitioners in the industrial relations field - union officials, industrial relations executives from business, and labor arbitrators.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1975
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13698
- Subject Headings
- Sociology, Industrial and Labor Relations
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Utopian/Dystopian Thought Experiments and the Potential For a New Strateb')' of Inquiry in Public Administration.
- Creator
- Pressley, Cindy L., Florida Atlantic University, Patterson, Patricia M., College for Design and Social Inquiry, School of Public Administration
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The purpose behind this dissertation is the creation, development, and illustration of a new strategy of inquiry in public administration. This new strategy of inquiry is a utopian/dystopian thought experiment. A utopian/dystopian thought experiment should provide its user with a way to develop a new/different viewpoint with which to examine an administrative activity. A researcher begins with an original viewpoint and should then develop a new/different viewpoint, a utopian/dystopian...
Show moreThe purpose behind this dissertation is the creation, development, and illustration of a new strategy of inquiry in public administration. This new strategy of inquiry is a utopian/dystopian thought experiment. A utopian/dystopian thought experiment should provide its user with a way to develop a new/different viewpoint with which to examine an administrative activity. A researcher begins with an original viewpoint and should then develop a new/different viewpoint, a utopian/dystopian viewpoint, by engaging in a utopian/dystopian thought experiment. A utopian/dystopian thought experiment is developed in this dissertation by bringing together elements from utopian literature and scientific thought experiment literature using a public administration point of view. The research approach used in this dissertation is a three-phase process that involves reviewing and connecting pertinent literatures, using imagination and the process of writing to create a utopian/dystopian thought experiment, and illustrating and examining a utopian/dystopian thought experiment in public administration. In this dissertation, I seek to create a utopian/dystopian thought experiment as a new strategy of inquiry that is developed specifically for public administration. A utopian/dystopian thought experiment should provide an additional tool to the researcher who is seeking to expand the viewpoints through which the researcher can examine administrative activities.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000610
- Subject Headings
- Public administration--Philosophy, Place (Philosophy), Policy sciences--Economic aspects, Political planning--United States, Postmodernism--Social aspects
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Program Review Public Administration, 2009-2010.
- Creator
- Office of Institutional Effectiveness & Analysis, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Date Issued
- 2009 - 2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007829
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- Document (PDF)
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- Program Review Public Administration, 2014-2015.
- Creator
- Office of Institutional Effectiveness & Analysis, , Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Date Issued
- 2014 - 2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007833
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Program Review Public Administration, 2013-2014.
- Creator
- Office of Institutional Effectiveness & Analysis, , Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Date Issued
- 2013 - 2014
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007832
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Program Review Public Administration, 2012-2013.
- Creator
- Office of Institutional Effectiveness & Analysis, , Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Date Issued
- 2012 - 2013
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007831
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Program Review Public Administration, 2010-2011.
- Creator
- Office of Institutional Effectiveness & Analysis, , Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Date Issued
- 2010 - 2011
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007830
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- Document (PDF)
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- Program Review Public Administration, 2015-2016.
- Creator
- Office of Institutional Effectiveness & Analysis, , Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Date Issued
- 2015 - 2016
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007834
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Program Review Public Administration, 2016-2017.
- Creator
- Office of Institutional Effectiveness & Analysis, , Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Date Issued
- 2016 - 2017
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007835
- Format
- Document (PDF)