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Title: 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
Abstract/Description: 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.
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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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Title: Social Constructions and Narratives: An Analysis of the US Refugee Policy From 1980-2018.
Creator: Balilaj, Arjola, Sapat, Alka, Florida Atlantic University, School of Public Administration, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: The Refugee Act of 1980 established the first comprehensive U.S. refugee policy. It codified a refugee definition and created the annual consultation process, which requires the president to consult with Congress before determining annual refugee ceilings and resettlement plans. While the Refugee Act of 1980 remains intact, the annual refugee admissions and resettlement plans have changed considerably. The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze this policy to explore its changes from 1980...
Show moreThe Refugee Act of 1980 established the first comprehensive U.S. refugee policy. It codified a refugee definition and created the annual consultation process, which requires the president to consult with Congress before determining annual refugee ceilings and resettlement plans. While the Refugee Act of 1980 remains intact, the annual refugee admissions and resettlement plans have changed considerably. The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze this policy to explore its changes from 1980-2018 through the lens of social construction theory. According to this theory, the social constructions of target populations affect policy designs that are adopted with respect to these populations. Policy designs can create and legitimize divisions among different target populations causing some to be perceived and treated as more deserving than others. This dissertation uses a qualitative research design to analyze narratives within presidential proposal documents and congressional hearings that are held as part of the annual consultation process. These documents serve as the data for this dissertation. I undertake a detailed analysis of the documents of one annual consultation process and related congressional hearings for each president in the period between 1980-2018. In these documents and hearings, different policy actors (congressional members, representatives of the executive branch and state and local governments, and other experts) provide testimony and expert opinions on refugee admissions and resettlement. It is in this context that refugees as a target population are constructed and policies to deal with refugees are debated and discussed by various policy actors. To understand these constructions and the context in which they are created, the narrative analysis elements offered by the narrative policy framework are used as a method.
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Date Issued: 2020
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013530
Subject Headings: Refugees--United States, Refugees--Government policy--United States, Social constructionism, Narrative research (Research method)
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Title: The Sisyphusian predicament: existentialism and a grounded theory analysis of the experience and practice of public administration.
Creator: Hollar, T. Lucas., College for Design and Social Inquiry, School of Public Administration
Abstract/Description: Public administration addresses issues that competing and aligning groups determine to be meaningful enough to address. However, there seems to be no shared universally objective ways of remedying anything. Everything is up for argument. Additionally, attempting to solve one set of problems often creates other connected problems and/or unintended consequences. So, public work ever [sic] never ends. This dissertation's purpose was to contribute a new theoretical understanding of the experience...
Show morePublic administration addresses issues that competing and aligning groups determine to be meaningful enough to address. However, there seems to be no shared universally objective ways of remedying anything. Everything is up for argument. Additionally, attempting to solve one set of problems often creates other connected problems and/or unintended consequences. So, public work ever [sic] never ends. This dissertation's purpose was to contribute a new theoretical understanding of the experience and practice of public administration. Its research addressed if and how a grounded existential theoretical framework could emerge that would help practitioners and scholars understand and describe public administrative efforts and experiences. Currently, there is no existential theory of public administration. This dissertation sought to initiate work in that direction. This dissertation employed a grounded theory methodology to collect information from Senior Executive Service (SES) members, to analyze the information for emerging concepts and theoretical relevance through constant comparison, and to discover/construct a theoretical framework for understanding public administrative efforts and experiences. "The grounded theory approach is a general methodology of analysis linked with data collection that uses a systematically applied set of methods to generate an inductive theory about a substantive area" (Glaser, 1992, p. 16)., This dissertation identified the emergence of three categories/themes that organized what the SES members were saying, doing, and perceiving. These categories include "the environment," "the work," and "the individual." The core category/theme, "the Sisyphusian predicament," theoretically unifies these categories/themes through a metaphorical application of existential concepts. It describes the issues administrators experience (never-endingness, boundedness, and finitude in the face of infinitude (managing the scope and scale of one's intentions; generating and authoring relevance, significance, and meaning; and the choice for metaphysical revolt/ microemancipation). There are scholarly and practicable applications of this framework. This dissertation contributes exploratory work towards developing a new theoretical alternative within public administration. It provides an alternative approach for viewing and understanding organizational processes within public organizations. Additionally, an existential approach facilitates a plurality of competing schools of thought wherein administrators can select approaches to decision making and acting on the basis of context and utility.
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Date Issued: 2008
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/165673
Subject Headings: Public administration, Philosophy, Public administration, Moral and ethical aspects, Administrative agencies, Management, Policy sciences, Public administration, Research, Methodology
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Title: Space, place, and identity in Yevgeny Zamyatin's We and J.G. Ballard's The Drowned World.
Creator: Mandell, Megan., College for Design and Social Inquiry, School of Public Administration
Abstract/Description: Intimate spaces play a key role in the development of human identity, constructing identity through an internalized experience of the house itself. Building on Bachelard's theories in The Poetics of Space, I argue that characters in Yevgeny Zamyatin's We and J.G. Ballard's The Drowned World gain a new awareness of self after experiencing nature as a substitute for the house. The emergence of a new identity occurs because nature offers protection from the forces that inhibit both D-503 and...
Show moreIntimate spaces play a key role in the development of human identity, constructing identity through an internalized experience of the house itself. Building on Bachelard's theories in The Poetics of Space, I argue that characters in Yevgeny Zamyatin's We and J.G. Ballard's The Drowned World gain a new awareness of self after experiencing nature as a substitute for the house. The emergence of a new identity occurs because nature offers protection from the forces that inhibit both D-503 and Keran's individual growth ; it offers the safety of the house that neither character is allowed in a private home : D-503 because of the panoptic space of the One state and Kerans due to the nature of the changing circumstances of the environment and his own biology that force him to accept his role as a "new" human and the jungle as "home".
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Date Issued: 2013
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3362559
Subject Headings: Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Gender identity in literature, Nature in literature, Dystopias, Totalitarianism
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Title: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE BASIC SKILLS ATTAINMENT OF SIXTH GRADE PUPILS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN VOLUSIA COUNTY.
Creator: TRAVIS, DONALD O'NEIL, Florida Atlantic University, College of Education, School of Public Administration
Abstract/Description: At the time of this study the private schools in Volusia County were enjoying much publicity portraying them as institutions that provided a "better" quality of education for their students. A review of the literature revealed this view to be shared by many evaluators of current education programs. The findings of these evaluators were based on varying methodologies of obtaining data. In most cases, the public school students and the private school students were compared in unmatched groups....
Show moreAt the time of this study the private schools in Volusia County were enjoying much publicity portraying them as institutions that provided a "better" quality of education for their students. A review of the literature revealed this view to be shared by many evaluators of current education programs. The findings of these evaluators were based on varying methodologies of obtaining data. In most cases, the public school students and the private school students were compared in unmatched groups. This study takes issue with the methodology used in those previous studies. The number of intervening variables allowed to interact makes the results suspect. In the present study, public and private school students were matched on five variables: sex, ethnic background, socioeconomic level, geographical location, and IQ. This decreased the number of intervening variables allowed to interact between the groups. The sixth grade students of seven private schools in Volusia County participated in the study. For each of the 187 private school students, a public school sixth grade student of the same sex, ethnic background, socioeconomic status, geographical region, and IQ was chosen. These students were given the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills in Mathematics, Language and Reading. Comparison of scores between groups showed that the public school sample scored significantly higher on the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills than the private school students. The public school students had a mean standard score of 535 compared to a mean of 500 for private school students. Converted to grade equivalents, the scores of public school students yielded a mean placement of eighth grade, seventh month versus seventh grade, seventh month for private school students. This reflected an achievement level one year greater for the public school student than the private school student. When these results were submitted to careful statistical controls, it was found the assumption of homogeneity of variance was not violated.
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Date Issued: 1981
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/11791
Subject Headings: Private schools--Florida--Volusia County--Evaluation, Public schools--Florida--Volusia County--Evaluation, Sixth grade (Education)
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Title: 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: 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.
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Date Issued: 1975
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13725
Subject Headings: Urban and Regional Planning
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Title: 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: 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.
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Date Issued: 2002
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12012
Subject Headings: Foucault, Michel, Internet fraud, Securities fraud
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Title: THE DEVELOPMENT AND FIELD TESTING OF AN INSTRUMENT FOR PREDICTING GENERAL EDUCATION DIPLOMA ADULT EDUCATION DROPOUTS.
Creator: TIERNEY, BRIAN ASHLEY, Florida Atlantic University, College of Education, School of Public Administration
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this study was the development and field testing of an instrument for predicting adult education dropouts. The test instrument was designed to predict whether or not a student enrolling in an adult education high school review course would become a dropout. The sample consisted of eight classes of adult education students enrolled in a General Education Diploma (G.E.D.) review program. The developed test instrument used descriptive word pairs. These word pairs were antonyms....
Show moreThe purpose of this study was the development and field testing of an instrument for predicting adult education dropouts. The test instrument was designed to predict whether or not a student enrolling in an adult education high school review course would become a dropout. The sample consisted of eight classes of adult education students enrolled in a General Education Diploma (G.E.D.) review program. The developed test instrument used descriptive word pairs. These word pairs were antonyms. The word pairs were designed to elicit attitudinal responses from the students. The student's responses to these word pairs were used in the prediction of the potential dropout. Stimulus pictures of hypothetical persisters and dropouts were used to stimulate the responses. The developed test instrument was used to measure the difference between the student's attitude toward the pictured hypothetical persister in Form I of the test instrument and that student's attitude toward the pictured hypothetical dropout in Form II. The difference between the student's scores on Form I and Form II of the developed test instrument was computed. The difference-score was matched to the student's subsequent behavior: dropout or persister. The interpretation of the data in the context of this research indicated that the study with a high difference-score is more likely to become a dropout and that the student with a low difference-score is more likely to become a persister. In this study the student's attitudinal responses to descriptive word pairs were used in analysis of the data. Analysis was performed in order to evaluate the contribution of specific descriptive word pairs and the relation of these word pairs to the prediction of the potential dropout. Analysis indicated that certain of the descriptive word pairs were found to be useful as predictors of student behavior: dropout or persister. It was concluded that the use of the developed test instrument using certain descriptive word pairs could be effective in predicting the potential dropout. It was recommended that early prediction of the potential dropout and sufficient concentration on effective guidance would be productive and would motivate the student to continue working toward his original goals.
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Date Issued: 1983
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/11835
Subject Headings: Adult education, GED tests, Adult education dropouts
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Title: THE EFFECT OF COMMUNITY SOCIAL CAPITAL ON NON-PROFITS’ GOVERNANCE AND DISCLOSURE QUALITY.
Creator: Subedi, Meena, Farazmand, Ali, Florida Atlantic University, School of Public Administration, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: Social capital is critical to the entities' disciplinary environment and the ability to produce high quality financial reports. Although prior literature on for-profit setting indicates that social capital impacts both governance (Ferris, et al., 2017) and financial reporting quality (Jha & Chen, 2015; Jha, 2019), this area has received less attention in non-profit literature. The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the impact of the social capital of a non-profit organization's (NPO)...
Show moreSocial capital is critical to the entities' disciplinary environment and the ability to produce high quality financial reports. Although prior literature on for-profit setting indicates that social capital impacts both governance (Ferris, et al., 2017) and financial reporting quality (Jha & Chen, 2015; Jha, 2019), this area has received less attention in non-profit literature. The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the impact of the social capital of a non-profit organization's (NPO) headquarter area (also known as community social capital) on the NPO governance and disclosure quality (i.e., the quality of Form 990). The study hypothesizes and finds that the community social capital of an NPO headquarter area has a positive impact on its governance. The positive relationship suggests that NPO social capital and governance play a complementary role, where managers in high social capital face strong disciplinary environment and enjoy strong social connections and professional reputations and thus have fewer incentives to resist the adoption of sound governance practices. Similarly, the study also hypothesizes and finds that the community social capital of an NPO headquarter area has a positive impact on its disclosure quality. This finding suggests that community social capital disciplines NPO self-interested managers' behavior to manipulate financial numbers in Form 990 disclosures.
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Date Issued: 2021
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013740
Subject Headings: Social Capital, Governance, Nonprofit organizations, Financial disclosure
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Title: PRESENTING GOVERNMENT ACTION: A BURKEAN CLUSTER ANALYSIS OF VARIED PORTRAYALS OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY REGULATIONS BY NEWSPAPERS ACROSS THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM.
Creator: Harrow, Evan, Miller, Hugh T., Florida Atlantic University, School of Public Administration, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: This dissertation examines the varied ways that government action is portrayed through different newspapers across the political spectrum. Most of the existing literature about the relationship between media and government is focused on media power, fictional portrayals of government, or on specific issues or topics. While more recent studies have examined the idea that presentations of government may be vastly different from one news outlet to the next, no one has examined different...
Show moreThis dissertation examines the varied ways that government action is portrayed through different newspapers across the political spectrum. Most of the existing literature about the relationship between media and government is focused on media power, fictional portrayals of government, or on specific issues or topics. While more recent studies have examined the idea that presentations of government may be vastly different from one news outlet to the next, no one has examined different portrayals of government action. Furthermore, there seems to be a belief that political bias affects how news is presented, but very little study of why or how that came to be. This dissertation fills that gap by analyzing how different newspapers portray government action (specifically EPA regulations). The findings help determine how each news outlet manipulates the stories they present and why news media behaves this way. A Burkean Cluster Analysis was conducted on articles from three newspapers, one from the left of the political spectrum, one from the center, and one from the right, as well as on press releases from the Environmental Protection Agency. News articles about EPA regulations were read and indexed. Indexing an article allows the researcher to find relationships between EPA regulations and commonly occurring themes across a newspaper’s coverage, as well as the structures that bind those relationships together. These themes and structures act as the data for the rest of the study. An analysis of the themes and structures was conducted to find each news outlet’s most featured ratios. These were then generalized to determine a news outlet’s motive or motives, the rationale for why they choose to frame news stories about government action in specific ways.
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Date Issued: 2021
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013831
Subject Headings: Government and the press, United States. Environmental Protection Agency, Press and politics
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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
Abstract/Description: 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.
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Date Issued: 1994
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12374
Subject Headings: Fiscal policy, Finance, Public, Budget
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Title: A SELECTED COMPARISON OF PROFIT AND NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION ACCOUNTING PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES.
Creator: LAGASSE, ROBERT CLAUDE, Florida Atlantic University, College of Business, School of Public Administration
Abstract/Description: The study compares and contrasts general accounting practices and procedures as they are applied in profit and not-for-profit organizations. The data from which this study was made was gathered from existing publications in the fields of accounting and association management as well as policy and practice statements issued by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). The study describes the differences in for-profit and not-for-profit accounting practices and procedures...
Show moreThe study compares and contrasts general accounting practices and procedures as they are applied in profit and not-for-profit organizations. The data from which this study was made was gathered from existing publications in the fields of accounting and association management as well as policy and practice statements issued by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). The study describes the differences in for-profit and not-for-profit accounting practices and procedures as they exist in current practice. The study represents a state-of-the-art overview of not-for-profit accounting procedures of use to anyone establishing operating guidelines for such an organization.
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Date Issued: 1977
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13846
Subject Headings: Business Administration, Accounting
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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
Abstract/Description: 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.
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Date Issued: 1975
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13698
Subject Headings: Sociology, Industrial and Labor Relations
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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
Abstract/Description: 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.
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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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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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Title: EXPLORING EMPLOYEE TURNOVER DURING THE GREAT RESIGNATION.
Creator: Spano, Dominick John, Sementelli, Arthur, Florida Atlantic University, School of Public Administration, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: In this dissertation, I examined employee turnover during the Great Resignation. In my methods, I used the short-form Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire, the Scribd Questionnaire on Employee Turnover, and additional survey questions more applicable to our modern environment. A survey was conducted using Amazon Mechanical Turk that consisted of a sample of (N=1,036) professionals from the private, public, and nonprofit sectors who were either still employed with their organizations or had...
Show moreIn this dissertation, I examined employee turnover during the Great Resignation. In my methods, I used the short-form Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire, the Scribd Questionnaire on Employee Turnover, and additional survey questions more applicable to our modern environment. A survey was conducted using Amazon Mechanical Turk that consisted of a sample of (N=1,036) professionals from the private, public, and nonprofit sectors who were either still employed with their organizations or had turned over in their roles within the last year. Using correlation analysis, pictograms, regression analyses, and other tests, I inspected employee turnover, job satisfaction, and their effects on the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. The significance level was set at p-value = 0.10 in all regression analyses. Findings indicated validity in the claims that job satisfaction had a significant impact on turnover during the Great Resignation, the Great Resignation is related to characteristics, such as time of life, age, and work experience, and the Great Resignation contextually provided a trigger on turnover. However, the claim that the private, public, and nonprofit sectors have an impact on turnover during the Great Resignation proved to be inconclusive. A deeper analysis of hypotheses and results, limitations, recommendations, and prospective future studies are further provided in this dissertation.
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Date Issued: 2023
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014236
Subject Headings: Labor turnover, Job satisfaction, Employee turnover
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Title: The Impact of Lived Experience Representative Bureaucracy on the Perceived Humanness and Deservingness of Clients: Analyzing First Responders’ Attitudes Toward People with Opioid Use Disorder.
Creator: Lofaro, Ryan J., Sapat, Alka K., Florida Atlantic University, School of Public Administration, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: Representative bureaucracy theory has mainly been used to understand how identities related to race, ethnicity, and gender influence how bureaucrats administer public services. Although representation through lived experience has expanded the scope of the theory, this theoretical thread has mostly focused on the perspectives of management. In addition, the literature has generally analyzed the values, beliefs, and actions of minoritized bureaucrats rather than those of the racial and ethnic...
Show moreRepresentative bureaucracy theory has mainly been used to understand how identities related to race, ethnicity, and gender influence how bureaucrats administer public services. Although representation through lived experience has expanded the scope of the theory, this theoretical thread has mostly focused on the perspectives of management. In addition, the literature has generally analyzed the values, beliefs, and actions of minoritized bureaucrats rather than those of the racial and ethnic majority. The purpose of this dissertation is to employ lived experience and traditional representative bureaucracy theories to understand the influence of first responders’ experiences with addiction on their viewpoints regarding the humanness and deservingness of clients with opioid use disorder; examine how white first responders perceive clients of different races; and analyze the effect of lived experience on sentiments regarding clients of color. In this dissertation, I surveyed county- and municipal-level EMS-providers and law enforcement workers in the United States, utilizing a survey experiment and mediation models for the analysis. Results show that indirect and direct lived experiences—respectively, having a family member or friend who has experienced an addiction and feeling addiction has had a direct impact on respondents’ lives—predicted increases in client deservingness, mediated by ascribed humanness and driven largely by EMS-providers. However, responding to opioid overdoses and administering naloxone— on-the-job lived experiences—were associated with reduced deservingness and ascribed humanness in both law enforcement and EMS organizations. Regarding the race of the client, white police personnel had more positive views of white clients with opioid use disorder relative to Black and unidentified clients, with effects amplified by on-the-job and indirect experiences but blunted by direct experiences.
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Date Issued: 2023
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014282
Subject Headings: Public health administration, Bureaucracy, Opioid Crisis
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Title: Climate Gentrification and Resilience: A Critical Discourse Analysis.
Creator: Hoermann, Serena A., Sapat, Alka K., Florida Atlantic University, School of Public Administration, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: As cities respond to accelerating climate impacts, scholars have identified climate gentrification as a phenomenon exerting displacement pressures on low-income communities, including ethnic enclaves. While climate gentrification pathways literature primarily addresses economic causes and effects, an opportunity exists to better understand policy contributions and social impacts surrounding resilience and displacement. For this dissertation project, I expanded the concept of climate...
Show moreAs cities respond to accelerating climate impacts, scholars have identified climate gentrification as a phenomenon exerting displacement pressures on low-income communities, including ethnic enclaves. While climate gentrification pathways literature primarily addresses economic causes and effects, an opportunity exists to better understand policy contributions and social impacts surrounding resilience and displacement. For this dissertation project, I expanded the concept of climate gentrification pathways to examine connections between displacement, resilience strategies, and urban planning. Using an interpretive approach, I explored how an ethnic enclave experienced and responded to displacement pressures, especially regarding social impacts related to (climate) gentrification. In addition, this project compared resilience and planning policies and strategies discourse with community discourse related to climate gentrification.
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Date Issued: 2023
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014329
Subject Headings: Climate change, Urban planning, City planning
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Title: CAN NARRATIVE INQUIRY ACCOUNT FOR THE POLITICAL IMPASSE OF IMMIGRATION POLICY REFORM? BRINGING TOGETHER THE MULTIPLE STREAMS FRAMEWORK AND THE NARRATIVE POLICY ANALYSIS TO EXPLORE THE DREAM ACT LEGISLATION.
Creator: Dzhurova, Albena, Miller, Hugh T., Florida Atlantic University, School of Public Administration, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: For more than two decades Congress has failed to pass the DREAM Act, a legislation intended to secure a pathway to legal status for undocumented youth brought to the United States as children. Within the broader U.S. immigration domain, the case of the DREAMers (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) is particularly apt for exploring the dynamics of the policymaking process. Bringing together the theoretical framework of the Multiple Streams (MSF) and the methodology of the...
Show moreFor more than two decades Congress has failed to pass the DREAM Act, a legislation intended to secure a pathway to legal status for undocumented youth brought to the United States as children. Within the broader U.S. immigration domain, the case of the DREAMers (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) is particularly apt for exploring the dynamics of the policymaking process. Bringing together the theoretical framework of the Multiple Streams (MSF) and the methodology of the Narrative Policy Analysis (NPA) this research illuminates how narrative construction affects policy action. This dissertation integrates the two frameworks through collection and analysis of opposing policy narratives of legislators and other stakeholders involved in immigration policy debates over a twelve-year period. To advance this research objective, this study sought to understand how problem framing affects policy making, how competing policy coalitions construct policy narratives regarding immigration, and how immigration policy narratives affect the enactment of legislation. In addition, extending the critical examination of the narratives of opposing coalitions illuminates how political and professional elites use language to reinforce existing power structures and advance divergent views of immigration.
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Date Issued: 2023
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014328
Subject Headings: Immigration policy and research, Illegal immigration, Policy analyses
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Title: Examining Evacuation Decisions of People Experiencing Homelessness During Natural Disasters Using the Protective Action Decision Model (PADM).
Creator: Ramos, Andrea, Sapat, Alka K., Florida Atlantic University, School of Public Administration, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description: In this dissertation, I examined the lived experiences of people experiencing homelessness (PEH) and their perceptions of protective actions when making evacuation decisions during disasters or extreme weather events. Compared to other members of society, individuals experiencing homelessness during disasters face unique challenges, including a lack of shelter, transportation, access to news, and the need to carry all their belongings. This vulnerability is further heightened when natural...
Show moreIn this dissertation, I examined the lived experiences of people experiencing homelessness (PEH) and their perceptions of protective actions when making evacuation decisions during disasters or extreme weather events. Compared to other members of society, individuals experiencing homelessness during disasters face unique challenges, including a lack of shelter, transportation, access to news, and the need to carry all their belongings. This vulnerability is further heightened when natural disasters occur, as they lack physical protection, leading to increased exposure to hazards and adverse weather effects. The literature on homeless evacuation decision-making is limited (Donley & Wright, 2012), and the direct experiences of PEH and their decision-making processes during natural disasters remain underexplored (Brookfield & Fitzgerald, 2018; Brown et al., 2013; Every & Thompson, 2014; Gaillard et al., 2019; Settembrino, 2017). Additionally, the unsafe living conditions of PEH, coupled with the uncertainty of the COVID-19 virus, posed unique challenges for homeless communities, increasing the risk of virus transmission and exacerbating social disparities. In this study, I explored PEH’s lived experiences and perspectives when making evacuation decisions during disasters. I utilized Lindell and Perry's (2012) Protective Action Decision Model (PADM) as the theoretical framework. The PADM enabled me to analyze various factors influencing the evacuation decisions of PEH, including their physical aspects (shelter use and mobility) and social context (relationships with other PEH and employment). The findings presented in this study are the result of 41 in-depth semi-structured field interviews with PEH living unsheltered in Fort Lauderdale, Broward County.
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Date Issued: 2023
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014312
Subject Headings: Disasters, Evacuations, Homelessness, Public administration
Format: Document (PDF)

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