Clare, Donald A.

Nigeria is a country in a hurry for development, but the lack
of executive and technological capacity is a common phenomenon.
Efforts to provide the right climate for the development
and encouragement of indigenous expertise will go a long
way to enhance the job satisfaction of employees, particularly
petroleum engineers in the petroleum industry, an industry
requiring a high level technology and the largest national
revenue earner. Concepts of motivation were used as a starting
point to provide a broad integrative perspective to the
study of job satisfaction of Nigerian Petroleum Engineers.
Empirical results of comparison of job satisfaction of Petroleum
Engineers in the private and public petroleum companies
in Nigeria highlight the areas needing attention to improve
the job satisfaction of these engineers. The results also
show the general characteristics of the private petroleum
companies vis-a-vis the public petroleum companies as at the
time the study was made.

On January 2, 1976, the Banco Nacional de Mexico S.A. launched a
Corporate Identity Program to project a new image of the Company and
its affiliated enterprises. The purpose of this qualitative case
study was to learn about the reactions, motivations and expectations
of the Banamex staff regarding the new visual image of the organization.
At the same time, this study evaluates the involvement of employees
in the commitment created by top management to give clients
a better service. Some general recommendations are suggested to
maintain and stimulate the desired involvement of personnel in the
future organizational changes of the Company.

This study was prepared to determine whether substantial
differences exist in wage and salary administration, grievance procedures
and seniority practices between hospitals with and those
without collective bargaining units. The basis for the project is
the increasing interest unions have in hospital manpower resources.
In addition the saturation of industry with the labor movement has
forced labor leaders to look to health workers as prospective members.
The survey included two states with specific labor laws
requiring hospitals to bargain collectively and two states without
specific legislation and contemplating the passing of such legislation.
The results of the survey indicated significant similarities
and differences from both an inter and intra state viewpoint,

With the substantial investment in employee fringe benefits by U. S.
industry today, their value as motivators and need-satisfiers becomes
significant. This study explores attitudes toward fringe benefits of
scientists, engineers and other employees in one division of a large
manufacturing company. In addition to a comparison between these
groups, the influence of other factors; specifically age, length of
service and earnings on employee attitudes was measured. The results
showed significant differences between levels in the latter three
categories and between professionals as compared to other employees.
However, the evaluations of the two professional groups did not differ
leading to the conclusion that other factors besides professionalism
affect attitudes toward lower level safety-security or physiological
needs.

The Managerial Grid is examined as an organization development
approach for a large manufacturing corporation. Using
the case study method, the results of a seven year history
of Grid activities are measured in terms of performance,
culture, and several other categories. Conclusions are
reached that Phase 2 of the Grid has a statistically significant
impact on the organization when measured against
Phase ø (no Grid activity) and the results of Phase 1 (the
Grid Seminar). The paper also discusses the significance
of change and five other approaches to behavioral science-based
organization development.

Trade and professional associations exist to benefit their members and the
industry or profession they represent. In such organizations, one of the
major problems is to keep the activities and policies of the association
open to scrutiny by an input from the members. Two forces work against
the easy solution of this problem: membership apathy and the development
of rule by oligarchy. This thesis focuses on the functions and structures
of trade and professional associations; on the characteristics of their
members and leaders; and on the question of rule by oligarchy.
The many functions performed by these associations, along with
the complex structural constraints under which they operate are shown to
have an affect upon their management. Member attitudes are explored and
trends on critical issues compared over a six year period. The nature
and role of association leaders are examined. Finally, the crucial problem
of the emergence of oligarchical rule (rule by the few) is examined
through the use of survey data relating to such things as member
participation; leadership succession and access to leadership roles.

This is a survey designed to describe some of the
characteristics of the waiting lists for the State of Florida's
institutions for the retarded (Sunland Training Centers and
Hospitals), in the belief that it would propose and partially
demonstrate that some of the characteristics now accepted are
not valid. Open to particular challenge on soundness are the
numbers on the lists, the categories of urgency and the
appropriateness of the applicants' qualifications.
The Division of Mental Retardation of the State of
Florida should then be able to substitute new characteristics
as part of the facts vital to program planning.
Inappropriateness was the theme of the conclusions:
too many children on application lists for the wrong reasons.

This dissertation utilized population ecology theory to examine a previously untested population: Florida hospitals. It examined hospital closures in Florida between 1965 and 1995. The statistical technique of survival analysis was used to analyze the data developed for the study. The population ecology literature argues that at the macro level, organizations experience various liabilities to their continued survival. This study examined four of these in the Florida hospital population: size, age, density at closure and density at founding. That is, it looked at the extent to which organizations that were small, mid-size, young, in organizationally dense areas, or established in organizationally dense areas experienced a high risk for mortality compared to other hospitals. The data set for the age and size of Florida hospitals was created using information contained in the 1965 through 1995 annual reports of the American Hospital Association. Hospital locations were geocoded on a map of the state. Density was determined by counting the number of hospitals within a five mile radius of each geocoded location. Two of the propositions suggested in the literature, the liability of age and the liability of density at founding, were confirmed by the survival analysis of the Florida data. Newer hospitals and hospitals founded in organizationally dense areas (five or more hospitals within a five mile radius) experienced a significantly greater incidence of closure than did those which were older or founded in less dense areas. Small hospitals (<100 beds) were also shown to be significantly more likely to close than large ones (>300 beds), as were hospitals located in organizationally sparse areas (no other hospitals in 5 mile radius) compared to those in organizationally dense areas (>5 hospitals in 5 mile radius). The study concluded with an examination of the policy implications of the results. It argued for the addition of a macro, population ecology perspective of hospital closures to existing analytical techniques in order to more fully understand the major risk factors confronting hospitals.

This dissertation examines the role of the Chambers of Commerce and Industry (CCI) training programs in providing the private sector companies with trained and skilled Saudi workers to help them to nationalize their work force (Saudiization). The study investigates the perception of three groups: current trainees of the CCI's training programs, the training staff of the CCI and private sector managers (Personnel Department managers), regarding the training objectives, training outcomes, general skills, specific skills and overall evaluation of the CCI's training programs. The results of the study show that the perceptions of the three groups are significantly different with respect to the training objectives, training outcomes and the overall evaluation of the CCI's training programs. In most cases, private sector managers have different perception from trainees and training staff. In respect to the general skills (general administrative, behavioral, computer, communication, clerical and safety and security skills), and specific skills (marketing, accounting, finance, personnel management, purchasing management, sales techniques, and inventory management skills), the three groups share common perceptions. All three groups think that these skills are important to be provided by the CCI's training programs to help the private sector to implement Saudiization policy.

This study evaluated the Florida Medicaid Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) nursing home admission incentive program using goal attainment and constituency satisfaction criteria. The program provides additional reimbursement to nursing homes which admit Medicaid-covered persons with AIDS (PWAs). Goal attainment, i.e., increasing the rate of PWA admissions, was assessed using ICD-9-CM coded (for AIDS) Medicaid-covered hospital discharges to nursing homes as a surrogate nursing home admission measure. To assess satisfaction, both program constituencies--hospitals (N = 120) which place and nursing homes (N = 308) which agree to admit PWAs--were surveyed in 10 counties. For both constituencies, the surveys were designed to measure satisfaction along two dimensions: (1) the degree of satisfaction with the Florida program, and (2) the level of agreement with the general concept of incentive reimbursement. For nursing homes, the survey also measured: institutional characteristics, financial characteristics, and medical and technological issues. The goal attainment results revealed that the PWA admission rate showed no meaningful change over the five years studied. The constituency satisfaction results revealed that both constituencies were moderately satisfied with the Florida program and incentive programs generally, but that such satisfaction was not related to the number of PWAs admitted to nursing homes. Nursing home institutional characteristics and medical issues were not related to the number of PWAs admitted, but financial characteristics and technological issues were significantly (but negatively) related. The following policy implications were drawn. Although the Florida program did not meet its goal, both constituencies were satisfied with the program and incentives generally, leaving open the possibility for program modification. The previously unconfirmed concern that nursing homes fear intergenerational problems if PWAs were to be admitted was supported by the findings, but nursing home assertions that their lack of appropriate technology restricts PWA admissions were not.