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Olivera-Aguilar, Margarita; Kell, Harrison J.; Ezzo, Chelsea; Robbins, Steven B. – ETS Research Report Series, 2022
This study examined how high school course-taking patterns (i.e., career and technical education [CTE] vs. academic vs. no concentration), personal characteristics embedded in a social cognitive theory framework (e.g., self-efficacy, academic expectations), and contextual variables (e.g., parental expectations, socioeconomic status [SES]) interact…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, High Schools, Course Selection (Students), Job Performance
Wang, Yingchun – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The dissertation aims to tackle one of the most pressing questions facing the merit pay system researchers and practitioners: Why do merit pay raises have such a small effect on employees' satisfaction, commitment and job performance? My approach to the study of this question is to develop explanatory frameworks from two perspectives: cognitive…
Descriptors: Merit Pay, Expectation, Employee Attitudes, Job Performance
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Zhao, Jihong; Ren, Ling; Lovrich, Nicholas P. – Crime & Delinquency, 2012
A variety of theories have emerged that offer plausible explanations, one from the political institutional perspective and others from sociological perspective. There has been renewed interest in the effect of local political structure on police strength in the policing literature. The purpose of this study, therefore, is to assess the two main…
Descriptors: Police, Statistical Analysis, Local Government, Longitudinal Studies
Weinstein, Alan G.; Gent, Michael J. – 1983
The relationship between managerial social power and subordinate job performance has produced mixed empirical results. To investigate the relationship between employees' performance and their perception of managers' social power under favorable and unfavorable climate conditions, an average of 135 city government employees completed two series of…
Descriptors: Administrators, Attribution Theory, Employer Employee Relationship, Government Employees
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Niles, Spencer; Herr, Edwin L. – Career Development Quarterly, 1989
Investigated degree to which secondary school variables of grade point average, involvement in school activities, knowledge of interests and abilities, knowledge of different occupations, amount of part-time work, and vocational attitude maturity at grade 12 were able to predict career certainty, career maturity, satisfaction with occupational…
Descriptors: Job Performance, Job Satisfaction, Longitudinal Studies, Objectives
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Morison, Patricia; Masten, Ann S. – Child Development, 1991
A sample of 183 third through sixth grade students were administered the Revised Class Play (RCP). Seven years later, these children and their parents completed a questionnaire measuring the students' behavioral symptoms and social, athletic, and academic competence. The RCP scores were related to adolescent competence and psychopathology. (BC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Development, Aggression, Athletics