The study is an attempt to assess the effects of the attributes of a firm in which a trainee is initially placed on his subsequent success. While traditional methods used information gathered from the trainee, this paper employs an alternative approach--the collection of follow up data from the personnel records of the hiring companies. Sixteen of…

The purpose of this investigation was to determine the influence of democratic and authoritarian teaching methods on the efficiency of learning in a short, concentrated management technique course and to develop and test hypotheses regarding the relationship between these teaching methods and the factors of instructor personality, student age,…

Factors associated with effective job performance among agricultural extension workers in Jamaica were examined; and the validity of transferring, to a developing nation, the descriptive and theoretical generalizations concerning selection of effective extension workers in the United States was investigated. The sample of 99 officers included 30…

A study was made to identify factors which contribute to community interest in, and adoption of, beautification projects and to identify personal and social characteristics of participants, related to a broad interpretation of beautification. A social system analysis approach was used as the framework of the study. Two Wisconsin cities' social…

The purpose of this study was to determine occupational qualifications of trainees in a pre-employment program provided by the Center for Adult Education at Ohio State University and the Columbus Urban League and to investigate the relationship between these qualifications and successful completion of on-the-job training. Seventy-five Columbus,…

Theoretically, a number of demographic, personality, attitudinal, cognitive, and performance variables were selected for examining television performance effectiveness. The experiment, conducted within the workshop context, was replicated in 1965 with a total of 62 participants. Each year subjects were placed into three random groups, stratified…

The study investigated the adoption behavior of 100 strawberry growers (including 32 Mennonites and 23 Japanese) in the lower Fraser Valley of British Columbia. Adoption of six selected practices was examined in relation to socioeconomic characteristics and ethnicity. Findings included the following: (1) ethnic groups differed significantly on…

This study investigated the county Extension agent role in organizing community development, the direction and intensity of expectations held by district supervisors and presidents of local community development associations, and factors (sex, age, formal education, farm or nonfarm upbringing, previous role experience, communication behavior)…

Conducted in 14 Tennessee counties, this study concentrated on the relationship of Four H project leaders' personal characteristics to performance of, and their feeling of being qualified to perform, a high or low number of tasks. It also investigated relationships between how often extension agents provided information to leaders by various…

This study, conducted in 12 institutions in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, and Arizona, investigated the form and function of student government in college and university family housing areas; examined pertinent literature, legislative action, and litigation; sought problems common to students in family housing that could be…

This study tested two hypotheses: (1) the importance attached to the intrinsic aspects of work is negatively related to retirement satisfaction, maximum extension of future time perspective (FTP), and the number of events anticipated in the future; (2) retirement satisfaction is positively related to FTP maximum length and events anticipated.…

This study focused on the influence of selected personal factors on North Carolina legislators' perceptions of the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service. A review of the theories of perception and related research was coupled with interviews with 145 members of the 124th General Assembly of North Carolina. Concepts of the district or…

With the contention that increased concern over the status of reading requires that the experimental testing of reading hypotheses be conducted with the most modern methods of behavioral science and be based on a theoretical analysis of the reading process, both psychological and linguistic, this final report from a group of investigators pursues…

This study sought to analyze the training needs of urban and rural county Cooperative Extension agents in various positions. Identified in terms of 142 items in nine training areas, these needs were elicited in a questionnaire using a four-point rating scale, followed by correlation for different areas and duties. Respondents were 330…

A study was made of factors related to job satisfaction of agents of the South African Extension Service. A questionnaire, including both open-ended questions and structured statements, was mailed to all male extension agents asking for sources of job satisfaction. The 87 respondents studied represented 75.6% of the agents. Agents identified…