After reviewing the literature relevant to motivation and perception of communication climate, a study of 65 supervisory-managerial personnel from two large manufacturing companies is reported. Subjects completed an intrinsic/extrinsic motivation scale and a communication-climate questionnaire. Analysis of results indicated partial support for the…

The literature on organizational climate is reviewed, with particular emphasis on associated conceptual issues. The first section of the paper presents an overview of research that has assessed the ability to explain organizational behavior on the basis of perceived climate. The second section focuses on five major conceptual issues that…

Two major hypotheses are considered in an attempt to account for the relative absence of home economics in the educational system of the Soviet Union: (1) strengthening of the family unit is not compatible with Soviet policy, and (2) Soviet commitment to economic growth negates home economics education. (Author/EC)

Describes results of a study that used CV 100, a fuel additive for use in oil-fired heating systems, on a trial basis in 12 Ontario schools. The test showed an average 12 percent reduction in fuel costs in the schools using CV 100. (JG)

In practical operation the proposed Humphrey-Hawkins "Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1977" would provide jobs instead of creating unemployment, encouraging growth, increasing production, removing skill shortages, and discouraging discrimination. (Author/EB)

Expectancy theory concepts were used to predict (1) the attractiveness of, (2) the amount of effort directed toward entering, and (3) the eventual choice of a job in relatively big and small work organizations. (Author)

Skills assessment for administrators should include an examination of how individual managerial style relates to the institutional climate, institutional authority patterns, and stage of institutional development. Specific purposes of administrator evaluation are identified, and practices and procedures are reviewed. (Author/LBH)

Nineteen evaluation viewpoints arising out of theoretical innovation approaches are presented. Three concepts were used to ascertain these nineteen viewpoints: the Generative Frame System, an instrument for planning, realization and evaluation of innovations; four types of evaluation, combined as process innovation; and a system of organizational…

Crisis theory suggests that the major sign of organizational crisis is progressively rising tension, which results in emergency efforts to mobilize tension-reducing sources. A case study of an organizational crisis is presented to illustrate the applicability of crisis theory to an organization. Suggestions for interventions are offered. (Author)

Evaluates the aftereffects of the increase in the price of oil caused by the cartel of Arab and non-Arab nations which comprise the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. (Author/RK)

Biometeorology is the study of the relations between meteorological factors, physico-chemical systems and living organisms, and the indirect effects of the physical, chemical, and physico-chemical environments of the earth's atmosphere and of similar extraterrestrial space upon physico-chemical systems and living organisms. This article discusses…

Maintains that the rise of a market society represents the major revolution of the modern age and identifies ways in which the market system influences peoples' values, buying power, political personality (response sets habitually aroused by political stimuli), and work ethic. Journal available from Department of Political Science, University of…

Notes that the economic pattern for the last 30 years has resulted in a steady increase in the massive rolls of the jobless. (Author/AM)

A computer system at Kent State University that controls the temperature in nine campus buildings saves the university thousands of dollars. (Author/MLF)