Using the critical perspective, this research studies the International Training Office's (ITO) changing HRD practices. It presents the organizational characteristics, context, and practices of ITO across three timeframes and analyzes the appropriateness of these practices for its context and makes recommendations for enhancing its effectiveness.…

This paper aims at exploring how faculty research behaviour changes before, during, and after promotion. Testing research hypotheses generated from behavioral reinforcement theory and an alternative claim on the learning effect of familiarity with publishing norms, the study collects career history data and longitudinal records on faculty research…

In "Teacher Incentives in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Kenya"--a paper presented at the National Center on Performance Incentives research to policy conference in February--Paul Glewwe (University of Minnesota), Nauman Illias (The Brattle Group), and Michael Kremer (Harvard University) review findings from recent…

In "Characteristics and Determinants of Teacher-Designed Pay for Performance Plans: Evidence from Texas' Governor's Educator Excellence Grant (GEEG) Program"--a paper presented at the February 2008 National Center on Performance Incentives research to policy conference--Lori Taylor, Matthew Springer, and Mark Ehlert describe the teacher…

Societal developments have forced universities all over Europe to replace their "professional" strategies, structures, and values by organizational characteristics that could be stereotyped as "private sector" features. This trend is known as "managerialism". Since university employees generally stick to professional…

This paper extends the meta-analysis of Verquer, Beehr, and Wagner by providing a meta-analytic review of the relationship between person-organization fit (PO fit) and behavioral criteria (job performance, organizational citizenship behaviors, and turnover). Results indicate that PO fit is weakly to moderately related to each of these outcome…

The present study examined the effects of performance feedback on the behavior of front line supervisory employees at a social service agency. A multiple baseline across three participants was used with three different feedback procedures consisting of verbal feedback, verbal plus individual comparative graphic feedback, and verbal feedback,…

Purpose: Recent studies have concluded that there is a lack of "patient-centered" care in nursing homes and subsequently a need for nursing home culture change. As a result, a variety of new, promising initiatives have been introduced, with most of these incorporating the use of "empowered" employees. The purpose of this study…

This paper presents a conceptual analysis of the nature of teaching and similar practices (including law, psychiatry, and social work), and examines how these differ from other practices. Chapter I defines practice; discusses common elements of practices (such as skills, knowledge and outputs); and describes teaching as an indeterminate practice…

A doctoral research study was conducted on the job-specific information and assistance needs of beginning principals and the types of induction strategies that helped or hindered their first year in the principalship. Study subjects consisted of all individuals appointed to their first principal position in Washington or Oregon public school…

Research on employee turnover which has examined why employees quit their jobs has identified a wide range of variables that are associated with turnover, but has provided little information about the consequences of turnover for those who remain in an organization. This study was conducted to examine whether the manner in which turnover is…

Intended for employers requiring facts about the child care problems of their working-parent employees, findings reported here relate primarily to the amount of work time which working parents devote to child care. Specifically discussed are frequency of care changes, time spent finding care, work time missed by working parents, consideration…

A questionnaire dealing with sex role related household task performance was administered to 284 individuals who were randomly selected from the Memphis (Tennessee) City Directory. The questionnaire was designed to explore both attitudes regarding who "should" carry out 29 different household tasks, and who actually carried out each task in the…

This text presents a model that systemically relates professional development and evaluation in an appraisal of educational leadership personnel. Developmentally, appraisal is seen as a diagnostic, relatively non-judgmental system by which educational administrators gather data about their professional performance and growth. Evaluatively,…

Investigated relationships among facets of role conflict and role-specific performance over three organizational levels of university faculty members (N=102). Results support treating role conflict as a multifaceted construct examining role conflict with respect to role-specific performance measures, and considering the moderating effect of…