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The Relationship of Technology to Rate of Change in a Human Service Organization: A Contingency Approach to Change Management

Description: This research is a study of the relationship of the organizational characteristic of technology to rate of change in a human services organization. The first operation, directed to the technology construct, collected data and analyzed statistical differences on each of the separate indices of task difficulty and task variability and on the combined indices of the two dimensions. A second operation, directed to the rate of change construct, collected data and ranked the five social services prog… more
Date: August 1980
Creator: Biemer, David J. (David Joseph)
Partner: UNT Libraries
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The Impact of Staff Development Programs on Public Community College Teachers in Texas

Description: The purpose of this study is to describe the perceptions of faculty development programs by two groups of full-time community college faculty members—arts and sciences instructors and vocational-technical instructors. To guide the development of this study, the following research questions were formulated. 1. Do organized faculty development programs have the same impression on the arts and sciences faculty members as on the vocational-technical members? 2. What specific effects do these facult… more
Date: August 1980
Creator: McQueen, Ruth Marie Rush
Partner: UNT Libraries
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The Status of Preretirement Planning Programs in Dallas Corporations

Description: This investigation concerns the extent and nature of corporate preretirement planning programs in Dallas to ascertain employee access to retirement information and planning at the place of employment. Seven variables and their relationship to the existence of these programs are also studied. This study indicates that Dallas employees have limited access to retirement information through their employer. Existing programs often come too late for financial planning. Forty-nine of the 85 corporatio… more
Date: May 1980
Creator: Berkeley, Betty Life
Partner: UNT Libraries
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