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The Use of Statistical Quality Control Charts to Evaluate Changes in Individual Performance
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 1997-10-01)
An employee's readiness to perform (RTP) has become an important issue facing today's industries. Some industries have turned to cognitive performance testing to provide answers regarding their employee's abilities to work ...
The Place of Constitutionalism in the Education of Public Administrators
(Administration & Society, 1991-11-01)
The American Society for Public Administration's code of professional ethics culminates in an admonition to respect, supports and even study constitutions, both state and federal. However, an understanding of constitutionalism ...
Proximity: Localization vs. Distance in PR News Releases
(Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 1992-12-01)
Charting the use made of 197 news releases mailed from a Mississippi university to 121 daily and weekly state newspapers tested this question: which results in more use, the proximity of the public relations release source ...
Tactile Stimulation of the Human Head for Information Display
(Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 1994-12-01)
A series of three studies was conducted to explore the use of tactile stimulation or light tapping of the human head to inform a pilot of possible threats or other situations in the flight environment. Study I confirmed ...
Entrepreneurial Risk and Strategic Decision Making: It’s a Matter of Perspective
(The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 1999-09-01)
Risk taking has long been a central theme of the entrepreneurship literature. However, research on the risk propensity of entrepreneurs has met with virtually no empirical support even though entrepreneurs consistently ...
Marital Quality and Paternal Involvement: Interconnections of Men's Spousal and Parental Roles
(The Journal of Men's Studies, 1994-02-01)
A Test of Fitts' Law in a Dual-Task Paradigm
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 1993-10-01)
A simulated automobile driving environment was used to assess the validity of Fitts' Law under dual-task conditions. An aimed hand movement task was used as the Fitts task representative of reaching for controls on an ...
Creating and Implementing a Vision For the School
(NASSP Bulletin, 1990-11-01)
Administrators, confronted by complex tasks, economic restrictions, and community concerns, need clear visions to guide their schools and staffs toward effective learn ing. How can they clarify and develop vision?
Uncovering Validity Criteria for Stories Managers Hear and Tell
(The American Review of Public Administration, 1990-12-01)
}Policymakers and managers rely to a large extent on stories told to them for information that shapes problem formulation and decision. But what can give them confidence in such stories? In this article, one of several ...
The Slovenian State on the Internet
(1999)
I argue that the Internet is usable by the state as well as individuals and groups to serve its purposes. These efforts will be studied from the framework of the creation of space, particularly concepts of representations ...