Enzo Valenzi

Student Anxiety and Attitudes in Business Statistics

Abstract In the past, infant mortality rates in Jewish communities throughout the world were dramatically lower than those of their host populations. Nineteenth-century Venice was no exception: whereas the Catholic rates were about 25–30 percent, the Jewish rate was as low as 14 percent or even less. Several factors have been put forward to explain such differentials, including genetic makeup, religious prescriptions, personal hygiene, austere habits, community welfare institutions and social cohesion, higher cultural level, fertility control, prolonged breastfeeding, and the like. A comparison between a sample of the Jewish population and two parishes with similar social composition shows that, in the Venetian case at least, most of the factors cannot account for such a striking difference. Furthermore, both descriptive and hazard analyses clearly indicate that, although levels were dramatically different, infant mortality patterns were remarkably similar among Venetian Jews and Catholics, who had almost...

Are You Hiding from Your Boss? The Development of a Taxonomy and Instrument to Assess the Feedback Management Behaviors of Good and Bad Performers:

While feedback seeking has been identified as an impression management strategy when employees perform well, less attention has been given to the feedback management strategies of poor performers. A three-construct taxonomy of feedback management behavior under conditions of both good and poor performance is proposed. The motives for feedback seeking behavior, feedback mitigating behavior, and feedback avoiding behavior are delineated. A description of the development of a scale to measure the proposed constructs is presented and a follow-up study documenting the extent to which employees report engaging in feedback management is described.

Initiation Of Structure And Subordinate Satisfaction: A Path Analysis Test Of Path-Goal Theory

Both correlational and path analysis procedures were used to test the hypothesis that the initiation of structure-job satisfaction relationship would be mediated by occupational level. Separate ana...