Gerald E. Klonglan

Theoretical issues and social indicators: A societal process approach

Well-being involves various levels: the individual, the institutional-distributive, and the societal. These levels are interrelated. Social indicators of well-being must be theoretically based so as to take into account these levels. A societal process model is proposed to describe the levels of society and the nature of well-being at each level. Social indicator types regarding the output and distribution of well-being, the effect of policy manipulatable and nonmanipulatable inputs, and the secondary consequences of inputs are suggested and examples are provided.

A causal model of effectiveness in organizations

The purpose of this research is to develop and test a causal model of organizational effectiveness in normative organizations. The variables included in the model were selected from Etzionis propositions relating correlates of compliance to effectiveness. Causal relations not suggested by Etzioni were added to the model. Path analysis techniques were applied to available data to test the postulated causal ordering and estimate path values. Considerable empirical support was found for the causal ordering.