Steven D. Norton

Assessment For Management Potential: Scale Design and Development, Training Effects and Rater/Ratee Sex Effects

Six behaviorally based bipolar scales were developed to assess management potential. Managers used these scales before and after training to rate male and female versions of cases describing two hy...

Employee-Centered Management, Participation in Decision-Making and Satisfaction with Work Itself

Measures of satisfaction with work itself and work environment, and of employee-centered management and participation in decision-making were given to 128 managers. Work satisfaction was correlated with employee-centered management and participation, but these correlations were less than those for satisfaction with working environment.

Personal and Vocational Interest Orientations: Comparison of Undergraduates in Two Programs

To compare the vocational interests and degree of self-actualization of males and females involved in two business programs, the University-Year-for-Action and the traditional area, the Strong Vocational Interest Blank and Personal Orientation Inventory were administered to 26 male and 6 female students and 86 male and 15 female students in Action and traditional programs. The Action men were higher than the traditional men on the Personal Orientation Inventory scales for self-actualizing value, spontaneity and synergy and the Action women were higher than the traditional women on self-actualizing value, self-regard, and capacity for intimate contact. Both Action males and females had Strong basic interests and occupational scale scores reflecting a higher social service and lower business orientation than the traditional students.

Predictors of practical nursing state board examination scores

The measures fall in three categories: (I) pre-admission ability tests-Statewide Testing Service I.Q.; National League for Nursing tests in Science and Health, General Information, Arithmetic, Vocabulary and Reading; (2) Course Mastery tests-examinations during the training program measuring knowledge of what has been taught and (3) the practical nursing state board examination. The various measures are presented in Table 1, with their mcans. standard deviations and their correlations with the state board examination scores.

ASSESSMENT OF MANAGEMENT POTENTIAL: SCALE DESIGN, TRAINING EFFECTS AND RATER/RATEE SEX EFFECTS.

The present study examined the effect of training and the effect of the sex of the rater and the ratee on ratings using a management potential rating scale. Six behaviorally based bipolar scales we...

A CRITICAL-INCIDENTS STUDY OF THE MOTIVATIONAL EFFECT OF GRADES ON COLLEGE STUDENTS

Herzbergs Motivation-to-Work interview was modified and administered to 48 business students in order to study the psychological effect of grades. An analysis of the reported events did not support Motivator-Hygiene theory in that significantly more of the incidents about low grades were (about) motivators than hygiene. An analysis of the feelings associated with the events did support Motivator-Hygiene theory in that significantly more of the high incidents were motivators and more of the low incidents were hygiene. The feelings due to the motivator incidents lasted significantly longer than those due to the hygiene incidents, also supportive of Motivator-Hygiene theory.