There are more than one million motor vehicles stolen in the United States each year worth an estimated eight billion dollars. National motor vehicle theft rates decreased during the 1990s but have been climbing in the new millennium. This study examines rising motor vehicle theft and the effects of ecological change over a decade (1990-2001) in a medium size Midwestern city. The study employs both a series of two-wave cross-sectional analyses and a series of longitudinal lagged ecological effects analyses to study the impacts of community structure on motor vehicle theft. The study addresses three specific shortcomings in the exitant literature: 1)reliance on relatively large units of analysis; 2)prevalence of single-wave cross-sectional designs; 3)and use of macro level data to explain micro level community processes derived from a limited number of theoretical perspectives. The research utilizes two unique sources of data: police department records of motor vehicle thefts, and the 1990 and 2000 decennial censuses. Regression analyses are used to identify predictors of motor vehicle theft.
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Concern with the successful management of non-profit organizations (NPOs) has become an issue of growing concern to organizations and managers in recent decades. leaders of for-profit organizations can learn from their NPOs counterparts, especially in the areas of motivation and productivity of knowledge workers. However, rigorous empirical research exploring management of volunteers working in NPOs has been surprisingly sparse. One of the reasons for this might be that we did not have coherent, well-established frameworks for understanding what drives volunteer behaviour in NPOs, notably the level of participation or withdrawal from the organization .The present study applied a psychological ownership approach to understanding volunteer behaviour in NPOs. This study investigates the relationship between leadership styles (e.g., taskoriented, relationship-oriented and participative leadership style), perceived control, psychological ownership of the job and several volunteers’ work attitudes. Particular attention is given to turnover intentions, psychological withdrawal and senses of responsibility.
Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
