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Azevedo, Ross E.; Park, Jin S.; Akdere, Mesut – Online Submission, 2008
An expanded investigation of the time it takes training budgets in five, now seven, industries to respond to changes in market demand and productive activity. A serious question, this reflects directly on the ability of the American economy to respond to changes in economic environment. Results indicate that for three of the five initial…
Descriptors: Industry, Economic Change, Budgets, Job Training
Akdere, Mesut; Schmidt, Steven W. – Online Submission, 2008
This empirical study examines employee perceptions of quality management at three different time periods. New employees at a large United States manufacturing organization were surveyed regarding their perceptions of their organization's quality management practices before they attended a new employee orientation training, immediately after the…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Labor Force Development, Total Quality Management, Employer Employee Relationship
Schmidt, Steven W.; Akdere, Mesut – Online Submission, 2007
This empirical study examines employee perceptions of organizational vision and leadership at three different time periods. New employees at a large manufacturing organization were surveyed regarding their perceptions of their organization's vision and leadership before they attended new employee orientation training, immediately after new…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Leadership, Labor Force Development, Socialization
Azevedo, Ross E.; Park, Jin S.; Akdere, Mesut – Online Submission, 2007
This study investigates the length of time it takes training budgets in five industries to respond to changes in the demand for their services/activity and for their speed of response to changes in productive activity. The results indicate that for the industries studied, the length of lag between change in demand and median adjustment to that…
Descriptors: Economic Change, Industry, Budgets, Adjustment (to Environment)