Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1947. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--George Washington University, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 263-281).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Denver, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 298-314).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1974. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 536-551).

D.Comm. / The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate an insourced Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) over a one year period in terms of impact evaluation (utilisation and client's satisfaction with the programme) and efficiency evaluation (cost-effectiveness). Such evaluation studies are becoming increasingly important in the current era of organisational downsizing and coping with resource constraints. A client satisfaction survey was used to assess client's satisfaction with the program, while data obtained from the management information system of the company was used to compute both the utilisation rate as well as the cost-effectiveness of the programme. The utilisation rate was computed to be 5.2% which is within the acceptable range as posited by the available literature. The utilisation rate was further examined in terms of the demographics of the client population as well as that of the EAP. The demographic information revealed that the most common problem addressed by the EAP was marital problems (37.8%). Another finding of note was the very high percentage of management / mandatory referrals. Supervisor feedback reports indicated that the most common problem amongst employees that resulted in referral was absenteeism and morale. Supervisors rated involvement in incidents /accidents and absenteeism as being the constructs that improved the most with EAP intervention. The survey of EAP clients (self-referrals) suggested that the majority of clients were satisfied with the overall quality of EAP services. Computation of the cost-benefit ratio revealed that for every R1.00 invested in the EAP between R5 and R8 was saved in terms of recovered lost productivity.

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The central aim of this thesis is to develop a modelling framework that is capable of analysing the system-wide impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Scotland. In 1996, foreign-owned plants accounted for around 40,35 and 23 per cent of Scottish manufacturing output, gross value added and employment. Moreover, the attraction of FDI remains an important part of UK regional policy in Scotland with just under half of all Regional Selective Assistance (RSA) awarded to foreign-owned firms. A key concern of this type of discretionary regional policy is whether such assistance is warranted. FDI is thought to have a range of potential demand and supply-side effects and foreign-owned manufacturing plants, in general, have quite distinct structural and behavioural characteristics, as compared with indigenous plants. Yet conventional regional system-wide evaluations of FDI typically focus on demand-side issues, using regional models that assume a passive supply-side and do not disaggregate by ownership. In this thesis I construct ownership-disaggregated Scottish Input-Output and Computable General Equilibrium Models in order to illustrate both the potential demand and supply-side impacts of FDI. The construction of the ownership disaggregated I-0 database provides a unique snapshot of the structure and interaction of foreign and UK-owned plants in Scotland. This provides detailed information as well as providing the basis for calibrating the ownership-disaggregated I-0 and CGE models. The analysis of the potential supply-side impacts of FDI, particularly labour market and 'efficiency spillover' effects, indicates that both can have a significant effect on the estimate of total FDI supported employment. Finally, I develop a simulation framework that is capable of separately identifying the importance of incorporating both 'structure' and 'behaviour' in regional models of FDI. The results indicate that incorporating the 'true' structure of foreign-owned plants is essential if one is to correctly estimate the system-wide impact of FDI.