Since the early seventies there has arisen increasing concern over drops in productivity in America's public and private sectors. The influence of productivity reductions on the nation's inflation rate, has been increases in the number of requests for productivity assessments. The purposes of this study were: (1) to identify variables to measure the productivity of faculty in selected Colleges of the Florida State University System; (2) to examine the output for possible trends over an eight year period; (3) to determine if the colleges differed on the compensation-incentive system variables of the research framework; and (4) to apply the research findings in making recommendations for improved productivity. / In order to examine faculty productivity, a set of output measures and demographic and some background variables were selected to represent productivity and the incentive system. These measures were analyzed through the use of descriptive statistics and discriminant analysis. The result of the first level analysis was the discovery that the Colleges of Education exceeded the Colleges of Business on most of the productivity variables for the three time periods 1973-75, 1976-78, and 1979-81. A clear trend toward increasing productivity for both colleges was discerned. However, the Colleges of Business' annual rates of increase surpassed the Colleges of Education's rates of change. / The discriminant analysis produced a set of discriminant coefficients which were evaluated to determine the statistically significant variables that the two colleges differed on. The results were sixteen variables that distinguished the colleges. Six of the variables were a part of the compensation-incentive subset. Clear differences were found in the group centroids and it was concluded that the incentive system, comprising of monetary and non-monetary variables, influenced productivity. These variables should be creatively included in administrative processes for improved productivity. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-06, Section: A, page: 2533. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74485 |
| Contributors | THURSTON, DARLENE ANNETTE., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 168 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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