John R Thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 387997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John R Thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | John R |
| FAMILY NAME | Thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5858-9642 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 136 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1936 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The “Levels” Problem in Assessing Organizational Climate
The Federal Employees Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) has gained prominence as the primary vehicle through which agencies assess the work-related attitudes of their employees. Within the discipline, the FEVS results have proven a fertile source of data on the job-related attitudes of public employees. However, concerns have been raised with the instrument and with how the FEVS data has been used by scholars. This article highlights a concern with the use…
Civil Service Reform Is Dead
The federal civil service system is widely regarded as obsolete. The pay of federal employees bears little relation to the market, narrowly defined jobs hamper the assignment of tasks, and byzantine hiring rules impede the procurement of needed skills. The theory of punctuated equilibrium holds that an episode of rapid and dramatic change portends, that the pressures for change will build and that some exogenous event will trigger a reform event …
Modeling Covid-19 for Lifting Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions
As a result of the COVID-worldwide pandemic, the United States instituted various non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in an e ort to slow the spread of the disease. Although necessary for public safety, these NPIs can also have deleterious e ects on the economy of a nation. State and federal leaders need tools that provide insight into which combination of NPIs will have the greatest impact on slowing the disease and at what point in time it …
International perspectives and trends in research on inclusive education
If You Are Committed, Then so Am I
Research on organizational commitment has generally ignored the role that social networks may play in shaping work-related attitudes. In this article, we explore two network-based mechanisms: (a) structural position effects, based on centrality, and (b) social influence, based on direct social contact with peers. Relying on network, survey, and administrative data for more than 400 employees in 21 different organizations, our findings suggest tha…
Conceptualizing Supports and the Support Needs of People With Intellectual Disability
This is the third in a series of perspective articles (Schalock et al., 2007; Wehmeyer et al., 2008) from the Terminology and Classification Committee of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD). The purpose of these articles is to share our thoughts on critical issues associated with terminology, definition, and classification in the field of intellectual disability and to seek input from the field as we pr…
Who Are the Contingent Workers in Federal Government
To most, federal employment means stable work with good pay, good benefits, long-run job security, and opportunities for promotion from the mail room to upper management. The authors' debunk that notion. The authors' definitively establish the presence of a core/ring structure in federal employment. Core occupations are permanent full-time, year-round stable positions, whereas ring jobs are comparatively unstable work situations: temporary, part-…
Grades of meaning
The Federal Civil Service
Recent changes in federal personnel practices, ostensibly for the purpose of "performance," serve to deprive the civil service of its moral content and hence to undermine its viability as an institution
Pieces of the Puzzle
Theoretical and empirical efforts to develop valid methods by which to identify people with mental retardation and related disabilities have been underway for approximately 100 years. Recently, there is a growing consensus that mental retardation is best conceptualized as significant limitations in the multidimensional construct of personal competence. In addition to physical competence, personal competence is conceptualized to include, at the br…
The Clinton Reforms and the Administrative Ascendancy of Congress
Early in the history of the National Performance Review (NPR), observers speculated that the prescriptions it contained, if implemented, would shift authority over the bureaucracy from the legislative branch to the executive branch. This review of the actual impact of NPR on relations between these key institutional actors finds that to the contrary, NPR has served to strengthen the congressional role in administrative matters in important ways. …
The Reinvention Laboratories
The reinvention laboratories created as part of the National Performance Review represent a novel approach to strategic change in the federal government. In assigning an important role to middle management in the design and implementation of new work technologies, the lab program contrasts with more conventional approaches to change in which top management is dominant. This study examines the viability of the generative model that the lab program…
Reinvention As Reform
The conclusion of the Clinton Administration presents an opportune time to investigate the outcomes of the National Performance Review (NPR). Any such evaluation, however, is complicated by the nature of the objectives sought, many of which relate to subtle and elusive elements of organizational life: empowering employees, inducing a less risk‐adverse culture, and enhancing the quality of service delivery. The strategy employed here as a means of…
Is the frequency of having an eye test associated with socioeconomic factors? A national cross sectional study in British elderly
The National Diet and Nutrition Survey: Peo-ple Aged 65 Years and Over (NDNS) recruiteda representative sample of people aged 65 yearsor over from 80 diVerent postcode sectors ofmainland Britain. The sample included sub-jects from private households as well as frominstitutions such as nursing homes (not geriat-ric hospitals); the fieldwork for this survey wascarried out in 1994/1995. Further details onsubject selection and procedures are presente…
Devising Administrative Reform That Works
Administrative reform doesn't work. At least such is the conclusion drawn by a number of scholars in reviewing the history of attempts to reorganize and reform the federal executive establishment. Their verdict is based on their observations, first, of Congress's reluctance to accede in presidential proposals for reconfiguring the bureaucracy and, second, of a general failure of those proposals that have gained congressional approval to achieve t…
Whither (or Wither) Reinvention
The Reinvention Game
Evaluating success or failure of National Performance Review (NPR) on basis of its proclaimed goal of making government better and cost is problematic. Whether federal government works better than it did in 1993 is a question that is not easily subject to objective verification. Even estimates of cost savings from initiative have varied widely. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that Phase I recommendations would save only 5 percent of $5.…
Reinventing the Federal Government
This paper presents the results of a field investigation into the implementation of President Clinton's "reinventing government' initiative: the National Performance Review (NPR). We examine the efforts of six federal agencies and identify some specific points of tension that have arisen during implementation. The paper concludes that the evident lack of any theoretical coherence to the reforms and the corresponding inability to "tell what's fals…
Political Management Strategies and Polical/Career Relationships
For much of this century, but most notably for the past 25 years, political/career relationships in Washington have been marked by presidential efforts to direct and control the permanent bureaucracy better. The key players in this relationship are the political executives appointed by the president to serve as policy managers in the branch and the top career cadre--since 1978, the members of the Senior Executive Service (SES). The relationship h…
Preventing pregnancies among adolescents
Mineral resources of the Harquahala Mountains Wilderness Study Area, La Paz and Maricopa counties, Arizona
Cl Summary Cl Introduction C5 Investigations by the U.S. Bureau of Mines C5 Investigations by the U.S. Geological Survey C5 Appraisal of identified
An assessment of physicians attitudes toward community mental health
La participation catholique dans le mouvement du renouveau charismatique
This paper reports a pilot study of ' Catholic Pentecostals,' or as they are now more commonly known, ' Catholic Charismatics.' The study is based on participant observation and interviews among Catholics from 3 prayer groups in Southern California. The study was completed in June, 1972. It forms the basis of continuing research for a dissertation. Catholic participation in the Charismatic Renewal is considered as a renewal movement in relation t…
Some Unpublished Letters of John R. Thompson and Augustin Louis Taveau
John R. Thompson, Augustin Louis Taveau, David K. Jackson, Some Unpublished Letters of John R. Thompson and Augustin Louis Taveau, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Apr., 1936), pp. 206-221
Reinvention As Reform
The conclusion of the Clinton Administration presents an opportune time to investigate the outcomes of the National Performance Review (NPR). Any such evaluation, however, is complicated by the nature of the objectives sought, many of which relate to subtle and elusive elements of organizational life: empowering employees, inducing a less risk‐adverse culture, and enhancing the quality of service delivery. The strategy employed here as a means of…
The Federal Civil Service
Recent changes in federal personnel practices, ostensibly for the purpose of "performance," serve to deprive the civil service of its moral content and hence to undermine its viability as an institution
Devising Administrative Reform That Works
Administrative reform doesn't work. At least such is the conclusion drawn by a number of scholars in reviewing the history of attempts to reorganize and reform the federal executive establishment. Their verdict is based on their observations, first, of Congress's reluctance to accede in presidential proposals for reconfiguring the bureaucracy and, second, of a general failure of those proposals that have gained congressional approval to achieve t…
The Reinvention Game
Evaluating success or failure of National Performance Review (NPR) on basis of its proclaimed goal of making government better and cost is problematic. Whether federal government works better than it did in 1993 is a question that is not easily subject to objective verification. Even estimates of cost savings from initiative have varied widely. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that Phase I recommendations would save only 5 percent of $5.…
Conceptualizing Supports and the Support Needs of People With Intellectual Disability
This is the third in a series of perspective articles (Schalock et al., 2007; Wehmeyer et al., 2008) from the Terminology and Classification Committee of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD). The purpose of these articles is to share our thoughts on critical issues associated with terminology, definition, and classification in the field of intellectual disability and to seek input from the field as we pr…
Political Management Strategies and Polical/Career Relationships
For much of this century, but most notably for the past 25 years, political/career relationships in Washington have been marked by presidential efforts to direct and control the permanent bureaucracy better. The key players in this relationship are the political executives appointed by the president to serve as policy managers in the branch and the top career cadre--since 1978, the members of the Senior Executive Service (SES). The relationship h…
Who Are the Contingent Workers in Federal Government
To most, federal employment means stable work with good pay, good benefits, long-run job security, and opportunities for promotion from the mail room to upper management. The authors' debunk that notion. The authors' definitively establish the presence of a core/ring structure in federal employment. Core occupations are permanent full-time, year-round stable positions, whereas ring jobs are comparatively unstable work situations: temporary, part-…
The Clinton Reforms and the Administrative Ascendancy of Congress
Early in the history of the National Performance Review (NPR), observers speculated that the prescriptions it contained, if implemented, would shift authority over the bureaucracy from the legislative branch to the executive branch. This review of the actual impact of NPR on relations between these key institutional actors finds that to the contrary, NPR has served to strengthen the congressional role in administrative matters in important ways. …
The Reinvention Laboratories
The reinvention laboratories created as part of the National Performance Review represent a novel approach to strategic change in the federal government. In assigning an important role to middle management in the design and implementation of new work technologies, the lab program contrasts with more conventional approaches to change in which top management is dominant. This study examines the viability of the generative model that the lab program…
An assessment of physicians attitudes toward community mental health
If You Are Committed, Then so Am I
Research on organizational commitment has generally ignored the role that social networks may play in shaping work-related attitudes. In this article, we explore two network-based mechanisms: (a) structural position effects, based on centrality, and (b) social influence, based on direct social contact with peers. Relying on network, survey, and administrative data for more than 400 employees in 21 different organizations, our findings suggest tha…
Reinventing the Federal Government
This paper presents the results of a field investigation into the implementation of President Clinton's "reinventing government' initiative: the National Performance Review (NPR). We examine the efforts of six federal agencies and identify some specific points of tension that have arisen during implementation. The paper concludes that the evident lack of any theoretical coherence to the reforms and the corresponding inability to "tell what's fals…
La participation catholique dans le mouvement du renouveau charismatique
This paper reports a pilot study of ' Catholic Pentecostals,' or as they are now more commonly known, ' Catholic Charismatics.' The study is based on participant observation and interviews among Catholics from 3 prayer groups in Southern California. The study was completed in June, 1972. It forms the basis of continuing research for a dissertation. Catholic participation in the Charismatic Renewal is considered as a renewal movement in relation t…
Is the frequency of having an eye test associated with socioeconomic factors? A national cross sectional study in British elderly
The National Diet and Nutrition Survey: Peo-ple Aged 65 Years and Over (NDNS) recruiteda representative sample of people aged 65 yearsor over from 80 diVerent postcode sectors ofmainland Britain. The sample included sub-jects from private households as well as frominstitutions such as nursing homes (not geriat-ric hospitals); the fieldwork for this survey wascarried out in 1994/1995. Further details onsubject selection and procedures are presente…
Some Unpublished Letters of John R. Thompson and Augustin Louis Taveau
John R. Thompson, Augustin Louis Taveau, David K. Jackson, Some Unpublished Letters of John R. Thompson and Augustin Louis Taveau, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Apr., 1936), pp. 206-221
An assessment of physicians attitudes toward community mental health
La participation catholique dans le mouvement du renouveau charismatique
This paper reports a pilot study of ' Catholic Pentecostals,' or as they are now more commonly known, ' Catholic Charismatics.' The study is based on participant observation and interviews among Catholics from 3 prayer groups in Southern California. The study was completed in June, 1972. It forms the basis of continuing research for a dissertation. Catholic participation in the Charismatic Renewal is considered as a renewal movement in relation t…
Mineral resources of the Harquahala Mountains Wilderness Study Area, La Paz and Maricopa counties, Arizona
Cl Summary Cl Introduction C5 Investigations by the U.S. Bureau of Mines C5 Investigations by the U.S. Geological Survey C5 Appraisal of identified
Preventing pregnancies among adolescents
Reinventing the Federal Government
This paper presents the results of a field investigation into the implementation of President Clinton's "reinventing government' initiative: the National Performance Review (NPR). We examine the efforts of six federal agencies and identify some specific points of tension that have arisen during implementation. The paper concludes that the evident lack of any theoretical coherence to the reforms and the corresponding inability to "tell what's fals…
Political Management Strategies and Polical/Career Relationships
For much of this century, but most notably for the past 25 years, political/career relationships in Washington have been marked by presidential efforts to direct and control the permanent bureaucracy better. The key players in this relationship are the political executives appointed by the president to serve as policy managers in the branch and the top career cadre--since 1978, the members of the Senior Executive Service (SES). The relationship h…
The Reinvention Game
Evaluating success or failure of National Performance Review (NPR) on basis of its proclaimed goal of making government better and cost is problematic. Whether federal government works better than it did in 1993 is a question that is not easily subject to objective verification. Even estimates of cost savings from initiative have varied widely. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that Phase I recommendations would save only 5 percent of $5.…
Whither (or Wither) Reinvention
Is the frequency of having an eye test associated with socioeconomic factors? A national cross sectional study in British elderly
The National Diet and Nutrition Survey: Peo-ple Aged 65 Years and Over (NDNS) recruiteda representative sample of people aged 65 yearsor over from 80 diVerent postcode sectors ofmainland Britain. The sample included sub-jects from private households as well as frominstitutions such as nursing homes (not geriat-ric hospitals); the fieldwork for this survey wascarried out in 1994/1995. Further details onsubject selection and procedures are presente…
Devising Administrative Reform That Works
Administrative reform doesn't work. At least such is the conclusion drawn by a number of scholars in reviewing the history of attempts to reorganize and reform the federal executive establishment. Their verdict is based on their observations, first, of Congress's reluctance to accede in presidential proposals for reconfiguring the bureaucracy and, second, of a general failure of those proposals that have gained congressional approval to achieve t…
The Reinvention Laboratories
The reinvention laboratories created as part of the National Performance Review represent a novel approach to strategic change in the federal government. In assigning an important role to middle management in the design and implementation of new work technologies, the lab program contrasts with more conventional approaches to change in which top management is dominant. This study examines the viability of the generative model that the lab program…
Reinvention As Reform
The conclusion of the Clinton Administration presents an opportune time to investigate the outcomes of the National Performance Review (NPR). Any such evaluation, however, is complicated by the nature of the objectives sought, many of which relate to subtle and elusive elements of organizational life: empowering employees, inducing a less risk‐adverse culture, and enhancing the quality of service delivery. The strategy employed here as a means of…
The Clinton Reforms and the Administrative Ascendancy of Congress
Early in the history of the National Performance Review (NPR), observers speculated that the prescriptions it contained, if implemented, would shift authority over the bureaucracy from the legislative branch to the executive branch. This review of the actual impact of NPR on relations between these key institutional actors finds that to the contrary, NPR has served to strengthen the congressional role in administrative matters in important ways. …
Pieces of the Puzzle
Theoretical and empirical efforts to develop valid methods by which to identify people with mental retardation and related disabilities have been underway for approximately 100 years. Recently, there is a growing consensus that mental retardation is best conceptualized as significant limitations in the multidimensional construct of personal competence. In addition to physical competence, personal competence is conceptualized to include, at the br…
The Federal Civil Service
Recent changes in federal personnel practices, ostensibly for the purpose of "performance," serve to deprive the civil service of its moral content and hence to undermine its viability as an institution
Who Are the Contingent Workers in Federal Government
To most, federal employment means stable work with good pay, good benefits, long-run job security, and opportunities for promotion from the mail room to upper management. The authors' debunk that notion. The authors' definitively establish the presence of a core/ring structure in federal employment. Core occupations are permanent full-time, year-round stable positions, whereas ring jobs are comparatively unstable work situations: temporary, part-…
Grades of meaning
Conceptualizing Supports and the Support Needs of People With Intellectual Disability
This is the third in a series of perspective articles (Schalock et al., 2007; Wehmeyer et al., 2008) from the Terminology and Classification Committee of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD). The purpose of these articles is to share our thoughts on critical issues associated with terminology, definition, and classification in the field of intellectual disability and to seek input from the field as we pr…
If You Are Committed, Then so Am I
Research on organizational commitment has generally ignored the role that social networks may play in shaping work-related attitudes. In this article, we explore two network-based mechanisms: (a) structural position effects, based on centrality, and (b) social influence, based on direct social contact with peers. Relying on network, survey, and administrative data for more than 400 employees in 21 different organizations, our findings suggest tha…
International perspectives and trends in research on inclusive education
The “Levels” Problem in Assessing Organizational Climate
The Federal Employees Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) has gained prominence as the primary vehicle through which agencies assess the work-related attitudes of their employees. Within the discipline, the FEVS results have proven a fertile source of data on the job-related attitudes of public employees. However, concerns have been raised with the instrument and with how the FEVS data has been used by scholars. This article highlights a concern with the use…
Civil Service Reform Is Dead
The federal civil service system is widely regarded as obsolete. The pay of federal employees bears little relation to the market, narrowly defined jobs hamper the assignment of tasks, and byzantine hiring rules impede the procurement of needed skills. The theory of punctuated equilibrium holds that an episode of rapid and dramatic change portends, that the pressures for change will build and that some exogenous event will trigger a reform event …
Modeling Covid-19 for Lifting Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions
As a result of the COVID-worldwide pandemic, the United States instituted various non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in an e ort to slow the spread of the disease. Although necessary for public safety, these NPIs can also have deleterious e ects on the economy of a nation. State and federal leaders need tools that provide insight into which combination of NPIs will have the greatest impact on slowing the disease and at what point in time it …
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