William T Markham
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603426 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William T Markham |
| GIVEN NAMES | William T |
| FAMILY NAME | Markham |
| SIGNATURE | MARKHAM W T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 208 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Saving the Environment in Sub-Saharan Africa: Organizational Dynamics and Effectiveness of NGOs in Cameroon
This book describes how NGOs' efforts to promote sustainable development are affected by their funding, management strategies, and relationships with government, communities, and other NGOs. The autho
Nature Protection Organizations and Climate Change in the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States
This article investigates the messages about climate change that ten nature protection organizations in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States communicate to their members and the public through their Internet sites, member magazines, and annual reports. Based on analysis of this content, we conclude that all the organizations address climate change, but to varying extents and in differing ways. All of the organizations note that climate…
Environmentalism, resistance, and solidarity: The politics of Friends of the Earth International
This welcome addition to the growing body of scholarship about international- and national-level environmental movement organisations reports findings from a decade-long study of Friends of the Ear
Environmental Organizations in Modern Germany: Hardy Survivors in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
German environmental attitudes and behaviour in transition
Protecting Nature: Organizations and Networks in Europe and the USA
Networking local environmental groups in Germany: The rise and fall of the federal alliance of citizens' initiatives for environmental protection (BBU)
From the mid-1970s well into the 1980s, the Federal Alliance of Citizens' Initiatives for Environmental Protection (BBU) was one of Germany's most visible and influential environmental organisations, an unusual achievement for a network of local organisations. Lacking strong competitors, it was able to become a central movement organisation for Germany's rapidly growing anti-nuclear power and environmental movements. However, after institutionali…
Working at Home: Experiences of Skilled White Collar Workers
Based on a comprehensive literature review and detailed semistructured interviews with skilled workers who work at home, this article explores six research areas: reasons for working at home, the creation and maintenance of home/work boundaries, problems of isolation, distractions and temptations facing at-home workers, workaholism, and gender differences. The results indicate that white collar workers usually choose to work at home to reduce wor…
Working at Hdome: Experiences of Skilled White Collar Workers
Based on a comprehensive literature review and detailed semistructured interviews with skilled workers who work at home, this article explores six research areas: reasons for working at home, the creation and maintenance of home/work boundaries, problems of isolation, distractions and temptations facing at-home workers, workaholism, and gender differences. The results indicate that white collar workers usually choose to work at home to reduce wor…
Anti-Chinese Politics in California in the 1870s: An Intercounty Analysis
This article uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative historical data from all California counties to assess the efficacy of variables derived from the split labor market, cultural division of labor, and ethnic competitive models, as well as variables related to the organizational capacity of majority group workers, to predict efforts in late-nineteenth-century California to institutionalize discrimination against the Chinese through th…
Leadership in Voluntary Associations: The Case of the “International Association of Women”
Three models of leadership in voluntary associations have been proposed in the literature: democratic leadership, oligarchy, and leadership by default. Through an intensive case study of leadership structure, differences in the attitudes of members and leaders at three hierarchical levels, and differences between the attitudes and behaviors of aspirants and nonaspirants to leadership in a women’s service association, this article examines the deg…
Class, race, and the disposal of urban waste: Locations of landfills, incinerators, and sewage treatment plants
This study compared the socioeconomic status, racial composition, and ethnic composition of 49 randomly selected U.S. cities with those of the census tracts containing the solid waste disposal facilities and sewage treatment plants for those cities. Contrary to the environmental racism and classism hypotheses, residents of tracts with landfills or incinerators had higher incomes and were less likely to be minority group members than residents of …
Employment status and the attitudes and behavior of higher status women volunteers, 1975 and 1992: A case study
First Encounters of the Bureaucratic Kind: Early Freshman Experiences with a Campus Bureaucracy
Glen J. Godwin, William T. Markham, First Encounters of the Bureaucratic Kind: Early Freshman Experiences with a Campus Bureaucracy, The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 67, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 1996), pp. 660-691
Community Orientations of Higher-Status Women Volunteers
This study examines haw class, gender, socialization, and member selectivity relate to the importance members of a higher-status women's organization attach to community problems. Most members come from the traditional, business-oriented middle class and politically moderate upper class. They see child welfare and health, education, substance abuse, adolescent issues, economic well-being and environment as the most important issues, but adopt est…
Research Methods in the Introductory Course: To Be or Not to Be
Introductory sociology courses usually fail to provide adequate information about gathering, interpreting, presenting, or evaluating data, a situation that is goodfor neither students nor society. Tradition, students' predispositions and preparation, lack of materials, and lack of support from colleagues all work against teaching research methods to beginning students. Nevertheless, students need to be familiar with the basics of the entire resea…
Immigration, Ethnicity, and Conflict: The California Chinese, 1849-1882
Drawing on Bonacich's split market theory, the work of Hechter and Blalock on ethnic conflict, and the literature on social movements, the authors develop a model of factors producing conflict between native and immigrant workers. The model identifies the relative size of the immigrant group, the growth of the immigrant population, the desirability of jobs held by immigrant workers, economic conditions, the development of racist ideology among na…
A Consumer's Guide to Social Research
Advances in Organizational Psychology: An International Review
Introduction - Bernard M Bass PART ONE: PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY Emerging Personnel Values in Changing Societies - George Shouksmith Motivation to Work - Hisataka Furukawa Stress in the Working Situation - Charles de Wolff and Jacques A M Winnubst Performance Measurement Quality - Michael J Kavanagh, Walter C Borman, Jerry W Hedge and R Bruce Gould Personnel Recruitment and Selection - Vivian Shackleton and Neil Anderson Career Development and Planni…
Sex Differences in Support for Organizational Advancement
While women workers have often been thought to receive less support than men to advance in organizations, these sex differences have not been systematically explored. Using a sample of 486 male and 356 female employees of a large federal bureaucracy, this article examines differences between men and women in their reports of social support from four potential sources: male peers, female peers, male supervisors, and female supervisors. Our finding…
Sex and Willingness to Move for Occupational Advancement: Some National Sample Results
The comparative willingness of men and women to be geographically mobile for occupational advancement and the contributions of various factors to this relationship are explored using national survey-data. Variables identified by past theory and research as mediating the association between sex and willingness to move did explain a substantial amount of variance in willingness to relocate in the entire sample and subsamples of married respondents …
Sex stereotyping in children's toy advertisements
Gender and Opportunity in the Federal Bureaucracy
This article tests Rosabeth Kanter's hypotheses that (a) promotion opportunity in organizations is related to several adaptive attitudes and bahaviors, (b) women have less promotion opportunity, (c) women are more likely to display the adaptations, and (d) when opportunity is controlled these gender differences are eliminated, using data from 897 employees in six offices of a government agency. Low opportunity was moderately related to bitter dis…
Measuring Organizational Control: The Reliability and Validity of the Control Graph Approach
The reliability and validity of the control graph approach to measuring organizational control structure and individual perceptions of control are examined through a review of previous studies and new data from managers, supervisors, and employees in six offices of a government agency. The results suggest that the approach has significant problems with reliability when used to measure organizational structure and problems with validity as a measu…
A Note on Sex, Geographic Mobility, and Career Advancement
Social Structure and Intergroup Interaction: Men and Women of the Federal Bureaucracy
Questionnaire data from female employees in a large federal bureaucracy are analyzed to test two theories on the effects offemales' proportional representation in work groups on intraand intergender relations. In general, the data support hypotheses drawn from Blau (1977a) and Blalock (1967) which suggest that the proportional size of a minority subgroup is negatively related to its frequency of contact with, and amount of social support received…
Gender and Opportunity in the Federal Bureaucracy
This article tests Rosabeth Kanter's hypotheses that (a) promotion opportunity in organizations is related to several adaptive attitudes and bahaviors, (b) women have less promotion opportunity, (c) women are more likely to display the adaptations, and (d) when opportunity is controlled these gender differences are eliminated, using data from 897 employees in six offices of a government agency. Low opportunity was moderately related to bitter dis…
Employment status and the attitudes and behavior of higher status women volunteers, 1975 and 1992: A case study
A Note on Sex, Geographic Mobility, and Career Advancement
Research Methods in the Introductory Course: To Be or Not to Be
Introductory sociology courses usually fail to provide adequate information about gathering, interpreting, presenting, or evaluating data, a situation that is goodfor neither students nor society. Tradition, students' predispositions and preparation, lack of materials, and lack of support from colleagues all work against teaching research methods to beginning students. Nevertheless, students need to be familiar with the basics of the entire resea…
Sex and Willingness to Move for Occupational Advancement: Some National Sample Results
The comparative willingness of men and women to be geographically mobile for occupational advancement and the contributions of various factors to this relationship are explored using national survey-data. Variables identified by past theory and research as mediating the association between sex and willingness to move did explain a substantial amount of variance in willingness to relocate in the entire sample and subsamples of married respondents …
Sex Differences in Support for Organizational Advancement
While women workers have often been thought to receive less support than men to advance in organizations, these sex differences have not been systematically explored. Using a sample of 486 male and 356 female employees of a large federal bureaucracy, this article examines differences between men and women in their reports of social support from four potential sources: male peers, female peers, male supervisors, and female supervisors. Our finding…
Female Labor Force Participation and the Organizational Experiences of Male Workers
Using a sample of 387 male federal employees who responded to a questionnaire, this study tests two theoretical perspectives concerning the effect of women's labor force participation on men's work experiences. One theory, with roots in the external-conflict/intenial-cohesion and minority-group size/discrimination literature, predicts that the greater the representation of women in work groups, the greater the social solidarity among male workers…
Working at Hdome: Experiences of Skilled White Collar Workers
Based on a comprehensive literature review and detailed semistructured interviews with skilled workers who work at home, this article explores six research areas: reasons for working at home, the creation and maintenance of home/work boundaries, problems of isolation, distractions and temptations facing at-home workers, workaholism, and gender differences. The results indicate that white collar workers usually choose to work at home to reduce wor…
Sex stereotyping in children's toy advertisements
Sex and Power in the Federal Bureaucracy: A Comparative Analysis of Male and Female Supervisors
Questionnaire data from 152 female employees and 46 supervisors in a large federal bureaucracy are used to test Kanter's hypothesis that sex differences in supervisory behavior result from sex differences in organizational power. Female subordinates of female supervisors, compared to female subordinates of male supervisors, report less job satisfaction and lower group morale and are more likely to describe their supervisor's behavior as controlli…
Immigration, Ethnicity, and Conflict: The California Chinese, 1849-1882
Drawing on Bonacich's split market theory, the work of Hechter and Blalock on ethnic conflict, and the literature on social movements, the authors develop a model of factors producing conflict between native and immigrant workers. The model identifies the relative size of the immigrant group, the growth of the immigrant population, the desirability of jobs held by immigrant workers, economic conditions, the development of racist ideology among na…
Networking local environmental groups in Germany: The rise and fall of the federal alliance of citizens' initiatives for environmental protection (BBU)
From the mid-1970s well into the 1980s, the Federal Alliance of Citizens' Initiatives for Environmental Protection (BBU) was one of Germany's most visible and influential environmental organisations, an unusual achievement for a network of local organisations. Lacking strong competitors, it was able to become a central movement organisation for Germany's rapidly growing anti-nuclear power and environmental movements. However, after institutionali…
Working at Home: Experiences of Skilled White Collar Workers
Based on a comprehensive literature review and detailed semistructured interviews with skilled workers who work at home, this article explores six research areas: reasons for working at home, the creation and maintenance of home/work boundaries, problems of isolation, distractions and temptations facing at-home workers, workaholism, and gender differences. The results indicate that white collar workers usually choose to work at home to reduce wor…
Leadership in Voluntary Associations: The Case of the “International Association of Women”
Three models of leadership in voluntary associations have been proposed in the literature: democratic leadership, oligarchy, and leadership by default. Through an intensive case study of leadership structure, differences in the attitudes of members and leaders at three hierarchical levels, and differences between the attitudes and behaviors of aspirants and nonaspirants to leadership in a women’s service association, this article examines the deg…
Community Orientations of Higher-Status Women Volunteers
This study examines haw class, gender, socialization, and member selectivity relate to the importance members of a higher-status women's organization attach to community problems. Most members come from the traditional, business-oriented middle class and politically moderate upper class. They see child welfare and health, education, substance abuse, adolescent issues, economic well-being and environment as the most important issues, but adopt est…
Anti-Chinese Politics in California in the 1870s: An Intercounty Analysis
This article uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative historical data from all California counties to assess the efficacy of variables derived from the split labor market, cultural division of labor, and ethnic competitive models, as well as variables related to the organizational capacity of majority group workers, to predict efforts in late-nineteenth-century California to institutionalize discrimination against the Chinese through th…
Class, race, and the disposal of urban waste: Locations of landfills, incinerators, and sewage treatment plants
This study compared the socioeconomic status, racial composition, and ethnic composition of 49 randomly selected U.S. cities with those of the census tracts containing the solid waste disposal facilities and sewage treatment plants for those cities. Contrary to the environmental racism and classism hypotheses, residents of tracts with landfills or incinerators had higher incomes and were less likely to be minority group members than residents of …
First Encounters of the Bureaucratic Kind: Early Freshman Experiences with a Campus Bureaucracy
Glen J. Godwin, William T. Markham, First Encounters of the Bureaucratic Kind: Early Freshman Experiences with a Campus Bureaucracy, The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 67, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 1996), pp. 660-691
Advances in Organizational Psychology: An International Review
Introduction - Bernard M Bass PART ONE: PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY Emerging Personnel Values in Changing Societies - George Shouksmith Motivation to Work - Hisataka Furukawa Stress in the Working Situation - Charles de Wolff and Jacques A M Winnubst Performance Measurement Quality - Michael J Kavanagh, Walter C Borman, Jerry W Hedge and R Bruce Gould Personnel Recruitment and Selection - Vivian Shackleton and Neil Anderson Career Development and Planni…
The Study of Turnover
Social Structure and Intergroup Interaction: Men and Women of the Federal Bureaucracy
Questionnaire data from female employees in a large federal bureaucracy are analyzed to test two theories on the effects offemales' proportional representation in work groups on intraand intergender relations. In general, the data support hypotheses drawn from Blau (1977a) and Blalock (1967) which suggest that the proportional size of a minority subgroup is negatively related to its frequency of contact with, and amount of social support received…
Sex and Power in the Federal Bureaucracy: A Comparative Analysis of Male and Female Supervisors
Questionnaire data from 152 female employees and 46 supervisors in a large federal bureaucracy are used to test Kanter's hypothesis that sex differences in supervisory behavior result from sex differences in organizational power. Female subordinates of female supervisors, compared to female subordinates of male supervisors, report less job satisfaction and lower group morale and are more likely to describe their supervisor's behavior as controlli…
A Note on Sex, Geographic Mobility, and Career Advancement
Female Labor Force Participation and the Organizational Experiences of Male Workers
Using a sample of 387 male federal employees who responded to a questionnaire, this study tests two theoretical perspectives concerning the effect of women's labor force participation on men's work experiences. One theory, with roots in the external-conflict/intenial-cohesion and minority-group size/discrimination literature, predicts that the greater the representation of women in work groups, the greater the social solidarity among male workers…
Measuring Organizational Control: The Reliability and Validity of the Control Graph Approach
The reliability and validity of the control graph approach to measuring organizational control structure and individual perceptions of control are examined through a review of previous studies and new data from managers, supervisors, and employees in six offices of a government agency. The results suggest that the approach has significant problems with reliability when used to measure organizational structure and problems with validity as a measu…
Sex stereotyping in children's toy advertisements
Gender and Opportunity in the Federal Bureaucracy
This article tests Rosabeth Kanter's hypotheses that (a) promotion opportunity in organizations is related to several adaptive attitudes and bahaviors, (b) women have less promotion opportunity, (c) women are more likely to display the adaptations, and (d) when opportunity is controlled these gender differences are eliminated, using data from 897 employees in six offices of a government agency. Low opportunity was moderately related to bitter dis…
Sex and Willingness to Move for Occupational Advancement: Some National Sample Results
The comparative willingness of men and women to be geographically mobile for occupational advancement and the contributions of various factors to this relationship are explored using national survey-data. Variables identified by past theory and research as mediating the association between sex and willingness to move did explain a substantial amount of variance in willingness to relocate in the entire sample and subsamples of married respondents …
Sex Differences in Support for Organizational Advancement
While women workers have often been thought to receive less support than men to advance in organizations, these sex differences have not been systematically explored. Using a sample of 486 male and 356 female employees of a large federal bureaucracy, this article examines differences between men and women in their reports of social support from four potential sources: male peers, female peers, male supervisors, and female supervisors. Our finding…
Advances in Organizational Psychology: An International Review
Introduction - Bernard M Bass PART ONE: PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY Emerging Personnel Values in Changing Societies - George Shouksmith Motivation to Work - Hisataka Furukawa Stress in the Working Situation - Charles de Wolff and Jacques A M Winnubst Performance Measurement Quality - Michael J Kavanagh, Walter C Borman, Jerry W Hedge and R Bruce Gould Personnel Recruitment and Selection - Vivian Shackleton and Neil Anderson Career Development and Planni…
A Consumer's Guide to Social Research
Research Methods in the Introductory Course: To Be or Not to Be
Introductory sociology courses usually fail to provide adequate information about gathering, interpreting, presenting, or evaluating data, a situation that is goodfor neither students nor society. Tradition, students' predispositions and preparation, lack of materials, and lack of support from colleagues all work against teaching research methods to beginning students. Nevertheless, students need to be familiar with the basics of the entire resea…
Immigration, Ethnicity, and Conflict: The California Chinese, 1849-1882
Drawing on Bonacich's split market theory, the work of Hechter and Blalock on ethnic conflict, and the literature on social movements, the authors develop a model of factors producing conflict between native and immigrant workers. The model identifies the relative size of the immigrant group, the growth of the immigrant population, the desirability of jobs held by immigrant workers, economic conditions, the development of racist ideology among na…
Community Orientations of Higher-Status Women Volunteers
This study examines haw class, gender, socialization, and member selectivity relate to the importance members of a higher-status women's organization attach to community problems. Most members come from the traditional, business-oriented middle class and politically moderate upper class. They see child welfare and health, education, substance abuse, adolescent issues, economic well-being and environment as the most important issues, but adopt est…
Employment status and the attitudes and behavior of higher status women volunteers, 1975 and 1992: A case study
First Encounters of the Bureaucratic Kind: Early Freshman Experiences with a Campus Bureaucracy
Glen J. Godwin, William T. Markham, First Encounters of the Bureaucratic Kind: Early Freshman Experiences with a Campus Bureaucracy, The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 67, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 1996), pp. 660-691
Class, race, and the disposal of urban waste: Locations of landfills, incinerators, and sewage treatment plants
This study compared the socioeconomic status, racial composition, and ethnic composition of 49 randomly selected U.S. cities with those of the census tracts containing the solid waste disposal facilities and sewage treatment plants for those cities. Contrary to the environmental racism and classism hypotheses, residents of tracts with landfills or incinerators had higher incomes and were less likely to be minority group members than residents of …
Leadership in Voluntary Associations: The Case of the “International Association of Women”
Three models of leadership in voluntary associations have been proposed in the literature: democratic leadership, oligarchy, and leadership by default. Through an intensive case study of leadership structure, differences in the attitudes of members and leaders at three hierarchical levels, and differences between the attitudes and behaviors of aspirants and nonaspirants to leadership in a women’s service association, this article examines the deg…
Anti-Chinese Politics in California in the 1870s: An Intercounty Analysis
This article uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative historical data from all California counties to assess the efficacy of variables derived from the split labor market, cultural division of labor, and ethnic competitive models, as well as variables related to the organizational capacity of majority group workers, to predict efforts in late-nineteenth-century California to institutionalize discrimination against the Chinese through th…
Working at Home: Experiences of Skilled White Collar Workers
Based on a comprehensive literature review and detailed semistructured interviews with skilled workers who work at home, this article explores six research areas: reasons for working at home, the creation and maintenance of home/work boundaries, problems of isolation, distractions and temptations facing at-home workers, workaholism, and gender differences. The results indicate that white collar workers usually choose to work at home to reduce wor…
Working at Hdome: Experiences of Skilled White Collar Workers
Based on a comprehensive literature review and detailed semistructured interviews with skilled workers who work at home, this article explores six research areas: reasons for working at home, the creation and maintenance of home/work boundaries, problems of isolation, distractions and temptations facing at-home workers, workaholism, and gender differences. The results indicate that white collar workers usually choose to work at home to reduce wor…
Networking local environmental groups in Germany: The rise and fall of the federal alliance of citizens' initiatives for environmental protection (BBU)
From the mid-1970s well into the 1980s, the Federal Alliance of Citizens' Initiatives for Environmental Protection (BBU) was one of Germany's most visible and influential environmental organisations, an unusual achievement for a network of local organisations. Lacking strong competitors, it was able to become a central movement organisation for Germany's rapidly growing anti-nuclear power and environmental movements. However, after institutionali…
Protecting Nature: Organizations and Networks in Europe and the USA
Environmental Organizations in Modern Germany: Hardy Survivors in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Psychology (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Political science (15 works) · Economics (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Demographic economics (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (5 works)