Business perceptions and satisfaction with e-government: Findings from a Canadian survey     

Christopher G. Reddick  Jeffrey Roy 《Government Information Quarterly》2013

This paper examines business perceptions and satisfaction with e-government. Survey data is analyzed from businesses across Canada to determine their use of e-government and their perceived satisfaction with this technology for public service delivery. There are three research questions of this paper: 1) Are there significant differences for businesses that use the internet to contact government compared to those that do not? 2) Is there is a relationship between having a more positive perception overall by business of government and e-government satisfaction? and 3) Is there a relationship between businesses having input into regulatory changes, essentially being inclusive of business in the regulatory process, and e-government satisfaction? The results from the statistical models indicated that all three questions were confirmed. The findings of this study imply that governments should try to understand the business environment. A more positive attitude by business towards government, and being more inclusive of business in regulatory changes, leads to greater e-government satisfaction.  相似文献   

Organizational Surveys: A System for Employee Voice   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Vickie Cox Edmondson 《Journal of Applied Communication Research》2013,41(4):307-310

Although surveys are often used to assess and track employee attitudes and opinions over time and are used quite frequently by applied communication researchers, the use of surveys as a channel to voice employee attitudes and opinions has not been fully explored in the employee voice or basic organizational communication literature. With the increased call for accountability, effective applied communication researchers can play an important role in ensuring that organizations engage in the survey process in a manner that is “safe” for employees, and ethical and practical for the organization. Because the question of how to accomplish this task is complex and cannot be fully addressed within the constraints of a commentary, I offer three general principles to guide future researchers in helping overcome organizational communication problems:

1. Build trust in the organizational survey process, the researcher(s), and the organization.

2. Eliminate the adversarial relationship that often exists between management and employees who speak up.

3. Provide evidence that the organization does more than purport to value the things that it says it values.

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普通高校图书馆集成系统问卷调查及启示     

胡振宁  陈大庆  丁培  崔晓松  易晓娥 《大学图书馆学报》2013,(3):64-68,79

为更好地了解国内高校图书馆自动化系统的使用情况,并为CALIS四期开发下一代图书馆自动化系统提供研究报告,课题组通过问卷调查的方式,收集了集成系统总体使用情况、使用满意度以及未来使用计划等三个方面的第一手数据;通过数据分析,得出结论,并为CALIS四期开发面向普通高校和高职高专图书馆的下一代ILS提出建议。  相似文献   

Steps towards inclusion in Hungary     

Yvonne Csányi 《欧洲特需教育杂志》2013,28(3):301-308

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a rhythmic gymnastics programme on the dynamic balance ability of a group of children with deafness. The sample consisted of 29 children with deafness. The subjects met the same criteria in terms of age, aetiology, hearing level, intelligence, school placement and socioeconomic status, and in this way, they were assigned to two groups of 12 and 17 children, for the control and experimental groups respectively. The experimental group received a 16-week rhythmic gymnastic programme at a frequency of three lessons per week, for 40 minutes, whereas the control group adhered to its regular school routine. The methods of data collection included pre-/post-test measurements of the dynamic balance for all participants of both groups. The dynamic balance ability was measured by means of a balance deck (Lafayette) in duration of 30, 45 and 60 s intervals. The findings of this study provide evidence that the specific rhythmic gymnastic programme facilitates significant improvement in the dynamic balance ability of this sample of children with deafness.  相似文献   

Factors Influencing Schoolchildren's Responses to a Questionnaire in Wildlife Conservation Education     

Jean-Marie Ballouard  Stephen J. Mullin  Rastko Ajtic  José Carlos Brito  El Hassan ElMouden  Mehmet Erdogan 《International Journal of Science Education》2013,35(3):469-483

Questionnaires are important tools for assessing attitudes regarding conservation issues. However, they are not easily comparable and their reliability has been insufficiently assessed. We examined factors influencing responses to open- and closed-ended questions about animal conservation to more than 600 schoolchildren (9 years old on average). We analysed the level of understanding, controllable (e.g. sample size) and less controllable factors (e.g. affectivity). Most children responded appropriately to the questions, but subtle changes in the phrasing influenced the answers. Affectivity towards endearing species and spontaneity also influenced the responses whereas small sample sizes (～50 children) provided relatively stable patterns. Overall, we suggest that standardization of questionnaires administered over large spatial and time scales is needed to accurately assess children's attitudes towards conservation issues.  相似文献   

Attitudes about publishing and normal science advancement     

Christopher McCarty  James W. Jawitz 《Journal of Informetrics》2013,7(4):850-858

The objective of this work was to examine the relationship between attitudes about publishing across disciplines and the scientific impact of authors. We conducted a web survey of 1066 authors randomly selected from four disciplines in the Web of Knowledge: economics, anthropology, water resources and biochemistry (approximately 250 from each discipline). Authors were asked questions about publishing norms within their discipline. The h-index of authors was subsequently calculated from data available from the Web of Knowledge. Authors in biochemistry had on average twice the h-index of those in economics, anthropology and water resources. Biochemists had higher expectations about the number of articles published for hire and promotion, more strongly valued interdisciplinary publishing, felt the cutting edge of their science was clearer, and had more defined patterns of author credit assignment than the other disciplines. Anthropologists exhibited a lower relationship between h-index and the number of years since their first publication. We conclude that attitudinal differences between disciplines may lead to differences in the recognition of scientific findings and the therefore the establishment of normal science.  相似文献   

Interpreting differences between the United States and New Zealand university students’ engagement scores as measured by the NSSE and AUSSE     

Erik Brogt  Keith Comer 《Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education》2013,38(6):713-736

Press releases concerning the Australasian Survey of Student Engagement (AUSSE) results warn that university students in Australia and New Zealand are less engaged than their peers at United States institutions. Such warnings about student engagement and interactions then become targets for improvement on Australasian universities’ strategic plans. In considering New Zealand university students’ survey responses, we examined AUSSE and the US National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) data for 2009 and 2010 with respect to all items that load on the five scales these instruments share. We argue that most of the observed differences in responses, response distributions and subsequent scale scores can be attributed to differences in educational pathways and cultures between the USA and New Zealand. Consequently, considerable caution in these trans-Pacific comparisons is warranted, particularly when formulating policy and practices to improve student engagement in New Zealand based on methods that have been employed in different educational contexts.  相似文献   

浅谈高速公路建设中不良地质的研究方法     

姚金  魏祥荣  汤洪志  汤谨晖 《科技广场》2008,(1):31-34

随着我国高速公路网建设的不断实施,我国高速公路现已经进入建设的高潮时期,使得高速公路建设中所面临的地质灾害问题也日趋严峻。在高速公路建设中,准确判定和划分不良地质是一项必不可少但又具一定难度的工作。本文将对现今常用的综合物探以及遥感技术在高速公路建设中勘探调查方法技术作一论述和探讨。  相似文献   

医学影像处理存在的问题和展望     

董建民  ;贺太平 《人天科学研究》2009,(4)

随着高性能计算技术与高精度探测技术的不断发展,医学影像辅助诊疗已经被医疗界广泛接受和采用,同时对医学影像的处理提出了更高的要求和挑战。简要介绍了医学影像处理技术的已有技术,并重点论述了该领域存在的主要问题,指出今后医学影像发展方向和趋势。  相似文献   

国外地质调查机构门户网站建设对我国地质信息化服务的启示——以美国地质调查局网站为例     

张凡 《人天科学研究》2009,(6)

对美国地质调查局网站的设计特点、信息内容、信息质量、技术水平和社会化服务等五方面进行了细致分析,从另一个侧面反照出我国地质信息化服务存在的不足与问题,从美国地质调查局网站建设成功的经验中获得一定的启示。  相似文献