An Organizational Planning and Feedback Control Model Incorporating Time-Span of Discretion

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Thesis was on time-span of discretion in two work locations.

Found TSD correlated with role rankings at +0.93 and with actual pay at +0.96. (Did not explore felt-fair pay.)

Found other factors were subsumed within TSD (skills, experience, responsibility, etc.). Found resources were an additional factor that had consequences

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This Ph.D. Dissertation is presented in PDF format and is downloadable as 3 PDF files:

Abstract - 256KB (2 pages),
Part1 - 3.0MB (104 pages), and
Part2 - 1.7MB (76 pages) in size respectively .

Dissertation: 1971, Ph.D., Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkley, California USA

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