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About 3,200 undergraduate and 300 graduate students in the College of Business of a regional state university with more than 17,000 students located in the southeastern United States evaluated 126 business faculty. The results of a multiple regression based on 6,395 student evaluations show that 12 factors are predictors of overall teaching effectiveness, e.g., instructor presents material clearly, instructor answers students' questions, instructor treats students in a courteous and/or professional manner, and instructor appears to be well prepared for each class. These data suggest that students are fairly reasonable in considering important aspects of the learning process when they evaluate professors' overall teaching effectiveness. The results are discussed in light of the reward system at U.S. universities, the balance between teaching and research, and the changes in management education.

The problem of improving Chinese governmental administrative efficiency after entering the WTO faces our government. How can we promote administrative efficiency to reach the level of public sector efficiency of other countries? The author starts with the governmental administrative systemn and analyses the systematic reasons for the low efficientcy of the government. The author then puts forward four main suggestions to improve governmental efficiency; chance the governmental administrative mode and distribute the functions and powers of government to multiple levels; unify and condense the governmental administrative structure; construct a govermental system that makes certain the relation betwee functions and powers; construct an "e-government" to promot the reform of governmental operations.

The present study examined the sex differences in job satisfaction of staff and faculty in a Southeastern University. No significant differences between university staff and faculty were found. However, there were significant differences between males and females in that males tended to have higher satisfaction with pay than females, whereas females tended to have higher satisfaction with co-workers than males. The findings were discussed in light of people's attitudes toward money.

The objective of this research is to empirically assess antecedents of organizational trust. To accomplish this objective, 83 managerial employees were surveyed in a branch of a federal governmental agency located in a large metropolitan city in the Southwestern United States. Multiple regression analysis showed that age, marital status, and work group cohesion were positively associated with organizational trust. Organizational trust did not differ by either race or gender. Results are discussed in light of competitive challenges facing human resource managers.