Variables that influence stakeholder satisfaction with the creation of corporate images of Thailand’s National Housing Authority

ABSTRACT

The project output will assist with the strategic planning and determination of communication tactics, coupled with public relations, to establish a good corporate image under fluctuating global circumstances. Questionnaires and non-experimental, in-depth interviews were used for both quantitative and qualitative research, respectively. The main objective of this study is to explore stakeholder attitudes and satisfaction with the creation of corporate images by Thailand’s National Housing Authority (NHA). The investigation of NHA stakeholders’ attitudes and comments toward the building of this government entity’s corporate image strategy led to sustainable developments within the NHA by determining concepts and research methods, crafting a research plan, and identifying the characteristics of the target group. This study includes other sections related to measuring the attitude index, data collection and analysis, comparisons and interpretations of the target group and stakeholder perspectives. The target population is comprised of: Residents in 68 communities under the governance of NHA and Thai citizens, executive directors of the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security (MSDHS), board committee, executive directors, and general staff, companies, the private sector, entrepreneurs, and building contractors, public relations staff. Overall, 30 categories of stakeholders were interviewed. Secondary information, such as project documents, was collected and utilized for action planning, which reflects stakeholder opinions towards the NHA. The survey sample size of stakeholders was limited to 400 people from 12 districts, comprising 31,844 households under the 68 NHA projects in Bangkok.     

Introduction to the Volume on Relocation Issues in Child Custody Cases

ABSTRACT

Recent JCC articles on the topics of gender bias in domestic violence research and practice and parental alienations syndrome are critiqued, with a brief preview of related articles on these topics scheduled for the upcoming special issue on domestic violence. The problem of false negative and false positive errors in evaluations of abuse allegations are discussed and the social psychological factors that contribute to systems failure in family courts are examined.     

The international trade in automobiles: Explaining short-run changes in the import share of the United States market, 1979–1981

This paper examines the underlying causes for the rapid rise of the import share of the U.S. automobile market in the 1979 to 1981 time frame. Using data on the import share by state for the 1975–1979 period, a logit model is developed explaining movements in the import share. The principal purpose is to demonstrate that the rapid growth of the import share was due to a unique set of short-run factors such as constrained U.S. small car production capacity and exceptional consumer preference for fuel efficient automobiles. The sensitivity of the import share to changes in different factors is examined. The article concludes that U.S. policy makers concerned with the long-run viability of the U.S. automobile industry should discriminate between changes in import penetration caused by short-run factors and those caused by a secular deterioration of the U.S. comparative advantage in automobile production.     

A joined input-output and econometric approach to endogenous calculations of final demands and outputs

The principle of interacting between input-output and econometric systems is illustrated so that both final demands and gross outputs are treated as endogenous. Using a planned economy as an example, a model is constructed with an econometric accelerator and an input-output multiplier. Due to its special structure, the system solution is found with immediate formulas without matrix inverting. Necessary and sufficient conditions for solvability are formulated on the basis of the specific characteristics of the system's matrix. The results are interpreted in terms of familiar economic categories.     

遗传性面孔失认症(HPA)的三例报告

遗传性面孔失认症(HPA)是没有脑损伤情况下存在的一种先天性的面部认知障碍,是面孔识别领域的新发现.本研究通过筛查问卷和诊断访谈对来自长春高校的548名大学生进行测查,首次在中国长春地区发现了三例HPA症人;确认了HPA在黄种人中存在的事实;同时发现HPA症人具有辨别方向困难和内部表象缺失等认知特征.     

Referral to treatment: improving client-treatment match through process analysis.

This paper presents an expedient procedure for assessing referral counselor knowledge of the effectiveness of various treatment programs for different client types. Among the advantages of this technique are timely results, ease of application, and usefulness for process and formative evaluation. An empirical example using data from a drug abuse referral program is included to demonstrate one application of the technique. The discussion includes additional examples where the technique would have potential utility.     

On participant-observation as a component of evaluation. Strategies, constraints and issues

Described here is a participant-observation strategy employed as one portion of the evaluation research at Family House, a residential treatment program for alcoholic mothers and their children. Major objectives of this leg of a two-legged research design combining this approach with a more standard pre- and post-test strategy were to document and analyze the processes of social development in the new "small society." The ethnographer acted as consultant, with "raw data" generated in the form of daily observations dictated on the rotating basis by staff members over a two-year period. The resulting narrative was coded and analyzed by the anthropologist, utilizing a phenomenological or interpretationist perspective which allowed the "native categories" of significance to emerge and guide the analysis. This novel research strategy is compared with standard ethnographic fieldwork, as well as with pre- and post-test design, in terms of its strengths and weaknesses. Strengths include access to an authentic "inside view" of Family House reality, as well as an unusually rich longitudinal record of daily life in the facility. Problems include danger of contaminating the data by means of the "feedback" provided to reward staff for their cooperation in the research effort. The author concludes, however, that since reactive effects are present in all designs, and since "feedback" is a normal feature of therapeutic milieux, validity is not unusually threatened. Finally, the purposes of evaluation research are scrutinized.     

Paternalism and the young

A critical analysis is made of the concept of paternalism, and the manner in which protective measures on behalf of children often result in a denial of rights to the young. The article challenges the assumption that parents invariably know the needs of their own children, and accordingly act on their behalf. Similar reservations are made as to the capacity of official caretakers acting as agents of the state, to replace parents who are at fault. Conversely, it is suggested that children often have greater capabilities to function independently than is generally acknowledged. However, attention is also drawn to the defects in the arguments of some child-rights advocates. In sum, the article argues for the need to seek out legitimate paternalistic practices where genuinely needed, where sufficient consideration has been given to the capacities of the young for an independent life, and where sufficient sensitivity has been shown to their aspirations.