Browsing by Subject "Performance"

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    All We Have: Performance Photographs and Artist Interviews in the Contemporary
    (2016-06) Wolff, Rachel
    This dissertation examines two distinct but related sources used in the writing of history about the present and recent past: documentary photographs and artist interviews. Contemporary art history relies heavily on both tools as offering historical evidence. The two also share some attributes as sources: they are simultaneously of the moment and out of time, fragmentary while also appearing to be encompassing, definitive in their possibility of making meaning despite being highly mediated. While photographs and interviews act within a constellation of evidence, I argue that there is something particular about their use in contemporary art history. My goal is to interrogate what might be lost and gained in using photographs and interviews as historical evidence, and therefore what looking at or reading these tools responsibly might entail. To do so, I begin with introducing words and pictures in the contemporary most broadly, before providing literature reviews related to both interviews and photographs more specifically. I then examine these tools through the framework of what I call “networked witnessing,” proposing how we could and should use photographs and interviews within contemporary art history. With this framework established, I turn to my case studies—first performance photographs, then artist interviews—in order to offer examples of carrying out my recommendations. While my case studies explore the variety of conclusions one might productively draw from understanding historical evidence through networked witnessing, I ultimately reveal the ways in which photographs and interviews require a type of inter-viewing—of looking again, from various perspectives, through many layers of mediation, for what might be unfamiliar—that can change our perceptions of our own scholarly responsibility.
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    Apreciaciones de las negociaciones de identidad cultural en la dramaturgia latina de los Estados Unidos (1980-1991)
    (2009-05) Chavana, Gerardo Paul
    This study deals with negotiation in reference to cultural identity formation and maintenance of Latinos / Hispanics as it is presented in five dramatic texts of a period extending from the early 80s to the early 90s in U. S. Latino dramaturgy. As the term culture has been difficult to define by some researchers, the term negotiation has also become problematic not only because of its manifold applications as far as social and cultural issues are concerned, but also due to the paucity of suitable definitions that have been advanced until the present. Through the artistic works and other academic writings, we will elucidate on the concept of negotiation as well as outline some of the relationships and trajectories in regards to such concepts as assimilation, acculturation, transculturation, biculturalism, identity and culture. Since these concepts contain meanings and contents that have been dealt with through different currents of thought in the last two decades of the Twentieth Century, diverse disciplines in the social sciences as well as cultural and literary studies are referred to, in order to explore in depth and attempt to clarify the different conceptions that are attributed to the term and concept of negotiation of cultural identity. In most cases, when the term negotiation appears in the scholarly works, through themes or particular contexts related to certain cultures or ethnic communities, the concept acquires meanings that are frequently taken for granted on the part of the scholars. Some researchers of these disciplines have availed themselves of the term in their studies, by providing, in some cases, ambiguous or deficient definitions, and in other cases, definitions that are not completely explicit. Furthermore, it is inferred that the application of such a term in the research fields calls for the readers, either directly or indirectly, to have in mind an idea of what is understood by negotiation in terms of cultural identity. Later on in this work, several basic premises are proposed based on the scholarly works under consideration in order to formulate a paradigm on the negotiation process of cultural identity that renders possible the multiple readings that are carried out on the artistic pieces as well as the clarification of the concept itself. To initiate this inquiry, it is necessary to undertake some legitimate issues with regard to the term and concept of negotiation. For instance, what brings about the negotiation of cultural identity? In fact, is it possible to negotiate in cultural terms? What happens during the process of negotiation? What takes place before and after such a process? In particular, what about those Latinos and Latinas who do not want to get involved in this process? Is it possible to identify periods in which the person is free from cultural identity negotiations? Are we able to indicate a point in time and space in so far as the initiation and conclusion of the negotiation process? Are we able to identify certain cultural identity negotiations even though the people involved are not aware or consider them as such? The first part of this study attempts to explain and clarify some issues pertaining to the process of cultural identity negotiation and the second part, identifies and pinpoints the process.
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    “As you from crimes would pardoned be”: Prison Shakespeare and the Practices of Empowerment
    (2020-05) Dreier, Jenna
    My research investigates the growing community of prison arts programs in which people who are currently incarcerated work with outside practitioners to study and perform Shakespeare. Since the 1980s, there has been a steady increase in the popularity of performing Shakespeare in prison, and as this trend continues to change the landscape of prison arts programming across the country, I analyze specific practices that professional artists, practitioners, and participants have used to decolonize the study of Shakespeare and to foster a more empowering and inclusive engagement with his plays. Throughout this dissertation, I use four primary case studies based on extensive field work research to analyze how Shakespeare’s plays have been adapted to speak to incarcerated people’s experiences of oppression as severely marginalized subjects in twenty-first century America. As an intersectional feminist, I analyze these case studies specifically in relation to the forms of oppression created by the imperialist white- supremacist capitalist patriarchy that operates in the United States and that has played a pivotal role in producing the epidemic of mass incarceration. This project proceeds from the belief that a recognition of these multiple and overlapping systematic inequalities is not only relevant, but vital, to analyzing the myriad of potential resonances of Shakespeare in U.S. prisons. In addition to foregrounding the oppressive power dynamics that operate in U.S. prisons, this dissertation is unique in that it also attends closely to oppressive power dynamics within the plays themselves. While advocates have written persuasively about the specific potential that Shakespeare’s plays hold for empowering prison theater participants and audiences, I emphasize the role that professional artists, practitioners, and participants have played in developing practices that illuminate and remedy the shortcomings of Shakespeare’s plays as instruments of social justice. This dissertation is therefore a nuanced examination of 1) how the circumstances of prison performance render newly visible the oppressive power dynamics and damaging social currents that surface in the study and performance of Shakespeare’s plays and 2) the artistic or pedagogical practices used to address, subvert, or overturn these power dynamics and social currents. Ultimately, Shakespeare serves the project of empowerment because of the canonical, elite status of the texts and as a name brand accepted by the gatekeepers of correctional institutions, but a vital step in the pursuit of empowerment in Prison Shakespeare programs is the use of subversive practices which harness the cultural power of these canonical texts while making them more inclusive of the interests of incarcerated communities.
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    Assessment and Recommendations for the Operation of Standard Sumps as Best Management Practices for Stormwater Treatment (Volume 2)
    (Minnesota Department of Transportation, 2012-05) McIntire, Kurtis D.; Howard, Adam; Mohseni, Omid; Gulliver, John S.
    In order to improve the performance of standard sumps as a best management practice (BMP) in treating stormwater runoff, a baffle was designed to be installed as a retrofit in standard sumps. The retrofit is a porous baffle called “SAFL Baffle”. The effect of the SAFL Baffle on the performance of standard sumps was assessed by conducting laboratory tests on small scale as well as full scale straight flow-through standard sumps equipped with the baffle. In addition, a number of tests were conducted to determine the performance of standard sumps with the SAFL Baffle when the baffle is clogged with debris like trash and vegetation. Furthermore, the performance of two other configurations of the baffle was studied: (1) the SAFL Baffle in a sump with an outlet pipe 90 degrees to the inlet pipe, and (2) the SAFL Baffle in a sump with some water entering the sump through an overhead inlet grate. Standard sumps equipped with the SAFL Baffle were evaluated using two metrics: (1) How well the system captures sediment during low flow conditions (Removal Efficiency Testing), and (2) how well the system retains the previously captured sediment during high flow conditions (Washout Testing). The results of the tests showed that the SAFL Baffle dissipates the energy of water entering the sump and as a result, at low flow rates, it captures sediment better than a standard sump with no baffle. More importantly, at high flow rates, the washout of the previously captured sediment reduces to near zero.
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    Close-form and matrix en/decoding evaluation on Different Erasure Codes
    (2013-12) Zhang, Zhe
    Erasure code, often applied in disk-array distributed le system, is a technique to protect data in case there are some accidental failures in the system. Nowadays, as customers require higher reliability for their data, RAID6, which at most protect double failures in disk-array, is not sucient any more. Triple failure protection scheme needs to proposed soon. RAID-DP(RDP) is one of most popular erasure codes on RAID6, and with close-form reconstruction, it can achieve optimal com- putational cost in terms of XORs. However, as the extension of RDP, close-form of RAID-TP(RTP) which provides triple failure protection can not achieve opti-mal computational cost. There is an alternatative en/decoding method based on matrix operations which seems promissing to replace close-form. Thus, we com- pared close-form en/decoding with matrix-based method, and we found that ma- trix en/decoding performs better only when the disk buer is small. Additionally, calculating decoding matrix cost too much time for reconstruction. Furthermore, we choose several dierent types of erasure codes in addition to RTP, and evaluate en/decoding performance with matrix method. The results show that RTP needs fewer XORs but it suers from calculating decoding matrix and updating small writes. Finally, we propose some potential techniques to address these issues that we may want to implement in future.
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    Common ground: performing gay shame, solidarity and social change
    (2015-02) Winn-Lenetsky, Jonah Ari
    This dissertation examines Gay Shame activism of the late 1990s and early 2000s through case studies of three distinct performance sites: Gay Shame San Francisco, Kvisa Shchora, a Tel Aviv based collective, and Euroshame (London). Analyzing the performance work and self-articulations of these three groups, I demonstrate how their performative and rhetorical use of shame attempts to both critique the "pride" of mainstream LGBT groups and to forge solidarity between queer communities and others marginalized by neoliberal economies and nationalist rhetoric through what I refer to as "hyperidentification". These performances can, at their best, be aesthetically challenging and creative interventions that reimagine and place queer identities in ideological and, at times, actionable alliance with marginalized others; while at their worst they imagine themselves in solidarity with other communities, but ignore or fail to account for the perspectives, agendas and values of those communities. My exploration of these sites examines the limits of solidarity and empathy and investigates the contributions of queer activist performance to debates regarding the ethics and efficacy of political performance within the disciplines of Theatre and Performance Studies.
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    Crafting objects, selves, links: the embodied production of relational exchange in performances of craft in the United States
    (2011-06) Glover, Jessie
    "Crafting Objects, Selves, Links" formulates an ethnographic analysis of craft practice in the contemporary United States. Using performance as an analytic frame, the author examines the ways that crafters use the productive gestures of craft to generate opportunities for relational contact, achievement, learning, buying and selling, and other forms of exchange. The manuscript is divided into four sites: craft in recognizable sites of performance, the performance of leisure craft in craft circles, craft sellng spaces formed by crafter entrepreneurs, and sites on the World Wide Web where crafters take action together.
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    The documentary encounter:memory, materiality, and performance in contemporary visual culture
    (2013-02) Aldarondo, Cecilia Isabel
    My dissertation is an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural study of what I call the `documentary encounter': that moment when human beings come upon the material objects--such as photographic material, places, and personal effects--through which we are accustomed to constructing our sense of the past. Philosophers such as Jacques Derrida (1995) and Pierre Nora (1989) have contended that the twentieth century was characterized by a need to archive objects. If that is the case, then we could say that the twenty-first century is characterized by a rather different relationship to materiality, one of `waste management.' As our worlds are glutted with more and newer material objects, we are afflicted by a parallel concern for loss and obsolescence. Objects appear out of date as soon as we possess them. Decay suffuses the material world, and proliferates faster than we can stop it. The accelerated obsolescence of technology, global anxieties over toxic dumping, and the widespread recycling of personal effects all indicate that we have entered an age in which the objects that surround us are volatile and resistant to mastery. Rooted in the comparative methods of visual cultures, my research is the first attempt to draw together two fields, Film and Performance Studies, that have been similarly preoccupied by the historiographical concepts of `memory' and `archive', but which have remained largely isolated from one another. Employing a cross-cultural, multi-media approach--focusing on the installations of German-born, Canada-based artist Iris Häussler, a photographic archive depicting my mother's childhood in Puerto Rico, and the ruined architecture of Havana, Cuba--my dissertation weaves together these discourses on memory and the archive and brings them to bear on a chaotic material landscape. In investigating the effects wrought by a changing materiality on contemporary life, I seek to account for a concomitantly shifting landscape of memory, in order to provide an enriched and expanded set of terms for thinking about material culture and memory practices in the present.
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    Enhancing Performance Evaluation and Characterization Techniques to I dentify Performance Changes in High-Performance Computing Systems
    (2021-11) huerta, yectli
    High Performance Computing systems are complex and require a lot of effort to tune the system to achieve peak performance. Performance analysis is a time consuming process. The goal of this thesis is to understand the effects changes to the system or compiler configuration had on performance and how it is reflected in CPU performance metrics. This thesis presents two approaches to enhance the evaluation process of HPC systems. First, a process that makes it possible to systematically and efficiently search the parameter space to find an optimal configuration of a benchmark with a large number of tunable parameters is introduced. The search for an optimal combination of parameters can be daunting, especially when it involves high dimensionality of mixed type categorical and continuous variables. This thesis shows that through the use of statistical techniques, a systematic and efficient search of the parameter space can be conducted. These techniques can be applied to variables that are categorical or continuous in nature and do not rely on the standard assumptions of linear models, namely that the response variable can be described as a linear combination of the regression coefficients. Second, a normalization technique that will make it possible to identify relative differences between performance metrics to better understand the effects changes had on the underlying system is presented. The use of Top-Down microarchitecture analysis method makes it possible to understand how pipeline bottlenecks were affected by changes in the system configuration, or compiler version. Bottleneck analysis makes it possible to better understand how different hardware resources are being utilized, highlighting portions of the CPU's pipeline where possible improvements could be achieved. The Top-Down analysis method is complemented with the use a normalization technique from the field of economics, purchasing power parity (PPP), to better understand the relative difference between changes. This thesis showed that system changes had effects that sometimes were not reflected on the corresponding Top-Down metrics. The use of the PPP normalization technique made it possible to highlight differences and trends in bottleneck metrics, differences that standard techniques based in absolute, non-normalized, metrics failed to highlight.
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    Entrepreneurial Teams' Human Capital: From Its Formation To Its Impact On The Performance Of Technological New Ventures
    (2015-06) Honore, Florence
    Startups' human capital, especially founding teams' pre-entry experience, has long been studied as a determinant of their performance. However, little is known on the complementarities between the different pre-entry experiences and on the influence of these pre-entry experiences on startups' performance and on startups' acquisition of new human capital. My dissertation fills this gap with two essays. In my first essay, I show that two types of pre-entry experiences, target industry experience and experience outside the target industry, are complementary when one is shared across the founding team members and the other is embodied within team members who worked in multiple firms. In my second essay, I show that pre-entry experience makes potential hires more attractive to startups. However, startups appear more attractive to these potential hires if they can signal productivity and growth potential rather than prior experiences. I also find that gender affects the selection of the potential hires and their earnings suggesting the existence of disparities in the startup environment. By using interactions between different experiences, in and outside the target industry, and between different levels of analysis, the team and the individuals, my dissertation enriches our understanding of startups' human capital and its effects on performance and acquisition of talent.
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    Gender, Leadership, and Navigating through the Hierarchy: Behavioral Patterns and Managers’ Assessments of Performance, Promotion Potential and Career Derailment
    (2018-08) Dienhart, Carolyn
    Through the late 1990’s, women advanced rapidly in the business world, but today there are signs that progress has slowed. Though a significant amount of research has investigated gender, leadership style and disparities in higher level leadership, little research has examined how behavioral patterns and career outcomes are related within organizational levels and in field-based settings. In addition, little research has explored gender and the multifaceted aspects of performance, such as promotion potential and career derailment. This dissertation contributes to filling this gap in the literature by examining a variety of organizational stakeholders’ perceptions of leadership behaviors, managers’ assessments of performance, and their relationships across genders. Secondary data from over 3,000 participants from client organizations of a talent management firm were analyzed to: (a) examine the relationship between promotion potential and career derailment across genders; (b) examine differences in manager, peer, direct report, and self competency ratings across gender; (c) explore differences in managers’ ratings of a four factor performance scale across gender and explore how well performance ratings are predicted by competency ratings; and (d) examine the relationship between peer, direct report, and self competency ratings and managers’ ratings of a four factor performance scale. Overall, this research showed that there were few differences in competency ratings across gender, however men tended to be rated higher on business problem solving leadership, and women tended to be rated higher on task-oriented, interpersonal, and intrapersonal leadership. Across all organizational levels, managers rated women higher on individual performance and leadership effectiveness and they rated men as more likely to derail. However, there were few differences in ratings of promotion potential. Competency ratings were more predictive of performance for men than they were for women, suggesting that ratings for women tend to be less consistent. Future research should continue to examine the ways in which managers form their views and recommendations of employees’ performance and promotion potential to ensure greater equity in these processes.
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    Human Cognitive Abilities: The Structure and Predictive Power of Group Factors
    (2019-04) Kostal, Jack
    General mental ability is one of the most powerful and venerable individual differences in I-O psychology. This project consists of two studies that provide comprehensive meta-analytic summaries of inter-correlations between cognitive abilities, and cognitive abilities’ validity for predicting a wide range of job performance criteria. The meta-analytic database created to address these questions consists of 2,356 independent samples from 1,030 separate studies (total N = 2,978,554). Results provide support for a newly developed compendium for classifying cognitive tests, which use would reduce idiosyncratic test classifications that are endemic to the I-O literature. Exploratory factor analyses produced solutions similar to the CHC model, albeit with important exceptions around visual processing, long-term retrieval, and quantitative knowledge. Results did not support age differentiation of cognitive abilities. Turning to validity against job performance criteria, this study found somewhat lower validities than previous work by Hunter and Schmidt. Contrary to previous work, no major differences in validity were observed between fluid and crystallized abilities.
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    The Human Rights Performative: The Belarus Free Theater on the Global Stage
    (2017-05) Kompelmakher, Margarita
    This dissertation investigates the staging of human rights in the theatrical work of the Belarus Free Theater (BFT), a social justice theater company from Minsk, Belarus that has become one of the most prominent human rights theater companies in the world since 2007. Drawing on bilingual fieldwork and archival research conducted over a five-year period in Belarus and the UK, this project reveals how liberal values--such as freedom of speech and individuality--are translated across post-Soviet Europe and the European Union. The chapters in this dissertation trace a historical shift in human rights cultural politics from identity-based aesthetics to ethical aesthetics grounded in the principles of survival, testimony and sensation. These principles have increasingly become the gold standard for cross-cultural exchanges since the Helsinki Accords in the 1970s. I demonstrate how these principles are not ‘objective’ aesthetic judgments but, in fact, part of a colonial and racially charged mode of liberal human rights governance. Ultimately, this dissertation highlights how artist-activists from Belarus make claims to alternative worldviews to mainstay liberal democracy. It argues that cultural institutions must engage with cultural translation in order to avoid falling prey to a form of human rights governance that implicitly positions certain groups as artistically inferior and backwards on a spectrum of political freedoms.
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    Impact of Low Asphalt Binder for Coarse HMA Mixes
    (Minnesota Department of Transportation, 2017-06) Dave, Eshan V.; DeCarlo, Christopher; Hoplin, Chelsea M.; Helmer, Benjamin; Dailey, Jay; Williams, R. Christopher
    Asphalt mixtures are commonly specified using volumetric controls in combination with aggregate gradation limits, like most transportation agencies, MnDOT also uses this approach. Since 2010 onward, several asphalt paving projects for MnDOT have been constructed using coarser asphalt mixtures that are manufactured with lower total asphalt binder contents. Due to the severe cold climate conditions in Minnesota, there are concerns of premature cracking and inferior durability in asphalt mixtures with lower asphalt binder contents. This research project evaluated 13 low asphalt binder content mixes from 10 actual field projects to determine whether there is potential for poor cracking performance and high permeability. Assessment of field performance indicated an average of 7.75 years of life until 100% transverse cracking level is reached. The pavement structure played a significant factor in controlling the cracking rates. Thin overlays showed almost ten times inferior transverse cracking performance as compared to asphalt wearing courses on full-depth reclamation. Asphalt mixture volumetric factors did not show a statistically significant effect on cracking rates; however, the asphalt binder grade did show a strong effect. Eight out of the 13 coarse asphalt mixtures evaluated in this study have higher permeability than the typical dense graded asphalt mixtures. Performance evaluations using lab measured properties predicted poor thermal cracking performances. No discernable trends were observed between measured or predicted cracking performance and mix volumetric measures. Use of performance tests based on specifications for design and acceptance purposes is reinforced through this study.
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    The Influence of Women and Minority Members of Corporate Boards of Directors on Firm Performance Measures
    (2018) Nieto, Maria
    In this paper, I review the growing and important literature examining the relationship between diversity, in terms of both gender and ethnic minorities, of the composition of corporate Boards of Directors and firm performance measures, including financial and corporate social responsibility. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the findings have been contradictory, and the exact nature of the relationship is still unclear. These contradictions may partly arise from a lack of clarity both theoretically and empirically of the term “diversity” as used by many study authors. My review conducts an extensive examination of the literature on the diversity-performance relationship, including almost 40 studies published on this topic. In addition, I outline several directions for future research.
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    Interaction Between National Culture And Ethical Organizational Culture And Its Impact On Organizational Level Performance: A Case Study Of A Multi–National Nonprofit Organization In Ghana
    (2016-05) Osafo, Emmanuel
    The purpose of this dissertation was to conduct a case study on how the outcomes of the interaction between ethical organizational culture and national culture effect organizational level performance. The case study was conducted on a single multinational nonprofit health care facility in Ghana. The study sought to answer the following research questions: 1. How is the ethical culture of this nonprofit organization defined? 2. How relevant is the ethical culture of this nonprofit organization to the organizational level performance? 3. How does the interaction between the ethical culture of this nonprofit organization and the Ghana national culture impact organizational level performance? Overall twenty-five people participated in the study. Participants included supervisors, managers, and other senior executive officers with FOCOS Orthopaedic Hospital, a nonprofit multinational health care institution in Ghana. Also, included in this study was a professor of African Studies at the University of Ghana. The main methods of data collection were direct interviews, document review, and direct observations. Four major themes, the extent to which participants know and understand the ethical organizational culture of FOCOS Orthopaedic Hospital; the dimensions that define the Ghana national culture; the extent to which the ethical organizational culture affects organizational level performance of FOCOS Orthopaedic Hospital; how the outcomes of the interaction between the Ghana national culture and ethical organizational culture impact organizational level performance of FOCOS Orthopaedic Hospital. Qualitative methods were used to analyze the data. Techniques used include, content analyses and flowcharts and graphics to reduce synonymous mix-ups. The results suggested a significant effect of the interaction between ethical organizational culture and country culture on organizational level performance. Thus, evidence gathered from the case study confirmed the importance of sub-cultures and citizen-centered ethical organizational culture in ensuring equilibrium in the ethical organizational culture-national culture interactions. The findings were compared with the predicted outcome to ascertain internal validity of the study. Similarities were identified between the findings and the predicted outcome of the study, indicating the study had internal validity. Based on the findings from this study a recommendation was made for research attention to national cultures as mediators between the ethical organizational cultures and organizational level performance relationships.
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    Level up: the dynamic nature of leadership and management
    (2014-04) Natali, Michael William
    Organizations are broken into hierarchical levels of management and the nature of work changes as one ascends the hierarchy. There are several theoretical discussions and studies on how work changes by management level. The current investigation reviewed the literature on differences along the organizational hierarchy and compared levels on how the people in them differ, examining differences in personality, cognitive ability, experiences, and 360-degree feedback. A large, archival dataset was acquired from a large consulting firm consisting of over 4000 managers in three levels of management: supervisory, middle, and executive. Comparisons of levels were conducted on mean scores, rank order of scores on 360-degree feedback measures, correlations with performance criteria, and regression equations. Analyses revealed several mean differences between levels across factors of personality, ratings of competence in 360-degree feedback, experiences, and performance. Correlations with performance differed across levels as well as personality regression equations controlling for cognitive ability. A test of moderation found that level does not moderate relationships with performance though further research should be conducted. Overall, the results show significant differences between levels of management across a multitude of variables. Implications for selection and development are discussed.
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    Maximal Aerobic Capacity, Running Economy, and Performance in Highly Trained Marathon Runners and Master Long-Distance Runners
    (2018-11) Lee, Emma
    Maximal aerobic capacity (VO2max) and running economy (RE) are key predictors of distance-running performance. Whether VO2max and RE change with marathon-specific training in competitive sub-elite runners is unclear. While VO2max is known to decline with age, RE may be maintained in older runners. PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate VO2max and RE at the beginning and end of a marathon training block in highly trained runners. Furthermore, master athletes training for a long-distance running event were evaluated shortly prior to their goal race to investigate relationships between age and running performance variables. Physiological and training factors were assessed to determine predictors of race performance in master runners. Several measures of RE were used. METHODS: In the study of younger competitive runners, participants were studied ~10 and 1-2 weeks before their goal marathons. They logged their workouts throughout a 12-week training period. The study on master athletes was cross-sectional. These runners were surveyed about recent and long-term training patterns. All participants completed a treadmill marathon-intensity effort (MIE) and VO2max test. RESULTS: Among the sub-elite runners, VO2max increased across the training period, while the percent of VO2max used during the MIE decreased. Race performance, quantified using a temperature-converted VDOT score, was negatively correlated with MIE allometrically scaled oxygen consumption (alloVO2). Among master runners, age was negatively associated with VO2max and alloVO2. Age was positively related to the MIE energy cost (EC) of running in females and to MIE oxygen consumption (VO2) in males. The most important predictors of converted VDOT in master runners were VO2max and three-year peak weekly training distance (3YP). Other significant predictors of VDOT were alloVO2 and EC. CONCLUSION: Experienced open-age marathon runners may experience an increase in VO2max with a block of marathon training. Age is negatively associated with VO2max and alloVO2 in fit master runners. Long-distance race performance in master athletes is positively associated with VO2max, 3YP, and alloVO2, and negatively associated with EC. Allometrically scaled MIE VO2 may therefore be a useful and performance-related measure of RE in trained runners of all ages.