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Roll Call: Gender and the Alaska Municipal Clerk
Full text link37 pages. Capstone paper from 2021 spring MPA program. Instructed by Allen Zagoren.Attendance at an Alaska Association of Municipal Clerks conference makes the gender disparity of the profession readily apparent. What caused this disparity, and what is its impact? A statewide municipal officials directory indicates approximately 90 percent of clerks in Alaska are female. That informal tally reflects the lack of public information available on this topic.
Cases and interviews focused on the Kenai Peninsula and Southeast Alaska reveal barriers that impact clerks’ opportunities to earn promotions and fair pay, especially in small municipalities that place a clerk in the interim municipal manager role in response to vacancies. The historical bias of clerking as “women’s work” contributes to inadequate pay structures that undercompensate clerks serving as interim managers. These clerks face indefinite, repeat terms of interim service with little leverage against abuse. Clerks in an interim role or seeking a permanent promotion also might have non-traditional educational backgrounds that conflict with the value of their work experience. More broadly, clerks and other staff members contemplate impacts to family life and organizational attitudes about internal promotion when considering interim and permanent openings. This paper concludes with recommendations for improving the gender balance and fair treatment of Alaska municipal clerks
Comparing Corporate Tax Rates and Economic Growth in the Midwestern United States
Full text link24 pages. Capstone paper from 2021 spring MPA program. Instructed by Allen Zagoren.Public policy makers often propose lowering taxes as a means for stimulating economic growth. Given the complexities of the tax system and economic forces, it is important to test this theory empirically to confirm what types of fiscal policy changes are most effective for healthy economic development. In this research paper, I compare Midwestern states’ top statutory corporate tax rates with their respective annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth each year from 2000-2017. Using a fixed effects regression model to analyze panel data for twelve states, I find that the top statutory corporate tax rate does not have a significant effect on GDP growth during the time examined. This finding is inconsistent with the theory that lower taxes lead to increased economic growth. However, further empirical testing is necessary to determine the effects of changing tax rates in both the short- and long-term
Relevant Business Research: A Viewpoint to Help Bridge the Gap between Academia and Practice
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Does having a Sudden Change to Online Learning Impact the Learning/Understanding of Material in Pharmaceutical Studies?
Full text link25 pages. Capstone paper from 2021 Spring MPA program. Instructed by Allen Zagoren.The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of remote learning on a pharmacy student’s ability to learn and retain knowledge through the analysis of Grade Point Average trends and confidence using the information learned. Students and faculty were presented with two separate surveys regarding the switch to remote learning at Drake University. The survey answers were confidential and provided indications for understanding if students were learning and retaining information in the short term while remote. From the surveys, we found that students experienced more emotional stress and responsibilities once the school went remote. There was not a significant difference in the Grade Point Average earned throughout the semesters in which students were remote in comparison to in-person. More research on the long-term effects of remote learning will need to be conducted to determine if students were able to retain information while remote learning
Introduction to the Special Issue on Financial Technology (FinTech) Research
Full text link3 pagesIn 2020 a call for papers was distributed to gather submissions for a special issue on financial technology (FinTech) research to be published in April 2021. In this introduction we provide statistics about the importance of financial technology in the global financial markets, provide a summary of research category topics that have been identified in a previous study (Suryono, Budi and Purwandari, 2020), and note which of these topics are addressed in the article that is published in this special issue
Iowa’s Distinct Leadership Culture: Our Leadership We Prize and Our Community We Will Maintain
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The Audacity of Equality: Sexual Discrimination in Hiring and Promotion Within the Public Sector in Iowa
Full text link28 pages. Capstone paper from 2021 Spring MPA program. Instructed by Allen Zagoren.In this modern day, women are speaking out more than ever before regarding their real-life experiences of employment discrimination, whether it be the inability to gain employment for which they are qualified, or even over qualified, or being overlooked for a promotion which they clearly deserved, time and time again. Qualitative experiences of women who have worked in government in Iowa over the past fifty years have unfortunately not shown a progression toward improvement, in the matter of sexual discrimination, in the hiring and promotion practices of the public sector industry. Further supporting this concept, is the ample quantitative hiring and staffing data of state and local government agencies in Iowa. Comprehension of this data shows that although females are being hired by some of these agencies in an equitable manner in comparison to that of males, they are grave disparities in regards to what jobs they are able to gain and what level of leadership they are able to gain promotion to. Still presenting the reality of sexual discrimination is the data that shows, that through archaic hiring practices, women are still highly represented in the traditional female dominated roles in the workforce of clerical support, education and custodian. When allowed into the male dominated fields, women are few in number, rarely reach any role of leadership, and still are being most utilized in the “acceptable” female roles of clerical support, education and custodian. Despite the often-political nature of public sector employment, even liberal, progressive governments do not stray from these sexually discriminate practices, according to current data
This Isn’t Your Parent’s TV Show…Oh Wait, It Is
Full text linkPeer-Reviewed Journal Article. 11 pagesPopular conception holds that Millennials and Gen Z’ers do not like old stuff. Whether it be old
games, books, technology, movies, or TV shows, the prevailing thought is that the younger
generation prefers newer things. While this view may be perpetuated online and in popular
press, it may also be less than accurate as data actually shows younger generations preferring
older content. Utilizing Uses and Gratifications Theory, this research tests this assumption by
tracking favorite TV shows of Millennials and Gen Z’ers over a seven-year period. Results show
that these individuals actually prefer non-current TV shows and that the level of “noncurrentness” of their preference is growing over time