THE IMPACT OF INPUTS, EMPLOYEE CHARACTERISTICS, ORGANIZATIONAL ARRANGEMENTS, AND ACTIVITIES ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTIVENESS OF STATE AIR POLLUTION CONTROL AGENCIES.

摘要

The main purpose of this thesis is to examine the impact of inputs, employee characteristics, and organizational arrangements on the effectiveness of five state air pollution control agencies in Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin.;The results suggest, first of all, that air quality and emissions data are consistent dimensions but that compliance data behaves in a different manner. When defined in terms of air quality and emissions variables, effectiveness was found to be associated most predictably with financial resources, aggregate attitudes towards desirable levels of pollution, attitudes towards the intentions of industrial pollutors, and the jurisdictional scope of agencies. Other variables examined demonstrated surprisingly little connection with the performance of the air pollution control agencies.;Inputs included financial and personnel resources. Employee characteristics examined include the social and career characteristics of personnel and their attitudes towards environmental protection. Employee characteristics were assessed through administration of a questionnaire to nonclerical personnel in the five agencies. Organizational arrangements subsumed structural variables such as degrees of hierarchy, jurisdictional scope, and departmental locus. Effectiveness was measured by changes over time in compliance of pollutors to agency abatement plans, air quality levels, and emission discharges.