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- Title
- Improvement or Peril: The Paradox of Professionalizing Innovation-Driven Portfolio Firms
- Author
- Medaugh, Melissa
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Entrepreneurship, Management, Psychology
- Description
- To understand why some innovation-driven portfolio firms benefit more from venture capital (VC) funding than others, I explore the salient phenomenon of founder CEO exit. Integrating institutional logics and psychological contracts theories, I pro...
- Title
- Institutional Dynamics in Corporate Political Linkages: Evidence From China's Emerging Economy
- Author
- Ge, Jianhua
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Management, Business, Organizational sociology
- Description
- This dissertation aims to reveal the institutional dynamics in corporate political linkages as the extant literature largely fails to recognize that corporate political linkages are institutionally embedded. Specifically, three studies have been c...
- Title
- Intersectional Status Beliefs Transfer in Employee Referral Processes
- Author
- Sargent, Amanda
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Management, Social psychology, Organizational behavior
- Description
- Using employee referral programs is generally considered a best practice for organizations seeking top quality talent. However, research on whether or not these programs result in positive outcomes equally for all applicants is mixed. To date, mos...
- Title
- Managing for high reliability: The relationship of collective mindfulness and managerial communication with social-exchange perceptions, performance, and creativity
- Author
- Baran, Benjamin
- Date Created
- 2011
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior, Management, Psychology, Industrial
- Description
- The modern world of work presents managers with a business environment marked by increasingly high levels of ambiguity. Succeeding within the face of such ambiguity requires a high degree of effective sensemaking and creativity within teams. High-...
- Title
- Navigating the Insider-Outsider Divide: Understanding the Socialization Experiences of Contract Workers
- Author
- Beveridge, Chelsea
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Management, Communication, Psychology
- Description
- Contractors have unique employment arrangements, but previous research has often grouped them into samples with other contingent workers. As such, research specific to contract workers is relatively sparse and focused on This dissertation focused ...
- Title
- PROMOTING EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT THROUGH MANAGERS' STRATEGIC USE OF MEETINGS
- Author
- Allen, Joseph
- Date Created
- 2010
- Subjects--Topical
- Communication, Psychology, Industrial, Business
- Description
- Employee engagement is a positive, fulfilling, work-related state of mind that researchers suggest is characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption in work activities. Employee engagement is heavily marketed by HR consultants and recently rec...
- Title
- Parenting and Remote Work in the Pandemic: Parents’ Work-Life Boundaries and Boundary Management Strategies in the New Normal
- Author
- Dickson, Ashleigh
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology, Management, Sociology
- Description
- A significant change that employees in the United States have experienced because of the COVID-19 pandemic is the rise of remote work. There are many benefits of remote work. However, many remote workers struggle to keep work and life separate. Th...
- Title
- Participation in Virtual Meetings: Using the “Chat” as a Mechanism to Elevate Attendee Voices
- Author
- Kreamer, Liana
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior, Sociology, Management
- Description
- A key component of team performance is participation among group members. One widespread organizational function that provides a stage for participation is the workplace meeting. With the shift to remote work, roughly half of all meetings are now ...
- Title
- Power, Influence Tactics, and Influence Processes in Virtual Teams
- Author
- Boughton, Marla
- Date Created
- 2011
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior, Management, Information technology
- Description
- Current studies of power, influence tactics, and influence processes in virtual teams assume that these constructs operate in a similar manner as they do in the face-to-face (FtF) environment. However, the virtual context differs from the FtF envi...
- Title
- Proto-Institutionalization as a Complex Socio-Technical Process: The Emergence of Diversity Practices in Computer Science Education
- Author
- Davis, Daniel
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior, Management, Organizational sociology
- Description
- Extant scholarship in organizational science explains the conditions under which organizational actors adopt established institutional practices. Organizational scientists have been less successful in explaining the origins of institutional practi...
- Title
- RELATIONAL PREDICTORS OF LEADER-MEMBER EXCHANGE: A SOCIAL COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE PERSPECTIVE
- Author
- Williams, Courtney
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior
- Description
- The study of dyadic relationships in the workplace has gained increasing importance in the organizational sciences, with one such relationship being the leader-follower relationship. While relationship quality can be operationalized in multiple wa...
- Title
- Rudeness and Recovery: The Effect of Micro-breaks in Reducing Negative Consequences of Workplace Incivility
- Author
- Harrington, Nicole
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior, Social psychology, Psychology, Industrial
- Description
- Workplace incivility leads to negative outcomes for employees and organizations (Schilpzand, De Pater, & Erez, 2016). It is difficult to completely eradicate due to the ambiguity and subtlety of many uncivil behaviors; however, it is important to ...
- Title
- Safety Climate and After Action Reviews in the Fire Service
- Author
- Bonilla, Daniel
- Date Created
- 2013
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior
- Description
- Research on safety climate has focused on supervisor attitudes and their relationship to the attitudes of their direct reports. This study examined the relationship of supervisor behaviors on direct report attitudes that in turn affect group level...
- Title
- Safety, Reliability, and “That Magic Second”: A Grounded Practical Investigation of Dilemmatic Talk in Pit Crews’ Post-Competition Debriefs
- Author
- Engemann, Krista
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational sociology
- Description
- Safety is often understood as freedom from unacceptable loss; reliability as the capacity to accomplish particular outcomes repeatedly through operational sensitivity. Both compel performance objectives for high-risk organizations. If either is ab...
- Title
- Social Class in The Organizational Sciences: A Meta-Analysis
- Author
- Loignon, Andrew
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Sociology, Psychology, Industrial management
- Description
- Social class has become increasingly popular in the organizational sciences. Recent studies have found that one’s social class influences phenomena ranging from decision-making, to pro-social behavior, and interpersonal interactions. Despite the b...
- Title
- Supportive Entrepreneurial Figures: Examining the Role of Gender and Racial Homophily and Status on New Venture Creation
- Author
- Sandoval, Rosalyn
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Entrepreneurship
- Description
- Although women and racial minority entrepreneurs make considerable contributions to society by creating their ventures, they often face additional barriers and limitations that explain the differential rate of new venture creation between men and ...
- Title
- THE ROLE OF EVENTS AND AFFECT IN PERCEIVED ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT: A WITHIN-PERSON APPROACH
- Author
- Woznyj, Haley
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Management
- Description
- Employees develop global perceptions regarding the extent to which their work organization cares about their well-being and values their contributions, which is known as perceived organizational support (POS). While the extant literature on POS is...
- Title
- TIME AND THE WORK/FAMILY INTERFACE IN A FORTUNE 500 ORGANIZATION: THE DIRECT AND INTERACTIVE EFFECTS OF TEMPORAL STRUCTURES, OUT-OF-OFFICE CONTACT, AND POLYCHRONICITY ON NEGATIVE WORK-TO-FAMILY SPILLOVER
- Author
- Agypt, Brett
- Date Created
- 2013
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior, Management, Organizational sociology
- Description
- The modern economy is high-paced and demanding, in part due to globalization's effect on business processes and expanded technological capabilities; as a result, employees can experience greater pressure and stress in the workplace that can lead t...
- Title
- The Development and Validation of a Measure of the Experience of Dirty Work
- Author
- Bickmeier, Robert
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology, Industrial
- Description
- Dirty work is socially constructed as tainted on one or more domains (physical: dangerous, dirty, or associated with death; moral: underhanded or in contradiction to prevailing norms; social: in association with stigmatized others or done in subse...
- Title
- The Effectiveness of Charismatic Signaling by Gender: A Prospective Meta-Analytic Review
- Author
- Hausfeld, Mary
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Management
- Description
- While charismatic leadership tactics (CLTs) have been validated across a variety of settings and shown to improve leader evaluations and cause follower behaviors, the role gender may play in charismatic leadership has been understudied. The presen...