Search results | J. Murrey Atkins Library

Title: Re-examining the positive conscientiousness-performance relationship: The role of neuroticism and stress
Author: Dunn, Alexandra
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Psychology, Personality
Description: This study adds to the growing body of research on the interactive effects of personality traits. The researcher hypothesized that the relationship between conscientiousness and task performance would be weaker for individuals high in neuroticism....

Title: Rethinking Empirical Evidence Of Discriminant Validity: The Role Of Confirmatory Factor Analysis In Construct Proliferatio
Author: Albritton, Betsy
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Our field acknowledged the importance of discriminant validity since Campbell and Fiske’s (1959) multitrait-multimethod matrices (MTMM), and yet, the presence of construct proliferation serves as evidence of the lack of clarity or insufficiency of...

Title: SELECTION, OPTIMIZATION, AND COMPENSATION (SOC) STRATEGIES AND PERCEIVED WORK ABILITY: THE ROLES OF PERCEIVED HEALTH AND JOB CONTROL
Author: Flinchum, Jonathan
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Perceived work ability (PWA) represents an employee’s perceptions of their ability to continue working in their current job given their personal resources and the characteristics of their job, and relates to many positive organizational outcomes (...

Title: SHE’S GOT THE “IT” FACTOR: DO FEMALE LEADERS GET CREDIT FOR THEIR CHARISMA?
Author: Hausfeld, Mary
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Management, Psychology
Description: While recent work has significantly advanced knowledge regarding charismatic leadership as a construct and its relationship to follower performance, substantial gaps in the literature persist. Specifically, the role gender may play as both an ante...

Title: SIGNALING CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: AN INVESTIGATION OF RECRUITMENT INITIATIVES
Author: Abberger, Claire
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Industrial management
Description: This study addresses gaps in the recruitment literature by drawing on signaling theory to explore how Fortune 500 firms (n = 91) signal CSR initiatives to attract applicants. A mixed-methods design incorporating topic modeling and qualitative inte...

Title: Self-Efficacy, Perceived Utility and Supervisor Support’s Relationship with Motivation to Transfer Training
Author: Alexander, Steven
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Workplaces conduct training in their organizations with the goal that employees will generalize that training and transfer the learned skills to their jobs. However, training transfer remains a challenge for many organizations. Since the initial t...

Title: Stress, burnout, and work-family conflict among police officers: The moderating effect of emotion regulation strategies
Author: Toth, Allison
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Management, Psychology
Description: Police officers have an incredibly stressful and emotionally laborious job, which can lead to burnout and issues with their work on the clock spilling over and influencing their time with their family off the clock (i.e. work-family conflict). Due...

Title: THE SILENT KILLER IN THE BOARDROOM: EXECUTIVE LEADERS’ HEALTH HABITS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH METABOLIC SYNDROME, ENERGY, AND EFFECTIVENESS
Author: Schmidt, Paul
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Management
Description: A model of executive leader health was proposed to investigate the extent to which executives’ lifestyle behaviors related to their risk for metabolic syndrome (MetS, i.e., "The Silent Killer") and in turn, the extent to which the risk for MetS re...

Title: THREATENING UNIQUENESS OR ENCOURAGING UNITY: THE ROLE OF GROUP ENTITATIVITY IN DEMOGRAPHICALLY DIVERSE WORK GROUPS
Author: McBride, Andrew
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: In this study, I apply the concept of entitativity (perceptions of "groupness") to demographically diverse workgroups. I propose that group-level entitativity will interact with group gender and ethnic diversity; the negative relationship between ...

Title: Tweets and Retweets: Racial Differences in Workplace Social Media Use Following a Police Shooting
Author: Grenier, Kelcie
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: The majority of working adults routinely use social media during their workday and recent literature demonstrates that the purpose of that use varies (Olmstead et al., 2016). Research has also explored under what conditions productivity, communica...

Title: WHEN SITUATIONS ACTIVATE MORE THAN ONE TRAIT CONCURRENTLY: A STUDY OF NEUROTICISM AND CONSCIENTIOUSNESS IN EVALUATIVE AND NON-EVALUATIVE SITUATIONS
Author: Davidson, Amber
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Personality
Description: Most scholars have come to believe behavior is determined by an interaction of personality traits and situations. Trait activation theory (Tett & Guterman, 2000) and Fleeson’s (2001, 2007) conceptualization of the trait-situation interaction both ...

Title: When Should We Meet? Exploring the Scheduling Cadences of Workplace Meetings
Author: Kreamer, Liana
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Psychology
Description: Meetings are a significant part of employees’ workdays, with executives spending a majority of their time leading and attending the events. While literature has explored many facets of workplace meetings, current research has yet to consider their...

Title: When do Effect Sizes Actually Capture Effects? A Meta-Analytic Review
Author: Amari, Paul
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Effect size benchmarks are used as guidelines for conducting power analysis and Bayesian analysis, guiding theory, interpreting practical significance, and reviewing scientific progress. However, effect size estimates that are correlational direct...