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Title: S&P 500 Index Reconstitutions: An Analysis of Outstanding Hypotheses
Author: Baran, Lindsay
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Business
Description: The market reaction to announcements of S&P 500 index changes shows a sustained price increase for added firms and a short-term price decline for newly removed firms. We explore the outstanding hypotheses regarding liquidity, certification, and in...

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: 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: 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: The School Environment Project: Measuring Key Elements of School Climate and Culture in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
Author: Godly-Reynolds, Erin
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Education
Description: Previous research has investigated the school context using conceptualizations of two constructs, school culture and school climate, that appear to overlap and contain measurement flaws, limiting their utility in applied research settings. To impr...

Title: UNDERSTANDING EXECUTIVE TURNOVER: EXECUTIVE PERFORMANCE AND ECONOMIC CHANGES
Author: Gordon, Heather
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Management, Psychology
Description: Previous studies examining the predictors of turnover have focused on lower-level employees rather than executives in the upper-ranks of the organization. The few studies that have examined executive turnover have failed to differentiate turnover ...

Title: Understanding Older Workers' Decisions to Participate in Voluntary Training Opportunities
Author: Lopina, Erika
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior
Description: The current study integrated theories of adult development with theories of training motivation to address two overarching research questions: 1) Does the likelihood of participating in training differ between younger and older workers? and, 2) Ar...

Title: Understanding peer exchange relationships: A social relations analysis of reciprocity perceptions
Author: Thomas, Jane
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Management, Psychology
Description: Although the majority of social exchange research within the organizational sciences relies on reciprocity as the underlying theoretical mechanism in exchange relationships, reciprocity is rarely studied in its own right. The current research soug...

Title: WORK ENVIRONMENT CHOICE AMONG KNOWLEDGE WORKERS: A MIXED METHODS INVESTIGATION
Author: Spivack, April
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Sociology, Psychology
Description: As a result of technological advances, workers have become increasingly mobile; people can perform work in a whole host of new locations. Teleworking arrangements challenge traditional managerial practices, however, and call attention to the tensi...

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...