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Title: A Comparison Of Academic Advising Experiences And Satisfaction Of African American Males and Other Students At A Predominately White Institution
Author: Means, Billie
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Education, Educational leadership, Educational psychology
Description: Of all college students, four percent are African American males of which one third graduate within six years. The status of African-American males in higher education serves as an impetus for research to investigate their collegiate experiences a...

Title: EXPLORING THE PERCEPTIONS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN ON HOW DIVERSITY TRAINING HAS IMPACTED THEIR UPWARD MOBILITY INTO SENIOR LEADERSHIP
Author: Crews, William
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Sex role
Description: ABSTRACTWILLIAM E. CREWS. Exploring the perceptions of African American women on how diversity training has impacted their upward mobility into senior leadership. (Under the direction of Dr. LISA R. MERRIWEATHER)The purpose of the present study wa...

Title: Formal Techniques for Cyber Resilience: Modeling, Synthesis, and Verification
Author: Alsaleh, Mohammed Noraden
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: As cyber vulnerability and complexity increases, cyber attacks become highly sophisticated and inevitable. Therefore, cyber resilience is necessary to make cyber capable of misleading attackers in reaching their goals, resisting their progress, an...

Title: Inclusive Leader Behavior In A Virtual Context: A Causal Investigation
Author: Utz, Adrienne
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Industrial management
Description: Despite the workforce in the United States becoming more diverse, there is still a lack of understanding of how leaders can create an inclusive work environment. Previous research has provided little evidence of which inclusive leadership behavior...

Title: Leveling the Playing Field: Similarity's Effect on Satisfaction with Status
Author: Arnold, Samuel
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Social psychology
Description: This study proposes a new construct in expectation states theory – status satisfaction (i.e., satisfaction with one’s status in a group). A scale was developed to measure this construct based on previous findings in expectation states literature. ...

Title: Perceived Racial Discrimination’s Association With Procedural Justice as Moderated by Organizational Efforts to Support Diversity: A Replication and Extension of Triana & García (2009)
Author: Oshana, Adoril
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Racial-ethnic minorities (i.e., those who do not identify as White alone, not Hispanic or Latinx) compose about 40% of the U.S. population. Social justice initiatives resulted in the government providing protections for such minorities in the work...

Title: Science as a critical method for deconstructing diversity discourse: Towards an anti-racist teacher education
Author: Ash, Alfred
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Education, Teachers--Training of, Curriculum planning
Description: This study is informed by an understanding of cultural incongruities in the classroom, and a critical postmodern science framework that recognizes the need for an interpretive and incisive approach for teaching about diversity issues in teacher ed...

Title: THE POSSIBLE ROLE OF INTUITION IN THE CHILD'S EPISTEMIC BELIEFS IN THE PIAGETIAN DATA SET
Author: Bickart, John
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Elementary, Cognitive psychology
Description: U.S. schools teach predominately to the analytical, left-brain, which has foundations in behaviorism, and uses a mechanistic paradigm that influences epistemic beliefs of how learning takes place. This result is that learning is impeded. Using dis...

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: The Multidimensional Self at Work: An Intersectional Examination of Identity Conflict and Authenticity Among Black and White Men and Women
Author: Summerville, Karoline
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Management, Organizational behavior, Psychology
Description: Diversity initiatives are often ineffective because they characterize differences at the group-level, and therefore, do not adequately address individuals’ specific identity-related challenges. I apply intersectionality theory to understand how mu...

Title: The Perceptions of Interactional Justice and Psychosocial Mentorship in Developing Resilience for Women of Color in the Workplace
Author: Burney, Cassandra
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Management, Organizational behavior
Description: Extant management literature has recognized resilience as a positive strategy for thriving in the face of challenges in the workplace. In this dissertation, the theoretical model suggests that psychosocial mentorship and perceptions of interaction...