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Title: A CASE STUDY OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY NEGOTIATION IN LARGE, TRANSGENERATIONAL FAMILY BUSINESS
Author: Szymanska, Izabela
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Industrial management
Description: The current body of research suggests that the relative importance of business objectives and family objectives changes over time in family firms (Miller et al., 2011). As family firms age, company management tends to provide more resources for th...

Title: ANTECEDENTS OF EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP:
Author: Carson, Marisa
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Psychology, Industrial, Social sciences--Research
Description: Robust, positive relationships have been evidenced between transformational leadership and several workplace outcomes; however, less is known about the individual differences that predispose some individuals to engage in transformational leadershi...

Title: ANTECEDENTS OF EXPATRIATE ORGANIZATIONAL EMBEDDEDNESS: THE ROLE OF PERCEIVED CULTURAL DISTANCE AND HOST COUNTRY NATIONAL SUPPORT
Author: Ordonez, Zoa
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior
Description: Multinational organizations rely on expatriate employees to accomplish important business goals. Therefore, ensuring that expatriates complete their assignments is a key business imperative. To that end, previous studies examining the challenges o...

Title: An Investigation into Transformational Leadership Behaviors and Signaling Theory
Author: Stock, George
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior
Description: Transformational leadership is arguably one of the most popular forms of leadership. However, despite the abundance of conducted studies on it, knowledge of specific transformational leadership behaviors is hindered by the conflation of follower p...

Title: Conceptual Refinement and a Multi-Level Framework of Ethical Culture
Author: Ross, Roxanne
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Psychobiology, Sociology
Description: Interest in understanding ethical culture in organizations has grown over the last few decades. However, ethical culture appears to suffer from a lack of conceptual clarity, leading to downstream problems that threaten the internal and external va...

Title: FROM OPPORTUNITY RECOGNITION TO OPPORTUNITY EVALUATION: A CONGRUENCE PERSPECTIVE OF OPPORTUNITY BELIEF FORMATION
Author: Scheaf, David
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Cognitive psychology, Entrepreneurship
Description: Beliefs about the existence and attractiveness of opportunities underpin entrepreneurial action. Belief formation is broken into two distinct phases. Third-person opportunity beliefs (i.e., an opportunity for someone) form as a result of the oppor...

Title: GENEROSITY AT WORK: GENEROUS IDENTITY, ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT, AND ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIORS
Author: Gur, Shahar
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Social sciences--Research
Description: Research on prosocial behaviors at the workplace continues to flourish, and generous identity is a variable that has been omitted in previous studies. Generous identity is the extent to which a person defines themselves as generous. The research r...

Title: Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: Isomorphism in Measures of Team Constructs
Author: Clayton, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Statistics, Organizational behavior
Description: Work teams are an ever-growing structure as organizations seek to become more agile and achieve better outcomes (Bersin, 2016; Deloitte, 2018). Therefore, organizational researchers seek to accurately recognize and understand various aspects of te...

Title: How Nature Can Nurture: Examining the Role of Environment Naturalness in Recovery During Work Breaks
Author: Kavanagh, Kathryn
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Work stress recovery is critical to employee health, wellbeing, and engagement, but our understanding of how recovery unfolds during work breaks and in different environments is incomplete. Based on theories of recovery from occupational health ps...

Title: IN SEARCH OF GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF ORGANIZATIONAL INCLUSION: AN EXPANDED APPROACH
Author: Berka, Gregory
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior
Description: Organizational inclusion research, which includes assessing how employees experience a sense of feeling included or excluded in their work group, is a young and developing research area. Feelings of inclusion can be based on both formal policies a...

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: 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 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 Intersectional Effects of Race, Gender, and Class on Worker Outcomes
Author: Frevert, Tonya
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Social structure, Women's studies
Description: In this dissertation, I investigate how the combined structural locations of workers’ race, gender, and class affect their individual outcomes in their personal domain (health perceptions), their work domain (job satisfaction), and the interface b...

Title: The effect of coworking spaces on work-life and work-family boundaries
Author: Dickson, Ashleigh
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Psychology
Description: Coworking spaces have recently grown in popularity as a third workspace with benefits of both working from home and traditional office spaces. The goal of the current study was to examine how employees working in coworking spaces construct and nav...