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PROMOTING EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT THROUGH MANAGERS' STRATEGIC USE OF MEETINGS
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Author
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Allen, Joseph
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Date Created
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2010
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Subjects--Topical
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Communication, Psychology, Industrial, Business
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Description
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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...
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Power, Influence Tactics, and Influence Processes in Virtual Teams
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Author
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Boughton, Marla
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Date Created
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2011
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Subjects--Topical
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Organizational behavior, Management, Information technology
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Description
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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...
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An Examination of the Effects of Charismatic Leadership on Follower Performance in Face-to-face and Virtual Settings
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Author
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Ernst, Brittany
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Organizational behavior, Management, Leadership
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Description
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Charismatic leadership is a powerful, trainable set of skills. Charismatic leaders achieve their effect on followers through the use of stories, metaphors, emotional messaging, and nonverbal gestures (Antonakis, Bastardoz, Jacquart, & Shamir, 2016...
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Conceptual Refinement and a Multi-Level Framework of Ethical Culture
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Author
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Ross, Roxanne
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Organizational behavior, Psychobiology, Sociology
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Description
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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...
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A Meta-Analysis of Gender Differences in Leadership Effectiveness
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Author
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Paustian-Underdahl, Samantha
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Date Created
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2012
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Subjects--Topical
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Organizational behavior, Management
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Description
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Despite years of evidence showing that men are typically considered to be more appropriate and effective in leadership positions than women, a recent debate has emerged over the potential existence of a female leadership advantage in certain conte...
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Intersectional Status Beliefs Transfer in Employee Referral Processes
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Author
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Sargent, Amanda
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Management, Social psychology, Organizational behavior
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Description
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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...
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A Grounded Theory Study of the Meaning of Career Success
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Author
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Frear, Katherine
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Organizational behavior, Management, Psychology
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Description
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The purpose of this research was to examine the concept of career success as discussed by career actors and to develop theory about the construct of career success. I used grounded theory methodology with constant comparative analysis (Glaser & St...
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An Investigation into Transformational Leadership Behaviors and Signaling Theory
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Author
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Stock, George
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Organizational behavior
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Description
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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...
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Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: Isomorphism in Measures of Team Constructs
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Author
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Clayton, Elizabeth
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Statistics, Organizational behavior
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Description
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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...
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Improvement or Peril: The Paradox of Professionalizing Innovation-Driven Portfolio Firms
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Author
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Medaugh, Melissa
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Entrepreneurship, Management, Psychology
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Description
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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...
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Double Standards and Selection
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Author
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Clemons Doerer, Sharon
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Management, Sociology, Social psychology
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Description
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In this dissertation, I use an extension of status characteristics theory--the theory of double standards--to investigate whether and to what extent race activates the use of differential standards in the evaluation of objectively measured task-re...
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Crowd Control: Organizing the Crowd at Yelp
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Author
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Askay, David
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Management, Communication, World Wide Web--Study and teaching
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Description
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This dissertation investigates how businesses are able to align the collective actions of a disconnected crowd with the strategic goals of the organization. I examined this questions within the context of the business review website Yelp through a...
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Electronic Multitasking During Workplace Meetings: Why Do Employees Do It?
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Author
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Williams, Eleanor
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Management, Communication, Psychology
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Description
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Employees are increasingly engaging in electronic multitasking during workplace meetings, as the proliferation of technology is on the rise. Though electronic multitasking is common and potentially harmful to meeting effectiveness because it distr...