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Title: A RELATIONAL EXAMINATION OF RESOURCE ACQUISITION IN ENTREPRENEURIAL NETWORKS
Author: Medaugh, Melissa
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Entrepreneurship
Description: Social networks provide entrepreneurs with a cost-effective way to acquire resources from people they know personally. In the current research, I develop and test a relational model of resource acquisition, which demonstrates the predictive role o...

Title: Ambient Discrimination and Observer Task Performance
Author: Harrington, Nicole
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Social psychology, Organizational sociology
Description: Research shows that being a target of workplace incivility is related to negative outcomes for both the individual and the organization. According to the theory of selective incivility, stigmatized groups such as women or people of color experienc...

Title: An Examination of Skip-Level Meetings and their Relationship with Job Embeddedness
Author: Zebroski, Micaela
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Psychology
Description: A growing body of research documents the importance of studying job embeddedness in order to predict turnover, or conversely, why employees stay at their jobs. However, little is known about how meetings—one of the most time-consuming practices at...

Title: Change-oriented safety behavior in high reliability organizations: Meta-analyzing the social context
Author: Engemann, Krista
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Management, Psychology
Description: Workplace safety is a concern for both scholars and practitioners because of the potential for substantial loss of organizational resources. The high reliability organization, and the theory that guides our understanding of this unique organizatio...

Title: Differences Between Hispanic and White Job Seekers in Job Search Length, Salary, and the Role of Internship Experience
Author: Wilde, Natalie
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Management
Description: Over recent years, progress has been made toward improving Hispanic American’s education and work outcomes. However, even among college graduates, Hispanic Americans face marked difficulty on the job market in terms of both salary and hiring (NCES...

Title: Differentiating the domains of dirty work in animal euthanasia
Author: Bickmeier, Robert
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Psychology, Psychology, Industrial
Description: ABSTRACTROBERT MICHAEL BICKMEIER. Differentiating the domains of dirty work in animal euthanasia. (Under the direction of DR. STEVEN G. ROGELBERG)This study distinguished two domains of taint in dirty work empirically and theoretically in terms of...

Title: Does the Configurable Approach to Personality Testing Impact Measurement Characteristics? A Measurement Equivalence/Invariance Analysis
Author: Shumaker, Anne-Marie
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Psychology, Psychology--Statistical methods
Description: Computerized personality testing has allowed organizations using scores from personality tests within hiring systems to configure their tests to deliver only items that are directly related to the job. Although configurable personality testing may...

Title: External Resources: Do Resilient Employees Use of External Resources Influence Perceptions of Their Job?
Author: Clayton, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior
Description: Conservation of Resources Theory (COR) argues that both psychological and external factors serve as resources to buffer the effects of stress, which in turn influence people’s perception of their work environments. Risk and Resilience Theory (RRT)...

Title: Gender Diversity, Conflict, and Psychological Safety in Teams: A Conceptual and Empirical Examination
Author: Redler, Emily
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Sociology, Management
Description: Teamwork is common in daily work life, and it is likely that, when working within teams, conflict may occur. Conflict negatively affects a team’s psychological safety – the feeling of safety and willingness to share one’s ideas and take risks whil...

Title: Goals, Emotions, and Interviews: Job Candidates’ Interpersonal Goals Effect on Emotional Experience during Job Interviews
Author: Valvo, Austin
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Industrial
Description: A job interview is a crucial aspect when attempting to receive a job offer. Because of its importance, an interview can elicit both positive and negative emotions that can have an impact on one’s interview performance (Fox & Spector, 2000; Powell ...

Title: HOW PERCEPTIONS OF INCLUSION RELATE TO WORK GROUP ATTRACTION
Author: Scheaf, David
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Identification—the perceived oneness and/or belongingness—with a group has been found to be related to a host of individual and group outcomes. However, it remains unclear how group perceptions and outcomes are affected when an individual perceive...

Title: IMPLICATIONS OF CULTURAL AND LANGUAGE ISSUES FOR INTERPERSONAL AND INFORMATIONAL JUSTICE
Author: Woznyj, Haley
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Psychology
Description: The population in the United States is increasingly becoming more diverse. The share of minorities in the United States has grown substantially in recent decades and is projected to continue to grow. These trends have translated into a more divers...

Title: INFLUENCE OF TEAM VERSUS INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE RECOGNITION ON PRODUCTIVITY, ENTITATIVITY, AND SATISFACTION
Author: Gur, Shahar
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Psychology
Description: The goal of this experimental study is to examine the influence of performance recognitions that target either the team or the individual on subsequent productivity, entitativity, and team and task satisfaction. Participants worked on an informati...

Title: Perceived Work Ability for Employees with Mental Illness: The Roles of Symptom Severity, Anticipated Discrimination, and Internalized Stigma
Author: Bardwell, Tarya
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Working adults with mental illness must navigate stigma and impairment in the workplace, and these factors may affect their perceived ability to continue working in their current job. Using appraisal theory and the why try model, the current study...

Title: Potential Barriers to Women's Leadership Self-efficacy
Author: Robinson, Aspen
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education, Psychology
Description: Many organizations are employing women at a higher rate than seen in previous years, yet women are still underrepresented in leadership roles. In this paper, I examine factors that may influence an individual’s perceived capabilities of being a le...

Title: Procedural Justice, Face Validity, and Departure from Expectations in Selection Procedures as Antecedents of Anticipated Organizational Support
Author: Roatch, Jackson
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Although perceived organizational support (POS) is a widely studied construct with well-established antecedents and consequences, less is known about how perceptions are formed in the early stages of the individual-organization relationship. Build...

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: 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...