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Title: Changing the Conversation on Passive and Active Job Seekers: A Continuum-Based Approach
Author: Mansfield (Abberger), Claire
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Management, Psychology
Description: As employers leverage recruitment activities to compete for active job seekers, they may also seize opportunities to recruit those who are not actively searching for jobs (i.e., passive job seekers). The literature currently focuses on active job ...

Title: How long can they stand it? Examining the effectiveness of reflexology and a passive relaxation intervention in improving health outcomes in workers who stand
Author: Kavanagh, Kathryn
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Many jobs require workers to stand for prolonged periods of time while performing their job duties. Prolonged standing at work has been linked to negative health outcomes, particularly musculoskeletal symptoms (MSS) and fatigue. Reflexology is one...

Title: LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT OF FIRST-TIME LEADERS THROUGH COLLEGIATE ADVENTURE EDUCATION PROGRAMS
Author: Coffey, Kristin
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Psychology, Industrial
Description: This study examined the relation between level of experience as a collegiate adventure education student leader and leadership skills necessary for effective first-time managers in the workplace. One-hundred and thirty-three college students betwe...

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: REDUCING DISABILITY DISCRIMINATION IN THE WORKPLACE
Author: Salge, Martina
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Despite protection form federal legislation, employees with disabilities continue to be discriminated against in the workplace. This study examined the effects of an education and contact intervention on participants’ knowledge about disabilities,...

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: Self-Efficacy, Perceived Utility and Supervisor Support’s Relationship with Motivation to Transfer Training
Author: Alexander, Steven
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Workplaces conduct training in their organizations with the goal that employees will generalize that training and transfer the learned skills to their jobs. However, training transfer remains a challenge for many organizations. Since the initial t...

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...

Title: Your Work-Family Conflict (WFC) Is Hard on Me Too: Employee Reactions to Coworker WFC
Author: Toth, Allison
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Management
Description: Researchers working in the work-family conflict (WFC) literature have a long history of focusing on how conflict between the work and family domains influences employees and their experiences inside and outside of work (Eby et al., 2005). However,...

Title: “16 Weeks is a Lot of Time to be Away”: A Contemporary Examination of Maternity Leave Perceptions and Experiences
Author: Chandler , Allison
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Sociology, Management
Description: In recent decades, women’s presence in the workplace has increased from only a quarter of total American workers, to nearly half of all American workers (U.S. Department of Labor, 2020). With an increasing number of women in the labor force, organ...