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- Title
- A Meta-Analysis of Gender Differences in Leadership Effectiveness
- Author
- Paustian-Underdahl, Samantha
- Date Created
- 2012
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior, Management
- Description
- 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...
- 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
- Electronic Multitasking During Workplace Meetings: Why Do Employees Do It?
- Author
- Williams, Eleanor
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Management, Communication, Psychology
- Description
- 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...
- 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
- How school leaders prioritize and allocate resources to improve teacher quality through teacher professional development: A multiple case study in suburban North Carolina
- Author
- Tyson, Deonte
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Educational leadership, Teachers--Training of
- Description
- This multiple case study examined the methods by which school leaders determined and planned teacher professional development, as well as what teachers perceived as their professional development needs and how they believe school leaders take thos...
- 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
- Intersectional Status Beliefs Transfer in Employee Referral Processes
- Author
- Sargent, Amanda
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Management, Social psychology, Organizational behavior
- Description
- 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...
- Title
- Modeling the effects of involvement and attitudes on energy industry pursuit intentions: A systems analysis of the university-industry environment
- Author
- Gross, Jordan
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Power resources, Psychology, Industrial, System theory
- Description
- The energy industry’s struggle to attract and retain qualified employees continues to threaten the nation’s economy, global competitiveness, and national security. Given the nationwide skills and labor shortage in the energy industry, this study w...
- Title
- Parenting and Remote Work in the Pandemic: Parents’ Work-Life Boundaries and Boundary Management Strategies in the New Normal
- Author
- Dickson, Ashleigh
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology, Management, Sociology
- Description
- A significant change that employees in the United States have experienced because of the COVID-19 pandemic is the rise of remote work. There are many benefits of remote work. However, many remote workers struggle to keep work and life separate. Th...
- 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
- S&P 500 Index Reconstitutions: An Analysis of Outstanding Hypotheses
- Author
- Baran, Lindsay
- Date Created
- 2010
- Subjects--Topical
- Business
- Description
- The market reaction to announcements of S&P 500 index changes shows a sustained price increase for added firms and a short-term price decline for newly removed firms. We explore the outstanding hypotheses regarding liquidity, certification, and in...
- 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
- The School Environment Project: Measuring Key Elements of School Climate and Culture in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
- Author
- Godly-Reynolds, Erin
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Psychology, Education
- Description
- Previous research has investigated the school context using conceptualizations of two constructs, school culture and school climate, that appear to overlap and contain measurement flaws, limiting their utility in applied research settings. To impr...
- Title
- UNDERSTANDING EXECUTIVE TURNOVER: EXECUTIVE PERFORMANCE AND ECONOMIC CHANGES
- Author
- Gordon, Heather
- Date Created
- 2010
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior, Management, Psychology
- Description
- Previous studies examining the predictors of turnover have focused on lower-level employees rather than executives in the upper-ranks of the organization. The few studies that have examined executive turnover have failed to differentiate turnover ...
- Title
- Understanding Older Workers' Decisions to Participate in Voluntary Training Opportunities
- Author
- Lopina, Erika
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior
- Description
- The current study integrated theories of adult development with theories of training motivation to address two overarching research questions: 1) Does the likelihood of participating in training differ between younger and older workers? and, 2) Ar...
- Title
- Understanding peer exchange relationships: A social relations analysis of reciprocity perceptions
- Author
- Thomas, Jane
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Management, Psychology
- Description
- Although the majority of social exchange research within the organizational sciences relies on reciprocity as the underlying theoretical mechanism in exchange relationships, reciprocity is rarely studied in its own right. The current research soug...
- Title
- WORK ENVIRONMENT CHOICE AMONG KNOWLEDGE WORKERS: A MIXED METHODS INVESTIGATION
- Author
- Spivack, April
- Date Created
- 2012
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior, Sociology, Psychology
- Description
- As a result of technological advances, workers have become increasingly mobile; people can perform work in a whole host of new locations. Teleworking arrangements challenge traditional managerial practices, however, and call attention to the tensi...