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Title: When Should We Meet? Exploring the Scheduling Cadences of Workplace Meetings
Author: Kreamer, Liana
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Psychology
Description: Meetings are a significant part of employees’ workdays, with executives spending a majority of their time leading and attending the events. While literature has explored many facets of workplace meetings, current research has yet to consider their...

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...

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: 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 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: 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: 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: SIGNALING CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: AN INVESTIGATION OF RECRUITMENT INITIATIVES
Author: Abberger, Claire
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Industrial management
Description: This study addresses gaps in the recruitment literature by drawing on signaling theory to explore how Fortune 500 firms (n = 91) signal CSR initiatives to attract applicants. A mixed-methods design incorporating topic modeling and qualitative inte...

Title: SELECTION, OPTIMIZATION, AND COMPENSATION (SOC) STRATEGIES AND PERCEIVED WORK ABILITY: THE ROLES OF PERCEIVED HEALTH AND JOB CONTROL
Author: Flinchum, Jonathan
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Perceived work ability (PWA) represents an employee’s perceptions of their ability to continue working in their current job given their personal resources and the characteristics of their job, and relates to many positive organizational outcomes (...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: MOVEMENT AS A COPING STRATEGY FOR STRESS
Author: Ridenhour, Morgan
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Clinical psychology
Description: This study explores the use of non-strenuous movement, such as stretching and fidgeting, as a coping mechanism for stress. Prominent sources such as American Psychological Association (APA) recommend the use of movement to manage stress (APA, 2017...

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: 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: 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...