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Title: A Grounded Theory Study of the Meaning of Career Success
Author: Frear, Katherine
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Management, Psychology
Description: 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...

Title: ANTECEDENTS OF EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP:
Author: Carson, Marisa
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Psychology, Industrial, Social sciences--Research
Description: Robust, positive relationships have been evidenced between transformational leadership and several workplace outcomes; however, less is known about the individual differences that predispose some individuals to engage in transformational leadershi...

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: 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: 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: Social skills at first acquaintance: Moderators of the relationship between self-and other-ratings of social skills
Author: Voss, Emily
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Social skills are an important aspect of interpersonal interaction in the workplace. While much of the current research focuses on self-reports of social skills, how others view social skills is also important. I explored the relationship between ...

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: WHEN SITUATIONS ACTIVATE MORE THAN ONE TRAIT CONCURRENTLY: A STUDY OF NEUROTICISM AND CONSCIENTIOUSNESS IN EVALUATIVE AND NON-EVALUATIVE SITUATIONS
Author: Davidson, Amber
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Personality
Description: Most scholars have come to believe behavior is determined by an interaction of personality traits and situations. Trait activation theory (Tett & Guterman, 2000) and Fleeson’s (2001, 2007) conceptualization of the trait-situation interaction both ...