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Title: A Delphi-Based Investigation on Principal Preparedness for Managing School Finance
Author: Christian, Arthur
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Management, Education--Finance
Description: Background. Research on principal preparedness for managing school finance is limited. Grounded in theory, principal preparation programs are wifout practical exercises for leadership readiness on budgets and finance. On its face, this topic is he...

Title: A FRAMEWORK FOR LONG TERM ASSET MANAGEMENT PLAN USING ASSET PRIORITY INDEX AND CONDITION INDEX FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA FERRY SYSTEM
Author: Subramanian, Balagee
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Management, Transportation
Description: The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) and the North Carolina Ferry System combined have many assets in place. This thesis primarily concerns the North Carolina Ferry System (NCFS). The NCFS has a sizable number of assets and a lo...

Title: A Multi Criteria Decision Framework for “smart” Product Introduction in Bearing Industry that uses Internet Of Things
Author: Eferdinger, Markus
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Management
Description: The digitalization changes products in almost every industry. Therefore, it is not surprising, that companies face challenges due to these new technological changes caused by Internet of Things (IoT). Especially for large corporations it could hav...

Title: A New Approach to Promote Employee Engagement: One-on-one Meetings Between Managers and Direct Reports
Author: Flinchum, Jonathan
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Management
Description: Organizations often struggle to engage their workforces despite various known benefits and predictors of employee engagement. The current study examined a new approach to promote employee engagement—1:1 meetings between managers and direct reports...

Title: A Post Construction Evaluation of Subcontractor Performance
Author: Vialet, Kurrisa
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Management
Description: Construction projects are increasing in complexity and thus more contractors are becoming more reliant on subcontractors that are trade specific to complete a project. Since a large portion of the work is subcontractor-driven, the success of a pro...

Title: A market for vice: The foundations of corporate strategic irresponsibility
Author: Stewart, Oscar
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Management, Sociology, Ethics
Description: Organizational scholarship has assumed that corporate irresponsibility (CI) is largely detrimental to firm financial performance. Alternatively, CI may sometimes work in firms’ favor, though at the expense of stakeholders. Exploring this reality, ...

Title: Crowd Control: Organizing the Crowd at Yelp
Author: Askay, David
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Management, Communication, World Wide Web--Study and teaching
Description: This dissertation investigates how businesses are able to align the collective actions of a disconnected crowd with the strategic goals of the organization. I examined this questions within the context of the business review website Yelp through a...

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: Does Fit Matter? An Investigation of Employee-Supervisor Individual Entrepreneurial Orientation Fit on Innovative Work Behavior Within Established Organizations
Author: Piwowar, Theresa
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Entrepreneurship, Management
Description: Within established organizations, employee innovative behavior is vital for the long-term survival of firms. Employee individual entrepreneurial orientation (IEO) represents tendencies by an individual toward innovativeness, proactiveness, and ris...

Title: Double Standards and Selection
Author: Clemons Doerer, Sharon
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Management, Sociology, Social psychology
Description: In this dissertation, I use an extension of status characteristics theory--the theory of double standards--to investigate whether and to what extent race activates the use of differential standards in the evaluation of objectively measured task-re...

Title: EXPLORING THE IMPACTS OF SELF-COMPASSION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY ON BURNOUT AND ENGAGEMENT AMONG ANIMAL SHELTER STAFF: A MODERATOR ANALYSIS OF THE JOB DEMANDS-RESOURCES FRAMEWORK AND A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED FIELD TRIAL OF A BRIEF SELF-GUIDED ONLINE INTERVENTION
Author: Fiery, Mallory
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Management, Psychology
Description: Compassion fatigue is a serious concern among individuals in the helping professions, including animal welfare. Current interventions for compassion fatigue are time-consuming, expensive, and not well understood. Similarly, the role of personal re...

Title: Economic and Political Uncertainty and The Effects of Organizational Integration, Volume Flexibility, And Redundancy on Reliability and Delivery for Water Utilities
Author: Fraher, Andrew
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Management, Industrial management
Description: Every hour of everyday water utilities across the United States labor tirelessly to supply clean, safe, and affordable drinking water to residential and industrial consumers. Wastewater from these homes and businesses is captured and moved to trea...

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: Employee Referrals: A Competitive Advantage or Operational Inefficiency
Author: Reeves, Samantha
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Management
Description: Effective and efficient recruiting is required for firms as they seek to maintain a competitive advantage in the race to hire top talent. At the time of this study, United States unemployment rates had reached historical lows of less than 4% as of...

Title: Engine Oil Analysis on the North Carolina Department of Transportation Fleet
Author: Beal, Cody
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Management
Description: Preventative maintenance is a key component in maintaining fleet quality. Engine oil provides thermal management, wear protection, and corrosion resistance functions that optimize engine performance and life. Engine oil quality degrades through th...

Title: Evaluating Organizational Readiness to Implement Change Within the Workplace
Author: Kasana, Dipin
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Management
Description: Organizational change is an initiative to transition from a current state to a desired future state, where the initiatives can be either planned or unplanned, based on motivational factors. This study evaluates the impact of organizational charact...

Title: Examining Early Perceptions of Leaders and Entitativity in a Shared Leading Situation with a Focus on Gender
Author: Caudill, Leann
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Psychobiology, Sociology, Management
Description: As organizations become increasingly team-based and less hierarchical, the leader (and follower) role could stretch within groups and be shared by all group members. When faced with gender-diverse groups, members or observers of the group may have...

Title: Exploratory And Confirmatory Analyses Of A Hospital Employee Satisfaction Survey
Author: Redden, Kenneth
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Management
Description: This study explored the factor structure of a 22-item survey developed to measure employee satisfaction in a healthcare setting. The purpose was to determine if a homegrown survey possessed factors known to measure employee satisfaction. First an ...

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: Gender and Leadership: A Second Order Meta-Analytic Review
Author: Santos, Kristen
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Industrial management, Sex role, Management
Description: Given the importance of understanding how gender bias impacts the advancement of women into upper leadership, this second-order meta-analysis attempts to explore and summarize previous developments in the gender and leadership literature in order ...