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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: 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: Change-oriented safety behavior in high reliability organizations: Meta-analyzing the social context
Author: Engemann, Krista
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Management, Psychology
Description: Workplace safety is a concern for both scholars and practitioners because of the potential for substantial loss of organizational resources. The high reliability organization, and the theory that guides our understanding of this unique organizatio...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Improvement or Peril: The Paradox of Professionalizing Innovation-Driven Portfolio Firms
Author: Medaugh, Melissa
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Entrepreneurship, Management, Psychology
Description: To understand why some innovation-driven portfolio firms benefit more from venture capital (VC) funding than others, I explore the salient phenomenon of founder CEO exit. Integrating institutional logics and psychological contracts theories, I pro...

Title: Navigating the Insider-Outsider Divide: Understanding the Socialization Experiences of Contract Workers
Author: Beveridge, Chelsea
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Management, Communication, Psychology
Description: Contractors have unique employment arrangements, but previous research has often grouped them into samples with other contingent workers. As such, research specific to contract workers is relatively sparse and focused on This dissertation focused ...

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: SHE’S GOT THE “IT” FACTOR: DO FEMALE LEADERS GET CREDIT FOR THEIR CHARISMA?
Author: Hausfeld, Mary
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Management, Psychology
Description: While recent work has significantly advanced knowledge regarding charismatic leadership as a construct and its relationship to follower performance, substantial gaps in the literature persist. Specifically, the role gender may play as both an ante...

Title: Self-distancing: A Key to Leadership Success?
Author: Williams, Eleanor
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Management, Communication, Psychology
Description: This study adds to the limited body of research on self-leadership—at the heart of which is self-talk—and it’s impact on leaders’ performance. The research that has been done on leaders’ self-talk has not yet looked at the promising effects of sel...

Title: Stress, burnout, and work-family conflict among police officers: The moderating effect of emotion regulation strategies
Author: Toth, Allison
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Management, Psychology
Description: Police officers have an incredibly stressful and emotionally laborious job, which can lead to burnout and issues with their work on the clock spilling over and influencing their time with their family off the clock (i.e. work-family conflict). Due...

Title: The Multidimensional Self at Work: An Intersectional Examination of Identity Conflict and Authenticity Among Black and White Men and Women
Author: Summerville, Karoline
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Management, Organizational behavior, Psychology
Description: Diversity initiatives are often ineffective because they characterize differences at the group-level, and therefore, do not adequately address individuals’ specific identity-related challenges. I apply intersectionality theory to understand how mu...

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 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...