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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Participation in Virtual Meetings: Using the “Chat” as a Mechanism to Elevate Attendee Voices
Author: Kreamer, Liana
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Sociology, Management
Description: A key component of team performance is participation among group members. One widespread organizational function that provides a stage for participation is the workplace meeting. With the shift to remote work, roughly half of all meetings are now ...

Title: “16 Weeks is a Lot of Time to be Away”: A Contemporary Examination of Maternity Leave Perceptions and Experiences
Author: Chandler , Allison
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Sociology, Management
Description: In recent decades, women’s presence in the workplace has increased from only a quarter of total American workers, to nearly half of all American workers (U.S. Department of Labor, 2020). With an increasing number of women in the labor force, organ...