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Title: TIME AND THE WORK/FAMILY INTERFACE IN A FORTUNE 500 ORGANIZATION: THE DIRECT AND INTERACTIVE EFFECTS OF TEMPORAL STRUCTURES, OUT-OF-OFFICE CONTACT, AND POLYCHRONICITY ON NEGATIVE WORK-TO-FAMILY SPILLOVER
Author: Agypt, Brett
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Management, Organizational sociology
Description: The modern economy is high-paced and demanding, in part due to globalization's effect on business processes and expanded technological capabilities; as a result, employees can experience greater pressure and stress in the workplace that can lead t...

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: Managing for high reliability: The relationship of collective mindfulness and managerial communication with social-exchange perceptions, performance, and creativity
Author: Baran, Benjamin
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Management, Psychology, Industrial
Description: The modern world of work presents managers with a business environment marked by increasingly high levels of ambiguity. Succeeding within the face of such ambiguity requires a high degree of effective sensemaking and creativity within teams. High-...

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: The Impact of Organizational Environment on Reporting Sexual Harassment: A Meta-Analytic Review
Author: Best, Emma
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Management
Description: This meta-analytic review integrates a micro-perspective theory of coping responses with the macro-perspective institutional theory of moral collapse to understand the likelihood of an employee reporting sexual harassment. I build on previous stud...

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: Power, Influence Tactics, and Influence Processes in Virtual Teams
Author: Boughton, Marla
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Management, Information technology
Description: Current studies of power, influence tactics, and influence processes in virtual teams assume that these constructs operate in a similar manner as they do in the face-to-face (FtF) environment. However, the virtual context differs from the FtF envi...

Title: The Perceptions of Interactional Justice and Psychosocial Mentorship in Developing Resilience for Women of Color in the Workplace
Author: Burney, Cassandra
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Management, Organizational behavior
Description: Extant management literature has recognized resilience as a positive strategy for thriving in the face of challenges in the workplace. In this dissertation, the theoretical model suggests that psychosocial mentorship and perceptions of interaction...

Title: How Does Family Firm Status Moderate the Relationship Between Organizational Readiness for Change and Organizational Resilience in Times of Crisis?
Author: Castillo, Nubia
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Management, Statistics, Industrial management
Description: ABSTRACTNUBIA A. CASTILLO DE VALLE. How does family firm status moderate the relationship between organizational readiness for change and organizational resilience in times of crisis? (Under the direction of DR.TORSTEN M. PIEPER)The literature on ...

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: “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...

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: 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: Through the Lens of Social Movement Impact Theory in Latin America. Measuring Social Entrepreneurial Intention: Utilizing Socio-Political Activism and Entrepreneurial Passion as Moderated by Opportunity Recognition and Gender
Author: Darden, Bryan
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Management, Social sciences--Research, Entrepreneurship
Description: Many studies have used the Theory of Planned Behavior to explain social entrepreneurial intention; however, limited empirical research has focused on the effects that socio-political activism, theory of social movements, and social movement impact...

Title: Proto-Institutionalization as a Complex Socio-Technical Process: The Emergence of Diversity Practices in Computer Science Education
Author: Davis, Daniel
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Management, Organizational sociology
Description: Extant scholarship in organizational science explains the conditions under which organizational actors adopt established institutional practices. Organizational scientists have been less successful in explaining the origins of institutional practi...

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: TOWARD SYSTEMATIC DESIGN OF KNOWLEDGE-INTENSIVE SERVICE DELIVERY NETWORKS
Author: Dong, Su
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Management, Social structure, Information technology
Description: Effective management of IT-enabled services is becoming increasingly important. These services are often delivered by networks of knowledge workers who constitute Knowledge Intensive Service Delivery Networks (KISDN). This dissertation contributes...

Title: Abusive Supervision and Subordinate Characteristics: A Relative Importance Analysis
Author: Durham, Brooks
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Management, Organizational sociology
Description: Abusive supervision is defined as the sustained display of hostile verbal and nonverbal behaviors, excluding physical contact by a supervisor or leader. Abusive supervision is pervasive in the workplace and has many pernicious consequences, rangin...

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: 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...