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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 META-ANALYTIC REVIEW OF DISCRETE EMOTIONS AND WORK BEHAVIORS IN ORGANIZATIONS
Author: Williams, Courtney
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior
Description: The study of affect in the workplace is a flourishing domain of research in the organizational sciences since the affective revolution started in the 1980s (Barsade, Brief, & Spataro, 2003). Following calls for more research specifically with disc...

Title: A Meta-Analysis of Gender Differences in Leadership Effectiveness
Author: Paustian-Underdahl, Samantha
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Management
Description: Despite years of evidence showing that men are typically considered to be more appropriate and effective in leadership positions than women, a recent debate has emerged over the potential existence of a female leadership advantage in certain conte...

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: 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: Ambient Discrimination and Observer Task Performance
Author: Harrington, Nicole
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Social psychology, Organizational sociology
Description: Research shows that being a target of workplace incivility is related to negative outcomes for both the individual and the organization. According to the theory of selective incivility, stigmatized groups such as women or people of color experienc...

Title: An Examination of the Effects of Charismatic Leadership on Follower Performance in Face-to-face and Virtual Settings
Author: Ernst, Brittany
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Management, Leadership
Description: Charismatic leadership is a powerful, trainable set of skills. Charismatic leaders achieve their effect on followers through the use of stories, metaphors, emotional messaging, and nonverbal gestures (Antonakis, Bastardoz, Jacquart, & Shamir, 2016...

Title: An Investigation into Transformational Leadership Behaviors and Signaling Theory
Author: Stock, George
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior
Description: Transformational leadership is arguably one of the most popular forms of leadership. However, despite the abundance of conducted studies on it, knowledge of specific transformational leadership behaviors is hindered by the conflation of follower p...

Title: Antecedents in Building Resilience: Extending Conservation of Resources Theory
Author: Werntz Coatman, Lindamarie
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Management, Organizational behavior, Psychology, Industrial
Description: Stress in the workplace is a pertinent factor influencing people’s lives and performance at work. Stress creates a cost to employees through their psychological and physical well-being, and it has financial consequences for organizations. One pers...

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: Conceptual Refinement and a Multi-Level Framework of Ethical Culture
Author: Ross, Roxanne
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Psychobiology, Sociology
Description: Interest in understanding ethical culture in organizations has grown over the last few decades. However, ethical culture appears to suffer from a lack of conceptual clarity, leading to downstream problems that threaten the internal and external va...

Title: DOES ORGANIZATIONAL TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODERATE JOB SATISFACTION AND TURNOVER INTENTIONS?
Author: Lewis, Sharon
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Information technology, Industrial management
Description: Often, we become so comfortable with the presence of technology in our daily lives that we do not fully consider how much technology impacts turnover intentions and job satisfaction in the workplace. Much has been researched in the way of job sati...

Title: Differentiating the domains of dirty work in animal euthanasia
Author: Bickmeier, Robert
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Psychology, Psychology, Industrial
Description: ABSTRACTROBERT MICHAEL BICKMEIER. Differentiating the domains of dirty work in animal euthanasia. (Under the direction of DR. STEVEN G. ROGELBERG)This study distinguished two domains of taint in dirty work empirically and theoretically in terms of...

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: External Resources: Do Resilient Employees Use of External Resources Influence Perceptions of Their Job?
Author: Clayton, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior
Description: Conservation of Resources Theory (COR) argues that both psychological and external factors serve as resources to buffer the effects of stress, which in turn influence people’s perception of their work environments. Risk and Resilience Theory (RRT)...

Title: GENEROSITY AT WORK: GENEROUS IDENTITY, ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT, AND ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIORS
Author: Gur, Shahar
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Social sciences--Research
Description: Research on prosocial behaviors at the workplace continues to flourish, and generous identity is a variable that has been omitted in previous studies. Generous identity is the extent to which a person defines themselves as generous. The research r...

Title: Gendered Antecedents of Family-Supportive Supervisor Behaviors
Author: Sargent, Amanda
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior
Description: While much is known regarding important outcomes of Family-Supportive Supervisor Behaviors (FSSB), little research exists regarding possible antecedents. The present study applies a gender lens to establishing antecedents of FSSB using Social Role...

Title: Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: Isomorphism in Measures of Team Constructs
Author: Clayton, Elizabeth
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Statistics, Organizational behavior
Description: Work teams are an ever-growing structure as organizations seek to become more agile and achieve better outcomes (Bersin, 2016; Deloitte, 2018). Therefore, organizational researchers seek to accurately recognize and understand various aspects of te...