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- Title
- A Cold Pot Does Not Boil: A Case Study Of The Virginia Beach City Municipal Center Shooting To Understand Disgruntled Employee Violence
- Author
- Bynum, Karly
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational sociology
- Description
- The phenomenon of the violent disgruntled employee is a symptom of increasing mass violence in the U.S. Previous literature on mass violence in the workplace is mostly based on the individual psychologization of attackers. This case study is a rea...
- 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
- Institutional Dynamics in Corporate Political Linkages: Evidence From China's Emerging Economy
- Author
- Ge, Jianhua
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Management, Business, Organizational sociology
- Description
- This dissertation aims to reveal the institutional dynamics in corporate political linkages as the extant literature largely fails to recognize that corporate political linkages are institutionally embedded. Specifically, three studies have been c...
- 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
- Queering Entrepreneurship: An ethnographic study of a women-led tech startup in Berlin
- Author
- Wilson, Miguel
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational sociology, Women's studies
- Description
- With the rise of more women-led firms in the tech industry, the question of how these organizations either differentiate or align themselves with their male-dominanted competitors is of growing interest. I examine whether a women-led tech startup ...
- Title
- Safety, Reliability, and “That Magic Second”: A Grounded Practical Investigation of Dilemmatic Talk in Pit Crews’ Post-Competition Debriefs
- Author
- Engemann, Krista
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational sociology
- Description
- Safety is often understood as freedom from unacceptable loss; reliability as the capacity to accomplish particular outcomes repeatedly through operational sensitivity. Both compel performance objectives for high-risk organizations. If either is ab...
- 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
- The Value of Team Culture: What Keeps Employees Committed in a Remote Working World?
- Author
- Herlihy, Darcy
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Organizational behavior, Organizational sociology
- Description
- Prior research shows the value of cultural strength in an organization and how that canfoster job satisfaction, leading to a greater likelihood of retention and employee commitment. Since the onset of the pandemic in 2020 and the sudden shift to r...