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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: 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: 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: How Nature Can Nurture: Examining the Role of Environment Naturalness in Recovery During Work Breaks
Author: Kavanagh, Kathryn
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Work stress recovery is critical to employee health, wellbeing, and engagement, but our understanding of how recovery unfolds during work breaks and in different environments is incomplete. Based on theories of recovery from occupational health ps...

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: Social Class in The Organizational Sciences: A Meta-Analysis
Author: Loignon, Andrew
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Psychology, Industrial management
Description: Social class has become increasingly popular in the organizational sciences. Recent studies have found that one’s social class influences phenomena ranging from decision-making, to pro-social behavior, and interpersonal interactions. Despite the b...

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: The effect of coworking spaces on work-life and work-family boundaries
Author: Dickson, Ashleigh
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Psychology
Description: Coworking spaces have recently grown in popularity as a third workspace with benefits of both working from home and traditional office spaces. The goal of the current study was to examine how employees working in coworking spaces construct and nav...

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...

Title: Understanding perceived overqualification at work: A scale development and latent profile analysis
Author: Long, Wendy
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Psychology
Description: Employee overqualification is becoming increasingly relevant in a post-pandemic world. While there have been theoretical advancements in the overqualification literature, several methodological issues remain unresolved. Specifically, the conceptua...

Title: Understanding perceived overqualification at work: A scale development and latent profile analysis
Author: Long, Wendy
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Psychology
Description: Employee overqualification is becoming increasingly relevant in a post-pandemic world. While there have been theoretical advancements in the overqualification literature, several methodological issues remain unresolved. Specifically, the conceptua...

Title: WORK ENVIRONMENT CHOICE AMONG KNOWLEDGE WORKERS: A MIXED METHODS INVESTIGATION
Author: Spivack, April
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior, Sociology, Psychology
Description: As a result of technological advances, workers have become increasingly mobile; people can perform work in a whole host of new locations. Teleworking arrangements challenge traditional managerial practices, however, and call attention to the tensi...