Browsing by Author "Bisel, Ryan"
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IMPROVING ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS VIA LOGIC DIVERSITY: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA NARRATIVES AND USE IN THE ENERGY SECTOR
Kim, Inchan (2015-05-08)Over the last decade, social media has diffused widely through society, increasingly impacting aspects of our lives. In the private sphere, we use social media to develop and maintain personal relationships. In the civic ... -
The Influence of Storytelling on the Identity of Children of Adolescent Parents
Bostwick, Eryn (2018-12)Grounded in Communicated Narrative Sensemaking, this dissertation examines the influence stigma and storytelling have on those born to adolescent parents. Analyses based on a survey completed by 141 individuals found those ... -
INTERSECTING POLITICS AND HEALTH: REPRESENTATIONS OF A MODERN PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVE
Baird, Erin (2017)Public health initiatives are spurred from three dominant political ideologies—neoliberalism, social justice, and pluralism—that influence the policy goals and methods. Neoliberalism, in particular, is the dominant ... -
An Investigation of Organizational Citizenship Behavior De-escalation
Henry, Sarah (2024-05-10)Although prior research indicates that employees often feel pressure to increase levels of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), very little systematic research has explored the opposite occurrence – when employees ... -
Making the Business of Death, Business-As-Usual: The Commerce-Care Dialectic in Funeral Planning
Bi, Da (2024-05-10)This dissertation, grounded in relational dialectics theory 2.0 (RDT; Baxter, 2011), aims to illustrate what meanings emerge from the commerce-care dialectic when engaging in funeral planning. The contrapuntal analysis of ... -
Media Affordance and Emotion Regulation in Organizational Communication
Wang, Nan (2015-05)Emotion regulation and the use of emotion regulation strategies to manage one’s emotional experiences or expressions have received extensive attention in the management, communication and psychology literatures. Despite ... -
Meta advice: Training organizational members to practice advice-seeking with their immediate supervisor
Kavya, Pavitra (2020-07-30)This study explores whether individuals can be trained in the skill of advice-seeking and whether upward advice-seeking shapes the quality of leader-member exchange (LMX) relationships. LMX theory posit that, through a ... -
Moral foundation violation effects on felt emotions, perceptions of moral intensity, and ethical decision-making
Brunot, Alexander (2023-05-12)Moral Foundation Theory (Graham et al., 2013) posits how individuals may decide what behaviors are morally transgressive and how to then make ethical decisions regarding situations containing ethical elements. Despite the ... -
Negotiating the Tensions of Collective Change Implementation
Hoelscher, Carrisa (2016-05)Given the increasing number of interorganizational collaborations across governmental and private sectors, this study furthers theoretical understanding of these important relationships by focusing on dialectical tensions ... -
Perceptions of Trust, Trust Building, and Maintenance between Japanese Expatriates and U.S. Host Nationals in a Multinational Corporation
Wyant, Mizuki (2022-08)This study examined characteristics of trust in the workplace for Japanese expatriates and U.S. American host nationals, how they build and maintain trust in one another, as well as similarities and differences in such ... -
The Power of Pause: An Investigation of the Role of Breaks in Creative Performance
England, Samantha (2023-05)Although studies indicate that intrinsic interest is likely a stronger motivator for creativity than external factors, companies that prioritize creativity have increasingly implemented external motivators into their work ... -
Realistic organizational previews (ROPs) during the offer consideration period: A comparison of candidate responses to absent, explicit, and implicit race-related recruitment messaging from organizational recruiters
Austin, Jasmine (2019-12-13)This study addresses the critical question as to whether recruiters should provide race-related realistic organizational previews (ROP) to minority job candidates after the candidate receives a job offer to join the ... -
Rural school postsecondary education Discourse: Individual anxiety-corporate confidence
Love, T. N. (2014-12-12)This study addressed a gap in the literature about the importance of the school context in predicting and mediating postsecondary education participation for rural students. Using grounded theory with a modified constant ... -
“She takes rest as seriously as working:” How resilient professional caregivers think about and practice rest
Rush, Katherine Ann (2023-05-12)Do resilient employees need less rest? This study explored that question by investigating how resilient professional caregivers think about and practice rest. Analysis revealed that highly communicatively resilient ... -
Sojourners’ Identity Transformation As A Function Of Cross-Cultural Adaptation: A Communication Model Of Multicultural Identity Development
Biwa, Valerie (2022-08-04)This dissertation explored the multicultural identity(ies) development of sojourners as a function of their cross-cultural adaptation (CCA). Several theories of CCA, identity, and identity development are discussed and ... -
Strength of weak ties and the modern job search
Piercy, Cameron (2017-05-12)This dissertation examines the social networks of job seekers and information sources using two samples of Americans who have sought jobs in the past two-years. After a brief introductory chapter and a chapter reviewing ... -
Three Essays on the Ideal Worker
Matthews, Michael (2024-05-10)This dissertation comprises three interrelated (yet encapsulated) essays that seek to synthesize and expand knowledge regarding the ideal worker construct, as shown in Appendix A. The term “ideal worker” has origins in ... -
TRAINING ORGANIZATIONAL TRAINERS TO FRAME FEEDBACK: MITIGATING FACE CONCERNS AND SUPPRESSING EGO DEFENSIVENESS
Arterburn, Elissa (2015-05-09)This dissertation applies Implicit Person Theory (IPT) to the contexts of organizational training and feedback. IPT scholars argue that individuals ascribe to one of two groups regarding perceptions of ability: entity or ... -
The Transfer of Training Process
Nowell, Brent (2014-05-09)This study tested Marguerite Foxon’s 1993 proposal of a Transfer of Training Process. The transfer of supervisor/management training was evaluated for municipal workers in two southwestern metropolitan areas. The measurement ... -
Verbal Aggressiveness in Marriage: Examining the Influence of Empathy and Accountability on the Fundamental Attribution Error
Roper, Randy (2014-09)This study examined causal attributions made for verbal aggressiveness in marriage relationships. Specifically, empathy and accountability interventions were used to mitigate the Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE), or the ...