Browsing by Author "Bisel, Ryan"
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ADOPTING AND RESISTING EVIDENCE-BASED CALLS FOR CHANGE: DISCURSIVE RESOURCES IN ORGANIZATIONAL RESPONSES TO INSTITUTIONAL PRESSURES
Watson, Josh (2019-05-10)Institutional forces often pressure organizations to conform and behave in similar manners even when those actions go against an organization’s best interests. One particular U.S. football organization, known as the team ... -
CIP Leadership and Evaluation: The Influence on Causal Transmission and Creativity
Higgs, Cory (2021-05)While there are a variety of theories on outstanding leadership which differ in notable ways, the more recognized approaches all stress the importance of leader vision. One of the most critical aspects of leader’s mental ... -
Communicating for resilience: a longitudinal study of processes and principles for managing organizational disruption
Roeder, Arden (2021-12-17)This project explored how individuals and teams employ specific communication processes and principles to cultivate, sustain, and strengthen resilience after organizational disruption. A longitudinal study of working adults ... -
Communication Confidence in Confronting Unethical Behavior: Scale Development and Validation
Buettner, Ellen (2020-07-30)This study describes a new construct, self-perceived communication confidence in confronting unethical behavior (SPC@CUB) as well as develops and validates an original 25-item instrument to measure this construct. This ... -
CONCERTIVE RESISTANCE: HOW ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERS RESIST COLLECTIVELY IN THE ABSENCE OF RESISTANCE LEADERSHIP
Zanin, Alaina (2015-05)This dissertation describes an organizational phenomenon whereby organizational members are able to resist managerial influence collectively in the absence of overt talk or leadership communication—labeled here concertive ... -
CONSTRUCTING ORGANIZATIONAL LEGITIMACY TRANSACTIONALLY: THE COMMUNICATIVE CONSTITUTION OF ISIL
Bruscella, Jacqueline (2016-05-13)This dissertation explores how organizations attempt to construct their ontology and legitimacy through external messages, known as institutional positioning. Constructing an image of legitimacy is particularly important, ... -
The effects of interactional identity traits (gender, partisanship, and veteran status) on candidate evaluations and electorate voting behaviors in U.S. Congressional elections
Shpeer, Maria (2023-05-12)Every year, the political candidates who run in the U.S. congressional elections become more and more diverse; there are more women, more veterans, more members of ethnic group minorities in Congress. Political candidates ... -
Employee Empowerment, Self-Determination Theory, And Employee Engagement: A Mediation Model
Fox Craig, Jean (2017-12-15)Even though employee engagement has been touted as a strategy to increase organizational performance, productivity, and employee retention, scant empirical data on the drivers of employee engagement exists. The current ... -
Finding power in politeness: identifying competent and courageous social justice advocacy at work
Flores, Marisa Saavedra (2022-12-16)The workplace is rife with situations that require courage, from confronting unethical behavior to advocating for equality. However, employees often avoid voicing issues that are politically sensitive (Seeger, 2001, 2004) ... -
Finding the Big Picture: A Bona Fide Group Approach to Work Team Assimilation
Tornes, Michael (2015-12)The purpose of the present study was to use the bona fide group perspective to study organizational assimilation through the work team context. Applying this perspective served to address two limitations in the organizational ... -
FOR EVERY ACTION THERE IS A STORY: NARRATIVES OF OKLAHOMA TEACHERS ABOUT THE 2018 WALKOUT AND TEACHING IN OKLAHOMA
Maiorca, Cheryl (2018-05-10)Members of social movements create and maintain the meanings of that movement (Snow & Benford, 1992). Interviews with 49 teachers between September and November 2018 provide the data for this qualitative study. This ... -
Forecasting and Early Cycle Creative Processes: Effects on Complex Problem Solving
Gujar, Yash (2022-05)Prior research has identified a core set of early and late processes that make up creative problem-solving. Additionally, researchers have highlighted certain skills that further bolster creative output. The importance of ... -
FRAMING UP WORKPLACE COMPASSION: THE ROLE OF LEADERS’ PROSOCIAL FRAMING IN COWORKERS’ INTENTION TO PROVIDE SOCIAL SUPPORT
Daugherty, Natalie (2019-05)This dissertation explores the influence of leaders’ prosocial framing on coworkers’ intent to provide social support to fellow coworkers. This study contributes to the growing literature on positive organizational ... -
From it to you: An autoethnographic journey with Chinese users of German in Germany
Bryant, Andrea Dawn (2016-08)There are currently several hundred thousand Chinese students studying abroad, yet knowledge about their experiences is mostly limited to anecdote and caricature. This autoethnography provides a more authentic account based ... -
Gender identity and prototypes in caring professions: The role of communication in identity work and career development
Gilmore, Britney (2020-07-30)Occupational segregation is a persistent phenomenon occurring in many professions. In caring professions, the percentage of men in these jobs is low. This interview-based study explains how men in such professions (i.e., ... -
Giving Your All: Evaluating Changing Social Identities Throughout the Assimilation Process in Full-Life Volunteer Organizations
Ault, Michael (2016-05-14)The present study evaluates the assimilation process for full-life volunteers in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) missionary program. The focus on full-life volunteers provided an opportunity to observe ... -
Governing Values and Practices for School Success and Decreased Juvenile Justice Involvement: A Comparative Case Study
Buck, Steven (2018-12-14)This comparative case study of two elementary schools employs Flexible Leadership Theory (FLT) and cultural leadership theories in order to explore how leadership approaches influence student academic success and the ... -
Hidden tensions: An exploration of multiple company employees' social identities in the U.S. and China
Guo, Yijia (2017-08-01)This dissertation examined Chinese and U.S. organizational members’ multiple social identities and how they engaged in identity work to develop, organize, revise, and manage identity tensions that emerge from various ... -
HOW MEMORABLE SOCIALIZATION MESSAGES FROM WITHIN CULTURAL COMMUNITIES SHAPE ADULT MEANING ATTRIBUTIONS ABOUT WORK: THE CASE OF LEBANESE-AMERICANS
Homsey, Dini M. (2013)This dissertation describes the process by which community messaging obligates members to perform work behaviors in order to achieve full membership status--labeled here the Obligation-based Culturing of Work (OCW). The ... -
The impact of creativity-fostering mathematics instruction on student self-efficacy and motivation
Regier, Paul (2020-05-08)Mathematics educators and researchers have described creativity as an essential part of mathematics, yet little research has been done to study the effects of fostering creativity in the tertiary mathematics classroom. ...