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Framing Leader Messages for Highly Reliable Organizing
(2016-12-16)
This dissertation tests high-reliability organization (HRO) theory's claim that strategic leadership messages can direct followers’ sensemaking in adaptive ways (Weick & Sutcliffe, 2015). Specifically, two experiments ...
TRAINING ORGANIZATIONAL TRAINERS TO FRAME FEEDBACK: MITIGATING FACE CONCERNS AND SUPPRESSING EGO DEFENSIVENESS
(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 ...
Negotiating the Tensions of Collective Change Implementation
(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 ...