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CREATIVITY IN THE FUZZY FRONT END: THE INFLUENCE OF EVALUATION STRUCTURE AND CRITERIA
(2013)
Activities in the fuzzy front end of product development are critical for subsequent product performance. Despite calls to study these activities, relatively little research has focused on how to manage these early stage ...
Promoting Adaptive Performance through Learner-Controlled Practice Difficulty and Individualized Challenge: A Latent Growth Modeling Approach
(2012)
In any learner-controlled, active learning environment, the choices one makes can influence both the objective training difficulty and individualized levels of trainee challenge faced during learning. Despite research ...
LEADERSHIP IN SCIENCE: A HISTORIOMETRIC STUDY OF LEADER SUCCESS IN FIELDS REQUIRING CREATIVITY
(2012)
In recent years there has been a marked increase in the study of the influence of leadership on creativity, and the effects of this relationship on organizational performance. While a number of explanations have been ...
GREEBLES AND BRONCOS: A TEST OF EXPERTISE IN THE CROSS-RACE EFFECT
(2012)
People are more accurate at recognizing faces of individuals of their own race than individuals of another race; this well-replicated phenomenon is known as the cross-race effect (CRE). The reasons underlying the CRE are ...
Embedded Leadership: How do You Lead a Leader?
(2010)
The current study uses a low fidelity simulation to test the effect a supervisor can influence the leadership style of his or her subordinates (i.e., embedded leaders). Using a sample of 236 undergraduates three variables ...
Guided Reflexivity and the Importance of Strategy Change to Adaptive Team Performance
(2014-05-09)
Theories describing team adaptive performance provide insight into the mechanisms that facilitate adaptive performance; however, these theories have yet to link these mechanisms to the nature of the novel demands teams ...
The Role of Gender Expectations and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors on Teaching Evaluations
(2010)
Organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) are a much-discussed and debated construct in the literature. When examining behaviors not explicitly detailed in job descriptions, ambiguity and subjective expectations about ...
Hypothesis Generation: Temporal Dynamics
(2011)
In order to bring structure to many of the judgment and decision making problems people encounter, decision makers are often required to generate, from memory, hypotheses explaining their observations. This dissertation ...
State Space Dynamic Mixture Modeling: Finding People with Similar Patterns of Change
(2014-12)
Increasingly, psychologists encounter data in which several individuals have been measured on multiple variables over numerous occasions. Many of the current methods for this situation combine the data, assuming everyone ...
How Outstanding Leaders Lead with Affect: An Examination of Charismatic, Ideological, and Pragmatic Leaders
(2013)
The CIP Model of Leadership has received increased attention within the past decade. Research in this area has examined how leaders develop mental models, frame messages, communicate goals, and utilize political tactics ...