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Attaining Team Psychological Safety to Unlock the Potential of Diverse Teams

Description: Team psychological safety fosters interpersonal risk-taking and constructive debate. Yet, how psychological safety develops in diverse teams needs to be explained. I apply collective regulatory lenses to shed light on how collective prevention focus (status quo) and collective promotion focus (growth) uniquely affect team psychological safety. I believe promotion focus makes it easier to attain psychological safety, while prevention focus makes it harder. Under a collective promotion lens, team… more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Chen, Victor H.
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Death Awareness and Meaningful Work: Considering Mortality and How It Relates to Individual Perceptions of Work

Description: While some individuals experience their work as meaningful, others, with the same job, do not. The purpose of this dissertation is to answer the following question: Why do different individuals, with the same job, view the meaningfulness of their work in conflicting ways? I draw on terror management theory and generativity theory to answer this question by testing the relationship between death awareness and meaningful work. The bulk of academic work concerning meaningful work focuses on its ou… more
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Date: August 2022
Creator: Varghese, Johnson George
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A Dual Moderated Mediation Model of Favoritism's Effects on Employee Attitudes, Intentions, and Behavior

Description: Although suspected to be a widespread phenomenon, workplace favoritism is an under-researched area of study. Scholars have queried the effects of perceived favoritism on employee outcomes through only a handful of studies, and the majority of those studies have been conducted at private firms in Middle Eastern countries where tribalism (i.e., loyalty to one's family or social group) is conventional. Further, differences in conceptual definitions of favoritism and subsequent subdimensions have m… more
Date: August 2021
Creator: Walker, Laura
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A Multi-Level Model for Perception Affect Asymmetry: Individual, Dyadic, and Group Affect Dynamics

Description: In collective affect research, an assumption is often made that through processes such as emotional contagion and attraction-selection-attrition members will converge unto a shared group affective tone. While this assumption is not without warrant, a limitation of previous work on interpersonal emotional processes of individuals, individuals within dyadic relationships, or members within teams is the lack of examination into the varying perceptions individuals may form regarding these affective… more
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Date: December 2022
Creator: Antwiler, Brandon
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Response to Regulation of Technology: A Multi-Industry Perspective

Description: Overall my dissertation work tries to capture a holistic view of the various complex interactions that occur in technology development, implementation, adoption and diffusion, in the context of three industries by examining issues that arise due to regulation of technology. Essay 1 focuses on the social media industry, which is in the early stage of the industrial life cycle, and is the foci of government attention for its ill effect on society. Results from the study (N= 647 employed adults in… more
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Date: August 2022
Creator: Bhawal, Shalini
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Three Essays on Employee's Personal Resource Allocation Decisions in Work and Life

Description: Due to changes in workforce structure, household structure and the nature of jobs, today's working adults face the challenge of balancing their work and life. However, employees do not only passively react to the incompatible demands from work and life - they are active agents who make decisions about their own total life. For example, individuals make decisions about the amount of energy that they spend on work/life (WL) activities. Thus, I write three essays to understand the antecedents and … more
Date: August 2020
Creator: Guo, Wenjuan
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Three Essays on Harmony in Intrapersonal Identity Networks

Description: Drawing attention to an under-examined process during organizational socialization, we develop theory to explain how newcomers' new organizational roles and social identities become embedded. The process of identities becoming embedded is influenced by how an individual's preexisting identities interact with new organizational identities during socialization. Perceived harmony relationships among identities indicate if newcomers experience identities interacting in a positive or negative manne… more
Date: August 2021
Creator: Anzollitto, Peter
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What Type of Follower Will I Be? Leader Behavior and the Motivational Processes Underlying Follower Role Orientation

Description: In a society fixated on leaders, where does that leave followers? Followership highlights the follower in the leadership process, examines who are followers, and explores how and why people follow. Much of the existing literature on followership has focused on classifying followers into follower types. However, less is known about why an employee might enact a particular follower role. The purpose of this dissertation is to understand how leaders influence the likelihood that followers to en… more
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Date: May 2022
Creator: Maxie, Jamila S
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Who are You Going to Believe: Me or Your Lying Eyes? Three Essays on Gaslighting in Organizations

Description: In this dissertation, I theorize on how gaslighting manifests in managerial and organizational settings. I discuss the process of gaslighting and how the use of various manipulation tactics manifests between people in organizations over time. I take three distinctive approaches to study this complex phenomenon. First, using a rich case study, I develop new theory to explain how one notorious child molester was able to sustain a career for decades while assaulting hundreds of children and young … more
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Date: May 2023
Creator: Kincaid, Paula A.
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