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Empirical Relationships among Servant, Transformational, and Transactional Leadership: Similarities, Differences, and Correlations with Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment 

Washington, Rynetta (2007-05-15)
Servant leadership is espoused as a valid theory of organizational leadership but lacks crucial empirical support. Therefore, the current study endeavored to advance empirical support for this emerging approach to leadership ...

Employee Benefit Familiarity: An Analysis of How Benefit Familiarity Will Affect Benefit Valuation 

Brunner, M. Cheney (1995-06-07)
Current literature and research on the benefits employees prefer in their benefits packages is reviewed. The findings reveal some strong preferences for different groups of people. An understanding of these preferences is ...

Employee Perceptions of Managerial Civility: Development and Validation of a Measurement Scale 

Crocker, Robert (2005-08-15)
The impact of managerial incivility in the workplace has received theoretical attention but, due to the absence of a reliable measure, the empirical study of the construct has remained under-explored. Following a framework ...

Employee Testimonials on Recruitment Websites: Inferences Made About Organizations, Credibility Perceptions, Organizational Attraction, and Website Viewer Behavior 

Walker, Harvell (2007-08-15)
The current study examined job seekers’ responses to organizations including employee testimonials on their recruitment websites. Using a persuasive communication framework, I tested how the message source (i.e., race of ...

Entrepreneurial Impostor Phenomenon 

Zafar, Sana (2022-07-27)  ETD File Embargoed
Entrepreneurs are frequently considered confident, overconfident, or even hubristic. However, little is known about what happens when entrepreneurs feel like they do not belong in the entrepreneurship space. My dissertation ...

Essays in Alternative Solution Selection Using Search Technologies 

Drake, John (2008-05-15)
With the growth of data storage reaching exponential rates, search technologies are critical components of today’s information systems. Understanding how individuals use these search technologies and what individual factors ...

Essays on Exploring the Value of Business Analytics in Health Care 

Wang, Yichuan (2016-05-04)
Although researchers and practitioners across various disciplines, including computer science, healthcare informatics, and clinical medicine have advocated that business analytics have tremendous benefits for healthcare ...

The Ethics Safety Scale: Development and Validation 

Credo, Keith (2012-12-06)
The current study focuses on the development of an ethics assessment instrument. The proposed instrument is unique in that it is the first ethics’ perceptions assessment instrument designed to be applicable not only in an ...

The Evolution of Medical Informatics as a Coherent Academic Discipline 

Weigel, Fred (2011-10-26)
The purpose of this content analysis was to ascertain the prevalent themes, the challenges that exist, and future directions for the medical informatics (MI) discipline. Seven scholarly publications from the ten-year ...

An Examination of the Effects of Cultural, Climatic, Structural, and Technological Factors on Knowledge Management Effectiveness 

Peachey, Todd (2006-12-15)
This study examined the effects of culture, climate, intrinsic motivators, structure and technological capabilities on knowledge management effectiveness when structure is moderated by technological capabilities. Knowledge ...

An Examination of the Emotional and Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying Greed: A Neurocognitive Perspective 

Carnevale, Joel (2017-07-14)
Despite the widespread attribution of greed as a fundamental cause of organizational misbehavior, scholarly research examining when and why overly greedy individuals put themselves before others remains scant. Drawing from ...

An examination of the impact of diverse internationalization experience on organizational resilience and a test of the Resilience Architecture Framework 

Collier, Donovan Y. (2018-04-23)
This research aims to improve our understanding of multinational enterprise (MNE) resilience by investigating potential sources of resilience and its performance implications. In particular, this dissertation focuses on ...

An Examination of the Relationship Between a Realistic Job Preview and Job Applicants' Psychological Contract Perceptions 

Stafford, Jeremy (2007-12-15)
Psychological contracts have generated considerable interest from organizational scholars and practitioners for the past several decades, largely due to the negative organizational outcomes that arise when these contracts ...

An Examination of the Relationship Between Culturally Recognized Symbols as Avatars and Trust in Computer-Mediated Communication Environments 

Morrison, Rodger (2008-12-15)
One of the characterizations that distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world is the use of symbols. Many researchers consider the act of forming and using symbols as the central cognitive process in mankind’s ...

Examining Acquisition Failure: Understanding Antecedents and Consequences of Acquisition Deal Failures 

Bhussar, Manjot (2018-06-28)
This dissertation takes a learning approach towards Mergers and Acquisitions in the context of deal failure and the role of CEO characteristics in the pre-completion phase of mergers and acquisitions. Six primary research ...

Examining Strategic Fit for the Interorganizational Network: An Empirical Investigation of the Health Care Integrated Delivery System 

Thrasher, Evelyn (2006-12-15)
In response to the calls for IT research at the interorganizational network level of analysis, this study examined the phenomenon of strategic fit at this level. Health care integrated delivery systems (IDS) were chosen ...

Examining the Role of Personal, Social Exchange, and Contextual Fit Variables in Employee Work Outcomes under Continuous Change: A Field Investigation 

Mehta, Anju (2009-08-04)
Despite the consensus, that the ability of organizations to manage change is critical to their survival, organizations have seldom been able to change successfully. The knowledge that change can be difficult and disruptive ...

An Exploration of the Impact of Speech Recognition Technologies on Group Efficiency and Effectiveness During an Electronic Idea Generation Scenario 

Prince, Bradley (2006-05-15)
Dynamic, evolving, complex, complicated, fast. All of these words describe today’s business environment. In this atmosphere, making decisions is critical to the success of an organization. To give themselves the best ...

Exploring a Two-Factor Model of Abusive Supervision: An Investigation of Disparate Outcomes of Active-Aggressive and Passive-Aggressive Components 

Phillipich, Michael (2023-11-29)  ETD File Embargoed
Scholarly interest in abusive supervision continues to grow after two decades of conceptual discussion and empirical examination. However, discord exists within the literature stream because our understanding of why abusive ...

Exploring Customer Satisfaction in Regional Health Care: A Comparative Analysis of Direct and Indirect Experiences 

Turner, Douglas Edward (1993-08-27)
Today's health care providers, similar to many other industries in the service sector, are measuring their service attainment level through the administration of customer satisfaction surveys. This feedback containing the ...