Browsing by Author "Svyantek, Daniel"

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Benefits of Mindfulness in the Workplace: The Effects of Mindful Practices on Counterproductive Workplace Behaviors and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors

Patel, Trishna (2017-12-04)

Mindfulness research has been growing in its scope of having an influencing impact within organizational settings. A goal of this study was to add to the ongoing research by including situational factors, as they might ...

Burnout as a Mediator in the Workaholism-Turnover Intentions Relationship

McGoey, Kendall (2022-04-19)

The present research explores the relationship between workaholism and voluntary turnover intentions with burnout as the explanatory mechanism. Existing literature has found a positive relationship between workaholism ...

A Conditional Reasoning Test for Risk and Incident Propensity

Doerr, Alexa (2016-08-09)

Occupational injuries and fatalities persist in large numbers in the United States. Injuries and fatalities that occur at work have a high social and financial cost to employers. Moreover, human error is often to blame ...

Connecting in a digital world: How information and communication technologies shape the leader-subordinate experience

Smith, Adam (2019-07-23)

The present study investigated how the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) impacts leader-member exchange (LMX) quality and its resulting organizational outcomes. The primary hypothesis of interest was ...

Counterproductive behavior's impact on external stakeholders' decisions: Does "I'm sorry" remedy deviance?

Johnson, Brandon (2013-07-11)

Counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs) are acts that hinder or are intended to hinder the objectives of organizations or their members. To date, several studies have examined the organizational and interpersonal consequences ...

Decision Making Consequences of the Paradoxical Flip

Lester, Houston (2010-07-19)

The hard-easy manipulation (i.e., manipulation of item difficulty) has been used to demonstrate that participants are sometimes overconfident while believing they are worse than average. This finding is often referred to ...

Development and Validation of a Work-Life Conflict Scale: Identifying Energy and Emotion

Hartman, Paige (2016-07-26)

This research outlines a series of studies that aim to develop and validate a new scale that expands upon the current measurement of work-family conflict. While work-family conflict, and more broadly work-life conflict, ...

Development of a Work-Life Balance Scale: Perceived Effectiveness and Satisfaction across Roles

Lorys, Anna (2017-07-07)

The present study aims to summarize existing literature on work-life balance before providing a newly developed scale to measure this construct. Work-life balance has held many definitions since it was first proposed, but ...

Disobedience and Deviance: An Empirical Categorization of Insider Cybersecurity Behaviors

Whitman, Rachel (2021-07-28)

Employees pose a significant threat to organizational cybersecurity. Researchers have called for increased examination of the traits and antecedents related to poor cybersecurity compliance. The current study contributes ...

Do as I say, not as I do: The effects of organizational response type on employee commitment during the COVID-19 pandemic

Donnelly, Lilah (2023-05-04)

The COVID-19 pandemic presented an opportunity for organizations to show that they value their employees. During the pandemic, organizations could have responded substantively by mandating masks, enforcing social distancing, ...

Does multitasking work for you? The role of multitasking fit in employee job satisfaction and turnover intentions

Grove, Julia (2020-07-20)

Person-job (P-J) fit refers to the degree of congruence between an employee and their occupation. P-J fit is important for organizations to understand, because it predicts job satisfaction and turnover intentions, such ...

The downside of persistence: The effects of mood on an escalation of commitment paradigm

Horn, Marianna (2012-07-31)

Escalation of commitment is a decision-making phenomenon that continues to impact the performance of managers. This continuation of investments into a losing course of action has been documented in a variety of settings ...

The Effect of Between Group Dependence on Measurement Equivalence/Invariance Tests

Perdomo, Brian (2011-11-21)

When using structural equation modeling methods, researchers should test for the presence of measurement equivalence/invariance (ME/I) before investigating substantive hypotheses (Bollen, 1989, p. 355). This study evaluated ...

Effect of Implicit Leadership Theories on Performance Appraisal

Gunther, Katie (2010-12-10)

This thesis tests two predictions about the use of implicit leadership theories (ILT) in performance evaluations: 1) that performance evaluations are systematically distorted in accordance with ILT expectations, and 2) ...

Effects of Gender and Destructive Leader Behaviors on Leader’s Evaluation

Kriletic, Ana (2021-04-12)

Destructive leadership is beginning to be studied, but the current literature relies on examples of male leaders. While literature on positive leader behaviors shows a bias towards male leaders, little research looks at ...

Escalation Revisited: Investigating the Influence of Personality and Organizational Support on Escalation of Commitment

Howell, Julia (2014-05-07)

Escalation of commitment research has been narrow in its scope of influencing factors. A goal of this study was to remedy this gap by including factors at the individual, organizational, and decision context level that ...

Establishing Balance: An Experience Sampling Methodological Study of the Work-Life Interface

Lorys, Anna (2019-04-18)

The present study aimed to examine whether daily perceptions of work-life balance effectiveness and satisfaction were related to within-day, between-day, and between-individual levels of stress when mediated by positive ...

Evaluation of a School-Based Peer Mediation Program: Assessing Disputant Outcomes as Evidence of Success

Ridley, Cami (2007-12-15)

Peer mediation programs are frequently employed by school systems nationwide to help decrease rates of violence and promote constructive problem-solving methods. The current literature regarding evaluation of these programs ...

An Examination of Factors Hypothesized to Moderate Stereotype Threat Effects on the Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices

Johnson, Jimmy (2010-04-09)

The present study examined the moderating effects of racial identity centrality and performance goal orientation on the relationship between stereotype threat and test performance. I also assessed the extent to which ...

Exploring a Unified Concept of Occupational Well-being through Validation in an Applied Setting

Harkcom, Kelly (2015-07-02)

This study unifies divergent conceptualizations of occupational well-being (OWB) to clearly define the construct based on a well-articulated theory. It also validates a new measure of OWB in a practical setting in order ...