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The past several decades have seen great advances in the field of organizational politics. At the individual level, political skill has garnered the majority of the scholarly focus, whereas it's motivational counterpart, political will, ...
Leaders often are faced with making difficult decisions for their group, such as when a course of action preferred by group members conflicts with one that is likely to optimize group outcomes. Across five studies, I provide evidence...
Research has shown that abusive supervisor behavior can have psychological, psychosocial, and behavioral impacts on targeted employees, and the literature has primarily focused on the effects of abusive supervisor behavior on the target...
Research has examined the experiences of women in the workplace, yet women's experiences during pregnancy have been neglected to a large extent. Stress during pregnancy has consistently been shown to lead to detrimental consequences for...
In this thesis, I examine the previously un-investigated relationship between politics perceptions and work drive. I hypothesized that those with high level of drive would experience fewer adverse effects when coupled with heightened...
Disaster Shelter Planning: Using a Social Domain Heuristic to Examine Organizational Behaviors of Policy Implementation during the 2004 Hurricane Season in Florida
Following Hilhorst (2004), this study posits that, as communities become more populous they also become more complex. As they become more complex, communities develop institutions and social structures to help coordinate social...
The purpose of this research was to identify factors related to citizens' levels of risk acceptability and examine how these factors influenced each other during the policy making process of selecting a site for a nuclear facility in the...
The number of females participating in high-performance track and field continues to increase. However, there has not been a corresponding increase in the number of women in head coaching and other leadership positions (Acosta &...
The saliency of politics in organizational settings makes perceptions of organizational politics (POPs) an impactful organizational factor capable of eliciting psychosocial, psychological, attitudinal, and behavioral outcomes for...
The purpose of this dissertation was to extend research that examines the overlap between leadership and human resource management (HRM). Specifically, it sought to understand the leadership factors that would predict HRM system strength...
Organizational politics long has been considered a negative phenomenon, but scholars have noted it is an unavoidable part of organizational life. As such, much research has been devoted to exploring its nature, as well as its antecedents...
We live in a world that requires us to adapt to change rapidly in both professional and personal settings (Lorenzi & Riley, 2000; Murthy, 2007). For many businesses, change is a way to survive in a competitive market. Businesses must...
After Chun and Rainey's seminal study in 2005, goal ambiguity is widely accepted as "the extent to which an organizational goal or set of goals allow leeway for interpretation." (Chun and Rainey 2005a; b). The mainstream discussion so...
The research on the relationship between perceptions of organizational politics (POPs) and various outcomes has been continuously popular for the last 30 years since the first POPs model was introduced in 1989. Recent examinations of the...
The Firing Dilemma: Sacrificial Managerial Decisions Entail a Tradeoff of Warmth and Competence, Paralleling Inferences from Sacrificial Moral Dilemmas
Managers often face choices where harming a few people benefits the business overall, e.g., downsizing under crisis. They report such decisions as very difficult even when efficient. Sacrificial managerial decisions (e.g., cutting a job...
Considering the effects of public and non-profit managers’ actions in federal-level programs and community services at the local level, my dissertation seeks to contribute to three separate bodies of scholarship: public and non-profit...
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