Browsing by Subject "Organizational behavior"
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Errors in Judgement: How Status, Values, and Moral Foundations Influence Moral Judgments of Guilt and Punishment
(2016)This study investigates how actor status, moral foundations theory and Schwartz values influence the moral judgments of guilt and punishment. I argue that to understand individual values consequences for actions, they must ... -
Exploring Preferences for ‘Blinding’ One’s Own Judgment
(2020)I investigate people's degree of preference for "blinding" in decision-making: purposefully restricting the information one sees in order to try to form a more accurate evaluation. For example, when grading her students’ ... -
Goal Pursuit and the Pursuit of Social Networks
(2013)An abstract of a dissertation that examines the motivational foundations of social networks. Five studies using diverse methods examine goal pursuit as an antecedent to social network structure, finding that self-oriented ... -
Making Sense of Health Information Technology
(2012)<bold>Background:<bold> Hospital adoption of health information technology (HIT) systems is promoted as essential to decreasing medical error and their associated 44,000 annual deaths and $17 billion in healthcare costs ... -
Misjudging our Influence on Others: Blind Spots in Perceptions of Peer Use of Advice
(2015)People give each other advice on a variety of topics throughout their lifetimes. In this dissertation, I ask: Do advisors accurately perceive the impact of their advice? Or, do they possess blind spots that prevent them ... -
The Building Blocks of Authentic Leadership: Being Consistent and Being Seen
(2017)In recent years, leadership research has focused on the concept of “authentic leaders” who act consistently with their values, make balanced decisions, are self-aware, and are transparent in their relationships (Walumbwa, ... -
The Motivation-Influence-Ability (MIA) Model of Agency for Gender and Leadership
(2020)Contradictory findings about whether agentic women are advantaged or disadvantaged persist in gender and leadership research. I suggest that these tensions may stem from ambiguities regarding the definition, content, and ... -
The Psychology of Loyalty and its Impact on Harm Perception
(2018)This dissertation examines how people’s loyalty to their groups influences their perception of harm. Specifically, people who are loyal (vs. not loyal) to their ingroup perceive negative actions by an outgroup against their ... -
There’s a Storm Comin: How the Evangelical Church Responds to the Fergusons and Charlottesvilles that Shake and Shock America’s Sociopolitical Landscape
(2017)Surveys taken within the last two years have indicated that the majority of Americans believe that race relations are getting worse. This is in stark contrast to what the election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of ... -
Toward a Practical Theology of Institutions to Serve Faith-Based Organizations
(2014)U.S. faith-based organizations (FBOs) founded by Christians have gained wide recognition and influence both nationally and internationally and have become, to a large extent, the de facto bearers of contemporary Christian ... -
Transcending Death Through Organizational Birth
(2015)In this dissertation, I develop and test a theory linking the legacy motive to entrepreneurship. After examining evidence in support of the desire to make a lasting impact as a source of motivation for the founders of new ... -
Understanding Ourselves and Organizational Leadership: Theory, Instrument Development, and Empirical Investigations of Self-Awareness
(2022)What is self-awareness? Is self-awareness always helpful? Studies of self-awareness have implications for a wide variety of topics in organizational behavior. Yet, this research has been scattered, resulting in gaps, siloed ...
