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The Power Of Reflection: Understanding The Impacts Made Upon Employees Who Have Managers Who Reflect On Their Professional Development, Ryan Heath Jordan

Business Administration Dissertations

No matter the level, managers who reflect on their professional development will impact their careers in various ways. But what impact can this same reflection have on those individuals who are led by those managers? It is widely known in the literature that professional development reflections can have positive effects on one’s career. With that knowledge, it is intended to drill down into this concept to help identify how a manager’s professional development reflection can have the same impact on their employees. The impact of managers’ professional development reflection on their employee’s increased interest in career development, improved job performance, …

Smart Technology Adoption’S Impact On The Value Of Logistics Service Providers’ Firms, Raziel Bravo

Business Administration Dissertations

Although it took a pandemic to raise awareness about supply chain issues in the minds of the public at large, industry players have long understood supply chain complexities—particularly in the face of continually evolving technologies and ever-more interconnected global enterprises. With Logistics 4.0 and the rapid developments in smart technologies, these complexities make the ongoing need for technology adoption even more complicated for logistics providers. While the literature regularly reports on the adoption of specific technologies, there is little research on the adoption process and even less that might guide providers in prioritizing their technology targets. This research examined the …

Increasing The Awareness Of Black Women To Promote Medical Research Engagement, Stephanie M. Malone

Business Administration Dissertations

Medical research in the United States has drastically improved over the past forty years with the implementation of policies and procedures through government regulation and significant technological advancements. Despite these measures, there are still low participation rates among minority groups, especially Black women, who have proven to suffer the most drastic effects from underrepresentation in medical research. Despite their willingness to participate in medical research, a leading barrier to participation is the need for more knowledge and awareness about how to engage in medical research.

This research is a field experiment conducted at a Black Women’s Health Symposium in urban …

Path Constitution In Family Business Succession: Evidence From A Longitudinal Case Study, Toney L. Duckworth-Chambless

Business Administration Dissertations

Family businesses balance profit with family, employee, and consumer needs and touch almost every facet of the private and public sectors. At the same time, family businesses must manage the challenging processes attributed to the critical, never-ending succession task. Against that backdrop, we aim to explore how family businesses thrive through multiple successions, focused on how critical path junctures work to create succession trajectories over time. Based on close collaboration with Kinsmith Finance, we researched how family businesses can secure successful successions and increased business longevity across several generations through combinations of path creation episodes adapted to new, emerging circumstances …

An Empirical Study On The Influence Of Ict-Based Tools On Team Effectiveness In Virtual Software Teams Operating Remotely During The Covid-19 Lockdown, Uday Kumar Kanike

Business Administration Dissertations

Aim: The research aims to examine the impact of the usage of Information-and-Communication Technology tools on Software Team Effectiveness, especially the virtual teams, during work from home because of the Covid-19 outbreak.

Variables: The research has considered the Salas et al. (2005) model with eight constructs (adaptability, mutual performance monitoring, mutual trust, team orientation, closed-loop communication, leadership skills, shared mental models, and backing-up behavior) for measuring team effectiveness. The usage of ICT tools has been measured using the instrument developed by Nagi and Habok (2018). In addition, the moderating effects of the variables ‘age’ and ‘gender’ have also been …

Unintended Consequences Of Organizational Error Culture: Does The Strive For Perfection Cause Employees To Put On A Façade And Consider Leaving?, Scott Crumpton

Business Administration Dissertations

In an increasingly digital world, and further amplified over the last two years by COVID, customer expectations have never been higher. Facing intense competition, B2B technology providers are under growing pressure to deliver a frictionless customer experience to their clients (Baliga et al., 2021). Striving for perfection, organizations naturally operationalize how they manage their customers and how they handle errors as they occur. But as organizations work through their cultural error practices, are they considering the well-being of their employees and how their error culture practices may inadvertently influence the ways that employees look at their organizations?

In this study, …

Leader Emotional Exhaustion: The Moderating Role Of Leadership Style, James Davis

Business Administration Dissertations

Personality and burnout are highly complex constructs that researchers continue to refine and understand through iterative testing. The present study responds to calls for more research on possible moderators of the personality-to-burnout relationship by investigating the interacting effect of a leader's adopted leadership style, thus, answering the question: Does the adopted leadership style moderate the relationship between a leader's personality and emotional exhaustion? Many leaders adapt their leadership behaviors based on their organization's needs without understanding how this might impact their emotional or physical well-being. Frequently, the leadership style needed for an organization or team extends outside the leader's regular …

The Impact Of Social Media Sentiment On Market Share For Higher Education Institutions, Brandi Nicole Newkirk

Business Administration Dissertations

In recent years, university enrollment and market share have been discussed among administrators. With declining populations and increased educational pathways for students, the need to capture the attention of prospective students is of increased interest. At the same time, social media has become a significant factor in the lives of current and potentially future generations. This factor influences not only trends but also decision-making. As a result, higher education institutions must ensure a requisite social media presence and manage their social media reputation to impact potential students’ intent to enroll. This study explores these components and how one influences the …

Vanishing Without A Trace: Measuring Job Applicant Ghosting Attitudes Across The Stages Of Job Pursuit, Christine Davis

Business Administration Dissertations

Ghosting, a phenomenon regularly referred to as ‘no call, no show’ by hiring managers (Cutter, Weber, & Smith, 2022), has become a common trend among job applicants during recruitment (Whitacre, 2019). Job applicant ghosting is defined as an “extreme form of applicant withdrawal in which applicants…completely cease all communication” (Karl, Peluchette, & Neely, 2021: 49) and fail to appear for scheduled appointments, such as interviews, screening activities, or the first day of work. Employers are spending unfruitful time making unanswered or unreturned phone calls, scheduling interviews for individuals that disappear (Driscoll, 2021; Gurchiek, 2019; Express Employment Professionals, 2019a), and offering …

How Safety Leadership Styles Impact Employee Safety Behaviors, Michelle Mcrae Payne

Business Administration Dissertations

How Safety Leadership Styles Impact Employee Safety Behaviors

by

Michelle McRae Payne

April 2023

Chair: Peter Zhang

Major Academic Unit: Doctorate in Business Administration

Job-related injuries continue to be a salient problem facing many organizations. Achieving zero recordable injuries in the workplace is something that many companies endeavor to accomplish. Prior research has examined the role of leadership in influencing and improving workplace safety. However, studies of safety leadership have focused on the styles or behaviors of leaders without taking into account the influence of context on leader activities or practices. In this research, I perform a multi-case study with …

Organizational Resilience: An Exploratory Study On Eldercare And Support Responses To Covid-19, Darren G. Franklin

Business Administration Dissertations

Unexpected events are part of the nature of business for organizations as they operate in a world awash with uncertainty. Businesses must be able to successfully navigate incidents that seek to threaten their viability, create ways to survive, and, at times, take advantage of the opportunities these disruptions bring and thrive, despite these events and their operational effects. Organizational resilience is a dynamic-capability and is also a vital component that supports entities managing their way through disruptive events and, at times, even making the most of them by way of lessons learned and/or the development or enhancement of their organizational …

The Role Of Spirituality For Successful Established Women Entrepreneurs, Valaurie Bridges Lee

Business Administration Dissertations

What drives entrepreneurs to persevere? Particularly, what drives women entrepreneurs to endure given they are faced with sexism, discrimination, and racism? What do they attribute their success to? What sustains them and motivates them to continue to maintain their businesses? Why established women entrepreneurs (EWEs) remain business owners is an under-researched phenomenon. This study aimed to examine the role of spirituality in the success of EBEs. Studies have been dedicated to nascent entrepreneurs as it relates to why many of them begin the journey, but why they remain entrepreneurs is not completely clear. It has been shown that women are …