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University Faculty Perceptions Of Mandatory Online Training As Related To Training Self-Efficacy, Motivation, And Utility, Tori Austin
Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations
Organizations spend millions of dollars training employees in ways to improve their skills –recently through mandatory professional development delivered virtually or through online asynchronous platforms. This research investigated how social exchange theory and self-efficacy theory inform faculty participants’ motivation to transfer such knowledge and skills from mandatory online trainings into their workplace practices. Faculty who had attended mandatory online training were asked to complete a 25-item survey about their motivation to transfer information from the training into their workplace practice as well as their perceived utility of training and their training self-efficacy. This study examined the extent to which motivation …
Feminism And Message Alignment Within Girl Scout Camps, Emily Susan Hinrichsen
Feminism And Message Alignment Within Girl Scout Camps, Emily Susan Hinrichsen
Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations
There has been a recent move in the United States for individuals and organizations toactively empower girls and women, provide them with equal opportunities, and help them build confidence. One organization that has been pursuing these goals is Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA), and Girl Scout camp is a specific setting in which the organization communicates empowerment, leadership, and inclusion to its members. This study utilized a feminist lens to explore message alignment within GSUSA, focusing on Girl Scout campers and Girl Scout camp staff as two important stakeholders who receive messaging from the organization. The researcher evaluated the …
The Content Of Coercion, Michael M. Oswalt
The Content Of Coercion, Michael M. Oswalt
Faculty Peer-Reviewed Publications
This Article is about a new approach to one of the law's most basic questions: what is coercion? Under its traditional framing, coercion is about transactions. One person makes an offer to another person, who, under the circumstances, has no realistic option but to say "yes." But that conception has not helped courts articulate a way to test when pressures cross the line from lawful persuasion to illegal compulsion. Without a metric, critics charge that coercion analyses are inevitably normative. This Article challenges that inevitability. Using the workplace as a case study, it argues that it is possible to weigh …
Diversity Management In The United States Workplace, Delshad Sethna
Diversity Management In The United States Workplace, Delshad Sethna
Honors Capstones
Diversity management is a very important issue in today's workplace. The purpose of this paper is to make individuals aware of the potential benefits that successful diversity management can bring to the workplace. This paper looks into the benefits and challenges of diversity management. It also talks about the most affected individuals, followed by describing ways of managing diversity and finally, giving examples of two companies that have been successful in their diversity management initiatives. Through secondary research it can be concluded that diversity management is indeed the way of the future. Diversity management makes for good business sense and …
Diversity Programs In The Workplace, Kimberly Ann Berkel
Diversity Programs In The Workplace, Kimberly Ann Berkel
Honors Capstones
The primary purpose of this study is to perform exploratory research about diversity programs in the workplace. Diversity, a current and extremely important issue in business, affects all individuals in the working environment in both positive and negative ways. To combat these negative connotations associated with diversity, organizations can implement diversity programs. Diversity programs consist of various components and are implemented for various reasons. This study compares the results of an original diversity survey sent to Human Resource professionals in Fortune 50 firms to the previous research that was discovered. The survey examines the components used as part of the …