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Bibliography, Trini Stickle
Bibliography, Trini Stickle
Faculty/Staff Personal Papers
Bibliography of publications by Trini Stickle.
The Motive To Work: Assessing Organizational Motivation Within The Federal Probation System, Aleda M. Thomas
The Motive To Work: Assessing Organizational Motivation Within The Federal Probation System, Aleda M. Thomas
Dissertations
Competition within the United States workforce is growing at an unprecedented rate. Turnover rates of all organizations and businesses have reached an all-time high. According to the U.S. Labor Department, 4.3 million Americans quit their job in the month of August alone. Times have shifted to where the ball no longer resides on the side of employers, but now it resides with employees. As such, it is vital to ensure workplaces are enjoyable and encompass cultures that produce high levels of motivation, satisfaction, and engagement. As such, the retention of skilled and qualified employees must be at the forefront of …
The Impact Of Gemba Walks On Preventative Maintenance Productivity, Jake Donald Taylor
The Impact Of Gemba Walks On Preventative Maintenance Productivity, Jake Donald Taylor
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Gemba Walks are a tool to get management involvement in areas where the work is taking place. Gemba Walks allow individuals involved first-hand to voice and reduce waste within the process and general operations. This research measured the benefits and improvements Gemba Walks had on the availability of equipment. For example, reducing the number of events that equipment is down for maintenance and its duration to repair these events, therefore improved availability. Maintenance is a critical aspect of keeping a company running, and making improvements found during this research significantly impacted the company by creating lean improvements. The improvements focused …
Psychosocial Work Influences On Adaptive Performance, Eli Alvin Dickinson
Psychosocial Work Influences On Adaptive Performance, Eli Alvin Dickinson
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The present study sought to understand why some employees may be more or less able to adapt to the changing work environment. Adaptive performance can help employees to be resilient to technological advances, economic factors, and/or cultural shifts, making it an important form of extra-role performance. According to conservation of resources (COR) theory, one reason employees may fail to adapt is because they lack resources that are required in order to be adaptive. I proposed that the resources needed for adaptive performance aggregate in a resource caravan. Job embeddedness is a proposed resource caravan that may facilitate more adaptive performance …
Ua3/1/1 President's Office-Cherry Reports, Wku Archives
Ua3/1/1 President's Office-Cherry Reports, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Reports made by Henry Cherry to the Board of Regents and departmental reports made to Henry Cherry.
Generational Diversity: Absenteeism Examined Through Perceptions Of Organizational Justice And Authentic Leadership, Ebony Lisa Spencer-Muldrow
Generational Diversity: Absenteeism Examined Through Perceptions Of Organizational Justice And Authentic Leadership, Ebony Lisa Spencer-Muldrow
Dissertations
This study explored the impact of authentic leadership (AL) on employee perception of organizational justice and employee propensity to engage in negligible absences—those that could be avoided by the employee but are not. The study sought an understanding into possible differences between the absence behaviors of the Millennial generation and Generation X. Data were collected from 214 participants primarily located in the Midwest United States. Participants were nearly equally distributed between the two target populations. Participants completed a comprehensive, web-based survey comprised of Colquitt’s (2001) Organizational Justice Measure (OJM) and the Walumbwa et al. (2008) Authentic Leadership Questionnaire (ALQ), along …
Design Thinking As A Common Language Between Higher Education And Employers, Johnna Denning-Smith
Design Thinking As A Common Language Between Higher Education And Employers, Johnna Denning-Smith
Dissertations
This qualitative study explores student skill preparedness for the work force through semi-structured interviews and focus groups with current college students, faculty members, and employers. Responses from study participants were transcribed, coded, and thematically organized into the following four categories of skills that employers seek in recent college graduates: critical thinking skills, resiliency, workplace skills, and discipline specific skills. The findings include participant perceptions of the importance of these skills and whether higher education effectively prepares recent graduates for the workforce. As part of this discussion, design thinking is presented as a bridge between these groups and as a solution …
Team Creation Methods In Practice: Understanding The Potential Effects Of Nonverbal Communication In The Leadership Of Team Formation, Troy Allen Robertson
Team Creation Methods In Practice: Understanding The Potential Effects Of Nonverbal Communication In The Leadership Of Team Formation, Troy Allen Robertson
Dissertations
Teams require leadership, even if they are self-managed. The group of individuals who make up a team must be gathered in some form or another. For self managed teams to function successfully, the first step is the process of creating the team. Many aspects may factor into the creation process. Often time is of the essence and methods to quickly assess and form teams show merit. First impressions in general are based largely on nonverbal communication. The focus of this mixed-methods concurrent embedded study is to analyze the potential effects of nonverbal communication on influencing team creation. A group of …
Western Kentucky University Psychological Sciences Faculty Bars Revision, Brian Coyne
Western Kentucky University Psychological Sciences Faculty Bars Revision, Brian Coyne
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
In any organization, universities included, the development of quality personnel to perform work is of paramount importance. Thus, the ability to identify individual employee strengths and weaknesses and provide constructive feedback is vital. In this thesis I discuss the strengths and weaknesses of various performance appraisal formats, before suggesting behaviorally anchored rating scales (BARS) as an optimal tool in evaluating the performance of university faculty. I discuss BARS development in depth, as well as highlight BARS strengths as a performance appraisal tool. I further outline the process used and results obtained in updating the BARS used in the performance evaluation …
Ua12/2/2 Talisman: Zeitgeist, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/2 Talisman: Zeitgeist, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
2020 Talisman yearbook:
- Mohr, Olivia. Zeitgeist
- Disrupted – Photo Essay, COVID-19
- Brandt, Jess. Cut Short – Edward Games, Grace Jones, Jarred Corona, Joshua Crask
- Zambrano, Max. Point of No Return? – Stuart Foster, Climate Change
- Francis, Kristina. Weapons Women Carry
- Steele, Emma. Now & Again – Talisman
- Gordon, Zora. Not Just Numbers – Sam Aldrich, Social Media
- Christensen, Nicole. The K-Pop Phenomenon – Music
- Hornsby, Morgan. Everything Starts with Mama – Warren County Regional Jail
- McCormick, Dillon. Evolving Sport – Esports, Video Games
- Sheffield, Catherine. Perfect Match – Travis Hudson, Volleyball
- Dozer, Claire. Follow the Signs – Deafness, American Sign …
Unpacking The Burnout Phenomenon: Understanding Daily Influences On Burnout, Emily Houk
Unpacking The Burnout Phenomenon: Understanding Daily Influences On Burnout, Emily Houk
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Burnout is a work-related phenomenon that is not bound to the work domain. As such, experiencing burnout can be particularly detrimental for employees because effects of burnout can spill over into other life domains. The present study serves to examine the burnout phenomenon; specifically, I examined the direct effect of daily job stress on perceptions of burnout, as well as explored daily work-related affective rumination as a mediating effect in the relationship between daily job stress and burnout. Work-related affective rumination is a mechanism that potentially helps to explain how buildup of daily job stress influences the development of burnout. …
A Monte Carlo Analysis Of Thorndike's Indirect Range Restriction Correction Equations, Michael Thomas Pelayo
A Monte Carlo Analysis Of Thorndike's Indirect Range Restriction Correction Equations, Michael Thomas Pelayo
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Employee selection is an important process for organizations. Organizations seek to select the best employees for their available positions. Testing is key to many selection efforts. The results of studies assessing the criterion-related validity of a selection test are affected by a number of statistical artifacts, one of which is range restriction. Range restriction has the effect of attenuating the correlation coefficient. Statistical equations exist to correct for the effects of range restriction, and they enable researchers to obtain a more accurate estimate of the validity coefficient. Thorndike (1949) developed the best known and most frequently used of these correction …
Further Understanding Of The Spillover Process: Work Influences On Family Disengagement And The Mediating Effects Of Flexible Work Arrangements, Alexandra Myers
Further Understanding Of The Spillover Process: Work Influences On Family Disengagement And The Mediating Effects Of Flexible Work Arrangements, Alexandra Myers
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Organizations have long sought to determine methods in reducing the work family conflict employees experience in order to improve overall morale as well as producing more efficient and effective employees. My study examined the spillover process from the work to family domain. Specifically, I examined the influence of work related affective rumination on family disengagement, mediated by strain-based work-to family conflict. I also examined the buffering effects of flexible work arrangements on the relationship between strain-based work-to-family conflict and family disengagement. Utilizing a sample of employees recruited via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and working full-time outside the home, I analyzed the …
A Monte Carlo Analysis Of Standard Error-Based Methods For Computing Confidence Intervals, Elayna Wichert
A Monte Carlo Analysis Of Standard Error-Based Methods For Computing Confidence Intervals, Elayna Wichert
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The objective of this study is to empirically test existing techniques to calculate the likely range of values for a Classical Test Theory true score given an observed score. The traditional method for forming these confidence intervals has used the standard error of measurement (SEM) as the basis for this confidence interval. An alternate equation, the standard error of estimate (SEE), has been recommended in place of the SEM for this purpose, yet it remains overlooked in the field of psychometrics. It is important that the correct equation be used in various applications in personnel psychology. Monte Carlo analyses were …
Ua3/10/2 Summer Schedule, Wku President's Office - Caboni
Ua3/10/2 Summer Schedule, Wku President's Office - Caboni
WKU Archives Records
Email from WKU president Timothy Caboni to faculty & staff.
Superintendent Recruitment: Effects Of Superintendent Job Status, School Councils (Principal Selection Models), District Wealth, And Signing Bonus On Applicant Rating Of The Job, Mark Jeffery Martin
Superintendent Recruitment: Effects Of Superintendent Job Status, School Councils (Principal Selection Models), District Wealth, And Signing Bonus On Applicant Rating Of The Job, Mark Jeffery Martin
Dissertations
This nearly perfect replicated study (Millay, 2003) was a superintendent recruitment simulation with the purpose of investigating factors that influence recruiting qualified individuals to serve as district superintendents of public schools. The study was a factorial experiment involving a four-way 2 x 2 x 2 x (3 x S) fixed-factor betweenwithin analysis of variance (ANOVA) which yielded 24 cells. The participants in the study were Kentucky Superintendents (N = 72) and individuals in Kentucky certified to be a school superintendent (N = 72) but employed in another position.
The between-groups variables were superintendent job status (superintendent, certified), district wealth (high, …
Ua3/10/2 Pension Reform, Wku President's Office - Caboni
Ua3/10/2 Pension Reform, Wku President's Office - Caboni
WKU Archives Records
Email from WKU president Timothy Caboni to faculty & staff regarding Kentucky state pension reform.
Ua3/10/2 Summer Schedule, Wku President's Office - Caboni
Ua3/10/2 Summer Schedule, Wku President's Office - Caboni
WKU Archives Records
Email from WKU president Timothy Caboni to faculty & staff regarding summer schedules.
Ua3/10/2 Pension Reform Bill Filed, Wku President's Office - Caboni
Ua3/10/2 Pension Reform Bill Filed, Wku President's Office - Caboni
WKU Archives Records
Email from WKU president Timothy Caboni to faculty & staff regarding Kentucky state pensions.
Ua18/1 Facet - Publications, Wku Archives
Ua18/1 Facet - Publications, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Publications created by the Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching (FaCET).
Ua66/2 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Architectural & Manufacturing Sciences, Wku Archives
Ua66/2 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Architectural & Manufacturing Sciences, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records created by the Architectural & Manufacturing Sciences.
Files are arranged in the following subseries:
- Administration
- Publications
- Centers & Institutes
Ua1b4 University Wide Committees / Events - Awards, Wku Archives
Ua1b4 University Wide Committees / Events - Awards, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Awards presented to Western Kentucky University.
Ua3/10/2 Focusing On Self-Care, Wku President's Office - Caboni
Ua3/10/2 Focusing On Self-Care, Wku President's Office - Caboni
WKU Archives Records
Email from WKU president Timothy Caboni to faculty & staff regarding health insurance and wellness programs.
Factors That Affect The Relationship Between Employer And Employees Within Organizations, Harry Adam Nuse
Factors That Affect The Relationship Between Employer And Employees Within Organizations, Harry Adam Nuse
Dissertations
This research is on the relationship between employees and employers and seeks to determine the relationship between the values held by employees and the extent business leaders adapt their business practices to each of these values. By understanding this relationship, business leaders can gain insight into the improvement of both employee and supervisor success for the vitality of the organization.
Participants from AAA Minor League Baseball teams agreed to allow the survey to be distributed to their employees and employers via email. The nine values were developed from a panel of experts within Minor League Baseball management and human resources …
Ua3/10/2 Toward A Culture Of Performance, Wku President's Office - Caboni
Ua3/10/2 Toward A Culture Of Performance, Wku President's Office - Caboni
WKU Archives Records
Email from WKU president Timothy Caboni to faculty & staff regarding employee review and compensation.
Justice Perceptions Of Team Disciplinary Actions In The Workplace, Austin Lee Rettke
Justice Perceptions Of Team Disciplinary Actions In The Workplace, Austin Lee Rettke
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This scenario study examined fairness perceptions of rule violations and punishment in an organizational team setting. Participants read one of 16 scenarios in which an integral team member violates an organizational rule and subsequently is punished. Participants then answered 12 items assessing perceptions of fairness for the punished employee and for the non-punished team members, and the likelihood the punishment will deter future misconduct for the punished employee and for the teammates. This study examined two levels of misconduct severity (moderate and severe), two levels of punishment severity (moderate and severe), two types of punishment distribution (consistent and conditional), and …
Ua3/10/2 Search Committees For Senior Leadership Positions, Wku President's Office - Caboni
Ua3/10/2 Search Committees For Senior Leadership Positions, Wku President's Office - Caboni
WKU Archives Records
Email from WKU president Timothy Caboni to faculty & staff regarding hiring of leadership team.
Ua3/10/2 Kentucky Public Pension Status, Wku President's Office - Caboni
Ua3/10/2 Kentucky Public Pension Status, Wku President's Office - Caboni
WKU Archives Records
Email message to faculty and staff from WKU president Timothy Caboni regarding Kentucky's public pensions.
Ua25/2 25 Year Club Recognition Banquet, Wku Human Resources
Ua25/2 25 Year Club Recognition Banquet, Wku Human Resources
WKU Archives Records
Program for 25 year service awards banquet with list of recipients.
Examining The Effect Of Expatriate Narcissism Levels On Cultural Adjustment And Global Leadership Effectiveness, Emily M. Martin
Examining The Effect Of Expatriate Narcissism Levels On Cultural Adjustment And Global Leadership Effectiveness, Emily M. Martin
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between narcissism, cultural adjustment, and leadership of expatriates. Specifically, it was predicted that cultural adjustment would partially mediate the relationship between narcissism and selfperceptions of leadership effectiveness such that narcissism would be negatively related to cultural adjustment, and cultural adjustment would be positively related to selfperceptions of leadership effectiveness. It was also predicted that cultural adjustment would partially mediate the relationship between narcissism and LMX perceptions such that narcissism would be negatively related to cultural adjustment, and cultural adjustment would be positively related to LMX perceptions. Fifty-three participants completed an …