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Rocks Roll Downhill: The Role Of The Supervisor In Creating And Maintaining A Healthy Workplace, Amy Tureen

Library Faculty Presentations

The Impact of Stress

◍ Stress has psychological effects
◍ Stress has physiological effects
◍ There are numerous long term side effects from stress
◍ 60%-90% of visits to the doctor may be prompted by stress-related complaints

It’s Getting Worse, Not Better
◍ 2013: 33% report feeling extreme stress & 48% report feeling their overall stress levels had increased in the past 5 years
◍ 2017: 61% report they felt exhausted and 85% report feeling run down and drained
◍ 2019: 90% of respondents reported feeling behind despite high stress levels

...And Then Came COVID-19
The pandemic has triggered an …

When Do Abusive Leaders Experience Guilt?, Cass Shum, Anthony Gatling, Min-Hsuan Tu

Hospitality Faculty Research

Purpose: Drawing from the appraisal theory, this paper aims to examine the conditions under which abusive leaders experience guilt and suggests that guilt motivates leaders to help followers. Design/methodology/approach: A scenario study with a sample of 285 hospitality supervisors was used to test the theoretical model. Path analyses were conducted to test the three-way-moderated mediation model. Findings: Results show a three-way interaction among enacted abuse, managerial abuse and agreeableness on the guilt: leaders are more likely to experience guilt over their enacted abusive supervision when they do not perceive their direct manager as abusive and when they are agreeable. Moreover, …

Achieving Community Preparedness Post-Katrina, Christine G. Springer

Public Policy and Leadership Faculty Publications

Improving disaster response capabilities within this country requires better coordination not only within the Department of Homeland Security, but also across the federal government as well as with state and local governments, private and non-profit sectors. To do so, according to more than 150 state and local stakeholders that I surveyed in April, 2009 and again in April, 2010, requires that FEMA improve its capacity to fully support state, local and tribal stakeholders … that it improve its internal business practices so as to better implement federal policies and guidance…that it find a way to use thematic goals and transition …

Designed Physical Environments As Related To Selves, Symbols, And Social Reality: A Proposal For A Humanistic Paradigm Shift For Architecture, Ronald Smith, Valerie Bugni

Sociology Faculty Research

In this paper we will begin by briefly describing the concept of self, proceed by discussing the symbolic significance of physical environment, then describe as well as propose a humanist paradigm which we believe should be employed in architectural theory and practice, and finally discuss how the shift to a humanistic paradigm might be accomplished.