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The Always On Employee: The Antecedents And Consequences Of Work-Related Email Use After Hours, Archana Manapragada
The Always On Employee: The Antecedents And Consequences Of Work-Related Email Use After Hours, Archana Manapragada
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The present dissertation examines the antecedents and consequences of employees’ work-related email (WRE) use after work hours in a sample of administrative assistants and office workers. Several individual, job, and workplace factors were examined as predictors of WRE use after hours. The individual-level factors examined were telepressure (i.e., the urge to respond to digital messages) and conscientiousness. Perceptions of the usefulness of keeping up with WRE for job performance and the degree to which employees felt the use of WRE was relevant to their job were examined as job-related factors. Workplace factors revolved around organizational norms, which may form by …
Foreign Policy Evaluation And The Utility Of Intervention, Graham Slater
Foreign Policy Evaluation And The Utility Of Intervention, Graham Slater
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation identifies and explains the factors contributing to the presence and severity of U.S. foreign-policy blunders, or gross errors in strategic judgment resulting in significant harm to the national interest, since the Second World War. It hypothesizes that the grand strategy of preponderance and the overestimation of military power to transform the politics of other states have precipitated U.S. foreign-policy blunders since 1945. Examining the Vietnam War and Iraq War as case studies, it focuses on underlying conditions in the American national identity and the problematic foreign policy decision-making (FPDM) that corresponds to this bifurcated hypothesis, termed the overestimation/preponderance …