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Mindfulness: A Personal Resource In Organizational Change, Mona Farid-Nejad
Mindfulness: A Personal Resource In Organizational Change, Mona Farid-Nejad
CGU Theses & Dissertations
As the world of work becomes increasingly uncertain, organizations and their employees must adapt and change to survive and remain solvent in light of market and social changes. Most organizational-level change management approaches, however, fail to consider the repercussions of change on employees and often do not consider the psychological resources employees need to weather the storms of change. Guided by previous research concerning the benefits of mindfulness, the current dissertation seeks to understand the benefits of trait mindfulness as a personal resource for employee well-being, motivation, and retention during organizational change. In the initial pilot study, organizational change vignettes …
Making Emotions Meaningful: The Power Of Mindfulness During Leader Developmental Trigger Events, Jason Beck
Making Emotions Meaningful: The Power Of Mindfulness During Leader Developmental Trigger Events, Jason Beck
CGU Theses & Dissertations
Successful leaders act with a sense of inner meaningfulness that contagiously influences followers to perform at their best. Leaders who purposely engage with emotionally intense developmental experiences (e.g., trigger events) cultivate greater meaningfulness in their work. Negative trigger events may be more impactful than positive trigger events because negative emotions shock beliefs and assumptions about reality. Additionally, due to the emotional intensity, leaders often fail to learn from trigger events that could develop leader meaningfulness. Mindfulness may help leaders appropriately use the emotional intensity of trigger events to produce meaningfulness. The purpose of this study was to empirically test the …