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Three Essays On Diversity-Performance Relationship From A Positive Psychology Lens, Manpreet Kaur
Three Essays On Diversity-Performance Relationship From A Positive Psychology Lens, Manpreet Kaur
Theses and Dissertations
Workplace diversity is an incessant notion in today’s world. Scholars have examined different aspects of diversity (e.g. demographic, cultural, and informational) in context of varying processes and outcomes (e.g. satisfaction, innovation, creativity, and performance). Diversity has been proposed as a double-edged sword, but the overall effects of diversity have been inconclusive, necessitating the investigation of more contextual variables. Efforts have been made to focus on this paucity of diversity research, however, the emphasis has been on objective variables and the positive characteristics of an individual or a team are neglected.
Thus, the purpose of this three-essay dissertation is to address …
Three Essays On Trust Mining In Online Social Networks, Gelareh Towhidi
Three Essays On Trust Mining In Online Social Networks, Gelareh Towhidi
Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation research consists of three essays on studying trust in online social networks. Trust plays a critical role in online social relationships, because of the high levels of risk and uncertainty involved. Guided by relevant social science and computational graph theories, I develop conceptual and predictive models to gain insights into trusting behaviors in online social relationships.
In the first essay, I propose a conceptual model of trust formation in online social networks. This is the first study that integrates the existing graph-based view of trust formation in social networks with socio-psychological theories of trust to provide a richer …