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2019-10-07 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. Oct 2019

2019-10-07 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress newsletter for October 7, 2019.


A Dsge Model For The Slovenian Economy: Model Estimates And Application, Andrej Kuštrin Oct 2019

A Dsge Model For The Slovenian Economy: Model Estimates And Application, Andrej Kuštrin

Economic and Business Review

The paper presents the estimation of a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model for the Slovenian economy and its applications. The model, which is built in the tradition of New Keynesian models, closely follows the structure of the model developed by Adolfson et al. (2007) and Masten (2010). We estimate the model using a Bayesian method on quarterly Slovenian macroeconomic data covering the period 1995-2014. Beyond evaluating the properties of the estimated model, we discuss the role of various shocks in explaining macroeconomic fluctuations in the Slovenian economy to illustrate the model’s potential in structural business cycle analysis.


Are Middle Managers’ Cost Decisions Sticky? Evidence From The Field, Byunghoon Jin, John C. Cary Oct 2019

Are Middle Managers’ Cost Decisions Sticky? Evidence From The Field, Byunghoon Jin, John C. Cary

Economic and Business Review

Anderson, Banker, and Janakiraman (2003) show that costs are “sticky” (i.e., costs change relatively less when sales decrease than when sales increase) because managers are reluctant to cut resources when sales decrease. We predict that cost behavior at the middle management level is sticky also when the magnitude of sales increase is sufficiently large, considering that middle managers have more limited ability in adding resources and are more risk averse. Using a survey instrument and interviews, we find evidence that middle managers’ cost decisions are sticky at both ends. Our findings are supported by empirical evidence based on segment-level data.


2019-10-07 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. Oct 2019

2019-10-07 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress meeting minutes from October 7, 2019.


Financial Accounting For Non-Business Majors Bus 200, Andree Rathemacher Oct 2019

Financial Accounting For Non-Business Majors Bus 200, Andree Rathemacher

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.


Fashion Students Recognized For St. Louis Fashion Show, Lindenwood University Oct 2019

Fashion Students Recognized For St. Louis Fashion Show, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

No abstract provided.


Daly Receives Top Ranking In Global Education Project, Lindenwood University Oct 2019

Daly Receives Top Ranking In Global Education Project, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

No abstract provided.


2019-October-04-"Tol'able David" Silent Film Screening/Discussion, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University Oct 2019

2019-October-04-"Tol'able David" Silent Film Screening/Discussion, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.


Provost Marilyn Abbott Announces June 2020 Retirement, Lindenwood University Oct 2019

Provost Marilyn Abbott Announces June 2020 Retirement, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

No abstract provided.


Psychology Department Supports The Walk To End Alzheimer's, Lindenwood University Oct 2019

Psychology Department Supports The Walk To End Alzheimer's, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

No abstract provided.


Using Cultural Mindsets To Reduce Cross‐National Auditor Judgment Differences, Aaron Saiewitz, Elaine Ying Wang Oct 2019

Using Cultural Mindsets To Reduce Cross‐National Auditor Judgment Differences, Aaron Saiewitz, Elaine Ying Wang

Department of Accounting Faculty Research

In a globalized audit environment, regulators and researchers have expressed concerns about inconsistent audit quality across nations, with a particular emphasis on Chinese audit quality. Prior research suggests Chinese audit quality may be lower than U.S. audit quality due to a weaker institutional environment (e.g., lower litigation and inspection risk) or cultural value differences (e.g., greater deference to authority). In this study, we propose that lower Chinese audit quality could also be due to Chinese auditors' different cognitive processing styles (i.e., cultural mindsets). We find U.S. auditors are more likely to engage in an analytic mindset approach, focusing on a …


High School Team Sport Coaches’ Perceptions Of Effective Coaching Characteristics, Ryan Michael Egnaczyk Oct 2019

High School Team Sport Coaches’ Perceptions Of Effective Coaching Characteristics, Ryan Michael Egnaczyk

Student Theses and Dissertations

This study looks to find what experienced high school team sport coaches believe are the qualities and leadership characteristics that they feel make them successful and effective. The study reviews previous literature that exists that studies high school team sport coaches. This includes looking at qualities of effective coaches, leadership characteristics and behaviors, various coaching philosophies, and ways that coaches impact the lives of their players both athletes and people outside of athletics. Multiple rounds of interviews are conducted with 12 current or former high school coaches to ask them a variety of questions to help find commonalities and themes …


2019-10-04 Faculty Rights & Responsibilities Committee Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., Faculty Rights & Responsibilities Committee. Oct 2019

2019-10-04 Faculty Rights & Responsibilities Committee Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., Faculty Rights & Responsibilities Committee.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Rights & Responsibilities Committee meeting minutes for October 4, 2019.


2019-October-03-Lecture Addresses ‘Climate Solutions As Health Solutions’, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University Oct 2019

2019-October-03-Lecture Addresses ‘Climate Solutions As Health Solutions’, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.


2019-October-03-Taylor Dennis, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University Oct 2019

2019-October-03-Taylor Dennis, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.


2019-October-03-Financial Aid News, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University Oct 2019

2019-October-03-Financial Aid News, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.


2019-10-03 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate. Oct 2019

2019-10-03 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate meeting minutes for October 3, 2019.


Contributions Of Mindfulness To Improvisational Behavior And Consequences On Business Performance And Stress Of Entrepreneurs During Economic Downturn, Peerayuth Charoensukmongkol Oct 2019

Contributions Of Mindfulness To Improvisational Behavior And Consequences On Business Performance And Stress Of Entrepreneurs During Economic Downturn, Peerayuth Charoensukmongkol

Organization Management Journal

This research investigates the role of mindfulness among Thai entrepreneurs that can be linked to their improvisational behavior that, in turn, explains business performance and stress during a period of economic contraction in Thailand. This research collected survey data from a sample of 186 owners of small retail shops in major marketplaces in Bangkok, Thailand. Results from partial least squares structural equation modeling show that mindfulness had a positive relationship with the degree of improvisational behavior exhibited by entrepreneurs. The findings also reveal that the entrepreneurs who exhibited a higher degree of improvisational behavior achieved higher business performance and had …


Effects Of Management Support, Team Member Support, And Job Status On Safety Climate And Employee Attitudes, Bernadette M. Racicot, Mary C. Kernan, Edward D. Nichols Oct 2019

Effects Of Management Support, Team Member Support, And Job Status On Safety Climate And Employee Attitudes, Bernadette M. Racicot, Mary C. Kernan, Edward D. Nichols

Organization Management Journal

This study examined the impact of management and team member support on employee attitudes through the mediating effect of safety climate. Five hundred fifty-six physicians and nurses from a large teaching hospital in the eastern United States completed survey items assessing their perceptions of management support, team member support, and safety climate as well as job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Results indicated that while job satisfaction and commitment were directly affected by perceptions of management and team member support, these relationships were also partially mediated by safety climate. In addition, the results suggested that team member support contributed to the …


The Role Of Shared Leadership And Communication In Promoting Strategic Consensus And Performance, Younis Jabarzadeh, Naser Sanoubar, Arash Vahdat, Faezeh Khosravi Saghezchi Oct 2019

The Role Of Shared Leadership And Communication In Promoting Strategic Consensus And Performance, Younis Jabarzadeh, Naser Sanoubar, Arash Vahdat, Faezeh Khosravi Saghezchi

Organization Management Journal

The current study aims to investigate the effect of strategic consensus among managers on organizational performance, with an emphasis on shared leadership and communications in Iranian knowledge-intensive firms. Since Iran has its unique cultural characteristics with favoring a more authoritarian attribute, and leadership in knowledge-intensive firms has a more shared style, the context of the study is more appealing to such relationships. Data were collected from 115 randomly selected knowledge-intensive firms and analyzed using structural equation modeling by LISREL. Findings show that shared leadership positively influences strategic consensus of the management team, but it does not have a direct effect …


The Collaboration Of Human Resource Management And Line Management–An International Comparison, Klaas Szierbowksi-Seibel, Bernhard A. Wach, Rudiger Kabst Oct 2019

The Collaboration Of Human Resource Management And Line Management–An International Comparison, Klaas Szierbowksi-Seibel, Bernhard A. Wach, Rudiger Kabst

Organization Management Journal

The extant research advocates for the strategic integration of human resource management (HRM) in managerial decision making to foster firm performance. However, the empirical evidence of a stronger strategic integration of HRM is still limited, especially in terms of strategic guidelines such as a human resource (HR) strategy and international comparative matters. Drawing on responses from 588 German and US-based organizations and related to the new institutionalism theory, this study examines whether a HRM partnership (i.e., sharing responsibilities between HRM and line management) that represents a particular form of strategic integration of HRM is beneficial for organizations. In particular, we …


Hr Flexibility In Family Firms: Integrating Family Functioning And Family Business Leadership, Sanjay Goel, Lin Xiu, Sheila Hanson, Raymond J. Jones Iii. Oct 2019

Hr Flexibility In Family Firms: Integrating Family Functioning And Family Business Leadership, Sanjay Goel, Lin Xiu, Sheila Hanson, Raymond J. Jones Iii.

Organization Management Journal

We developed a conceptual model that links central constructs of family functioning to HR flexibility and subsequent HR outcomes in family businesses. We proposed that family functioning was associated with two fundamental leadership decisions (i.e. family-business integration and family involvement) in family businesses. We posited that family business leaders have immense discretion to make these critical decisions that establish the degree to which the family firms would exhibit HR flexibility. We distinguished the three dimensions of HR flexibility – skill, behavioral, and HR practices flexibility and proposed that skill and behavioral HR flexibility generally lead to positive HR outcomes whereas …


Should All Stakeholders Be Treated Fairly? Identifying Stakeholders That Legitimately Matter, Desmond Ng Oct 2019

Should All Stakeholders Be Treated Fairly? Identifying Stakeholders That Legitimately Matter, Desmond Ng

Organization Management Journal

A key contribution of stakeholder research is that a firm’s purpose and objective is influenced by those stakeholders who have a legitimate stake in a firm’s business activities. Yet, identifying those that have a legitimate stake remains a challenge in stakeholder research. This research draws on legitimacy arguments to explain how stakeholders develop accountability and reliability in their legal and moral claims and how legitimacy influences a firm-manager’s obligations of fairness to these stakeholder groups. A concept of directness, consisting of close and relational specific exchanges, is introduced to explain this legitimation process. Directness offers accountability and reliability when an …


In Defense Of The Lecture: Revisiting And Reassessing Its Place Within Management Pedagogy, Evan H. Offstein, Rebecca M. Chorry Oct 2019

In Defense Of The Lecture: Revisiting And Reassessing Its Place Within Management Pedagogy, Evan H. Offstein, Rebecca M. Chorry

Organization Management Journal

Long the staple or go-to technique in management education, instruction via the lecture has fallen on hard times. Dismissed as professorially heavy-handed and lacking creativity, the lecture has yielded considerable ground to experiential, service, applied, and active learning techniques. In this essay, we question this shift away from the lecture toward the aforementioned trending instructional methods. In coming to the defense of the lecture, we explore the benefits afforded by the lecture for students and the professorate. Drawing on the maxim that what is old is new again, we contend that the lecture still deserves central billing in the management …


The Role Of Sensemaking And Organizational Identification In Employee Engagement For Sustainability, Kent D. Fairfield Oct 2019

The Role Of Sensemaking And Organizational Identification In Employee Engagement For Sustainability, Kent D. Fairfield

Organization Management Journal

This exploratory study examines how sensemaking and organizational identification occur inside an organization and how they can affect how employees engage in managing for sustainability. Qualitative data suggest a positive effect of organizational identification on support for sustainability goals and actions and, conversely, how individual sustainability actions may in turn increase organizational identification. The findings from interviews of a sample of eight companies reveal many different goals, challenges, and means of seeking sustainability. Analysis points toward the dynamics of cognitive and emotional processing across this diverse sample, suggesting implications for practitioners and further research.


A Qualitative Study Of “Online” Work Breaks, Sungdoo Kim, Stacie Furst-Holloway, Elaine Hollensbee, Suzanne Masterson, Therese Sprinkle, Daniele Bologna Oct 2019

A Qualitative Study Of “Online” Work Breaks, Sungdoo Kim, Stacie Furst-Holloway, Elaine Hollensbee, Suzanne Masterson, Therese Sprinkle, Daniele Bologna

Organization Management Journal

Despite the growing empirical evidence on the beneficial effects of “micro” work breaks, scant research has examined “online” work breaks. Thus, the purpose of this study is to explore the nature and effects of online work breaks. Through an in-depth qualitative study of a diverse set of 33 full-time working professionals, we identified conditions under which online breaks occur as well as the characteristics and outcomes of these breaks. Interestingly, our findings point to both negative and positive outcomes associated with online breaks, largely dependent on an individual’s ability to self-regulate. Our grounded theory approach allows us to develop a …


Team-Building: Developing Teamwork Skills In College Students Using Experiential Activities In A Classroom Setting, Shelly Marasi Oct 2019

Team-Building: Developing Teamwork Skills In College Students Using Experiential Activities In A Classroom Setting, Shelly Marasi

Organization Management Journal

This paper provides a systematic team-building training to fill a knowledge hole and a skills gap as well as prepare college students for better employability and future career success. The teambuilding training follows the interpersonal approach and utilizes adventure learning in the form of improvisational activities that can be used in a classroom setting. The team-building training enhances student learning of teams and the team development process as well as develop students’ teamwork skills. Data from a treatment group and a control group through pre- and post-measures of student perceptions are presented to determine the team-building training’s effectiveness. Correlations, t-tests, …


The Business Meeting: A Cross-Cultural Experiential Learning Activity, Arpita Joarder, Konrad Jamro, Ram Ravi Oct 2019

The Business Meeting: A Cross-Cultural Experiential Learning Activity, Arpita Joarder, Konrad Jamro, Ram Ravi

Organization Management Journal

This paper presents a simulation designed to help students learn about the challenges and necessary skills for conducting business in cross-cultural settings. The exercise involves assigning participants to two fictitious cultural groups, each with its own norms and expectations. Participants interact with members of the other culture in accordance with the instructions provided in order to negotiate successfully. This experiential learning activity allows students to reflect on their cross-cultural skills in a simulated business setting. An assessment of the exercise conducted in classroom setting indicated evidence of its effectiveness.


2019-October-02-Et Echo, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University Oct 2019

2019-October-02-Et Echo, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.


2019-October-02-Brooke Jarvis, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University Oct 2019

2019-October-02-Brooke Jarvis, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.