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Strategies To Justify Resource Allocation To Corporate-Sponsored Volunteer Programs, Jolene Cantrell

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

An increased interest in how perceptions of stakeholders and customers can affect the performance of an organization has led some scholars to study the link between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and financial performance. Some business leaders attempt to allocate significant time and resources towards CSR, specifically corporate-sponsored volunteer (CSV) programs, but have yet to develop the business rationale and lack strategies. Grounded in Herzberg’s two-factor theory, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore strategies central Florida executive level business leaders used to establish or maintain CSV programs. Participants comprised three business leaders from central Florida firms …

The Relationship Between Antecedent Variables And Collective Organizational Engagement In U.S. Manufacturers, Kristoffer Carlos Garringer

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Manufacturing leaders face challenges that influence organizational outcomes such as, collective organizational engagement. Because of the complexities in the U.S. manufacturing industry, manufacturing leaders must identify resources and strategies that influence collective organizational engagement levels. Grounded in employee engagement theory and resource management theory, the purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to examine the relationship between motivating work design, human resource management practices, strategic implementation, and collective organizational engagement. The sample included 123 participants from large manufacturing organizations within the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region who held non-executive titles. The results of the multiple linear regression were significant, F(3, 122) = …

Evaluating The Effectiveness Of The Balanced Scorecard Within A Nonprofit Organization, Karen L. Graves

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Analyzing and evaluating the effectiveness of nonprofit organizations’ services is as critical as the service itself. The purpose of this study was to identify the effectiveness of the balanced scorecard, a performance measurement system, within a drug and alcohol nonprofit organization and to assess its adaptability for use among nonprofit organizations. The theories used in this study included (a) Kaplan and Norton’s Balanced Scorecard (BSC); (b) Patton’s utilization-focused evaluation; (c) Campbell’s experimental society theory; and (d) Lincoln and Guba’s naturalistic inquiry. The research addressed whether the BSC was a useful evaluation instrument in a nonprofit organization and whether the BSC …

Performance Measurements On Concession Periods To Forecast Water Infrastructure Investment Returns, Reyneck Buthani Magudu Khoza

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Public-private-partnership stakeholders in South Africa are inconsistent in applying performance measurements to optimize concession period agreements for water infrastructure development and drive infrastructure financial value at postconcession termination. The purpose of this qualitative e-Delphi study was to assess consensus among 17 public-private-partnership experts on the best practice within the South African context for using performance measurements to optimize concession period agreements for water infrastructure development and drive infrastructure financial value at postconcession termination. The research question pertained to their level of consensus. Determination and analysis of the concession period conceptual model that illustrates how to achieve benefits of the concession …

Mentoring Strategies For Enabling Employees’ Career Progression, Anticia Alston

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Organizations without mentorship programs are at risk for leadership skill development. Using successful mentoring strategies, human resource managers may increase their talent pool, increase organizational opportunities, and improve the organization’s overall climate. Guided by Kram’s mentoring theory, the purpose of this qualitative single case study was to explore mentoring strategies that some human resource management (HRM) leaders working in civil service within the federal government successfully use to assist the professional development of their employees. Participants included five civil service HRM leaders within the federal government in the southeastern region of the United States who used mentoring strategies to assist …

Strategies For Mitigating Voluntary Employee Turnover In Small Businesses, Eric Regneco Gant

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

AbstractVoluntary employee turnover costs businesses significant resources in training and recruitment. An employee’s voluntary turnover could cost small business owners $3,000 to $10,000 in training and recruitment costs and reduce company performance, profitability, and competitive advantage. Grounded in Vroom’s expectancy theory of motivation, the purpose of this multiple case study was to explore strategies that owners of small businesses in the eastern United States use to mitigate voluntary employee turnover. Data were collected from semistructured telephone interviews with five small business owners with at least three years of experience mitigating voluntary employee turnover. Data were analyzed using Yin’s five-step approach. …

Multigenerational Family Firm Succession Planning For Transgenerational Sustainability, Janine Michelle Moore-Williams

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

AbstractFamily firm businesses represent 90% of the global economy and have a 70% first-generation failure rate; business sustainability could have a tremendous impact on the U.S. economy. Grounded in the sustainable family business theory, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore strategies used by four California-based, multigenerational family firm leaders who successfully implemented succession planning processes to transfer leadership of their family firm. Data were collected by reviewing firm documents, public information, and semistructured interviews. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis and methodological triangulation, and five themes emerged: leader strategies to implement succession planning, strategies for …

Leadership Strategies To Reduce Employee Turnover In The Health Care Industry, Sheila Redmond

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

In 2018, over 3.1 million the United States health care employees vacated their jobs. Leaders who lack strategies to reduce employee turnover impose a significant financial burden on health care organizations. Grounded in transformational leadership theory, the purpose of this qualitative single case study was to explore strategies health care leaders use to reduce employee turnover. Participants were five health care leaders from a hospital in Virginia who implemented successful strategies to reduce employee turnover. Data were collected from semistructured interviews and document reviews. The themes extracted using the thematic data analysis were work-life balance, employee engagement, training, and job …

High Performance: Exploratory Study Into The High Performance Model And Qualitative Secondary Analysis Of Elite Sport Management In The United States, Jon Gregory Hill

Theses and Dissertations--Education Sciences

This dissertation examines the area of high performance in elite sport through high performance professionals’ perspectives in the United States Olympic and Paralympic National Governing Bodies. The study’s purpose was to establish a shared meaning of the high performance sport management model by its elements in the athletic arena. Interviews with 16 high performance directors and managers were conducted to establish definitions, backgrounds, and anatomy of high performance in sport: high performance, high performance sport, high performance management, high performance model.

A qualitative secondary analysis was conducted to examine the high performance model in the U.S. and explore the job …

Catalyzing Change In Higher Education: Social Capital And Network Leadership In The Competency-Based Education Network, Bruce William Haupt Jr.

Theses and Dissertations--Education Sciences

Collaborative inter-organizational networks can be effective at catalyzing and supporting the generation and diffusion of new models and practices. With shared purpose, structure, and resources, network organizations can facilitate knowledge exchange and the growth of inter-organizational relationships. In this study, I sought to better understand how network organizations influence social capital and the spread of innovative practices. Of particular interest were the roles of national network and sub-national network organizations (sub-networks), and the interactive learning processes of network newcomers. I focused on the diverse array of colleges and universities involved in the Competency-Based Education Network (C-BEN), and their efforts to …

What You Do Or What You Say? An Examination Of Analyst Reactions To Prototypical And Non-Prototypical Ceos Linguistic And Competitive Behaviors, Courtney Hart

Theses and Dissertations--Management

Non-prototypical CEOs are those that process different demographic characteristics from a target reference group. In the US, a non-prototypical CEO is both white and male. While the negative responses to non-prototypical leaders based on race and gender have been well documented, we know less on what these leaders do that may influence biased evaluations. In this dissertation I took an impression management view to examine analysts’ evaluative bias (AEB) on prototypical and non-prototypical CEOs hiding linguistic behaviors and competitive aggressiveness. Specifically, I examined hiding linguistic behaviors on quarterly conference calls and two attributes of competitive repertoire will be researched. Drawing …

Towards A Holistic Risk Model For Safeguarding The Pharmaceutical Supply Chain: Capturing The Human-Induced Risk To Drug Quality, Heather R. Campbell

Theses and Dissertations--Pharmacy

Counterfeit, adulterated, and misbranded medicines in the pharmaceutical supply chain (PSC) are a critical problem. Regulators charged with safeguarding the supply chain are facing shrinking resources for inspections while concurrently facing increasing demands posed by new drug products being manufactured at more sites in the US and abroad. To mitigate risk, the University of Kentucky (UK) Central Pharmacy Drug Quality Study (DQS) tests injectable drugs dispensed within the UK hospital. Using FT-NIR spectrometry coupled with machine learning techniques the team identifies and flags potentially contaminated drugs for further testing and possible removal from the pharmacy. Teams like the DQS are …

Profiling Social Media Tourists Using Literature During 2015-2019: Criminal Profiling Method, Jijun Chen

Theses and Dissertations--Retailing and Tourism Management

With the continuous development of mobile commerce and the Internet, social media has deeply penetrated people’s lives and fundamentally changed the way of searching, reading and using travel-related information. With this backdrop, this research studied social media tourists (SMTs) who share or acquire information related to the hospitality and tourism on social media platforms. Based on 271 empirical articles retrieved from major databases and top hospitality and tourism journals in the recent five years from 2015 to 2019, this research developed a profiling framework about SMTs using criminal profiling method. The findings showed the possibility of using the criminal profiling …

Are There Differences In Music Preferences Following Major Events?, Ian A. Grant

Honors Theses and Capstones

No abstract provided.

The History Of Human Resources In The United States: A Primer On Modern Practice, Robert Lloyd, Wayne Aho

Management Open Educational Resources

This book details the elements of modern labor practices in the United States and includes a comprehensive review of the history of human resources in the United States. Chapter 2 describes the inexorable link between human resource practices and the laws and regulations guiding them. Chapter 3 provides an overview of the modern HR practices of talent acquisition, total rewards, diversity and inclusion, U.S. employment laws, technology and data, employee relations, employee engagement, organizational effectiveness and development, learning and development, HR structure, HR strategy, risk management, global context, and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Chapter 4 provides an in-depth summary of …

Do You Want Some Sauce On That? Factors Influencing Dietary Habits Among The Irish Construction Workforce, Aileen Kennedy, Colm O'Gorman, Kenneth Lee

Articles

This paper presents an explanatory logic and an empirical illustration of how Stones’s strong structuration theory, specifically the methodological brackets of agent’s conduct and agent’s context analysis can be applied within case study research. The value of strong structuration theory, and the methodological bracketing tool, is its proximity to empirical research and the provision of robust guidelines which enable researchers to resolve the methodological challenges of combining structure and agency within research designs. We demonstrate the application of methodological bracketing as a tool for analysing structure and agency interactions within management research. The contribution of the paper is its explication …

Writing Consultants At The University Of Dayton: A Collaborative Cross-Training Approach, Heidi Gauder

Books and Book Chapters by University of Dayton Faculty

The creation of a new learning commons at the University of Dayton Roesch Library not only highlighted the research and writing support available to students, but it also led to an entirely new library-led cross-training program for writing center student employees. Prior to the new learning commons, the writing center occupied spaces on the upper floors of the library, and the staff of the two units enjoyed a friendly, albeit distant, relationship for many years. The new learning commons, named the Knowledge Hub, brought the library research team directly together with the writing center, both in terms of proximity and …

Boosting And Lassoing New Prostate Cancer Snp Risk Factors And Their Connection To Selenium, David E. Booth, Venugopal Gopalakrishna-Remani, Matthew L. Cooper, Fiona R. Green, Margaret P. Rayman

Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

We begin by arguing that the often used algorithm for the discovery and use of disease risk factors, stepwise logistic regression, is unstable. We then argue that there are other algorithms available that are much more stable and reliable (e.g. the lasso and gradient boosting). We then propose a protocol for the discovery and use of risk factors using lasso or boosting variable selection. We then illustrate the use of the protocol with a set of prostate cancer data and show that it recovers known risk factors. Finally, we use the protocol to identify new and important SNP based risk …

Social And Human Capital Contributions Of Diverse Board Members, Sharifa Ife Batts

Theses and Dissertations

While most firms serve a diverse population, many have no minorities or women serving as Members on their board. Boards are disadvantaged when their composition fails to align with Their employee population or the stakeholder groups they serve; they are neglecting the Contributions of women and minorities as their voices are unheard. The purpose of this multiple Case comparison study builds on current boardroom diversity and board effectiveness research by Exploring how the unique human and social capital contributions of women and minority board Members increase the boards’ capabilities and impact board governance. I qualitatively examined Six boards of varied …

Noise: A Flaw In Human Judgment. [Book Review], Michael Cohen

School of Public Service Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Moving Beyond Sisyphus: Pursuing Sustainable Development In A Business-As-Usual World, Sarah Easter, Kim Ceulemans, Monty L. Lynn

Management Sciences

No abstract provided.

Effects Of States’ Laws On Youth Physical Activity Participation And Obesity Prevalence, Chae Young Chang

Midwest Social Sciences Journal

The alarming prevalence of obesity and lack of physical activity among adolescents led to immediate policy action to address these concerns. Accordingly, many states introduced and enacted their own legislation to encourage physical activity in schools. Few studies have explored the effectiveness of the new legislation, however, especially at the state level. To answer the fundamental question of whether policy is effective and to describe the varying effects of state obesity policies, this study analyzed the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System from 2007 to 2017. Using the difference-in-differences method, this study found that legislative efforts to encourage physical activity had …

Crummer Suntrust Portfolio Recommendations: Crummer Investment Management [2021], Ryan Abronski, Louis Charpentier, Hannah Johnson, David Baldock, Austin Hieb, Luiggi Reno, Shawn Hudson, Eric Necamp, Brandon Carlin, Jackson Pliska, Jacob Carroll

Crummer Truist Portfolios

SunTrust endowed this portfolio to provide scholarships for future Crummer students and to give current students a practical, hands-on learning opportunity. This year, we are pleased to be able to award $50,000 in scholarships. We are extremely grateful for SunTrust’s generosity and investment in higher education. We have all learned a great deal from this experience and the responsibility of managing real money.

Our first challenge is to establish a portfolio position that takes advantage of economic opportunities while avoiding unnecessary risk and conforming to the Crummer SunTrust Investment Policy Statement (IPS). We are also tasked by the IPS to …

Dental Practice Success Special Issue: Financial Foundations For The New Dentist (January 2021), American Dental Association, Publishing Division

Dental Practice Success

No abstract provided.

Anti-Consumption In The Context Of Brand Relationships, Marc Fetscherin, Raghabendra Kc

Faculty Publications

This paper presents a conceptual model that outlines the various brand relationships consumers have with a special focus on negative brand relationships that relates to anti-brand behaviors.

Based on the empathy map, the model consists of four main parts: how consumers think (share of mind) and feel (share of heart) about brands, which in turn effects what consumers say (share of voice) and do (share of wallet) with them.

The model combines more than 40 branding concepts into one comprehensive, coherent, unified and easy-to-understand model where concepts are categorized by their degree of intensity.

Large-Scale Renewable Energy Penetration – A Quantitative Analysis Of Political Determinants Of Renewable Energy And Its Impact On Electricity Price Volatility Transmission And Corporate Financial Performance, Abdul Abban

Theses

This thesis presents four studies on renewable energy. In this thesis, we analyse the political determinants of renewable energy investment in Chapter 2, evaluate the interaction effect between government system and governance quality on renewable energy investment in Chapter 3, estimate the impact of renewable energy on electricity prices and volatility transmission across the Australian regional markets in Chapter 4 and finally investigate the bi-directional causation between environmental and financial performance in Chapter 5.

The findings from Chapter 2 show that both the left and central-orientated governments promote renewable energy investment more than the right-orientated government. Although the presidential system …

Capital Structure Choices In Australian Indigenous Corporations: An Investigation Into The Health And Community Service Industry, João Manuel Da Costa Canoquena

Theses

The growing significance of incorporated legal structures of exclusive use for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has been sustained by both an increase in the registration of Indigenous corporations (ICs) and their recent low rate of deregistration. This progress can be undermined by ineffective debt management, which has, thus far, been handled by the regulator mostly through the tightening of the legal framework under which ICs operate.

Despite its importance in protecting members’ accumulated funds and keeping ICs solvent, debt management by ICs has not benefited from the literature on capital structure choices (the choices between financing through debt …

In These Unprecedented Times: A Critical Incidents Technique Examination Of Students’ Perceptions Of Satisfying And Dissatisfying Learning Experiences, Scott Swanson, J Charlene Davis, Mario V. Gonzalez Fuentes, Kim R. Robertson

School of Business Faculty Research

Higher education has and continues to be sharply disrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this paper, our focus is on the pandemic’s impact on higher education, specifically on undergraduate marketing students’ perceptions of learning experiences during the switch from traditional face-to-face learning to online approaches. Understanding student perspectives on which specific aspects of their learning experience were satisfying or dissatisfying offers faculty valuable insight as to how to navigate this (for many) new teaching environment and enhance student experiences and outcomes. Collecting data during spring semester 2020 offers a unique view from students as universities abruptly pivoted from previously …

Exploring Work Environment Standards In Saudi Arabia Companies, Yousef Almalki

Graduate Research Papers

This research aimed to ascertain whether the organizations operating in Saudi Arabia are implementing work environment standards. The study adopted mixed research methods to realize this aim by collecting data from both secondary and primary sources. The secondary data were quantitative and collected from credible internet sources, while primary data were qualitative. The population sample consisted of 12 employees from four different companies implying three participants for every company. After data analysis through thematic analysis, the findings revealed that Saudi Arabia's companies are implementing work environment standards. The results also indicated that a favorable work environment leads to employee job …

Takin' Care Of Small Business: The Rise Of Stakeholder Influence, William P. Jimenez, Xiaohong (Violet) Xu, Emily D. Campion, Andrew A. Bennett

Management Faculty Publications

In this Exchange, we consider three crucial boundary conditions that Barnett, Henriques, and Husted (2020) overlooked in their model of diminished stakeholder influence. Although we agree that social media platforms have weakened stakeholder influence in certain conditions, such is not the case for all firms, all stakeholders, or all situations. Drawing from socio-cognitive and self-determination theories, we contend that (a) independent, owner-managed small firms present a context wherein information overload is rendered less of an issue because the information about the firm is more salient to locals; (b) stakeholders can be motivated to influence firms via social media platforms, which …