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Electric Cooperative Managers’ Strategies To Enhance Organizational Commitment To Increase Employee Productivity, Michael Edward White

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Lack of effective leadership strategies contributes to a reduction in employee engagement and productivity. Managers are concerned about the lack of effective leadership strategies because it negatively affects employee engagement and productivity, reducing organizational growth. Grounded in Bass’s transformational leadership theory, the purpose of this qualitative single case study was to explore effective leadership strategies used to enhance employee engagement and increase productivity. Five managers from an electric cooperative in Northwest Florida who implemented effective leadership strategies participated in the study. Data were collected using semistructured interviews and a review of organizational documents. Data were analyzed using Yin’s five-step approach. …

Evidence-Based Hospice Care Education For Healthcare Clinicians, Nonie E. Weir

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Vulnerable populations with a terminal illness, who reside in a nursing home setting, continue to experience psychological, physical, and emotional effects that lead to end-of- life (EOL) suffering and discomfort. Globally, millions of individuals receive care from a hospice provider. By 2030, this figure will triple due to the increased lifespan of the geriatric population. The literature review has revealed that the practical problem is the lack of hospice care education received by healthcare clinicians. It is, therefore, important to prepare and educate healthcare clinicians about a peaceful death through an individualized plan-of-care (POC) from a holistic approach. The purpose …

Preventing Injuries And Fatalities In Inherently Dangerous Work Environments, Markeith Porter

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Shipyard safety programs have uncertainty and vulnerability. Shipyard program managers are concerned with safety to mitigate negative business system performance because of unplanned safety events. Grounded in the contingency theory, the purpose of this qualitative single case study was to explore the strategies managers use to mitigate liability claims associated with the high numbers of injuries and fatalities in dangerous work environments. The participants were three program manager representatives in the American Southwest who use successful strategies to reduce injuries and fatalities in the shipyard industry. The data were collected using semistructured interviews, public documents and analyzed using a six-step …

Configurational-Based Institutional Analysis: Unbundling The Multi-Dimensional State Fragility Construct, Joshua K. Ault, Andrew Spicer

Faculty Publications

To guide researchers interested in replicating our configurational approach to comparative institutional analysis, we report on a methodology that builds from existing state fragility indices to differentiate between types of state fragility in 189 countries across the world. We first present the steps we used to identify three constituent dimensions of state fragility. We then report how we configured these first-order institutional measures to build a large-N, fuzzy set qualitative set analysis (fs/QCA) of variation in the degree and type of informal economic sectors found across the world. Our discussion of the methodology shows that:

• Configurational-based analysis requires unbundling aggregate …

Study Finds Low Rate Of Covid-19 Among Dental Hygienists, American Dental Association

News Releases

This collection includes standard news releases, information kits and other documents distributed for publicity, information, announcements of events, etc. as issued from the ADA. Items included in this collection are archival and any costs, links, contact information, or other figures may be out of date. Please contact the ADA to verify information.

Past, Pandemic, And Future: Adaptations And Innovations In Student Engagement At Collegiate Art Programs, Jessie H. Buford

School of Professional and Continuing Studies Nonprofit Studies Capstone Projects

This research paper will focus on student engagement programs associated with collegiate performing arts centers and art programs and how these programs engage and support students prior to and during the Covid-19 pandemic. It will look at the ways arts administrators identify and evaluate the barriers and motivations related to participation within arts programming. Lastly, this research will explore the ways in which these programs have adapted to the pandemic and how these innovations and adaptations might continue, post-pandemic, in order to better support faculty, staff, and students. Data was gathered through interviews with six student engagement professionals who work …

Consequences Of Moral Transgressions: How Regulatory Focus Orientation Motivates Or Hinders Moral Decoupling, Kirsten Cowan, Atefeh Yazdanparast

School of Business

How can firms mitigate the impact of moral violations on consumer evaluations? This question has pervaded the business ethics literature. Though prior research has identified decoupling as a moral reasoning strategy where consumers separate moral judgments from evaluations (avoiding moral compromise and dissonance), it is unclear what motivates individuals to decouple. It is the objective of this research to explore regulatory focus theory (i.e., a framework examining consumer mindsets as prevention or promotion orientated) as a motivating factor for moral decoupling. Three experiments are undertaken. Study one demonstrates that with a prevention mindset (e.g., analytical thinking) as opposed to promotion …

2021-January-01-Overcoming Implicit Bias And Racial Disparities In Health Care, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – The main project in one of Kamyl Harvey-Bogan’s classes at East Tennessee State University’s Quillen College of Medicine transformed into an opportunity for the fourth-year medical student to raise awareness about racial disparities in health care and bring attention to ways in which future physicians can overcome them.

Last summer, Harvey-Bogan took an elective course that taught the students how to build medical simulation cases for medical education. The students’ final assignment was to develop their own case by creating a patient, determining the patient’s background (including medical and social history), identifying the patient’s chief complaint, and …

Covid-19 And Work-Family Conflict: A Gendered Lens Required For Developing Organizational Benefits And Programs, Qendresa Isniqi

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

The COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted people's work and family lives. The work-family conflict has seen an increase with the onset of the pandemic as families have found themselves in complex roles such as family sustainers, teachers for their children, and family caregivers while quarantined with the same individuals for months. Concurrently there have been expectations grown from the employers to introduce effective programs or services to support employees so that an expected amount of productivity is maintained while also maintaining a sense of care for their employees. Some of the strategies suggested in the literature include flexible scheduling, leadership communication, …

Essays On Evasion And Enforcement In Value Added Tax (Vat), Syed Jawad Ali Shah

Theses and Dissertations--Public Policy and Administration

Value added tax (VAT) based on credit invoice system is the most common consumption tax in the world. Despite its self-regulating nature, VAT faces challenges in developing countries who have limited state capacity to check evasion and enforce tax on informal sectors of the economy. The tax authorities introduce policy interventions that can target the evasive behavior of firms interacting with informal sectors. My dissertation seeks to provide insight into three such policy reforms in Pakistan’s VAT regime. Therefore, this dissertation is composed of three essays.

In first essay of my dissertation, titled “Using Computerization to enforce VAT: Evidence from …

An Empirical Examination Of The Impact Of Organizational Injustice And Negative Affect On Attitude And Non-Compliance With Information Security Policy, Celestine Kemah

CCAC Theses and Dissertations

Employees’ non-compliance with Information Security (IS) policies is an important socio-organizational issue that represents a serious threat to the effective management of information security programs in organizations. Prior studies have demonstrated that information security policy (ISP) violation in the workplace is a common significant problem in organizations. Some of these studies have earmarked the importance of this problem by drawing upon cognitive processes to explain compliance with information security policies, while others have focused solely on factors related to non-compliance behavior, one of which is affect. Despite the findings from these studies, there is a dearth of extant literature that …

Improving Employees’ Compliance With Password Policies, Enas Albataineh

CCAC Theses and Dissertations

Employees’ lack of compliance with password policies increases password susceptibility, which leads to financial damages to the organizations as a result of information disclosure, fraud, and unauthorized transactions. However, few studies have examined what motivates employees to comply with password policies.

The purpose of this quantitative cross-sectional study was to examine what factors influence employees’ compliance with password policies. A theoretical model was developed based on Protection Motivation Theory (PMT), General Deterrence Theory (GDT), Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA), and Psychological Ownership Theory to explain employees’ compliance with password policies.

A non-probability convenience sample was employed. The sample consisted of …

Two Essays On Food Environment, Nutrition, And Food Insecurity, Suliman Abdulaziz Almojel

Theses and Dissertations--Agricultural Economics

A healthy food environment is fundamental to good health. It contributes to the reduction of obesity and the development of healthy eating habits. In spite of this, many people in the United States (US) have been hypnotized to become obese due to the current food environment. Recently, the US has consistently ranked high in the world in terms of obesity. The rising rate is symptomatic of consuming unhealthy diets. Besides, the double-edged crisis of the US food environment and obesity poses a major threat to food security and public health. Therefore, studying the US food environment is important to sustain …

A Cultural Political Economy Of Corporate Social Responsibility : The Case Of C.I. Uniban S.A. And The Colombian Banana Industry, 1987-2017, David H. Uzzell Jr

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

This dissertation concentrates on the banana sector in Urabá, Colombia from 1987 to 2017, paying particular attention to C.I. Uniban S.A., the largest and oldest banana marketing and export company in the country, its social foundation, Fundauniban, its marketing subsidiary Turbana Corporation, Agricola Sara Palma S.A. banana producers, and local communities in the region. Through an in-depth, qualitative case-study supported with insights from cultural political economy (CPE), it documents the local and global pressures that forced these actors to adopt and deploy corporate social responsibility (CSR) to upgrade to compete in the global banana market. It makes the case that …

Perceiving Organization As An Entity : The Relationship Of Entitativity And Organizational Justice Perception, Wei Zhuang

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Entitativity is an important group construct that has received little attention in the organizational psychology literature. The current study based on 343 employed individuals explores the potential role of entitativity perceptions of organizations on the relationship between justice perceptions and employees’ emotional and behavioral reactions. Results of a three-wave survey study suggest that entitativity perceptions are positively associated with employees’ experienced gratitude toward organizations but have no relationship with employees experienced anger toward organizations. In addition, this study provides evidence that positive emotions can mediate the effect of justice perceptions on positive behavioral outcomes, and negative emotions can mediate the …

How Blockchain And Ai Enable Personal Data Privacy And Support Cybersecurity, Stanton Heister, Kristi Yuthas

Business Faculty Publications and Presentations

Recent increases in security breaches and digital surveillance highlight the need for improved privacy and security, particularly over users’ personal data. Advances in cybersecurity and new legislation promise to improve data protection. Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies provide novel opportunities for protecting user data through decentralized identity and other privacy mechanisms. These systems can allow users greater sovereignty through tools that enable them to own and control their own data. Artificial intelligence provides further possibilities for enhancing system and user security, enriching data sets, and supporting improved analytical models.

The Impact Of Covid-19 On Transit Workers: Perceptions Of Employer Responses And Associations With Health Factors, Sean P.M. Rice, Leah S. Greenspan, Talya N. Bauer, Jarred Rimby, Todd Bodner, Ryan Olson

Business Faculty Publications and Presentations

COVID-19 has had a substantial impact on transit workers’ lives, especially among public-facing vehicle operators. The current project examined relationships between workers’ knowledge and perceptions of their employer’s COVID-19 safety responses, job attitudes, and health. We surveyed transit workers (N = 174) between July and August 2020 and followed up 3 months later. Fifty-seven workers responded to the follow-up survey. Surveys addressed workers’ knowledge and perceptions of their employer implementing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-recommended COVID-19 safety responses, COVID-19 risk perceptions, job attitudes, and health factors. Employees reported knowledge of their employer implementing ~8 of 12 CDC-recommended responses. …

Political Economy Of The Production Of Heritage Space In A Centro Histórico: Attracting Real Estate Capital, Expelling People. The Case Of Cartagena (Colombia), Camilo Rey-Sabogal

Theses and Dissertations--Geography

Cartagena is a South American city whose historical built environment has been recognized as a World Heritage Site due to the preservation of elements of the Spanish military architecture of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. This recognition promoted a tourist and real estate boom in the Centro Histórico and, as a result, its inhabitants have faced gentrification dynamics that are expelling them to other areas of the city. During the last 15 years, these dynamics have shown a strong acceleration. Therefore, the Centro Histórico is experiencing, on the one hand, huge inflows of capital for the purchase of properties …

Organizational Responses To Say-On-Pay Votes: Results Of The 2021 Hr@Moore Survey Of Chros, Donald J. Schepker, Patrick M. Wright, Anthony J. Nyberg, Sam Strizver

Reports

"Since the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act in 2010, US publicly traded companies subject to proxy rules must allow shareholders to submit an advisory vote on the compensation of their most highly compensated executives at least every three years (known as Say-on-Pay votes), and on how often shareholders would like to be presented with Say-on-Pay votes. Given the potential interplay between executive compensation and succession planning, as illustrated in recent Center for Executive Succession research that shows executive compensation and executive succession decisions appear to be related when it comes to the selection of internal CEO appointments, we sought to …

The Impact Of The 2020 Crises On Executive And Board Dynamics: Results Of The 2021 Hr@Moore Survey Of Chros, Patrick M. Wright, Donald J. Schepker, Anthony J. Nyberg, Sam Strizver

Reports

As part of the 2021 HR@Moore Survey of Chief Human Resource Officers (CHROs) we sought to identify how the COVID pandemic impacted CEO Succession Processes, Board member relationships, and aspects of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT). We compared our results on the same measures from 2019 (pre-pandemic/racial justice crises), 2020 (midst of the pandemic/racial justice crises) and 2021 (post crises). The results from both direct questions about the impact of COVID on CEO succession and measures of the effectiveness of the processes over time suggest that the pandemic had little effect on CEO succession processes, other than causing firms to …

The Chief Diversity Equity And Inclusion Office: Results Of The 2021 Hr@Moore Survey Of Chros, Patrick M. Wright, Anthony J. Nyberg, Donald J. Schepker, Kenneth R. Carrig, Spenser Essman

Reports

In response to the racial unrest and increased focus on social justice, organizations increased their emphasis on diversity issues in 2020. To understand one way in which organizations responded to this focus, we explored how the Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer (CDO) role changed and the background characteristics of those in the role. The results indicate that the role increased in both internal and external visibility during this time, and that a large percentage of companies elevated the talent in the role. A majority of respondents indicated that the CDO role has become more influential and visible. In addition, …

Gender Differences In Speed Of Advancement, Center For Executive Succession

Research Briefs

Women advance more quickly to top executive positions within the Fortune 100 than men • Women who spend more time at a particular company advance more quickly to top executive positions within the Fortune 100. • Women advance more quickly in firms that have few (zero or 1) women in top executive positions.

Federal Employee Views Across Administrations: An Examination Of The 2010 Obama And 2018 Trump Leadership Capital And The Perceptions Of The Agency Employees, Dimple Sunayna Johnson

West Chester University Doctoral Projects

One of the many responsibilities of the president is the management of the expansive federal government. From agenda planning to reform implementation, a political leader can impact the federal employees’ job role. The federal government, however, does not administer alone, top-down mandates are managed by tiers of management, with the front-line supervisors acting as the liaison to federal employees. Understanding a president’s leadership capital alongside the federal employee perceptions of job satisfaction and supervisory support can provide opportunities to gain insight into establishing and maintaining a public sector landscape that is effective and efficient.

The study consisted of a quantitative …

Laws, Educational Outcomes, And Returns To Schooling Evidence From The First Wave Of U.S. State Compulsory Attendance Laws, Karen Clay, Jeff Lingwall, Melvin Stephens Jr.

Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

The nineteenth and twentieth century saw two waves of state schooling laws. The first wave focused on children to age 14 and the second wave focused on high school. Using the full count 1940 census and a new coding of state laws, this paper provides new estimates of the effects of the first wave of laws. The analysis focuses on cohorts of prime working age between 1910 and 1940. IV estimates of returns to schooling range from 0.067 to 0.077. Quantile IV estimates show the returns were largest for the lowest quantiles, and were generally monotonically decreasing for higher quantiles.

Making Nice Or Faking Nice? Exploring Supervisors’ Two-Faced Response To Their Past Abusive Behavior, Shawn T. Mcclean, Stephen H. Courtright, Junhyok Yim, Troy A. Smith

Department of Management: Faculty Publications

Although extant research has shown that abusive supervision is a destructive and immoral form of leader behavior, theory provides conflicting perspectives on how supervisors respond to their own abusive behavior. We therefore draw upon and integrate moral cleansing theory and impression management and construction theory to explore whether and when supervisors engage in genuine reparations or impression management following episodes of abusive behavior. Results taken from a 3-week, experience sampling study of supervisors suggest support for the impression management path; following episodes of abusive behavior, supervisors higher on symbolized moral identity become more concerned with their image, and thus engage …

Fortenberry Achieves $11m In Funding For Usda Agriculture Research Facility At Nebraska, Leslie Reed

Nebraska Innovation Campus Materials

Congressman Jeff Fortenberry, ranking member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, was successful in achieving $11.2 million in federal funding for the planning and design of a USDA Agricultural Research Service facility.

200,000 Gallons And 6,000 Miles — The Man Who Helped Sanitize Nebraska, And The Team That Produced It, Lincoln Journal Star

Nebraska Innovation Campus Materials

Excerpt from an article from the Lincoln Journal Star newspaper about Lew Sieber who transported ethanol that went into producing hand sanitizer during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"The 57-year-old would leave his northwest Lincoln home in the dark, headed for [Nebraska] Innovation Campus and a 5,000-gallon tanker truck. He wanted to be first in line when the Green Plains ethanol plant near York opened at 7:00."

Moving Innovations From Bench To Business, University Of Nebraska-Lincoln

Nebraska Innovation Campus Materials

Nebraska Innovation Campus, the university’s public-private research hub, has rapidly expanded since its 2010 founding. Now home to more than 55 partners, NIC created $372 million in economic impact and nearly 2,000 jobs in 2020.

The growth of NIC, located adjacent to the university, has included the addition of assets that provide faculty, staff and student startups the workspace, expertise and resources necessary to move their ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT innovations from bench to business.

Life In Metropolitan Nebraskan Communities: 2021 Nebraska Metro Poll Results, Rebecca J. Vogt, Heather Akin, Cheryl A. Burkhart-Kriesel, Bradley Lubben, L. J. Mcelravy, Timothy Meyer, Steven A. Schulz

Rural Futures Institute: Publications

By many different measures, metropolitan Nebraskans are positive about their community. Most metropolitan Nebraskans rate their community favorably on its social dimensions. Overall, respondents rate their communities as friendly, trusting and supportive. Most metropolitan Nebraskans say it would be difficult to leave their community.

Most metropolitan Nebraskans have a positive attachment to their community. Most metropolitan Nebraskans agree that they can get what they need in their community, the community helps them fulfill their needs, they feel like a member of their community, they belong in their community, they have a good bond with others in their community and feel …

นวัตกรรมแพลตฟอร์มการท่องเที่ยวเกาะรัตนโกสินทร์ สำหรับนักท่องเที่ยวต่างชาติ, พิมพ์ใจ ทวิติยามัณฑ์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

งานวิจัยฉบับนี้เพื่อศึกษาศึกษาพฤติกรรมและความต้องการการใช้แพลตฟอร์มการท่องเที่ยวของนักท่องเที่ยวต่างชาติ และเพื่อพัฒนาแพลตฟอร์มการท่องเที่ยวสำหรับนักท่องเที่ยว บริเวณเกาะรัตนโกสินทร์ ด้วยวิธีการวิจัยเชิงปริมาณ (Quantitative Research) ด้วยวิธีการเก็บข้อมูลจากแบบสอบถาม (Questionnaire) จากนักท่องเที่ยวชาวต่างชาติ จำนวน 258 ตัวอย่าง ในเรื่องของพฤติกรรมและความต้องการใช้แพลตฟอร์ม พบว่า นักท่องเที่ยวเคยมาท่องเที่ยวเมื่องไทย 1 ครั้งมากที่สุดร้อยละ 42.2 รองลงมา 2-3 ครั้งร้อยละ 41.5 วัตถุประสงค์เพื่อมาท่องเที่ยวพักผ่อนร้อยละ 33.9 และใช้งบประมาณในการท่องเที่ยวรวมถึงค่าเครื่องบิน จำนวน 2,001 – 3,000 เหรียญสหรัฐ นักท่องเที่ยวร้อยละ 41.1 เข้าพักโรงแรมมากที่สุดร้อยละ 81.7 ใช้ระยะเวลาในการท่องเที่ยว 4-6 วันร้อยละ 34.1 วางแผนท่องเที่ยวด้วยตนเองร้อยละ 80.6 และค้นคว้าข้อมูลทางอินเตอร์เน็ตก่อนการเดินทางโดยผ่านเว็บไซต์ www.google.com มากที่สุดโดยมีค่าเฉลี่ย 4.42 สถานที่ท่องเที่ยวที่นักท่องที่ยวสนใจมากที่สุด คือ ย่านเยาวราช ค่าเฉลี่ย 4.48 รองลงมาคือพระบรมมหาราชวังและวัดพระแก้วมากที่สุด ค่าเฉลี่ย 4.38 และทำการทดสอบ t-test เปรียบเทียบเพศและสถานที่ท่องเที่ยว พบว่า เพศไม่มีความแตกต่างในด้านความสนใจของสถานที่ท่องเที่ยว และได้ทำการทดสอบ f-test ทดสอบนักท่องเที่ยวที่มีสัญชาติต่างกันจะมีความสนใจต่อสถานที่ท่องเที่ยวแตกต่างกัน พบว่า นักท่องเที่ยวสัญชาติยุโรปมีความสนใจในวัดต่างๆ มากกว่านักท่องเที่ยวชาวเอเชียอย่างมีนัยสำคัญที่0.05 และการวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ (Qualitative Research) โดยการสอบถามความคิดเห็นเชิงลึกและแนวคิดในการสร้างนวัตกรรมแพลตฟอร์มนี้จากผู้ประกอบการ เช่น ร้านค้า โรงแรมที่พัก ร้านอาหารและเครื่องดื่ม และผู้ให้บริการด้านการท่องเที่ยว พบว่า ผู้ประกอบการเห็นด้วยกับการพัฒนาแพลตฟอร์มการท่องเที่ยว ที่จะช่วยส่งเสริมให้นักท่องเที่ยวมาท่องเที่ยวในบริเวณเกาะรัตนโกสินทร์ และช่วยเป็นช่องทางทางการตลาดให้กับผู้ประกอบการที่ขาดความรู้ทางด้านเทคโนโลยี แพลตฟอร์มการท่องเที่ยวที่พัฒนาขึ้น เน้นการท่องเที่ยวเชิงวัฒนธรรม (Cultural Tourism) ที่มีแนวคิดการท่องเที่ยวคาร์บอนต่ำ (Low Carbon Tourism) เพื่อนำไปสู่การท่องเที่ยวที่ยั่งยืน (Sustainable Tourism) โดยได้พัฒนาแพลตฟอร์ม ที่ให้ข้อมูลด้านการท่องเที่ยว ได้แก่ ประวัติความเป็นมา วัฒนธรรม ประเพณี ที่พัก ร้านอาหาร บริการต่างๆ และสามารถจองมัคคุเทศก์ รถรับส่ง นอกจากนี้ยังได้แนะนำเส้นทางการเดินเท้าเพื่อการท่องเที่ยวเชิงวัฒนธรรม 4 …