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2020-10-27 E-Mail Message From The University President To The Faculty Senate President, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

A message from the University President to the Faculty Senate President discussing the proposal of the Faculty Senate for a new First Year Senate Sub-Committee from October 27, 2020.

Evo Morales And Electoral Fraud In Bolivia: A Natural Experiment And Discontinuity Evidence, Diego Escobari, Gary A. Hoover

School of Economics and Finance Faculty Publications

This paper uses a unique data set and a natural experiment based on the shutdown in the official preliminary vote counting system to identify and estimate the size of electoral fraud in the 2019 Bolivian presidential elections. The 2016 Constitutional Referendum and the participation of other political parties serve as controls to estimate various difference-in-differences and difference-in-difference-in-differences specifications. The results show evidence of a statistically significant electoral case of fraud that increased the votes of the incumbent Movimiento al Socialismo and decreased the votes of the runner up Comunidad Ciudadana. We estimate that the extent of the fraud is 2.50% …

Comparing Variable Importance In Prediction Of Silence Behaviours Between Random Forest And Conditional Inference Forest Models., Stephen Barrett Dr, Geraldine Gray Dr, Colm Mcguinness Dr, Michael Knoll Dr.

Articles

This paper explores variable importance metrics of Conditional Inference Trees (CIT) and classical Classification And Regression Trees (CART) based Random Forests. The paper compares both algorithms variable importance rankings and highlights why CIT should be used when dealing with data with different levels of aggregation. The models analysed explored the role of cultural factors at individual and societal level when predicting Organisational Silence behaviours.

2020-10-25 First Year Seminar Problems, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

List of problems related to the First Year Seminar program with the University's administration as submitted to the Faculty Senate on October 25, 2020.

Investment Advisor Succession Planning: Attitudes, Norms, And Control, Don Mueth

Dissertations

This study investigated succession planning intentions of investment advisors who lead their small businesses. We employed the theory of planned behavior to better understand the attitudes, norms and perceptions of control that impact these business leaders’ intentions to plan. Our research included a pilot study of interviews with 10 investment advisors and a main study of advisor survey responses. With a sample size of 198 participants, we analyzed survey responses measuring traditional TPB constructs as well as involvement in outside activities. Using two-step structural equation modeling, our model fit was acceptable, and our results supported our hypotheses that beliefs, attitudes, …

Contingency Planning Amidst A Pandemic, Natalie C. Belford

KSU Proceedings on Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice

Proper prior planning prevents pitifully poor performance: The purpose of this research is to address mitigation approaches - disaster recovery, contingency planning, and continuity planning - and their benefits as they relate to university operations during a worldwide pandemic predicated by the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). The most relevant approach pertaining to the University’s needs and its response to the Coronavirus pandemic will be determined and evaluated in detail.

Board Of Trustees Minutes, Oct. 23 2020, Indiana State University Board Of Trustees

Board of Trustees

No abstract provided.

Oer Project: Bsba Capstone Refresh Materials, Monika Hudson

USF OER Faculty Grant Projects

Slideshow presented by Dr. Monika Hudson for USF's Open Access Week, 2020.

2020-10-22 Faculty Senate Evaluations Committee Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., Evaluations Committee.

Faculty Senate Records

The Faculty Senate Evaluations Committee meeting minutes for October 22, 2020.

Improving Engagement: The Moderating Effect Of Leadership Style On The Relationship Between Psychological Capital And Employee Engagement, Scott Beatrice

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to investigate the moderating effect that different leadership styles (Transformational, Transactional, and Passive-Avoidant) can have on the relationship between Psychological Capital and Employee Engagement. Additionally, it explores the direct positive relationship that Psychological Capital and Transformational Leadership have on Employee Engagement. This study examines 238 adults that work at least 20 hours a week. The results show that Psychological Capital and Transformational Leadership have strong, positive effects on Employee Engagement and Transformational Leadership positively moderates the direct relationship between Psychological Capital and Employee Engagement. The importance of Psychological Capital in its relationship to Employee …

Shipment Sizing For Autonomous Trucks Of Road Freight, Chun-Miin (Jimmy) Chen, Yajun Lu

Faculty Journal Articles

Unprecedented endeavors have been made to take autonomous trucks to the open road. This study aims to provide relevant information on autonomous truck technology and to help logistics managers gain insight into assessing optimal shipment sizes for autonomous trucks. Empirical data of estimated autonomous truck costs is collected to help revise classic, conceptual models of assessing optimal shipment sizes. Numerical experiments are conducted to illustrate the optimal shipment size when varying the autonomous truck technology cost and transportation lead time reduction. Autonomous truck technology can cost as much as 70% of the price of a truck. Logistics managers using classic …

2020-10-19 E-Mail Message From Provost To Faculty Senate President, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

A message from Provost Gregory Russell to Faculty Senate President Dirk Grupe discussing First Year Seminar Subcommittee membership from October 19, 2020.

Challenges To Adopting Hybrid Methodology: Addressing Organizational Culture And Change Control Problems In Enterprise It Infrastructure Projects, Harishankar Krishnakumar

Dissertations and Theses

IT infrastructure projects have long been an overlooked field superseded by the more popular software development silos and cross-functional project teams when it comes to enterprise Agile transformations. This paper presents a systematic literature review by leveraging a qualitative research methodology based on empirical evidence provided in contemporary scholarly research articles to explore how certain variables such as organizational culture- including team structure, leadership hierarchy, geolocation, etc. along with an organization’s change management processes affect the adoption of a Hybrid/Agile project management methodology, focusing on reported challenges and critical success factors that define such large-scale enterprise transformations. The salient features …

Psychological Detachment: A Creativity Perspective On The Link Between Intrinsic Motivation And Employee Engagement, Debjani Ghosh, Tomoki Sekiguchi, Yuka Fujimoto

Management Faculty Publications

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to develop an additional perspective on when and why intrinsic motivation predicts employee engagement by presenting a contextual boundary of psychological detachment in relation to the relationship between intrinsic motivation, employee creativity and employee engagement of workers.

Design/methodology/approach

Data were collected from 288 full-time Japanese workers using an online survey. The study used a bootstrap method (Preacher and Hayes, 2008) to test mediation, and a Hayes method (2013) to test moderation and a first-stage moderated mediation model.

Findings

Employee creativity mediated the relationship between intrinsic motivation and employee engagement, and the relationship between …

2020-10-16 Audit Committee Agenda Booklet, Morehead State University. Board Of Regents.

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

Agenda booklet of the Audit Committee of the Board of Regents held on October 16, 2020.

2020-10-16 Special Meeting Agenda Booklet, Morehead State University. Board Of Regents.

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

Agenda booklet for the Board of Regents special called meeting of October 16, 2020.

Readings In Management, Isaam Ghazzawi, Muharrem Tuna, Aysegul Acar

University of South Florida (USF) M3 Publishing

PREFACE

One reality any academic book on management faces is that events in the real world are constantly changing, and rapidly at that. What is different about this book is its commitment to capture the fundamentals of management. In publishing Readings in Management, the editors recognize the enormous role played by the internet, academic and non-academic journals, and other academic publications in providing up-to-date educational information regarding a broad spectrum of management. What is special about this book is the fact that it ensures the material presented is relevant to readers.

This book examines current topics in management and …

2020-10-15 Faculty Senate Newsletter, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate newsletter from October 15, 2020.

Making The World A Better Place: How Crowdfunding Increases Consumer Demand For Social-Good Products, Bonnie Simpson, Martin Schreier, Sally Bitterl, Katherine White

Management and Organizational Studies Publications

Crowdfunding has emerged as an alternative means of financing new ventures wherein a large number of individuals collectively back a project. This research specifically looks at reward based crowdfunding, where those who take part in the crowdfunding process receive the new product for which funding is sought in return for their financial support. This work illustrates that consumers make fundamentally different decisions when considering contributing their money to crowdfund versus purchase a product. Six studies demonstrate that compared to a traditional purchase, crowdfunding more strongly activates an interdependent mindset and, as a result, increases consumer demand for social-good products (i.e., …

The Difficulty With Introducing Project Management Techniques In Digital Startups, Isabela Mantilla

Dissertations and Theses

Digital startups face complex issues when it comes to accurately using project management techniques because of the startup’s scarcity of resources and the governance of projects , such as having different stages of growth and development. Since project management is needed in almost all businesses, dealing with this problem is important to improve the growth of startups and their organizational issues. Because of the correlation between startups using traditional project management techniques and their problems with implementing project management, this traditional model might not be relevant for startups. Startups seem to require more flexible and quick solutions to project management, …

Work Motivation In Wealth Management: The Role Of Self Determination Theory, Mark J. Mattia

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In this paper, we use Self Determination Theory (Ryan & Deci, 2000A, Deci & Ryan, 2008) as the underlying theory to help determine the factors that may influence wealth advisors to consider leaving (or being committed) to their positions. Baard et al. (2004) established that Self-determination theory was relevant to motivation in the workplace. This quantitative study utilizes a survey instrument that incorporates many already proven reliable and valid items from Self-determination Theory to better understand the wealth advisor work motivation framework. This topic is important within financial services since positive work motivation has been tied to positive work outcomes …

2020-10-14 University Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.

Faculty Senate Records

University Undergraduate Curriculum Committee meeting minutes from October 14, 2020.

2020-10-13 General Education Council Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

General Education Council meeting minutes for October 13, 2020.

How To Turn Around A Failing Erp Implementation: Project Management Routines As Boundary Objects, Douglas A. Battleson, Lars Mathiassen

Engaged Management ReView

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are very challenging and expensive to implement and past research recognizes that these projects continue to suffer from high failure rates. While the factors that contribute to these failures have been extensively examined, we know little about how to turn failing projects around. In response, this research presents a study of a failing ERP implementation project that was successfully turned around over a twelve-month period. Adapting theory of sensemaking through boundary objects, we explain how a new project manager helped the team members share their individual perspectives on the problematic situation and together develop new …

أثر حوكمة الشركات على جودة التدقيق في الاردن - The Effect Of Corporate Governance On Audit Quality In Jordan, Medhat Bsoul

Al Jinan الجنان

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of corporate governance on the audit quality in Jordan. this study is applied on service company listed on Amman Stock Exchange for the year 2010, which constitute of (68) public service companies. To achieve study objective, the information from annual reports of these companies was used, as many independent variables as (existence of an audit committee in the company, the number of members of non-executives in the Board of Directors of the company, total assets, the company›s life, and the debt ratio) used as measure of corporate governance. And the proportion of …

فجوة التوقُّع والإدراك لجودة الخدمة المصرفية الإسلامية : دراسة ميدانية على عملاء البنوك الإسلامية في محافظة اللاذقية, Mohamad Nader Othman, Mohamad Ali Maroudi

Al Jinan الجنان

تُعْتَبَرُ إدارة الجودة من المواضيع المهمّة سواء كان ذلك بالنِّسبة للسِّلَعِ أم الخدمات, وبما أنَّ المنظَّمات التي تعتمد في عملها على الخدمات لا بُدَّ أنْ تهتمَّ بالجودة بوصفها أحد الأسباب المهمَّة لنجاحها وبقائها في سوق العمل. وبما أنَّ البنوك تُعْتَبَرُ منْ أهمِّ المنظَّمات التي تعتمد في عملها على الخدمات، ونظراً لِما لهذه البنوك من أهميَّةٍ بالغةٍ في عصرنا الحالي, ومن هنا تناولت هذه الدِّراسة فجوة التوقُّع والإدراك لدى العملاء لجودة الخدمة المصرفيّة في البنوك الإسلاميّة في محافظة اللاذقية, ولتحقيق هدف الدِّراسة تمَّ توزيع استبانة على مئةٍ من عملاء البنوك الإسلامية في محافظة اللاذقية، وتمَّت استعادة (83) من الاستبيانات الصّالحة للدّراسة، …

أثر مبادئ الحاكمية المؤسسية على استقلالية مدققي الحسابات الداخليين في البنوك التجارية الأردنية, Ahmad Bawana

Al Jinan الجنان

هدفت هذه الدراسة إلى معرفة مدى التزام البنوك التجارية الأردنية بمبادئ الحاكمية المؤسسية وأثرها على استقلالية مدققي الحسابات الداخليين في البنوك التجارية الأردنية، والذي يعد من المفاهيم الحديثة نسبيا ويقوم على تنظيم العلاقة بين الإدارة والمساهمين أصحاب المصالح المختلفة، وأهمية استقلالية مدققي الحسابات باعتبارها وسيلة تخدم العديد من الفئات التي تستخدم القوائم المالية المدققة وتعتمد عليها في اتخاذ قراراتها ورسم سياسيتها وخططها الحالية والمستقبلية. وقد تم اعداد وتوزيع استبانة على عينة الدراسة العشوائية وهم مدققو الحسابات الداخليين في البنوك التجارية الأردنية والبالغ عددها (5)بنوك تجارية، يعمل فيها (89) مدققا، فقد تم توزيع الاستبانة على عيّنة الدراسة وتم استرداد (83) حيث …

Anatomy Of The Edelman: Measuring The World’S Best Analytics Projects, Michael F. Gorman, Lakshminarayana Nittala, Jeffrey M. Aldenb

MIS/OM/DS Faculty Publications

Each year, the INFORMS Edelman Award celebrates the best and most impactful implementations of operations research, management science, and analytics. As the Edelman Award approaches its 50-year mark, we provide a history and characterization of the award’s finalists and winners. We provide some basic descriptive analytics about the participating organizations and authors, the impact of their work, and the methods they employed. We also conduct predictive analytics on finalist submissions, gauging contributors to success in establishing winning entries. We find that predicting Edelman winners a priori is extremely difficult; however, given a set of finalists, predictive models based on monetary …

2020-10-08 Resolution On The Revision Of Student Course Evaluations, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Resolution on the Revision of Student Course Evaluations submitted to the Faculty Senate and approved on November 5, 2020.

2020-10-08 Faculty Senate Evaluations Committee Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., Evaluations Committee.

Faculty Senate Records

The Faculty Senate Evaluations Committee meeting minutes for October 8, 2020.