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University at Albany, State University of New York

Theses/Dissertations

2017

Employees

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Assessing Factors Influencing Employees' Voice Behavior In Organizations, Nikita Agnihotri Jan 2017

Assessing Factors Influencing Employees' Voice Behavior In Organizations, Nikita Agnihotri

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

The purpose of the present study was threefold: (1) to investigate the relationship between organizational based self- esteem and voice behavior, (2) to examine whether or not organizational identification interacts with organizational based self-esteem in significantly predicting voice behavior, and (3) to test another moderation effect, interaction of perceived organizational support and organizational based self-esteem in predicting voice behavior. Based on data from 482 undergraduate students, results suggested organization based self-esteem is strongly positively related to voice behavior. Additionally, the interaction of organization based self-esteem with both perceived organizational support and organizational identification in predicting voice behavior was not significant. …


Fighting For Protections : Challenging The 21st Century Sweatshop In New York State, Jacqueline Hayes Jan 2017

Fighting For Protections : Challenging The 21st Century Sweatshop In New York State, Jacqueline Hayes

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

This dissertation examines how neoliberalism and immigration enforcement between 1980 and 2010 changed the nature of ‘sweated’ work in the U.S. This dissertation focuses on the particular case of Latino undocumented workers in New York State and the organizations fighting to win them protections. In order to answer my research questions, I conducted 30 semi-structured interviews over the course of 2 years (2013-2015), examined immigration enforcement data, and analyzed U.S. immigration and welfare policies between 1980 and the present. Research interviews made clear that both the lack of social and legal protections alongside the threat of immigration enforcement have a …


The Cost Of Inconsistent Supervisor Treatment On Psychological Detachment And Daily Home Affect : A Multilevel Mediation Study, Yi-Ren Wang Jan 2017

The Cost Of Inconsistent Supervisor Treatment On Psychological Detachment And Daily Home Affect : A Multilevel Mediation Study, Yi-Ren Wang

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

With the assumption that the more justice the better, studies in the past have overlooked the implications of the consistency in daily justice experiences. Interpersonal justice especially tends to be associated with frequent fluctuations on the daily basis among the justice dimensions. Drawing on uncertainty management theory (Van den Bos & Lind, 2002; Van den Bos, 2001), the author argued that the uncertainty and the difficulty in consolidating a sense of justice from inconsistent fairness treatments can make people engage in sense-making or rumination after work. Hence, the purpose of the study was to investigate the potential negative spillover impact …


The Relationship Between Supervisor Supportive Behavior And Perceived Organizational Support : Test Of Mediator And Moderator Variables, Wei Zhuang Jan 2017

The Relationship Between Supervisor Supportive Behavior And Perceived Organizational Support : Test Of Mediator And Moderator Variables, Wei Zhuang

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

A growing body of evidence suggests that perceived organizational support (POS) associates with varies outcomes (employee well-being, performance, orientation toward organization). Current study contributes to the growing literature on perceived organizational support by proposing and testing the possible attributional heuristics employee engaged in to develop perceived organizational support. Study tests the indirect effect of supervisor supportive behaviors on employee attitudes toward supervisor and organization mediated by perceived supervisor support and perceived organizational support in sequence as well as the moderation effects of supervisor power, workload, and organization environmental turbulence on the relationship between supervisor supportive behaviors and perceived support. The …