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Engagement, Perceived Leadership Effectiveness, And Performance As Predictors Of Voluntary And Involuntary Turnover Among Nurses, Anna White, Glenn Littlepage

River Cities Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference

Turnover is costly to organizations due to lost productivity and employee replacement expenses. Nurses have particularly high voluntary turnover rates and are in high demand. The purpose of the research project is to examine predictors of voluntary and involuntary turnover among nurses. Hypotheses are that engagement and positive perceptions of leadership will be negatively related to voluntary turnover and stronger predictors of voluntary than involuntary turnover. Additionally, performance rating will be negatively related to involuntary turnover and a stronger predictor of involuntary than voluntary turnover. Data will be collected from several thousand nurses at geographically dispersed hospitals owned by a …

Dart: Data Analytics Readiness Tool, Nicholas Granowsky, Daphne Slusher, Ava Young, Yalcin Acikgoz, Shawn Bergman, Timothy Ludwig, Taylor Berry

River Cities Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference

Various obstacles such as a lack of analytics readiness (e.g. disparate databases, missing data, low validity) or competencies (e.g. personnel capable of cleaning data and running analyses) are causing underutilization of analytics in organizations. A safety-analytics maturity assessment such as the Data Analytics Readiness Tool (DART) can assist organizations with understanding their current capabilities. Organizations can then advance their analytics capabilities to eventually predict safety incidents and identify preventative measures for specific risk variables. The proposed safety-analytics assessment evaluates: (a) quality of the data currently available, (b) organizational norms around data collection, scaling, and nomenclature, (c) foundational infrastructure for technological …

Retaining Employees Through And Beyond Pregnancy: The Importance Of Career Encouragement And Career Engagement, Sarah Iverstine, Alexandra Zelin

River Cities Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference

With the influx of women into the workplace over the past few decades, researchers have often focused on how women struggle at work due to pregnancy and the physical changes their body goes through (Draper, 2006). Working women who become pregnant are often perceived as not dedicated, distracted from their work, and more likely to not return to work. Furthermore, they are often overlooked for promotions, bonuses, and awards because they are perceived as uncommitted (Wiese & Ritter, 2012). However, researchers have often overlooked the extent to which career encouragement and career engagement can impact a women’s career, especially for …

Nissan Motor Corporation: Talent Acquisition From A New Perspective, Kaitlyn Berry

River Cities Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference

Nissan Motor Corporation is a large, international organization that continues to be a major employer in the Middle Tennessee area, supporting over 11,500 jobs. I secured an internship with the Talent Acquisition team supporting the operations of the team at Nissan's Americas headquarters in Franklin, Tennessee. Although most Nissan internships are filled no later than February, I found and applied to a posting in mid-March. I completed a brief phone screen with the internship recruiter before a larger interview with the Senior Manager of Talent Acquisition and another Recruiting Manager. The original placement was from May 10th through August 13th …

Ardent Health Services Organizational Development Team Internship Experience, Anna White

River Cities Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference

Ardent Health Services is a healthcare investment company. It includes 30 geographically dispersed hospitals and a corporate office, totaling approximately 26,000 employees. I worked on the corporate organizational development team, which is responsible for performance management, employee surveys, and training. I found the position through a master’s program alumni connection and underwent an interview process. The two major projects I contributed to are an employee experience pulse survey and a voluntary turnover project using exit survey data. For the survey, I created a communications plan targeting various groups in the organization and including multiple communications methods. These were intentionally spread …

The Effect Of Cross-Cultural Engagement On Intercultural Sensitivity Levels In Monolingual And Multilingual Individuals, Nicole Yoo, David Earnest

River Cities Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference

Interculturally sensitive individuals are more confident when it comes to intercultural interaction (Chen et al, 2000). For today’s globalized work force, intercultural interaction is common, making interculturally sensitive employees necessary. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of cross-cultural engagement on intercultural sensitivity, and to determine if monolingual and multilingual individuals have a greater increase in intercultural sensitivity. While many organizations understand the importance of having interculturally sensitive employees, there is not much information on how intercultural sensitivity is increased. Cross-cultural engagement can facilitate a positive view of an unknown culture (Marginean et al, 2019). Studies show …

Lgbtq+ Leadership: Benefits Of Breaking Boundaries In The Workplace, Aarti Polavarapu, Jamie Forman, Nicholas P. Salter

River Cities Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference

With the increasing emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) at work, it is imperative to learn about the experiences of LGBTQ+ leaders, about which there is still a dearth of research. Most of the existing literature has focused on the challenges members of the LGBTQ+ community face at work. In this study, we wanted to identify both the positive aspects of being an LGBTQ+ leader and the benefits brought to the workplace by individuals that hold both leadership positions and an LGBTQ+ identity. This study was a part of a larger project examining the experiences of LGBTQ+ leaders. We …

Being Annoyingly High In Psychological Safety: An Internship, Alex Lewis

River Cities Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference

I began my internship with Talent Metrics after seeing the posting on LinkedIn for a remote Summer consulting research internship. I was immediately intrigued because after submitting my resume I was asked to complete a general I-O knowledge test along with providing a work sample of my writing. While I had samples available from class, they asked for me to generate one related to information they provided, which I thought was a cool way of evening the playing field if an applicant did not have a suitable work sample. After interviewing, I was extended an offer after a conversation of …

Hazard Closing Actions In Predicting Safety Incidents, Isabella Lopez, Haley Henderson, Jacob Ledford, Shawn Bergman, Timothy Ludwig, Yalcin Acikgoz

River Cities Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference

Predictive analytics is a tool to be used in a number of areas including organizational health and safety. This proposal will explain how predictive analytics will be applied to an organization's health and safety data to understand the circumstances that lead to a construction injury. Specifically, this proposal examines time lags between when a hazard is reported by a front-line worker/foreman and the time it takes to mitigate the hazard and administratively “close out” the hazard report. We hypothesize that construction sites that take a longer time between opening and closing a hazard will have had more incidents of injury …

Linking Psychology Curriculum With Career Skills, Aidan Todd, Paige Farmer, Taylor Bott, Megan Hineline, Jenna Hochstetler, Shawn Bergman

River Cities Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference

A psychology degree remains a popular option for undergraduate students. This demonstrates the appeal of a degree that pertains to an understanding of social constructs, individual motivation, statistical analysis, research design, and problem-solving. Notwithstanding the numerous skills undergraduate psychology students gain in their studies, they remain chronically underemployed in the workforce. A possible explanation for the underemployment of undergraduate students involves a closer look at the transferable skills acquired by undergraduate psychology core courses. It is the intent of this study to grasp a better understanding of what knowledge, skills, and abilities, and other characteristics (KSAOs) students gain from undergraduate …

Do Psychology Students Know The Job Skills They Are Gaining?, Mark Allen, Jordan Woodward, Cori Ferguson, Alexa Sterling, Shawn Bergman

River Cities Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference

Psychology graduates experience high levels of underemployment (50%), despite obtaining a range of competencies during their undergraduate studies that are highly applicable to their professional development and future endeavors in the workforce (Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2021; Landrum et al., 2017). Throughout psychology courses, undergraduate students gain a number of knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics (KSAOs) that are sought after by employers. This study seeks to determine whether these underemployment rates are, in part, due to a lack of guidance from universities on how their curriculum and KSAOs taught connect to the workforce (Halonen & Dunn, 2018). …

Looking For A More Effective Online Learning Experience: Personality And Attention Ability As Moderators, Caroline Smith, Courtney Keim

River Cities Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference

Historically, organizations have used in-person training, while sometimes relying on technology (e.g., pre-recorded tapes), to train employees. However, online instruction has become the preferred method of educational and organizational learning experiences, exacerbated by the COVID pandemic (Use, 2020). Sometimes online learning produces greater knowledge gain and similar satisfaction to in-person instruction, and other times the learning is equal (cf. Sitzmann, et al., 2006). Despite the assumption that online training is cheaper and easier to deliver, it should be implemented so that the technology allows for effective learning (Salas et al., 2012, emphasis added) and in ways that accommodate disabilities (Use, …

Increasing Incident Reporting Through Influencing Risk Perception, Catherine Parks, Veda Gopal

River Cities Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference

Organizations commonly use data to predict future safety injuries through trending data reported by workers in daily interactions with hazards and risks. Trends in these “leading indicators” can then lead to efficacious subsequent intervention. However, this practice is rendered inoperable when no hazards and risks are reported. Many organizations seek to remedy poor reporting practices internally. It is not uncommon for corporate safety compliance teams to identify recurrent incident themes and launch focus initiatives to elicit more awareness and reporting in these areas with the ultimate goal of mitigating additional injuries. However, it is unclear whether such initiatives lead to …

The Relationship Between Occupational Category And Workplace Aggression: Workaholism As A Potential Moderator, Trevor Skinner, Shahnaz Aziz Phd

River Cities Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference

Work environments are ever-changing and differ between blue- and white-collar employees. Our goal is to investigate the relationship between occupational category, workplace aggression, and workaholism. The work environment hypothesis emphasizes the role of workplace contextual factors and the work environment on workplace aggression (Salin, 2015). Occupational category, which includes blue- and white-collar positions, is one such work environmental factor. Blue-collar positions are described using manual labor (Finstad et al., 2019), while white-collar positions deal with information rather than things (Anjum & Parvez, 2013). Workplace aggression is the intentional acts by individuals to harm others in an organization or the organization …

Delivering On Diversity: An Analysis Of Diversity Coursework & Faculty In Graduate Programs, Sana Lall-Trail, Vivian Woo Dr., Sayeed Islam Dr.

River Cities Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) - while always an important topic - has recently gained traction in the industry and in research, notably marked by an increase in DEI research in industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology. There has always been a need for schools to prepare practitioners to foster safe and productive work environments for people of all identities; however, are I-O graduate programs providing enough to meet this need? The goal of this project was to evaluate IO programs’ offerings compared to two other relevant fields, clinical psychology and business administration. We focused on two main criteria: coursework and faculty research, …

Quality Or Quantity: Using Natural Language Processing As To Assess Safety Checklist Quality, Jacob Leslie, Elizabeth Surratt, Charles Matthews, Shawn Bergman, Timothy Ludwig, Yalcin Acikgoz

River Cities Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference

Occupational injuries extract a large social and economic toll on workers and companies alike. Behavior-based safety (BBS) is a method for reducing workplace accidents by identifying at-risk behaviors and reinforcing safe behaviors. BBS requires the direct observation and collection of specific behaviors (pinpoints) by managers and coworkers to be effective. Observers record their findings on behavioral checklists that contain free- and fixed-response items. Literature shows that behavioral checklists are more effective when done at a measured pace, when responses to the checklists are varied, when greater context is given by free response, and when checklist items are more specific. While …

I/O Psychology Connections In Healthcare And Simulation Based Education - Center For Learning And Innovation, Brianna M. Billotti

River Cities Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference

Administrative Intern, Research Assistant The Center for Learning and Innovation Northwell Health 1979 Marcus Ave New Hyde Park, NY 11042 The goal of this poster is to share the experience of a graduate student in I/O Psychology interning in healthcare and researching simulation-based education. Hofstra University’s graduate program in Industrial/Organizational Psychology works closely with Northwell Health’s Center for Learning and Innovation to assist students in completing internship requirements, fostering their unique affiliated professional partnership. Northwell Health is New York’s largest healthcare provider with more than 76,000 employees in 23 hospitals and 830 outpatient facilities.1,2 The Center for Learning and Innovation …

Identifying And Analyzing Astronomers' Preferences For The Next Decade Of Nasa, Sheri Leder, Kristin Weger, Bryan Mesmer

River Cities Industrial and Organizational Psychology Conference

In our research, we investigated the preferences of students and professionals in the astronomy and astrophysics communities to better understand what space-based missions and research activities the scientific community would most likely prioritize for the NASA Decadal Survey. The decadal is conducted by the United States National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to address past and present research as well as changes in civil policy, new programs, and how the community may respond to the results, among other topics of interest. The aim of the current research is to survey preferences in the astronomy and astrophysics community to better …

Editorial: Increasing Accessibility In Academic Publishing And Upcoming Initiatives, Matt Wappett

Developmental Disabilities Network Journal

This editorial provides an overview of the current issue, and then several initiatives that DDNJ is working on to increase the accessibility of academic publishing. This editorial introduces our new podcast and our upcoming presentation at the Fall 2021 AUCD Conference.

International Sex Survey: Study Protocol Of A Large, Cross-Cultural Collaborative Study In 45 Countries, Beata Bothe, Monika Koos, Lena Nagy, Shane W. Kraus, Marc N. Potenza, Zsolt Demetrovics

Psychology Faculty Research

Background and aims: Limitations of research into sexuality and compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD) include the use of simplistic methodological designs and the absence of quality and unified measurements, empirically supported theoretical models, and large, collaborative studies between laboratories. We aim to fill these gaps with the International Sex Survey (ISS, http://internationalsexsurvey.org/). Methods: The ISS is a large-scale, international, multi-lab, multi-language study using cross-sectional survey methods, involving more than 40 countries. Participants responding to advertisements complete a self-report, anonymous survey on a secure online platform. Collaborators from each country collect a community sample of adults with a minimum sample size …

Normalizing The Topic Of Menstruation Through The #Prideintheperiod Campaign, Amanda K. Molina Ms.

Proceedings of the New York State Communication Association

Since shame is embedded in the discourse of menstruation, the researcher chose to naturalize the conversation of menstruation since it is an innate bodily function that menstruators should not be embarrassed about. Granted the improper sex education and the continuous genderization of menstruation promoted societal menstrual shame, the researcher found that both genders needed to be re-educated on menstrual stigma and be included in menstruation conversations. Through a needs assessment, the researcher created five campaign messages that allowed participants to see varying perspectives on periods. Both a questionnaire and a survey evaluated if the campaign changed the participants’ perceptions of …

Intergenerational And Intragenerational Connections Within A University Art Museum Program For People With Dementia, Sujal Manohar, Jessica Kay Ruhle

International Journal of Lifelong Learning in Art Education

This visual essay highlights the impacts of the Nasher Museum of Art’s Reflections program, which engages people with dementia (PWD) and their care partners through interactive art museum tours. This program’s conversation-based tours with built-in time to socialize are designed to foster intergenerational and intragenerational connections between PWD and museum gallery guides, PWD and care partners, and between PWD. Discussions about artwork are visitor-driven and encourage lifelong learning among participants. Anecdotal feedback from Reflections participants and gallery guides confirms the value of relationship building, improving quality of life for PWD.

By fostering community and strong connections, Reflections programs help reduce …

The Philosophy Of Mindfulness As A Mode Of Being, Mara Headrick

Quest

Philosophical Essay

Research in progress for PHIL 1301: Introduction to Philosophy

Faculty Mentor: John Macready, Ph.D.

The following essay represents student research produced in an Introduction to Philosophy course at Collin College. Introduction to Philosophy introduces students to metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical theories through critical readings of primary philosophical texts from ancient, medieval, and modern periods. Students practice textual and conceptual analysis of primary sources and learn methods for analyzing and evaluating arguments. As a final project, students compose a final research essay from their reading and research that develops a theory of reality, a theory of knowledge, and describes …

Exploring The Association Between Anticipated And Actual Responses To Disclosures Of Intimate Partner Violence And Sexual Assault, Emily A. Waterman, Emily R. Dworkin, Christina M. Dardis, Sarah E. Ullman, Katie M. Edwards, Lindsey M. Rodriguez

Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications

Victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) and sexual assault (SA) commonly disclose their experiences to friends or family members, or within other personal relationships. Disclosure recipients’ responses to these disclosures are associated with victims’ mental health. Previous research has separately measured both actual responses to IPV/SA and anticipated responses to IPV/SA (e.g., response to a hypothetical scenario) from the perspective of disclosure recipients. Yet, little research has described the association between disclosure recipients’ anticipated and actual responses. The aim of the current paper was to use a prospective design to examine the association between disclosure recipients’ anticipated and actual responses …

Promoting Belonging And Equity Through Course Content., Primrose Igonor

Together We RISE (Making Excellence Inclusive)

As our education systems become increasingly diverse, it is crucial for “diverse” students to see themselves reflected in the course materials they consume as this may lead to higher persistence, retention and overall student success. It is also vital for “non-diverse” students to gain a better understanding of the experiences of others particularly as they navigate a world which is much more diverse and global minded than ever before.

Fall 2021 Issue Co-Editor Letter, Megan Palmer, April P. Akins

South Carolina Libraries

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Journal Of Communication Pedagogy, Complete Volume 5, 2021

Journal of Communication Pedagogy

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A Professing Parent's Reflection On The Covid Classroom And Research Illustrates The Full Utility Of Communication Pedagogy, Robin S. Mathis

Journal of Communication Pedagogy

This essay uses an ethnonarrative method to illustrate why and how to communicate compassion in the K–12, college, and workplace classroom during a pandemic. Reflecting on my experiences as a parent and professor, my students’ journal entries March–May 2020, and field research notes, I conclude that the feeling of powerlessness in the classroom and compassion within the organization creates an innovative ethnonarrative research opportunity for the Journal of Communication Pedagogy reader. Ultimately, my reflection as a parent and professor emphasized the value of communication pedagogy. Ultimately, I argue that practitioners in traditional classrooms, as well as the workplace, can advance …

Lessons From The Pandemic: Engaging Wicked Problems With Transdisciplinary Deliberation, Miles C. Coleman, Susana C. Santos, Joy M. Cypher, Claude Krummenacher, Robert Fleming

Journal of Communication Pedagogy

Some crises, such as those brought on or exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, are wicked problems—large, complex problems with no immediate answer. As such, they make rich centerpieces for learning with respect to public deliberation and issue-based dialogue. This essay reflects on an experimental, transdisciplinary health and science communication course entitled Comprehending COVID-19. The course represents a collaborative effort among 14 faculty representing 10 different academic departments to create a resource for teaching students how to deliberate the pandemic, despite its attending, oversaturated, fake-news-infused, infodemic. We offer transdisciplinary deliberation as a pedagogical framework to expand communication repertoires in ways useful …

Encouraging College Student Democratic Engagement Through A Collaborative Voter, Angela M. Mcgowan-Kirsch

Journal of Communication Pedagogy

Drawing on challenges I experienced when teaching a political communication course, I designed an upper-level undergraduate course with the objective of developing students’ civic competence and democratic engagement. The major class assignment, which is the focal point of this best practices essay, was a four-step collaborative voter mobilization project designed and executed by undergraduate students. I use research, classroom conversations, and student observations to discuss four best practices for encouraging students to participate in electoral politics: (a) fostering political efficacy, (b) peer-to-peer learning, (c) experiential learning, and (d) learning through reflection. This essay breaks a four-step collaborative voting mobilization project …