Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"organizational members"”.
-
Why and How Organizational Members Encourage Their Peer Coworkers to Voluntarily Exit the Organization: An Investigation of Peer-Influence Exit Tactics
Previous scholars have found that organizational members use various tactics to encourage their peer coworkers to voluntarily exit their organizations. These tactics are known as peer-influence exit tactics. What has been missing from the literature is clarity about the factors that influence …
-
Stay interviews: an exploratory study of stay interviews as a retention tool
… organizations, with the end goal being to retain organizational members. Stay interviews have become a proactive solution to the retention problem and have been seen as an alternative to the exit interview. This study proposes that through the use of stay interviews, organizational members will …
-
Managing Uncertainty During Organization Design Decision-Making Processes: The Moderating Effects of Different Types of Uncertainty
… is a common and aversive experience that organizational members typically seek to reduce or manage. This study investigates whether different types of uncertainty - informational uncertainty (i.e., not having sufficient information to confidently form social judgments) and standing …
-
Male-Female Workplace Friendships: Third Party Coworkers' Perceptions of and Behavior toward Organizational Peers in Cross-Sex Workplace Friendships
… by equity theory (Adams, 1965) and feminist organizational communication theorizing (Buzzanell, 1994), it is therefore hypothesized that organizational members in cross-sex workplace friendships will also be perceived negatively by their coworkers and targeted for antisocial behaviors. …
-
Accommodation in email and the influence of organizational culture.
Understanding how organizational members engage with email is essential to facilitating healthy interpersonal relationships and providing insight into the influence of organizational culture on members' behaviors. Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) recognizes communication as a dynamic …
-
A Study of Loss and Grief as Produced by Mandated Educational Change
… change-loss-grief construct were posed: (1) Do organizational members report professional loss in response to mandated educational change? (2) Are selected behaviors, associated with symptoms of grief, reported by organizational members in response to the mandated educational change? Procedures: …
-
THE IMPACT OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE ON COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE WITHIN A FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATION
This qualitative study investigated how the organizational culture at a small, non-profit, faith-based organization impacted communities of practice (CoP). The literature reviewed focuses on the following: faith-based, non-profit organizations, communities of practice and organizational culture. …
-
An evaluation of the onboarding ambassador program, how sense of belonging impacts quit intentions
… The problem to be investigated was the rate of organizational members quitting within the first year of employment. The goal of learning from the program evaluation was to understand how the onboarding ambassador program and sense of belonging affected quit intentions among newcomers. …
-
Organizational Identity Formation in a Virtual Education Organization: A Case Study
The origin and delineation of organizational identity (OI) as a construct has been well studied and documented by researchers. This research has suggested that insufficient study has been conducted on how organizational identity formation takes place from organizational inception, which factors …
-
Tell Me a Story: Exploring the Use of Narratives to Reduce Backlash to Organizational Diversity Initiatives
… significant backlash, particularly among organizational members. The primary aim of this study is to investigate how narrative forms of diversity initiative messaging may attenuate backlash among organizational members compared to more traditional expository forms of diversity initiative …
-
Green Employees: Organizational Identification in an Environmentally Friendly Company
… the use of a directed mission statement and organizational rhetoric. Utilizing individual interviews, the findings suggest that by building organizational identification, more environmentally-friendly practices amongst organizational members may be achieved.
-
Investigation of the dynamic relationship between communication and shared interpretations: A networks approach
… and the theory of contagion to investigate how organizational members influence each others' interpretations about work-related issues. A dynamic computational model of the reciprocal effects implied by these theories was developed, and specific hypotheses were derived from the computational …
-
Performing the Personal Within the Organizational: Communicating Professional Identities Through Taiwanese Commercial Airline Pilots' Personal Narratives
… were to not only expand current knowledge of organizational communication from a critical rhetorical perspective, but to further explore the under-appreciated concept of professionalism of organizational members. Theoretically, I traced theoretical analysis in the sociology of professions and …
-
They Don't Think Like We Do: Factors Influencing Employees' Interpretations of Organizational Mission
Organizational mission is the purpose, strategy, values, and behavioral standards of an organization that may or may not be articulated in a formal statement. The influence of mission on employees who are not strategic managers has been largely neglected. Organizational members develop their own …
-
Explaining Retention in Community-Based Movement Organizations
… the subsequent period of orientation that new members begin to learn more about the organization. During this period, the retention of new members is dependent on the successful alignment of individual and organizational frames. The failure to achieve such an alignment is likely to result in …
-
Leadership and ethics : a comparative study of leader moral values and organizational culture
… and ethical culture associated with contemporary organizational life is not often discussed in either the academic literature or in the popular managerial writings. The intent of this thesis is to examine the challenge I believe moral relativism poses to older ethical tradition based on a belief …
-
Should human resources managers utilize affirmative action to give diversity programs legitimacy?
… that serves to get the message out to their organizational members that individual differences should be viewed as resources for learning and understanding and not barriers to career success or opportunity. However, for the majority, this has proved a difficult task. Simply, human resources …
-
Exploring Knowledge Processes for Technology Assimilation
… new technology unconditionally available to all members of an organization is becoming increasingly important. One of the problems in developing such knowledge processes for technology assimilation is that current social structures do not easily accommodate unconditional participation. Since the …
-
The evolution of architecture faculty organizational culture at the University of Michigan
… to understand the cultures operating within the organizational groups and subgroups in order to coordinate, integrate, and foster collaboration toward organizational and institutional goal attainment activities. This case study, which focused on the emergence and evolution of the organizational …
-
An investigation into the practices, procedures, and challenges of knowledge management in government -owned organizations in Kenya
… out whether and the extent to which individual organizational members in the organizations are motivated to contribute to knowledge creation and sharing, and discover the major managerial challenges and problems that the organizations face in managing knowledge. The scope of this study was …
Page 1 of 3