Browsing Hankamer School of Business by Title
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General job performance of first-line supervisors: the role of conscientiousness in determining its effects on subordinate exhaustion
(Wiley Online Library, 2011-04)In an integrated test of the job demands-resources model and trait activation theory, we predicted that the general job performance of employees who also hold supervisory roles may act as a demand to subordinates, depending ... -
Give Me a Better Break: Choosing Workday Break Activities to Maximize Resource Recovery
(American Psychological Association, 2016)Surprisingly little research investigates employee breaks at work, and even less research provides prescriptive suggestions for better workday breaks in terms of when, where, and how break activities are most beneficial. ... -
Global Patent Protection: Channels of North & South Welfare Gain
(2005-08-13)Much of the dynamic literature on intellectual property protection (IPP) arrays goods along a segment of the real line, one endpoint of which expands with innovation. A single margin of innovation brings computational ... -
Health services research : how economics plays a role in public health for children in Somaliland and inmates in Texas.
(2021-04-26)Throughout this dissertation, I will assess three studies: (1) a cost-effectiveness analysis for pediatric surgery uptake for children in Somaliland with congenital conditions; (2) a survival analysis for time to suicidality ... -
Hidden costs of anticipated workload for individuals and partners: Exploring the role of daily fluctuations in workaholism
(American Psychological Association, 2021)The present study advances a within-person approach to the study of workaholism in line with whole trait theory, arguing that individuals have general workaholic tendencies as well as daily fluctuations in workaholism. We ... -
High-performance work systems as a remedy for growing pains: evidence from South Korean organizations
(Wiley Online Library, 2018-04-01)Drawing on literatures from a contingency perspective of strategic human resource management and a dynamic resource-based view, this study examines dynamic patterns of investment in high-performance work systems (HPWS) to ... -
Hispanic and Asian performance on selection procedures: A narrative and meta-analytic review of 12 common predictors
(American Psychological Association, 2017-08)Hispanics are both the largest and fastest growing minority group in the U.S. workforce. Asians also make up a substantial and increasing portion of the workforce. Unfortunately, empirical research on how these groups ... -
Hispanic assimilation to American health insurance.
(2006-10-26)Policy makers, insurance companies, physicians, healthcare administrators, and especially patients have acknowledged the need for healthcare reform. Some economists speculate high healthcare costs arise from charging ... -
How do stressors lead to burnout? The mediating role of motivation
(American Psychological Association, 2009-07)We extend existing stressor-strain theoretical models by including intrinsic motivation as a mediator between well-established job stressors and burnout. Though the link between situational stressors and burnout is well ... -
How has the effect of the WTO on bilateral trade changed over time?
(2018-05-01)Using the most recent data set on bilateral trade from 1962 to 2015 and a Pseudo Poisson Maximum Likelihood (PPML) estimator with and without country-pair fixed effects, this thesis shows the overall effect of WTO/GATT ... -
“I don't want to be near you, unless…”: The interactive effect of unethical behavior and performance onto relationship conflict and workplace ostracism
(Wiley Online Library, 2016-03)Examined through the lens of moral psychology, we investigate when and why employees’ unethical behaviors may be tolerated versus rejected. Specifically, we examine the interactive effect of employees’ unethical behaviors ... -
“If Only My Coworker Was More Ethical”: When Ethical and Performance Comparisons Lead to Negative Emotions, Social Undermining, and Ostracism
(Springer Nature, 2018-03-21)Drawing on social comparison theory, we investigate employees’ ethical and performance comparisons relative to a similar coworker and subsequent emotional and behavioral responses. We test our theoretically driven hypotheses ... -
Impact of childhood exposure to family problem gambling on adult gambling pathology.
(, 2014-06-11)Does the apple fall far from the tree? Proverbs 22:6 says: "Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it." One theory from the social sciences termed Social Learning Theory would ... -
The importance of group-focused transformational leadership and felt obligation for helping and group performance
(Wiley Online Library, 2018-07-31)Leaders face a challenge to simultaneously motivate workgroups and the individuals within them. Recent criticisms highlight the need to deconstruct broad leadership constructs to offer better theoretical insight into the ... -
The influence of supervisor bottom-line mentality and employee bottom-line mentality on leader-member exchange and subsequent employee performance
(SAGE Journals, 2019-07)Are supervisors who care more about profits than employee well-being seen by employees as being good exchange partners? How do employees perceive and respond to supervisors who treat the bottom line as more important than ... -
Information leaks and information systems.
(, 2012-11-29)While the rise of WikiLeaks and other leak-related organizations has been reflected in the research in international relations, it has received limited focus within the field of information systems. This study surveyed ... -
Information Overload : detection and prevention through the usage of consumer neural devices.
(2017-07-06)Information Overload is a state in which individuals have a vast amount of information that is readily available, almost instantaneously, without mechanisms to check the validity of the content and the potential risk of ... -
Inside multi-disciplinary science and engineering research centers: The impact of organizational climate on invention disclosures and patents
(Elsevier, 2011-11)Much past research on commercialization activities by university scientists and engineers has focused on the role of resources in the extra-organizational commercialization environment, such as the availability of venture ... -
The interactive effect of extraversion and extraversion dissimilarity on emotional exhaustion in customer service employees: A test of the asymmetry hypothesis
(Elsevier, 2010-04)Testing the asymmetry hypothesis with regard to personality and one indicator of employee well-being, we explored the interactive effects of extraversion dissimilarity and individual extraversion on customer-oriented ... -
Intermediation and disintermediation of resources for entrepreneurship and innovation in the maker movement.
(2020-07-12)The maker movement phenomenon represents potential disintermediation of producer innovation as well as intermediation of creative processes for entrepreneurs and innovators. This dissertation introduces the maker movement ...