Gilles Paché

Goal-Driven Logistics—Shaping the Soccer Match Experience

Management

Crowd management at soccer matches—or “football” matches in Europe—presents significant logistical challenges that remain underexplored in...

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Sherri Weitl-Harms

The Human-Centered Design With Iterative Service-Learning Framework: Applied to Small Rural Organizations

Informatics

The innovative framework described in this work integrates human-centered design principles with iterative service-learning to incrementall...

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Bob Everson

Exploring Employee Attitudes and Behaviors Related to AI Technology and the Future of Work

Management

This qualitative research study explores employee attitudes and coping behaviors toward AI artificial intelligence implementation using Laz...

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John James Cater, III, Marilyn Young

Conflict in Family Firms: Contributors and Reduction Mechanisms

Management

Family businesses are characterized by conflict. The most harmful type of conflict, relationship conflict, can significantly impair the ope...

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This paper, titled "Conflict in Family Firms: Contributors and Reduction Mechanisms," addresses a highly salient and often detrimental aspect of famil...

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DeAndrea Davis, Richard Miller, Scott Wysong

The Influence of Leadership on Self Determination, Work Engagement, and Job Crafting on Marginalized Workers in Health Care Environments

Management

This study examines how dirty workers, those in housekeeping, janitorial, and food services, are marginalized despite their contributions t...

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Bob Everson

Managerial Communication Styles as Predictors of Employee Job Satisfaction: A Mixed-Methods Study

Management

This mixed-methods study explores how managerial communication styles shape employee job satisfaction. Five communication styles: assertive...

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This mixed-methods study effectively explores the crucial link between managerial communication styles and employee job satisfaction, a topic of signi...

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Paul Handré Laubscher

The Law of Control: A Theory of Psychological Exchange and Power

Psychology

Conventional theories of power emphasize the possession of resources such as wealth, admiration, or social capital. This paper proposes a p...

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This paper, "The Law of Control: A Theory of Psychological Exchange and Power," presents a highly intriguing and potentially transformative theoretica...

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Mollie A. Price-Blackshear, B. Ann Bettencourt

Reducing Prejudice Through Self-Affirmation: Exploring the Mediating Role of Intergroup Anxiety

Psychology

Self-affirmation reduces self-threats in many domains. Our studies examined whether self-affirmation reduced outgroup prejudice toward stig...

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This manuscript addresses a highly relevant and impactful topic: the potential of self-affirmation to reduce prejudice towards stigmatized groups. The...

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Lucinda L. Parmer, John E. Dillard, Jr.

Locus of Control and Leading Positive Change: Utilizing the Adaptive Leadership Style

Management

To learn, develop, and perform, leaders must lead positive organizational change. It involves establishing a positive climate, creating rea...

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Robert Donmoyer

Knowledge Is Not What It Used to Be: Organizational Research Implications of Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought

Management

Critical theory and postmodern/poststructuralist thought continue to be influential in academia and, increasingly, even in some parts of po...

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