Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-08, Section: B, page: 4084.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-09, Section: B, page: 4884.

Organizational change and development (OCD) has been studied by researchers to identify the effectiveness of change initiatives. Because of the broad scope of interventions in OCD, these studies have covered a range of areas including multiple interventions and the methodological rigor used by...

Scholars suggest that organizational diversity management (DM) programs are useful not only to satisfy legal requirements or social demands, but also to further the achievement of business objectives. However, much is still to be learned about the effects of such programs on individuals'...

Careful examination of the evidence relating to decision framing revealed a regularity not previously noted. A theory of outcome framing consistent with this finding is developed. An implication of the theory is that the formulation effect will be eroded under the types of experience available...

An integration of range-frequency theory, a theory of psychophysical judgment, and prospect theory, a theory of choice behavior under risk, is proposed. A critical assumption of prospect theory is that the reference point, which guides the riskiness of choice behavior, is modeled after Helson's...

For over a decade, the issues of welfare reform and unemployment have been high priorities at the national level. Surveys were administered to participants in three training agencies to examine individual pre-training attitudinal and behavioral variables, including self-efficacy, employment...

Studies of relational demography examine the relationship between the extent to which employees' demographic characteristics differ from their co-workers' and employees' behaviors. In this dissertation, I examined not only the effects on employee withdrawal behavior of an employee's demographic...

Feedback has been a widely used procedure in many Performance Management interventions. Despite the popularity of feedback as an intervention, few systematic analyses of the functions and effects of feedback used alone have been conducted. The present study was designed to investigate the...