Browsing PhD Dissertations by Subject "Employees -- Attitudes"

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Accentuate the positive : organizational and personal consequences of positive leadership

Weigand, Heidi A. (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)

For this thesis, I examined the relationship between positive leadership and follower work behaviours through two studies. In the first, 313 employees participated in a study to examine how leaders’ positivity and positive ...
Improving young workers’ safety voice : a three-part study exploring safety voice interventions

Murray, Robert Russell (2020)

Three studies (and a manipulation check) were conducted using mixed methods to examine an intervention to improve young workers’ confidence and willingness to voice safety concerns at work. Study One involved semi-structured ...
I’ll show you who’s the boss : subordinate rejection as a precursor of abusive supervision

Biricik Gulseren, Duygu (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)

Over the past few decades, scientists and practitioners have shown a great deal of interest in the topic of abusive supervision. The first generation of abusive supervision researchers focused on defining abusive supervision ...
Job information sources and applicant perceptions : antecedents, correlates, and outcomes

Bissonnette, Angela B. (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2010)

The current research used three studies to examine recruitment source usage, job seeker perceptions of recruitment sources and the relationships between several recruitment sources' correlates. The relationship between ...
A longitudinal and multilevel examination of organizational change

Pitfield, Laure E. (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)

This research examines how a hospital’s transformation to lean management produced change-supportive behaviours and attitudes. Comparisons to a wait-list control group showed improvements in leadership trust, communication, ...
Tolerating workplace incivility : trade-offs and repercussions of rewarding uncivil high performers

Crawford, Janet Bell (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)

Studies have illustrated that Workplace Incivility negatively impacts people, productivity and profits yet it persists. Anecdotal evidence suggests that uncivil behaviour from high performers is tolerated thus contributing ...
Understanding unethical behaviour in the workplace : the CUBT model

Al-Hamdani, Mohammed A. (Saint Mary's University, 2017)

Despite the advances in research on social contagions, personality and contextual factors, there has been no attempt to test the effect of coworker contagion on unethical behaviour in a comprehensive model. There is also ...
Workplace ostracism : a critical discourse analysis of the lived experience

Sanderson, Kathy (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)

We all want to belong, fit in and be accepted. It is not surprising that when there are difficulties feeling as though we belong, that we experience distress (Lau, Moulds & Richardson, 2009; Robinson, O’Reilly & Wang, 2013; ...