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Browsing PhD Dissertations by Author "Kelloway, E. Kevin"
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(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 ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2009)This dissertation contains three sequential studies that use a mixed-methods approach. The first study involved qualitative interviews with 29 individuals using the critical incident technique (Flanagan, 1949) and Peterson ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)There is substantial research on the importance of autonomous motivation in the workplace; however, little is known on how to change motivation. Drawing on motivation and leadership theories, this dissertation examined the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2005)Previous models of leadership have been based on an assumption of face-to-face contact between the leader and the follower. Increasingly, however, advanced information technology is being used by organizations to enable ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2007)Previous research on aggression and violence in the workplace has focused on factors in an organizationally and physically bounded context. Over the last two decades, as organizations have adopted information and communication ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2022-08-02)Workplace dignity has been an emerging topic in psychology in the last decade and is theoretically tied to employee well-being (Khademi et al., 2012; Utriainen & Kyngäs, 2011). However, dignity at work has been difficult ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2012)Most studies on the psychological impact of military operations have focused on mental health outcomes and protective factors. Notwithstanding the importance of mental health, other dimensions of military operations stand ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)Despite its intuitive importance to organizational management, the concept of employee recognition has received little systematic research attention. Because there is no generally accepted construct definition, different ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)With consumers becoming progressively more sophisticated in their evaluations of their service consumption experiences companies are forced to focus greater attention on the nature and quality of the service provided to ...
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(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 ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)A self-reported measure of work-related attention capacities was developed and validated in the current dissertation. The 12-item Workplace Attention Trifactor Scale (WATS) was created from the conceptual integration of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2009)In May of 2007, Newfoundland and Labrador abolished mandatory retirement policies. By the summer of 2009, all Canadian provinces will have passed similar legislation. In order to examine what influences people's retirement ...
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(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 ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)Work related injuries and fatalities can cause significant human suffering as well as considerable social and economic costs. A growing body of research has demonstrated that leaders can play an important role in enhancing ...
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(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, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2009)Professionals have an inherent expectation of autonomy in their work, an associated lack of respect for both the managerial role and the people who hold managerial positions, and highly specialized knowledge and skills. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)A critical assumption of the leadership development literature is that leaders want to engage in effective leadership behaviors (Gilbert & Kelloway, 2014). Drawing on self-determination theory, I address the question of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2021)Understanding job performance has been an important and longstanding workplace challenge for over a century. However, continued criterion deficiency has resulted in ongoing disparity between job performance and job performance ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2011)The overall objective for this dissertation research was to provide construct validity for the emerging love of the job LOJ model (Barling and Inness, 2007; Kelloway et al., 2010), to evaluate its measurement, and to situate ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2005)A model of safety-specific transformational leadership and passive safety leadership was developed and empirically evaluated based on a sample of young workers. The results of structural equation modeling illustrated that ...
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