Designing an Accelerated Classroom: Sharing Best Practices
More and more MBA programs, EMBA programs, and online classrooms are re-engineering the traditional semester to suit the working student population needs (e.g., move through degree programs at a faster pace). Accelerated formats are commonly defined as a ...
The Ethical Capabilities of Organizations.
Designing Experiential Classroom Excercises
Although there is value in utilizing experiential learning in the classroom, many faculty have little
experience creating or facilitating these exercises. The objective of the proposed Professional
Development Workshop is to help participants develop skil...
Where and how does fitting in matter? Examining new students' perceived fit with their university, instructors, and classmates.
Masterson, S; Kedharnath, U.
Researchers routinely find that both individuals and organizations are better off when the personal characteristics of members fit with contextual organizational characteristics. Typically, this kind of research examines how employees’ abilities, needs, a...
The Role of Person-facilitator Fit and Poverty Alleviation
Brett R. Smith; Benedetto Lorenzo Cannatelli
To combat desperate poverty in the Base of the Pyramid, entrepreneurship has been identified as a potential solution and has been supported through facilitators of entrepreneurial activity including microcredit, microfranchise, and microconsignment.
The e...
The Unintended Consequences of Diversity Management in Humanitarian Organizations
Managing diversity is a necessary and important task whose difficulties are intensified under demands of providing humanitarian aid. In response to this issue, I explain why some well-intentioned diversity initiatives will be less effective than anticipat...
Job characteristics or perceived organizational support? A study of non-profit workers.
Sprinkle, T. A.; Smith, B. R.
We advance our understanding of nonprofit employment by examining how the perception of core job characteristics (autonomy, skill variety, task identity, task significance, and feedback) and perceived organizational support (POS) predict job satisfaction ...
Relating employees' self-referential organizational ties to justice and trust.
Sprinkle, T. A.
Although it is well-known that strong relational ties to the organization provide beneficial outcomes for employers, researchers often study psychological ownership, perceived insider status, and organizational identification in isolation ignoring the deg...
Clarifying the roles of psychological ownership, perceived insider status, and organizational identification.
Sprinkle, T. A.; Smith, B. R.
Researchers studying the relational ties between employees and their organizations often examine concepts that are conceptually distinct, but in some ways similar. In particular, psychological ownership, perceived insider status, and organizational identi...
Towards a theory of multiple exchange partners and multiple psychological contracts.
Parzefall, M.
Although psychological contract theory acknowledges that individuals can have simultaneous psychological contracts with a wide variety of exchange partners, the idea of multiple psychological contracts has remained an under-development and under-researche...
Job characteristics and psychological ownership among non-profit workers.
Masterson, S.
Researchers have found that the perception of core job characteristics such as autonomy, task identity, task significance, skill variety, and feedback are important antecedents of employee outcomes. However, the predictive validity of these perceptions is...
Consulting related to compensation and other HR issues for a new nonprofit startup encouraging youth community services.
iButton Link
Whitewater University Technology Park
General HR consulting, including issues related to recruitment, selection, compensation, and termination. Also authored employee handbook and do ongoing updates, and helped with a multitude of HR issues related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Boys scouts of America (Scouts BSA)
Northern Illinois
HR consulting related to a confidential HR issues.
Milwaukee Property Management
Milwaukee Wisconsin
Consulting related to confidential HR discipline and retention.