Thursday, August 20, 2009
Summer 2009: A Time for Research and (a little) Relaxation
by Joe Allen
For faculty members and students in the Organizational Science doctoral program, summer is a season filled with lots of research and some well-deserved relaxation. Although some would argue that the latter never came, a recent informal poll indicates that much research occurred this summer. Students and faculty members alike worked diligently to move forward with research ideas, data collection, manuscript writing,presentation preparation, and many submissions for eventual publication.
The following certainly isn’t an exhaustive description of summer research activities, but upon reading this list many may feel exhausted.
Dr. Eric Heggestad and Ashley Andrew recently finished drafting and submitted a book chapter on aging, personality, and job attitudes for publication. Heggestad is also working on another chapter for the same publication concerning process models of faking on personality assessments in applicant contexts.
Dr. Tammy Beck and Dr. Denis Arnold are working with Sam Paustian-Underdahl on a project looking at the integrity of pharmaceutical companies. They are in the middle of gathering data concerning stated values versus actual behaviors of pharmaceutical companies that occurred over the past 10 years.
Dr. Linda Shanock presented a paper at the International Communication Association conference on supervisor-lead meetings (Ben Baran’s thesis), finalized two manuscripts to be sent for publication, began data analysis on a project looking at structural and relational influences on employee meeting behaviors, submitted a manuscript that used longitudinal data to look at how socialization tactics reduce turnover and enhance commitment, and so on.
Dr. Steven Rogelberg and many student co-authors (e.g. Brett Agypt, Joe Allen, Ben Baran, Adrian Goh, etc.) worked on papers about meeting effectiveness, meeting satisfaction, meeting lateness, volunteer recruitment, counter-productive behavior, dirty work, employee-volunteer dynamics, and on survey nonresponse.
Dr. Wei Zhao prepared two manuscripts over the summer for review including “Multidimensional Status, Status Inconsistency, and Product Valuation in the California Wine Market” (with Xueguang Zhou) and “Institutional Compatibility and the Diffusion of ‘Best Practices’: Human Resource Management in Foreign-Invested Enterprises in China” (with Dr. Yang Cao).
Dr. Yang Cao spent the summer in Hawaii as a visiting fellow at the East West Center focusing on a project that examines from an institutional perspective the relationship between work and health in China.
Dr. Doug Pugh worked on a manuscript currently under review at the Journal of Applied Psychology on the topic of emotional labor and emotional dissonance, began data analysis on a different emotional labor project with animal shelter employees, and is working on a write up for submission to the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology conference on a work-family study that grew out of an Organizational Science Consulting & Research project.
Dr. David Gilmore worked with Izabella Szymanska on research using the Change Style Indicator using data from the Center for Creative Leadership. He also worked on revising a paper on political skill and promotability with a former graduate student and others.
Dr. Cliff Scott worked on a range of projects already in progress with several student co-authors (e.g., after-action reviews and safety climate with Joe Allen and Ben Baran) and continued work on an Organizational Science Consulting & Research project for TIAA-CREF with Dr. Loril Gosset, David Askay, and Ashley Andrew.
Dr. Lisa Rashotte and Tonya Frevert worked on a study measuring current race beliefs as related to competence, workplace potential, and hireability.
Dr. Beth Rubin and Dr. Charles Brody finished a revise and resubmit from Sociological Perspectives, which is their third paper looking at commitment in the new economy. With Brett Agypt, Rubin plans to begin data collection on our project about temporal structures in contemporary organizations by summers’ end.
Dr. Shawn Long worked on his forthcoming book Communication, Relationships and Practices in Virtual Work, finalized a case study paper called “Islamaphobia at work: Cultural terrorism in organizations”, and co-authored a manuscript with Dr. Cliff Scott and colleagues entitled “Making the case for andragogical integration of social networking technology in graduate education.”
As the exhaustion from the summer research sets in, it is important to recognize that this is just a smattering of the projects that are currently in progress. In compiling this list and asking students and faculty about their projects, it became clear that the Organizational Science program students and faculty members are continually engaged in research that adds value to both theory and practice. One question remains after reporting on the amazing productivity of students and faculty members: Did anyone take a break this summer?
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