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Item Talk about organizational wrongdoing : an investigation of dimensions and predictors(2001) Richardson, Brian Keith; Lewis, Laurie K.While organizational and societal costs of organizational wrongdoing are steadily increasing there is little research into understanding the underlying factors contributing to the creation, continuance, or cessation of such activity. This study investigated the dimensionality of witness’s talk about organizational wrongdoing, and examined the influence of several predictors on respondent’s position on these dimensions. Because there is a paucity of research aimed at understanding how organizational members communicatively respond to unethical activity in the workplace, this study attempted to characterize and test predictors of such talk. A study using a sample of 95 organizational members who had witnessed real or alleged organizational wrongdoing was utilized for understanding how respondents “talked about” the activity and their rating on individual and situational factors. These individual and situational factors were considered potential predictors of particular types of witness talk about organizational wrongdoing. Factor analysis results suggest there are five types of witness talk about organizational wrongdoing based upon frequency of use. These types are (a) Sensemaking, (b) Confronting, (c) Joking, (d) Rationalizing/Distorting, (e) and Excusing. This study proceeds to analyze several individual and situational factors’ relationships with these dimensions. Results indicate that none of the individual or situational variables predicted use of Sensemaking. However, it was found that use of Sensemaking talk and respondent’s age were predictors of Confronting. Organizational identification ratings inversely predicted use of Joking. None of the hypothesized individual or situational factors predicted Rationalizing/Distorting or Excusing. Based upon the results, theoretical contributions of the study and directions for future research are discussed.Item Time and technical impressions : exploring the relationships between temporal experience, communication practices, and impression management in the contemporary workplace(2012-08) Inman Ramgolam, Dina; Ballard, Dawna I.The primary goal of this study is to explore the impact of dominant cultural patterns associated with the contemporary workplace on organizational members' experience of time. First, in order to investigate such potential relationships, three temporal factors---varying levels of synchronicity, temporal compression, and temporal expansion---are identified as contemporary dominant cultural patterns. Next, these dominant cultural patterns are isolated to reflect three growing communication practices: multicommunicating, virtual work practices, and primary work location. With a review of the literature, these communication practices are tested with seven dimensions of time (present time perspective, urgency, pace, flexibility, punctuality, separation, and linearity). A secondary goal is to also examine both organizational members' temporal experience and communication practices with the impression management strategy, exemplification. Taken together, each goal and subsequent findings helps to inform our understanding of contemporary communication phenomenon.Item Validation Study of the Workplace Relationships Inventory: A Workplace Self-Report Measure of Adult Attachment Style(2010-11-02T18:20:43Z) Young, David Michael II; Evans, H.M. Jr.Self-report measures of adult attachment style predict organizational behaviors. Traditionally, self-report instruments used in organizational settings measure adult attachment style in regard to romantic relationship targets. This study reports the psychometric validation of a measure for assessing adult attachment style in regard to close working relationships. The Workplace Relationships Inventory was modeled on the Experiences in Close Relationships scale and designed to be utilized in workplace environments. It was hypothesized that the Workplace Relationships Inventory has a two-dimensional structure like the Experiences in Close Relationships scale comprised of attachment-related anxiety and avoidance. From 2008-2010, over 500 students in organizational behavior classes were administered the Workplace Relationships Inventory along with existing measures of adult attachment style. Factor analysis of the Workplace Relationship Inventory items did not support the proposed two-factor solution. Statistically, four factors provided the best fit for the data. Conceptually, there is much to recommend two major factors coinciding with the proposed anxiety and avoidance dimensions of the scale. The Workplace Relationships Inventory demonstrated good internal consistency reliability, and convergent and divergent validity with comparative self-report measures of adult attachment style. Revisions to the Workplace Relationships Inventory are proposed.