Essays about: "organizational psychology"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 34 essays containing the words organizational psychology.

1. 21. Exploring Organizational Identity as a Potential Process : A multiple case study on employee-oriented companies

   University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/IHH, Företagsekonomi

   Author : Søren Abildgaard Nielsen; Florian Köhler; [2018]
   Keywords : Alignment; continuously becoming; dual perspective; explorative study; flux; identity as a process; narrative analysis; organizational identity; prehistory; sensegiving; sensemaking; social actor; social constructionist; symbolic interpretivism;

   Abstract : Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore organizational identity as a potential process.   Design/Methodology/Approach: We applied a qualitative method and followed an inductive approach that was applied to a multiple-in-depth-case study for which we conducted semi-structured interviews with 26 members of two organizations, the Swedish consulting company REACH and the Swiss digital agency WONDROUS. READ MORE

3. 22. Clash of Cultures - Why Organizational Schizophrenia is Bad for Performance

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Oskar Lundin; Valdemar Olin; [2018]
   Keywords : Management control; Professional service firms; Clash of Cultures; Motivational theory; Social psychology theory; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Seminar date: 30th of May 2018 Course: BUSN79 Business Administration; Degree Project in Accounting and Finance Authors: Oskar Lundin & Valdemar Olin Supervisor: Johan Dergård Keywords: Management control, Professional service firms, Clash of Cultures, Motivational theory, Social psychology theory Purpose: The purpose of this study is to contribute to the knowledge of why the performance of professional service firms decreases when facing high levels of bureaucracy and identify the major aspects of importance for this change in performance. Methodology: To answer the research question the study has a qualitative research approach, starting with a theoretical review, followed by a multiple-case study of professional service firms. READ MORE

4. 23. Haunted By Change : Exploring and explaining the influence of Perceived Organizational Support and Perceived Supervisor Support on Commitment to Change

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Maria Tove Helen Brambeck; Therese Marie Helen Savmyr; [2018]
   Keywords : Organizational Change; Commitment to Change; Perceived Organizational Support; Perceived Supervisor Support;

   Abstract : The purpose of the study is to explore and explain how and why perceived support can create a sense of want to, ought to and have to change. This study investigates perceived organizational support (POS) and perceived supervisor supports (PSS) influences on the dimensions of commitment to change (C2C), affective- (AC2C), continuous- (CC2C) and normative commitment to change (NC2C). READ MORE

5. 24. Swing Your Way to Happiness

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för marknadsföring och strategi

   Author : Carolina Pettersson Ruiz; Alexander Blitz; [2018]
   Keywords : Aggression; Frustration; Catharsis; Empowerment; Counterproductive work behavior;

   Abstract : How do individuals manage frustration in organizations and how can they use Rage rooms as an agency to relocate their experienced frustration into a performance enhancing intervention? The concept of Rage rooms does not only add to the present research, in the field of preventive mechanism of organizational aggression, but also overlaps with theories of Catharsis. The hypotheses are drawn from literature covering cognitive psychology and management theory. READ MORE

6. 25. How to stand the nursing profession : A study of proactive antecedents, self-efficacy, and organizational factors, and the mediation of cognitive appraisals on the outcome of stress and anxiety among nurses

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för psykologi (PSY)

   Author : Rosita Bergkvist; [2016]
   Keywords : Self-efficacy; support from co-workers; support from manager; trust in manager; fairness; cognitive appraisal; antecedents; positive psychology; stress; stressors; proactive; malleable; anxiety; nurses; assistant nurses.;

   Abstract : In the light of present problems with stress related illness in organizations, often affecting women working in health care, the purpose of the current study was to examine proactive and malleable factors that could influence nurse’s perception of work stressors. Based on a model, self-efficacy and grouped organizational factors were examined as antecedents to the outcome of anxiety and stress via cognitive appraisals. READ MORE