It has been established that there are numerous barriers to obtaining and maintaining employment following a criminal conviction, including background checks, which occur as part of most selection processes. Barriers to obtaining and maintaining employment may be higher for indi…
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The perennial problem of poorly handled conflict in the workplace is detrimental to individuals and organizations. This study investigated whether training in the martial art of aikido is associated with efficacy in the constructive handling of social conflict in the workplace. …
The effects of aversive anti-Semitism on selection decisions regarding Jewish employees in the U.S. were studied. The extant literature on aversive racism, prejudice and stereotyping, and job discrimination provided a backdrop for the present study. Participants read transcripts…
As a result of late 20th-century immigration patterns, workplace change and labor practices, a fast-paced, American hospitality/service concessionaire at a large, Midwestern, international airport found itself staffed predominantly by immigrants and refugees (primarily Ethiopian…
Buildings are designed to provide their occupants with the environment they desire. Systems, such as telecommunications, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), fire and security, and lighting are installed in buildings to serve this purpose. The evaluation of these s…
The study aimed to examine the contributions of two corporate, non-health, transnational, Sustainable Healthy Workplaces (SHWs) to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGS) in Nigeria. The research questions in this study sought to determine the contributions ma…
Recent accounts of workplace union representation have emphasised the exclusion of shop stewards from management decision-making processes, and have posited a shift in shop steward activity away from dealing with collective issues through bargaining, towards dealing with individ…
This project investigated the views of 49 university undergraduate students regarding the phenomenon of bullying in three distinct settings: their memories of compulsory education (primary and secondary), their personal workplace experience (or workplace study placement), and th…
Stress levels experienced by individuals in the workplace are highly prevalent and well documented. Self-compassion has been suggested as an approach that may support the health and wellbeing of individuals and enable them to stay well at work. Self-compassion is understood as, …
Drawing upon my eleven-month ethnographic fieldwork in two business organisations in Bangkok, Thailand, this thesis explores Thai women office workers consumption of makeup and clothes at work. What emerges from this thesis is that a claim to beauty as a reason for which women a…
This dissertation explains how and why concern for the food supply in urban centers contributed to social and political conservatism in Morocco, a theocracy based on divine kingship and patriarchal relations. Millers and butchers were key agents of urban food provisioning, so co…
The effects of cultural diversity in the workplace on organizations' culture are of utmost importance because such research has shed some light on how organizations address diversity in the workplace. The topic addressed are how culturally diverse individuals are viewed and the …
This ethnographic study explores the language choice decisions of female, working-class immigrants in an on-the-job training center specialized in industrial sewing in Montréal. It aims to describe how Arabic and Bengali speakers use language to maintain or cross cultural bounda…
Caribbean immigrants comprise a significant and growing proportion of immigrants living and working in the United States of America. The Caribbean region itself has a rich history, distinctive heterogeneity, and unique ethnographic properties. Prior research on Caribbean migrant…
This interdisciplinary, quantitative dissertation project explores dispositional mindfulness in the workplace alongside select personality traits, including the Big Five (openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism) as well as positive…
Introduction: A significant number of nurses are overweight and obese, which poses a risk to their health and wellbeing. This study uncovered a theory illustrating how nurses who are obese manage their weight and how the process was influenced by personal, contextual, situationa…
The growing body of literature in the field of spirituality and religion in the workplace (SRW) has developed empirical data that supports the importance of the spiritual well-being of employees in adaptation to challenges that arise in the workplace. In this increasingly demand…
This study presents the results of the correlation between Christian behaviors, which are operationalized as church attendance and Bible reading in this study, and self-control in the workplace. Over 350 part-time or full-time employees who are over 18 years old and residing in …
This study investigated the workplace experiences of transgender organizational leaders. Research on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or other sexual identities (LGBTQ+) in the workplace rarely focuses specifically on the transgender population, and a literature revie…