The field of worksite health promotion has moved toward the development and testing of comprehensive programs that target health behaviors with interventions operating at multiple levels of influence. Yet, observational and process evaluation studies indicate that such programs are challenging for worksites to implement effectively. Research has identified several organizational factors that pr...

This study assesses interest in curricular development in new technologies among communication faculty, with a focus on doctoral-level programs.Diffusion of innovations theory explains both individualand organizational-level factors that may account for adoption of innovations, including those stemming from new technologies. In the field of communication, media information technology programs r...

BACKGROUND Medical schools have used faculty development programs as an essential means to improve the instruction of faculty members. Thus far, however, participating in such programs has been largely voluntary for individuals even though a certain degree of participation is required to achieve practical effectiveness. In addition, the learning behaviors of faculty members are known to be infl...

E mployees have become more cynical about their organizations (Feldman, 2000). There are many potential targets for such cynicism, such as one’s occupation, top managers, and organizational change efforts (Dean, Brandes, & Dharwadkar, 1998). This article addresses organizational change cynicism (OCC), which has the potential to undermine change programs (Reicher, Wanous, & Austin, 1997), and fo...

This paper examines the relationship between financial stress and absenteeism. A conceptual model was derived from a Health Promotion Model and empirically tested to investigate relationships among determinants (individual characteristics), stress (financial stress), physical and psychological responses (organizational commitment and health), and absenteeism. Using data from white-collar worker...

"An examination of the role of narrative discourse in organizational behavior teaching" Prof. Brian Glibkowski A common problem of teaching Organizational Behavior (a course I teach at Stonehill) is a failure to use an explicit method by which important concepts (e.g., satisfaction, turnover, transformational leadership) are interconnected as cause‐and‐effect models by students. In the vernacu...

This paper introduces a framework for analyzing technology-based organizational action. It presents the concept of 'value programs', to represent the complex, pluralistic nature of organizational action around the application of IT systems. The nature of IT based organizational functioning and change is distinguished in terms of multiple courses of action, driven by dissimilar and sometimes con...

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