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Firm Governance And Shareholder Value Creation: A Study Of Cross-border Acquisitions By U.S. Acquiring Firms
(Management, 2011-10-11)
Cross-border acquisitions have become an important part of the arsenal of strategies that firms deploy in internationalizing their operations. With the significant resources that are generally involved in such transactions ...
The Effects Of Equity Sensitivity And Personality On Transformational Leadership Behavior
(Management, 2007-08-23)
This thesis examines the relationship between the Big Five personality traits
(extraversion, agreeableness, openness to experience, conscientiousness, and
neuroticism) and equity sensitivity and transformational leadership ...
Multinational Strategies As Options Creation And Exercise: An Analysis Of Country, Industry, And Firm Specific Characteristics
(Management, 2007-08-23)
This study investigates international expansion strategies using a real options framework. Decisions to enter foreign markets and their subsequent decision to increase, delay or abandon their commitments are both predicted ...
Strategic Human Resource Management At The Crossroads: Relationships Among Human Resource Capital, Overlapping Tenure, Behaviors, And Performance
(Management, 2009-09-16)
Empirical work in strategic human resource management has tended to focus solely on the relationship between human resource practices and firm performance. This study attempts to shift the focus of strategic human resource ...
The Effects Of Supervisor-subordinate Goal Congruence On Performance And Turnover Intentions During Expatriation
(Management, 2007-08-23)
This dissertation investigates how the quality of the relationship between sending supervisors and expatriates is related to turnover and performance. Utilizing goal congruence and social exchange theories, it is hypothesized ...
Differences Between Women And Minority Businesses And Nonminority Businesses: A Culture-based Explanation
(Management, 2007-08-23)
As the American workforce is buffeted by industries that are downsizing, requesting pay concessions and relocating production to foreign countries with lower factor costs, politicians and union representatives wave the ...
Institutional Distance And Foreign IPO Performance: The Moderating Effects Of Governance And Organizational Capabilities
(Management, 2008-08-08)
To date scholars have examined a wide range of factors which impact the ability of firms to raise optimum levels of equity capital in their domestic markets. However, little attention has been paid to the growing number ...
The Role Of Intuition In Ethical Decision Making
(Management, 2009-09-16)
The literature regarding ethical decision making has focused almost exclusively on examination of variables that test relationships between individual or situational differences and ethicality. These examinations, on the ...
The Effects Of Religious Fundamentalism On Individual Belonging
(Management, 2007-09-17)
In the last several years there has been an increase in the interest of religion in the workforce (Mitroff & Denton, 1999; Konz & Ryan, 1999; Mohamed, Wisnieski, Askar, & Syed, 2004; Marques & King, 2005). A number of ...
Sociolinguistic Cues, Perceived Race, And Employment Selection Outcomes: An Exploration Of The Aversive Racism Framework
(Management, 2007-09-17)
The limited number of available positions to job candidates has led to increased competitiveness among job seekers and the development of new and more efficient employment screening methods by human resources personnel. As a result, job candidates are likely to participate in a telephone interview at some point during the selection process. It is during these interviews that important perceptions about employment potential are made.
A number of factors influence perceptions about the future potential of job candidates. In the absence of face-to-face interaction, decision makers may rely on how candidates sound over the telephone to make judgments about the type of employee he or she will make and whether, if selected, the candidate has potential for moving up in the organization. Telephone interviews may increase the potential for decision makers to discriminate in the employment screening process based on biases formed from factors unrelated to the job. Candidates themselves may unknowingly contribute to the formation of such biases by exhibiting characteristics that cause decision makers to question their abilities to perform a job (e.g., Bertrand & Mullainathan, 2004). One such characteristic may be a job candidate's dialect (e.g., how he or she sounds over the telephone) and the social stereotypes that decision makers associate with such dialects.
This dissertation investigated a priori belief structures and sociolinguistic cues about race and their potential to bias the employment selection process in the absence of face-to-face interaction. Using a laboratory experiment with manipulations of dialect, qualifications, and behavioral norms, the study found 1) that evaluators accurately perceived race from dialect approximately 89% of the time, and 2) evaluators rated individuals who used African American Vernacular English (AAVE) dialect significantly lower on employment selection outcomes than they did individuals who used Standard English (SE) dialect....