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What Type of Follower Will I Be? Leader Behavior and the Motivational Processes Underlying Follower Role Orientation

Description: In a society fixated on leaders, where does that leave followers? Followership highlights the follower in the leadership process, examines who are followers, and explores how and why people follow. Much of the existing literature on followership has focused on classifying followers into follower types. However, less is known about why an employee might enact a particular follower role. The purpose of this dissertation is to understand how leaders influence the likelihood that followers to en… more
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Date: May 2022
Creator: Maxie, Jamila S
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Who are You Going to Believe: Me or Your Lying Eyes? Three Essays on Gaslighting in Organizations

Description: In this dissertation, I theorize on how gaslighting manifests in managerial and organizational settings. I discuss the process of gaslighting and how the use of various manipulation tactics manifests between people in organizations over time. I take three distinctive approaches to study this complex phenomenon. First, using a rich case study, I develop new theory to explain how one notorious child molester was able to sustain a career for decades while assaulting hundreds of children and young … more
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Date: May 2023
Creator: Kincaid, Paula A.
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Who Makes the Decision? Managerial Influence on Corporate Boards and Auditor Selection, Change, and Compensation

Description: This dissertation examines whether managers influence corporate boards of directors in their auditor selection, change, and compensation decisions. This topic is important because it addresses concerns that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) is not effective in eliminating managerial influence over auditor engagement decisions and that it may provide a false sense of security to investors. These concerns are based on the implicit assumption that managers prefer weaker governance oversight and… more
Date: August 2020
Creator: Hightower, Sonja
Partner: UNT Libraries

Worker Displacement by Artificial Intelligence (AI): The Impact of Boundary-Spanning Employees

Description: Limited literature examines the impact of the displacement of boundary-spanning employees artificial intelligence (AI). Scholars and practitioners appear focused on tangible benefits of AI adoption, and do not seem concerned by any less tangible and possibly untoward implications of worker (particularly boundary-spanning worker) displacement. My dissertation addresses this gap in the literature. In Essay 1, a qualitative study is performed to anchor the research on the appropriate ethnographic … more
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Date: May 2023
Creator: Ekezie, Uchenna P.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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