Dissertations

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Explore past dissertations from members of the PhD in Organizational Behavior program at Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. Note: Job positions listed are of the position the student was at upon graduation. 

  • Udayan Dhar  
    • Dissertation: The Interplay of Emotionally Salient Developmental Experiences, Career Stages, and the Ideal Self: An Index Development and Survey analysis
      • Assistant Professor (TT) Bucknell University
  • Samantha Erskine  
    • Dissertation: Leader Disenfranchisement and Disempowering Workplaces: Intersectional Insights About the Emotions and Practices of Whiteness and Patriarchy From Women CEOs
      • Assistant Professor UMass Boston (TT) College of Management
  • S. Mercedes Mcbride  
    • Dissertation: Making Things Sensate: Inducing Artifactual and Aesthetic Experience to Enable Cross-Rose and Cross-Organizational Coordination
  • Jessica Danielle Hinz  
    • Dissertation: Meeting Grievers Where They Are: The effects of interactions at work following a personal loss on grievers’ sense of connection, meaning at work, and growth
  • Estelle Archibold  
    • Dissertation: Inter9Subjective) Experiences of Generative Conflict in Teams: An Exploration of Factors Contributing to Embodied Conflict Processes during the COVID-19 Pandemic
      • Postdoctoral Scholar Penn State University Department of Management & Organization, Smeal College of Business
  • Stormy C. Sweitzer  
    • Dissertation: (Inter)Actions, Images & Inquiry: Social Media Affordances and Micro-Social Processes in the Emergency of Macro-Organizational Phenomena
  • Queen Jaks  
    • Dissertation: What’s Good in da Hood? Hoodology in Organizations
      • CEO, Hood Inc. Consulting
  • Amanda Varley
    • Dissertation: Coaching in the Collective: How Group Coaching Effects the Progress and Well-being of PhD Students
      • Behavior Scientist, Torch
  • Sophie Jane’  
    • Dissertation: Inclusion in Organizations: Social Risk and Power
      • Postdoctoral Researcher at Umeå University
  • Angela Oetama-Paul  
    • Dissertation: When Organizations Can’t Handle Survivors’ Truths: Whistleblowing When Trauma is Involved
  • Gareth Craze
    • Dissertation: Inflammation-Associated Leader Mood Deterioration and the Degradation of Affective Climate: An Agent-Based Model
      • Consultant, Energia Coaching
  • Lili Bao  
    • Dissertation: Deep and Diverse: Knowledge Combination of Team Members in Problem Solving Teams
      • Lecturer, Eastern Washington University School of Business
  • Phillip Thompson  
    • Dissertation: Understanding Consequences for Reluctant Help Recipients: Explaining Help Recipients’ Poor Job
      • Associate Professor, Virginia Tech
  • Hak-Yoon Kim  
    • Dissertation: The Working Mom’s Tug of War: Trajectories of Work-Family Conflict and the Buffering Roles of Job and Family Satisfaction
      • Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham China
  • Alperen Manisaligil
    • Dissertation: (Re)creating routines through stage performances in project-based organizations
  • Kevin Cavanagh
    • Dissertation: Gamification as a Vehicle to Encourage Behavior Change
  • Keimei Sugiyama
    • Dissertation: Taking Inclusion Home: Identity Holism from Includer Identity Development
      • Postdoctoral Scholar
  • Morgan Bulger
    • Dissertation: Toward a Theory of Social Inclusion: The design and practice of social inclusion in mixed-income communities
      • Postdoctoral Fellow, National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities, Case Western Reserve University
  • Kylie Rochford
    • Dissertation: Intentionality in Workplace Relationships: The Role of Workplace Relational Self Efficacy
      • Assistant Professor, David Eccles School of Business, The University of Utah