Supervisor Support And Risk Perception: Their Relationship With Unreported Injuries And Near Misses

This study examines the relationship that employee perceptions of supervisor support and risk of injury have with unreported employee injuries requiring doctors\u27 attention, first-aid cases, and near misses. Study results indicate that increased employee perceptions of supervisor support for safety are associated with a decrease in the number of unreported injuries needing doctors\u27 attention. Increased risk perceptions were related to higher numbers of unreported injuries needing a doctor\u27s attention and unreported near misses. Risk perception was found to partially mediate the relationship between supervisor support and unreported injuries needing doctors\u27 attention

Quantitative Analysis of Staffing Retention Practices in Skilled Nursing Facilities

Color poster with text, charts, and graphs.Many long-term care facilities share a common issue of staffing challenges. his project focuses on finding root causes and solutions to these issues. The solution to these problems will be beneficial to management in nursing facilities when dealing with staffing issues and will be helpful for maintaining residents’ quality of life. When organizations are fully staffed, and especially when they have consistent staffing, residents receive better care. If staffing strategies and practices that correlate with desirable organizational performance can be identified, administrators will be more informed and better positioned to retain staff within their own facility. Student and faculty researchers completed Institutional Review Board training and data was collected from 59 nursing facilities in 6 states, primarily located in the upper Midwest (WI, MN, IA, IL, CO, AZ). A crowdsourcing method was used to identify strategies to address nursing assistant staffing challenges in nursing homes from among administrative leaders attending conferences and on several Facebook groups. From this, a checklist was developed to explore the frequency in which facilities were utilizing these strategies. A Management Practices to Support Workforce Stability questionnaire was adapted to use a Likert scale to assess perceptions of how important each item was to nursing assistant (CNA/NAR) retention. Administrative practicum students conducted interviews with each facility’s Nursing Home Administrator, Director of Nursing, and five CNAs/NARs to collect facility and participant demographic data, complete the check list, and assess perceptions of management practices on CNA/NAR retention. Nursing Home Star rating data including overall star rating, Health Inspection, Staffing Rating, Quality Measures Rating, and Health Inspection Date were also added to the dataset.University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire Office of Research and Sponsored Program

Is This What I Signed Up For? Undergraduate and MBA Perspectives of On-line Classes

This study will be comparing the student perspective of online classes and on-campus classes from three different student groups, undergraduate, MBA on-campus and MBA consortium students, in an attempt to answer the question “When given the option, why do students choose an online class versus an on-campus class and do these reasons coincide with perceptions of course effectiveness?” As universities expand their class offerings in hopes to entice more students to their campuses, they need to understand what students are looking for; understanding students’ perceptions of the value of online and on-campus classes will help guide universities as they continue to expand into online class offerings as well as understand each type of student

The Problem Of Empirical Redundancy Of Constructs In Organizational Research: An Empirical Investigation

Construct empirical redundancy may be a major problem in organizational research today. In this paper, we explain and empirically illustrate a method for investigating this potential problem. We applied the method to examine the empirical redundancy of job satisfaction (JS) and organizational commitment (OC), two well-established organizational constructs. Analysis based on responses from a sample of 292 employees collected at two occasions showed that: (a) the construct-level correlation between JS and OC was very high (91) and (b) both JS and OC are similarly related to positive affectivity and negative affectivity. These results suggest that the constructs may be empirically indistinguishable, despite their well-established conceptual distinction. These findings illustrate the problem of empirical redundancy of organizational constructs and provide a basis for a possible movement towards parsimony in the realm of constructs that could open the way to more rapid advances in knowledge in organizational research. © 2010 Elsevier Inc

The problem of empirical redundancy of constructs in organizational research: An empirical investigation

Construct empirical redundancy may be a major problem in organizational research today. In this paper, we explain and empirically illustrate a method for investigating this potential problem. We applied the method to examine the empirical redundancy of job satisfaction (JS) and organizational commitment (OC), two well-established organizational constructs. Analysis based on responses from a sample of 292 employees collected at two occasions showed that: (a) the construct-level correlation between JS and OC was very high (.91) and (b) both JS and OC are similarly related to positive affectivity and negative affectivity. These results suggest that the constructs may be empirically indistinguishable, despite their well-established conceptual distinction. These findings illustrate the problem of empirical redundancy of organizational constructs and provide a basis for a possible movement towards parsimony in the realm of constructs that could open the way to more rapid advances in knowledge in organizational research.Construct proliferation Construct empirical redundancy Discriminant validity Job attitude Measurement error correction Disattenuation Measurement artifacts Reliability Generalizability theory Structural equation modeling