- Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Online and Blended Learning
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Innovations in Educational Methods
- Islamic Finance and Banking Studies
- Workplace Spirituality and Leadership
- Workaholism, burnout, and well-being
- Organizational Downsizing and Restructuring
- Communication in Education and Healthcare
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Public Relations and Crisis Communication
- Mind wandering and attention
- Team Dynamics and Performance
- Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
MacEwan University
2019-2023
In this article, we draw on interdisciplinary research and theorizing to posit change in managerial active listening as a lever shaping affective job insecurity (AJI). Specifically, drawing transactional theory, argue that an increase (decrease) from one's manager should facilitate dynamic coping process by strengthening (diminishing) perceived control. turn, changes control shape AJI. Using longitudinal field study design, collected three waves of survey data 268 employees large real estate...
Listening has been identified as a key workplace skill, important for ensuring high-quality communication, building relationships, and motivating employees. However, recent research increasingly suggested that speaker perceptions of good listening do not necessarily align with researcher or listener conceptions listening. While many the benefits rely on employees feeling heard, little is known about what constitutes this subjective perception. To better understand leaves heard unheard, we...
Faculty and students alike can benefit from the use of educational technology, yet keeping up with latest developments pose a challenge for busy faculty. This article reviews one tool that could be used to facilitate teaching learning in face-to-face, hybrid, or online courses. Acadly is an platform mobile application providing capabilities such as automated attendance, in-page discussion threads, participation tracking. functions similarly management systems differs ways some faculty may...
Job insecurity – the threat to continuity and stability of one's employment is an increasingly pervasive issue facing vast majority employees. There has been much knowledge accumulated about antecedent outcomes job insecurity. However, further advancements in our theoretical empirical approaches can help us better understand consequences, processes, boundary conditions itself, change, climate. With four papers using a moderated mediation model one paper dynamic, mediated model, current...
Workplace accounts of poor management, employee burnout, and inequity have been consistent elements work life leading to countless media reports workplace toxicity where a lack trust overabundance conflict become the norm. The studies in this symposium continue advance knowledge by documenting how mindfulness intersects common challenges social realm. These include managing intricate process feedback communication, supportive leadership behaviors that enable resilience, deepening...
We propose a trust trajectory model to explain, in the context of initiated organizational downsizing, how employees’ affective job security leads their reduced voice through downward trajectory, and this process is attenuated by proactive personality. found support for our conceptual an experimental study longitudinal survey organization that downsizing. In employees higher personality were less likely experience ensuing from insecurity thus reduce than those lower were. Our results robust,...
The last few years have highlighted the intertwined nature of coronavirus pandemic and economic stressors that many individuals face globally. Economic refer to income- employment-related sources stress include: instability (e.g., number duration periods unemployment, downward mobility), deprivation loss income financial resources), employment uncertainty job insecurity), strain insecurity). As COVID-19 raged, it was often most economically vulnerable who lost their jobs, were forced choose...