Search Results - "Kramer, Michael W"

Managing "Who I Am": An Exploration of Chinese Employees' Identity Tension Management Strategies in MNCs by Guo, Yijia, Kramer, Michael W.

“…This exploratory qualitative study aims to examine Chinese employees' identity tensions in multinational companies (MNCs) in China, more specifically, how…”
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“They Are Nothing More Than His Spies on the Floor”: Local Employees’ Sensemaking and Interpretation of Expatriates’ Roles and Responsibilities by Wyant, Mizuki H., Kramer, Michael W.

“…This study examines how local employees gain information and make sense of new expatriates’ roles and responsibilities in multinational corporations by…”
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Sage on the stage or bore at the board? by Kramer, Michael W.

“…Communication Education Sage on the stage or bore at the board?…”
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We are who we say we are: teachers' shared identity in the workplace by Gilmore, Britney, Kramer, Michael W.

“…Symbolic convergence theory provides a framework to examine how group consciousness and meaning are formed. Because dialectical tensions are present in all…”
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Communicating collaborative leadership by Kramer, Michael W., Crespy, David A.

“…Collaborative or shared leadership has frequently been advocated as an alternative to vertical or top-down leadership. Building on the conceptual and…”
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Social media affordances in entry‐level employees’ socialization: employee agency in the management of their professional impressions and vulnerability during early stages of socialization by Lee, Sun Kyong, Kramer, Michael W., Guo, Yijia

“…This study examined how entry‐level employees interacted with social media during three stages of organizational socialization. They navigated between four…”
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Managing multiple group roles: an autoethnography of communication and perceived role incompatibility by Kramer, Michael W.

“…This autoethnography explores my communication surrounding the stress I experienced from perceived role incompatibilities between my role portraying a…”
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A Multi-Level Analysis of Role Negotiation: A Bona Fide Group Approach to Work Team Socialization by Tornes, Michael J., Kramer, Michael W.

“…This study used a multi-level analysis to gain a comprehensive understanding of work team socialization as a process that extends beyond work team and…”
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Using Communication Technology to Manage Uncertainty during Organizational Assimilation: Information-Seeking and Information-Giving by Kramer, Michael W., Lee, Sun Kyong, Guo, Yijia

“…This study examined how employees used new communication technologies, including internal and external social media, to manage their uncertainty during the…”
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Toward a Model of the Influence of Motivation and Communication on Volunteering: Expanding Self-Determination Theory by Kramer, Michael W., Austin, Jasmine T., Hansen, Glenn J.

“…Single-event volunteering, one form of episodic volunteering, is increasingly common. To gain a deeper understanding of this phenomenon, this study used…”
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Scaling up to institutional entrepreneurship: A life history of an elite training gymnastics organization by Bisel, Ryan S, Kramer, Michael W, Banas, John A

“…This organizational life history documents how the founder of an elite gymnastics training organization led her organizational members to resist what she…”
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Toward a Communication Model for the Socialization of Voluntary Members by Kramer, Michael W.

“…Because most socialization/assimilation research focuses on employment as the primary membership role in groups and organizations, the accompanying models have…”
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Leadership in an interorganizational collaboration: A qualitative study of a statewide interagency taskforce by Kramer, Michael W, Day, Eric Anthony, Nguyen, Christopher, Hoelscher, Carrisa S, Cooper, Olivia D

“…The increased reliance on interorganizational collaborations (ICs) has created new challenges for leaders. They must attempt to apply leadership theories and…”
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"We Work in International Companies": Affordances of Communication Media in Chinese Employees' Organizational Socialization by Guo, Yijia, Lee, Sun Kyong, Kramer, Michael W.

“…This research examined how Chinese employees in international companies perceived and enacted affordances of communication technologies, including social…”
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Communication and role development for zoo volunteers: responding to role-sending, role-making, and role-remaking by Kramer, Michael W., Danielson, Mary Ann

“…High turnover among volunteers means organizations spend significant resources recruiting and retaining them. Research on employees indicates the importance of…”
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Developing and Re-Developing Volunteer Roles: The Case of Ongoing Assimilation of Docent Zoo Volunteers by Kramer, Michael W., Danielson, Mary Ann

“…This study explored the process by which volunteers learned and developed their roles as part of their initial organizational entrance and then re-developed…”
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Exploring Nested Identities: Voluntary Membership, Social Category Identity, and Identification in a Community Choir by Meisenbach, Rebecca J., Kramer, Michael W.

“…Although scholars theorize that identities are layered or nested within one another, little is understood about whether, how, and what layers are expressed by…”
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A Study of Voluntary Organizational Membership: The Assimilation Process in a Community Choir by Kramer, Michael W.

“…Whereas most previous research on organizational assimilation has examined the process of employees joining, becoming a part of, or leaving organizations as…”
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The serious business of instructional humor outside the classroom: a study of elite gymnastic coaches' uses of humor during training by Banas, John A., Bisel, Ryan S., Kramer, Michael W., Massey, Zachary

“…This study documents the use of humor in an instructional setting outside traditional classrooms. Specifically, it studied the use of instructional humor in…”
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Forum: The Foundations and Future of NPVO Communication Scholarship by Atouba, Yannick, Dempsey, Sarah E., Koschmann, Matthew A., Kramer, Michael W., McAllum, Kirstie, McNamee, Lacy G., Peterson, Brittany L.

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