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Meaning-Based Job-Related Well-being
An alternative conceptualization for job satisfaction, the most commonly measured variable in organizational, vocational, and work psychology literatures, is explored in 3 differing samples totaling 811 working adults. Eudaimonic, meaning-based jobrelated well-being (MJW) predicts job and life outcomes just as well as the more commonly measured hedonic, pleasure-based job satisfaction (JS), and MJW relates to outcomes above and beyond JS. MJW locates a new origin of job satisfaction in the person, in a life situation, in a community and social relations, rather than in the work organization. Our findings demonstrate that MJW is distinct from but related to JS and other job attitudes, and that facets of MJW exist that have been excluded from job satisfaction research, including satisfaction with the impacts of the job on family, life, and standard of living, how the job facilitates expression and development of the self, and sense of transcendent purpose through job role. These facets are important to individuals, the practice of management, organizational design, and society. MJW derives from the impact of jobs on workers’ larger worlds and on the fulfillment of their basic human needs from work. Thus, the causes of job satisfaction broaden from enjoyment of work in isolation, to its contextualized meaning and impact in workers’lives. This is the first study in many decades, of which we are aware, to broaden the conceptualization of the origins of work attitudes beyond the confines of the workplace.
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“Oops, I Did It” or “It Wasn’t Me”
This study investigated ways an organization might mitigate the negative effects of psychological contract breach. Drawing on the trust repair literature and organizational justice theory, we examined six general repair tactics (i.e., full penance, partial penance, denials, apologies, excuses, and combined apology/excuse) in terms of whether they improve trust and diminish the negative emotions following a breach. Data were obtained via two experimental studies employing 918 participants, including both college students and working adults. All of the repair tactics were effective at enhancing trust and easing negative emotions, except for denying that the breach occurred. Full penance (i.e., offering full reparation) was the most effective, with the next best option depending upon what outcome was being addressed and the population studied. The type of contract and magnitude of breach did not play a significant role in the effectiveness of repair tactics. The results of this study show that companies can do something to “fix” breaches. We extend the trust repair research to the context of breach and show that the effectiveness of repair tactics differs across outcomes. Practically, based upon our results, we advise companies to use these repair tactics (except denial) when breaches occur. This study is the first to empirically examine how companies might address breaches to avoid their negative consequences. It is also among only a few studies on trust repair to include emotions, initial trust, more than three repair tactics, and a sample of working adults.
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Stainless Steel 304L LENS AM Process Monitoring Using In-Situ Pyrometer Data
A two-color pyrometer is aligned co-axially to the laser inside a Laser Engineered Net Shaping machine to gather thermal data during a single layer two-pass deposit. Several molten pool metrics are calculated from the pyrometer data, and anomalies in the data are used to flag potential defect locations. The depositions are scanned using x-ray Computed Tomography (XCT) with a 4.13 micron voxel, and void size and location are recorded. XCT void data is then compared to the thermal analysis to determine the efficacy of the anomaly detection technique. In this build, four voids > 40 microns in diameter were found with XCT. Three defects appeared in the interfacial region between the deposit and substrate and produced signatures that were detected by analyzing the in-situ pyrometer data.
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In Situ Imaging during Compression of Plastic Bonded Explosives for Damage Modeling
The microstructure of plastic bonded explosives (PBXs) is known to influence behavior during mechanical deformation, but characterizing the microstructure can be challenging. For example, the explosive crystals and binder in formulations such as PBX 9501 do not have sufficient X-ray contrast to obtain three-dimensional data by in situ, absorption contrast imaging. To address this difficulty, we have formulated a series of PBXs using octahydro-1,3,5,7-tetranitro-1,3,5,7-tetrazocine (HMX) crystals and low-density binder systems. The binders were hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB) or glycidyl azide polymer (GAP) cured with a commercial blend of acrylic monomers/oligomers. The binder density is approximately half of the HMX, allowing for excellent contrast using in situ X-ray computed tomography (CT) imaging. The samples were imaged during unaxial compression using micro-scale CT in an interrupted in situ modality. The rigidity of the binder was observed to significantly influence fracture, crystal-binder delamination, and flow. Additionally, 2D slices from the segmented 3D images were meshed for finite element simulation of the mesoscale response. At low stiffness, the binder and crystal do not delaminate and the crystals move with the material flow; at high stiffness, marked delamination is noted between the crystals and the binder, leading to very different mechanical properties. Initial model results exhibit qualitatively similar delamination.
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'And Your Days Are Just About Over': Escaping the Outlived Era in Pulp Fiction and the Later Films of Quentin Tarantino
This essay argues that Pulp Fiction (1994) is a foundational text for Tarantino's recurrent explorations of awakening to—and trying to control the outcomes of—outliving one's era, especially when \"one's era\" is defined by a shared aesthetic, identity, code, and sense of purpose. Tarantino's characters cannot grasp the totality of their defining eras until signs indicate its eminent demise, at which point they face the existential crisis of wondering if their vocations allow any opportunities for escape. As a means of analyzing the \"outlived era\" in Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill (2003-2004), and Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood (2019), this essay also explores how Tarantino's metafictional engagement with film history and counterfactual rewriting of history allows his characters a means of transcending their eras.
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Two messages from the other side of the turnover coin: “Here to stay or go?” and “Should I stay or should I go?”
[...]though quantitative data are good at answering certain questions, there are broader questions about turnover quantitative data cannot answer, of which consultants and researchers should not lose sight. (2018) is mining the data that are available in order to manage the impact of turnover on organizations (as well as sometimes to collect additional data), our findings suggest that another way to measure the impact of turnover is to explore not only pre-turnover withdrawal behaviors but also what former employees say about the company to potential customers and to other workers. In addition to collecting quantitative data and “mining” for more numbers, qualitative data in the form of people’s stories and experiences in the employment and turnover process can be a rich resource for understanding the meaning of the numbers and the interrelatedness of many factors. Foreseeing the impact of the direction science was taking toward an overfocus on quantitative measurement (which the first author has also written about; see Rothausen, 2016), Ralph Waldo Emerson noted that when one lacks a deeply felt sympathy with one’s subject, for example an ornithologist’s work results in a dead bird measured in ounces and inches.
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Unraveling the Psychological Contract Breach and Violation Relationship
Research on psychological contracts has not been clear on why psychological contract breach (PCB) impacts psychological contract violation (PCV). While a few studies have examined individual mediators, no integrated view of the mechanisms responsible has been undertaken. In addition, the emotions associated with PCB have been underexplored to date and studies have over-relied on a PCV measure that focuses primarily on intense emotions like anger and betrayal. Therefore, this study examines multiple mediators of the PCB-PCV relationship: mistrust, distributive injustice, perceived lack of organizational support, and self-identity threat. Using a longitudinal design and a random sample of 148 university alumni, the results show that only mistrust is a significant mediator of the PCB-PCV relationship. The results also show that the primary emotion associated with PCB is sadness, not anger, and that both of these emotions decrease over time. These findings highlight the importance of repairing trust and reducing feelings of sadness following PCB in order to diminish its negative consequences.
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\Aren't Bosses Supposed to Manage You?\ A Qualitative Study of Managing Your Boss
Everyone expects a boss to manage their subordinates – manager is usually in their job description after all. But this unidirectional paradigm of management is changing, as evidenced by significant popular interest in managing your boss (MYB). An internet search of MYB brings over five million hits, and Managing Your Boss (Gabarro and Kotter, 1980) is one of the most highly accessed Harvard Business Review articles of all time. However MYB remains ill-understood. While practitioner advice is plentiful, empirical research is scant. Academic topics like followership, Leader-Member Exchange, influence tactics, impression management, voice, and informal learning provide pieces of the MYB puzzle. However, none of these offer a coherent or systematic understanding of MYB. Therefore, using a qualitative methodology with 129 reports of boss-subordinate experiences from the subordinate's perspective and 65 from the boss's, this study develops a process model and theory of MYB. The presented MYB model has a number of critical components. First, subordinates use numerous, interrelated, positive, and equivocal behaviors when managing a boss. Second, to determine which behaviors to employ, subordinates often consider multiple stakeholders and use a variety of learning strategies ranging from understanding the boss to trial and error. Third, while well-executed MYB generally leads to positive outcomes, there are a few negative outcomes for managing well, and there are situations where moderators cause well-executed MYB to not result in positive outcomes. Researchers can use this model to better understand MYB and related concepts, while subordinates can use it to work more effectively with their bosses.
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Maintenance rituximab in Veterans with follicular lymphoma
Real‐world practice patterns and clinical outcomes in patients with follicular lymphoma (FL), including the adoption of maintenance rituximab (MR) therapy in the United States (US), have been reported in few studies since the release of the National LymphoCare Study almost a decade ago. We analyzed data from the largest integrated healthcare system in the United States, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), to identify rates of adoption and effectiveness of MR in FL patients after first‐line (1L) treatment. We identified previously untreated patients with FL in the VHA between 2006 and 2014 who achieved at least stable disease after chemoimmunotherapy or immunotherapy. Among these patients, those who initiated MR within 238 days of 1L composed the MR group, whereas those who did not were classified as the non‐MR group. We examined the effect of MR on progression‐free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS). A total of 676 patients met our inclusion criteria, of whom 300 received MR. MR was associated with significant PFS (hazard ratio [HR]=0.55, P < .001) and OS (HR = 0.53, P = .005) compared to the non‐MR group, after adjusting by age, sex, ethnicity, geographic region, diagnosis period, stage, grade at diagnosis, hemoglobin, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), Charlson comorbidity index (CCI), 1L treatment regimen, and response to 1L treatment. These results suggest that in FL patients who do not experience disease progression after 1L treatment in real‐world settings, MR is associated with a significant improvement in both PFS and OS. Maintenance therapy should be considered in FL patients who successfully complete and respond to 1L therapy. MR is associated with a significant improvement in both PFS and OS. Maintenance therapy should be considered in FL patients who successfully complete and respond to 1L therapy.
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