Claudia J. Ferrante

United States Air Force Academy | USAFA · Department of Management

A labor-leisure model helps explain why entry into competitive swim is blocked. Swim has been, historically, a racially uniform sport. Demand shocks during Olympic years may portend that a different era is coming. Blocked entry is related to competitive balance in the sport. A Hirschman-Hirfindahl index of competitive balance in collegiate swim is...

In this call to action, the authors discuss some of the reasons we believe action research is not widely practiced as a core leadership skill and present options for rectifying this situation. We posit action research has not caught on due to: its outsider status, confusing nomenclature, no single compelling model, leaders being unaware of it, acti...

Employee volunteerism as a practice of corporate social responsibility aids corporations by strengthening employee satisfaction and retention internally and by strengthening corporate reputations and connections with stakeholders externally. Of particular interest are the specific practices and procedures used by companies to encourage and support...

The Journal of Effective Teaching

This research investigates the moderating role of task interdependence on factors influencing information security effectiveness in organizations. Drawing on the literature, the authors develop a theoretical model depicting top management support and awareness & training support as predictors of information security program effectiveness. Further,...

“Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.” Abraham Lincoln, February 27, 1860 United States (US) President Abraham Lincoln’s words, part of his famous Cooper Union speech, call us to “do our duty as we understand it.” What is “duty”? How does its meaning differ between...

This research investigates the moderating role of task interdependence on factors influencing information security effectiveness in organizations. Drawing on the literature, the authors develop a theoretical model depicting top management support and awareness & training support as predictors of information security program effectiveness. Further,...

We describe the educational character and leadership development processes used by the United States Air Force Academy that other educational institutions may find useful. Our processes include an integrated educational curriculum designed to complement and integrate the experiential learning that results in achieving specific organizational outcom...

The literature concerning turnover has traditionally been composed of studies and analyses which assume that turnover rates are malleable, and can be reduced. We take the opposite position and contend that turnover rates for certain organizations are not variable, but rather remain fixed. Is it possible, then, to reduce the deleterious effects of t...

Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) represented a significant historical event for the U.S. Military. Enormous financial and human resources were committed to the reconstruction of the nation of Iraq during this endeavor. We draw from the experiences of the U.S. Military during OIF in an attempt to learn best practices for how to deal with high personnel...

An untested assumption in the gainsharing and group incentive literatures is that peer monitoring is an activity that employees will engage in, and this behavior will be supported by their managers. This study tests that assumption by examining how managers respond (via performance ratings of workers) to peer monitoring under two different pay cond...

The authors examine the effect of having women on the top management teams of initial public offering (IPO) firms on the organizations' short- and long-term financial performance. Looking at three different samples, the authors found that trend data indicated IPO firms were gaining in the number of women they employ in their top management teams. U...

This study addresses changes in student perceptions when team leaders are incentivized. Although the benefits of groupwork have been thoroughly studied and documented, minimizing dysfunctional teamwork may prove difficult because of leadership incentives, social loafing, and organizational justice implications. Using an innovative pedagogical desig...

Creating and maintaining competitive advantage requires firms to foster strategies that encourage and support employees’ efforts. In this paper, I report on a large U.S. firm's innovation to share accounting information with employees. Based on data from 258 employees, I report that shared accounting information impacts workers’ trust in management...