
Rebecca GuidiceUniversity of North Carolina Wilmington | UNCW · Management
Rebecca Guidice
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BACKGROUND: The 2020 pandemic yielded significant changes to work – most notable was the shift from centralized to remote work. As employers called for the return to traditional office settings, workers resumed daily commutes to/from the workplace, resurrecting stressors like work overload, time constraints, and commuting strain. OBJECTIVE: We inve...
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The purpose of this study is to explore the role of “overtime norms” as a mediator between performance-driven work climates and employee burnout. This study also examines in-role performance and work engagement as moderators between high-performance climates and burnout.
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A snowball sample of 214 full-time workin...
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This paper aims to study the effects of widespread stress and uncertainty that is characteristic of organizational crises on service employees and to explore the extent to which organizations may proactively use supervisors’ positive humor and discretionary organizational support that goes above and beyond service employee expectations to m...
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This paper brings in relevant entrepreneurial behavior theory to understand the ownership decisions founders make during the nascent stage of new venture creation, and how such decisions impact the viability of the firm.
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The authors examine the behavior and decision making of 137 lead founders during the nascent...
As jobs become increasingly complex, organizations are challenged with finding effective ways to select and hire successful employees. The high level of uncertainty generally associated with hiring decisions is greater for complex jobs where it is difficult to identify the predictors of good job performance. Intuition research has found expert intu...
To date there has been little to no widespread, universally accepted and theoretically driven examination of what an emerging market is and how best to capture its principle characteristics. Major international organizations, institutions, and scholars, all classify these countries utilizing a multitude of different perspectives. Applying instituti...
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The unprecedented dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic has forced firms to re-envision the customer experience and find new ways to ensure positive service encounters. This context has underscored the reality that drivers of customer delight in a “traditional” context are not the same in a crisis context. While research has tended to identify...
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With increasing competition in the marketplace, there is a greater push for exceeding customer expectations and delivering customer delight to ensure firm’s success. The main reason for this push is the beneficial outcomes for the firm. More recently, hidden benefits have been identified (i.e. elevated customer emotions can positively impac...
The purpose of this study was to examine contextual factors (empowerment, ownership, and accountability) that facilitate and promote exploration and exploitation behavior. Data were obtained from an American manufacturing company using employee and supervisor surveys ( n = 297). Findings indicate that empowerment improved exploitation and that when...
Leveraging insights from research on strategic leadership, this article theorizes that CEOs’ personal characteristics predict the extent to which CEOs seek strategic advice from executives at other organizations. Further, seeking strategic advice from executives at other organizations is argued to improve organizational performance. The hypotheses...
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The purpose of this paper is to link firms’ strategic archetypes as formulated by Miles and Snow (1978) to the more recent literature on organizational ambidexterity. Examining these obvious linkages, the paper also addresses how these firms address their entrepreneurial, engineering and administrative problem domains in relationship with...
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The purpose of this paper is to examine how employees’ perceptions of their supervisor’s use of four types of humour relate to employee job satisfaction, organisational pride, organisational commitment and self-esteem. Supervisor favourability is also examined as a mediating variable in these relationships.
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Researchers often focus on the positive implications of social capital, not recognizing that it may put the organizations at a competitive disadvantage if it limits access to other resources or discourages action. Based on findings from a large sample of Chinese manufacturers, the current study provides a more complete picture of the extent to whic...
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Little is known regarding joiners (i.e. early-stage non-founder entrepreneurial employees) and their commitment to joining a new venture vs pursuing a more rational and stable career path. The purpose of this paper is to bring an understanding to this phenomenon, while adding to various management theories of organizational commitment and...
ABSRACT Utilizing the lens of ambidexterity, the authors studied 503 diverse firms to determine how they address their entrepreneurial, engineering, and administrative problem domains and their association with firms' strategic archetype as presented in Miles and Snow' (1978) strategic typology. Findings suggest that consistency matters. Firms cons...
Our mixed-methods study considers how alignment of HR practices contributes to success in a high performing manufacturing firm with a contingent reward system. Results showed greater task and challenge performance for promotion focused individuals and lower challenge performance for prevention focused individuals. Accountability also predicted high...
Our mixed-methods study considers how alignment of HR practices contributes to success in a high performing manufacturing firm with a contingent reward system. Results showed greater task and challenge performance for promotion focused individuals and lower challenge performance for prevention focused individuals. Accountability also predicted high...
Building on theoretical and empirical work considering the implications of accountability on individual
behavior, the authors explored the antecedents and consequences of individual perceptions
of accountability for job performance. Using data from two field samples, the authors considered
whether the manager’s monitoring behavior thought to enhanc...
Family business success rests on implementing a governance system that recognizes a complex nexus of social relationships. While scholars have used existing frameworks such as agency theory to explore the effect of financial incentives on agent behavior and performance, they have not integrated perspectives from psychology and sociology in a way th...
Adopting both experimental and individual differences approaches we study dynamic decision making using the Challenge Dice Game. Experimentally, this computer task offered subjects immediate feedback and the opportunity to modify their strategic behavior over time. Subjects were found to behave more aggressively than equilibrium predictions and fai...
In a field study of 167 salespeople working within a hybrid control system where multiple goals are valued, we examine whether feedback on sales performance is an antecedent to managerial ratings of task and contextual performance. Consistent with a hedge your bets strategy, results showed that the relationship between sales performance and ratings...
The primary goal of teaching is to successfully facilitate learning. Testing can help accomplish this goal in two ways. First, testing can provide a powerful motivation for students to prepare when they perceive that the effort involved leads to valued outcomes. Second, testing can provide instructors with valuable feedback on whether their teachin...
Organizations invest substantial resources in research and development (R&D) to increase long-term performance. Despite these investments, contextual contingencies can impact innovation. Our findings show that Chinese manufacturers with cultures emphasizing innovation and teamwork more effectively use financial resources in the innovation process....
Although researchers have debated the ethicality of bluffing in business, little research has examined individuals’ attitudes and beliefs towards bluffing and how characteristics of the individual influence such perceptions and subsequent behavior. We consider this issue by examining how individuals’ ethical orientation influences their perceptions...
The article presents the results of a study which investigated the relationship between corporate culture and innovation in Chinese manufacturing firms. Data from companies located in Zhejiang province, China was collected. The results indicated that a corporate culture oriented toward stability tended to weaken the relationships between research a...
Given the lack of unequivocal findings on person-career fit, this investigation aims to gain insight into the role of cognitive styles in understanding students’ career preferences by two complementary studies. In study 1, we examined whether students (n = 84) with different cognitive styles differ in their entrepreneurial attitudes. Results showed...
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The purpose of this paper is to conceptually demonstrate that the relationship between turnover and innovation is not direct as some research suggests, but rather indirect, with organizational learning as the prerequisite social mechanism that ties the two phenomena together.
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This paper integrates research acros...
Given the lack of unequivocal findings on person-career fit, this investigation aims to gain insight into the role of cognitive styles in understanding students’ career preferences by two complementary studies. In study 1, we examined whether students (n = 84) with different cognitive styles differ in their entrepreneurial attitudes. Results showed...
This study explored how context influences accountability in a performance appraisal context. Results demonstrate that audience characteristics influence rating quality, as raters account-able to higher status or mixed-status audiences provided more accurate ratings, whereas those accountable to a lower status audience provided more inflated rating...
We examine the effects of conscientiousness and public self-consciousness in moderating responses to accountability for 137 participants took part in a managerial simulation over a 2-week period. In addition to responding to complex information and decision tasks, participants observed 48 vignettes depicting individual performance for four subordin...
This article investigates and integrates the concepts of alliance competition and inter-alliance rivalry. While past research has focused primarily on intra-alliance dynamics such as why, when, and with whom alliances are formed, the outcome of such agreements is unclear. This paper focuses on inter-alliance dynamics that involve conceptualizing gr...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington State University, 2001. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 132-152).