
Thomas W. DoughertyUniversity of Missouri | Mizzou · Department of Management
Thomas W. Dougherty
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Mentoring is a valuable resource that enhances outcomes like career success. Applying conservation of resources theory, we examine the interaction effects of workers’ management aspirations and lengthy career interruption(s) on the mentoring-career success relationship. Utilizing 259 older professional workers, we test these relationships with both...
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This work focuses on extra-organizational processes that consider the extent to which a life partner can act as a career catalyst (or inhibitor) during the final rounds of the competition to reach the C-suite. Our objective has been to contribute to the theoretical underpinning needed to address the contention that there is a strong associ...
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate how individual interviewers’ dispositional cognitive motivations may influence interview interactions and outcomes. More specifically, this study explores the influence of the need for cognition, need for cognitive closure, and accountability on the relationship between first impressions and sele...
Core self-evaluation (CSE) has been shown to be robust as a predictor of employees' salary attainment. Although the developmental network is suggested to have a positive impact on salary, do all high-CSE individuals benefit from their developmental networks similarly? We incorporate both personality research and developmental network research to ex...
This paper empirically analyzes the interviewer-interviewee interaction during semi-structured employment interviews. It searches to identify the manner in which selection decisions are influenced by interviewers' first impressions and factors that account for the relationships between first impressions and selection decisions. Data collected from...
We report two studies examining the moderating effects of mentor status and protégé gender, along with the moderating role of occupational context, in the relationship of mentoring with protégé career outcomes. Our research replicates and extends previous findings, especially those by Ramaswami et al. (2010b). Results from Study 1 indicated that bu...
This study of United States (US) and Hong Kong (HK) employees explores the linkages among networking behavior, instrumental and expressive resources received, career satisfaction, and work-to-family facilitation. Our results indicate that (1) three types of networking behavior were differentially linked to employees’ receipt of instrumental versus...
Mentoring has been acknowledged as a critical factor in the development of family medicine academicians. Specific aims were to describe the research mentoring in family medicine from the experience of both mentors and protégés and identify characteristics that mentors and protégés associated with a successful mentoring relationship. The Grant Gener...
The authors’ review of the mentoring literature describes how the construct has changed since Kram’s influential work in the early 1980s, the implications of such changes for the field, and suggestions for the future. In addition to highlighting changes over time in the topics mentoring researchers have studied, the authors provide an in-depth revi...
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– The purpose of this paper is to integrate scholarship on personality, mentoring, developmental relationships, and social networks in delineating how employees with particular personality characteristics are more or less likely to be involved in four types of developmental networks.
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This research investigated the buffering role of social support in the relationship of work load to both tension-anxiety and coping for police radio dispatchers (N= 60). Each dispatcher was observed throughout an entire 8-hour work shift by a trained observer. Objective load consisted of the hourly rate of incoming telephone calls, police radio tra...
Job search is thought to be highly relevant to, or dependent on, one's social network. This paper specifies the process by which job seekers compare their job search performance with members of their social network, which impacts their self perceptions (i.e., job search self-efficacy and self-esteem), positive affect, and ultimately influences thei...
Engaging in networking behaviors, by attempting to develop and maintain relationships with others who have the potential to provide work or career assistance, is considered to be an important career management strategy. This study explores the relationship between networking behavior and career outcomes (i.e., number of promotions, total compensati...
Strategic compensation theory argues that rewards should be used to encourage employee activities that support organizational goals, but reward strategies often have confounding effects on employee attitudes and behaviors. Five reward strategies that might be followed—Individual Output, Group Output, Human Capital, Position and Market—were identifi...
The authors examine the doctoral student–faculty advisor dyad as a developmental relationship and investigate how gender, race, and perceived similarity are related to doctoral student perceptions of mentoring received. They hypothesized that the relationship of similarity with mentoring received would be moderated by duration of the relationship....
Networking is an important strategy for managing one’s career, but little is known about those who engage in networking behaviors. A study of 418 managers and professionals was conducted to examine the relationship of personal and job characteristics to involvement in networking. Multiple regression results showed that gender, socioeconomic backgro...
Barnard was acutely aware of the social factors present in organizations and their influence on the effectiveness of organizations. He realized that cooperation, and more specifically that systems of cooperation, were a critical, essential element of effective organizational functioning. This paper extends Barnard's conception of cooperative system...
Barnard was acutely aware of the social factors present in organizations and their influence on the effectiveness of organizations. He realized that cooperation, and more specifically that systems of cooperation, were a critical, essential element of effective organizational functioning. This paper extends Barnard’s conception of cooperative system...
Organizations engage in several activities that may affect individuals' career development, including employee staffing, training, formal mentoring programs, and career counseling. Assessing employees on the Five-Factor Model (FFM) of personality may be one way to improve each of these activities so that both employees and the organization benefits...
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of demographic diversity (similarity) and perceived similarity on protege perceptions of mentoring outcomes. In particular, we hypothesized that these relationships would vary depending upon the duration of the relationship. Specifically, we expected that demographic diversity would lead to negati...
In theory, organizational commitment should have a moderately strong relationship with employee performance, but empirical studies have generally found only a weak relationship. We present a new model of the organizational commitment process in which different components of organizational commitment have different relationships with employee behavi...
Using structural equation modeling, this paper compares the intertemporal sequences of the burnout components proposed by Maslach (1982) and Golembiewski (1989) using responses from 354 human resource professionals. The relationship between the burnout components and several critical variables that are theoretically linked to the phenomenon are als...
In this theoretical paper we address the topic of mentoring by describing substitutes for career-oriented mentoring relationships with senior managers. Research propositions are developed that relate these substitutes to the career success of women and nonwhite men in corporations dominated by white male executives. These substitutes can provide wa...
This study investigated several variables that determine how one interprets another's behavior as sexually harassing in ambiguous situations. Data were collected from 1234 male and female graduate and undergraduate student subjects who responded to 24 versions of a vignette describing an interaction between a male and female who worked for the same...
Examined behavioral styles used by interviewers to confirm their 1st impressions of job applicants. Three interviewers in a corporate setting formed 1st impressions based on application blank and test score information. They then conducted audiotaped interviews. Coders independently coded 79 interviews and found that 1st impressions were related to...
This research examined behavioral styles used by interviewers to confirm their first impressions of job applicants. Three interviewers in a corporate setting formed first impressions based on application blank and test score information. They then conducted autiotaped interviews. Coders independently coded 79 interviews and found that first impress...
Burnout is a unique type of stress syndrome, characterized by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and diminished personal accomplishment. Although burnout has been shown to be potentially very costly in the helping professions, such as nursing, education, and social work, little work has been done thus far to establish its generalizability to...
This study examined the job changes of 680 early-career business school graduates. Although a number of anecdotal articles characterize MBAs as overly “careerist” and oriented toward job-hopping, little empirical research has focused on this issue. The research included a direct comparison of job-hopping behavior of MBAs with bachelor's degree grad...
The purpose of this study was to assess the advantages associated with using a case study in addition to traditional teaching techniques of accounting. The control group (n = 23) consisted of students who were taught process cost accounting using the traditional textbook approach. The experimental group (n = 38) was taught process cost accounting u...
In the context of campus recruiting for organizational positions, this study examined the influences of recruiter behaviors and characteristics and interview focus and structure on applicants' attraction to firms. Recruiters and applicants completed surveys after campus interviews. We measured attraction to the firms as expectancy and valence perce...
This study examines several different kinds of correlates of career-oriented mentoring experiences among early career managers and professionals. Survey data were collected from 416 respondents employed in a wide variety of jobs, organizations, and industries. The respondents averaged 30 years of age, and 28 per cent were women. Results indicated t...
This study examined the relationship of career mentoring to the promotions and compensation received by 404 early career managers and professionals working in a variety of organizations. The results indicate that with a number of variables controlled, career mentoring was related to both promotion rate and total compensation. The results also suppo...
In recent years, the Peoples' Republic of China has seen unprecedented movement toward economic reform. This "reform mania" played a major role in our 1988 experience as visiting professors of organizational behavior and human resource management in a cooperative MBA program with Nanjing University. The culture of reform resulted in flexible, hands...
Research interest in sales force turnover has increased dramatically in recent years. Despite the proliferation of articles on the topic, an issue that has received little attention is the impact of role stress on turnover of salespeople. This paper reports the results of a study that investigated the influence of role stress on turnover of sales p...
In this article the linkages between upward influence tactics and salary attainment were studied within the context of observed salary differences between men and women. The data for this field study were gathered from 212 male and 82 female business school graduates. Annual salary was regressed on a set of control variables and six dimensions of u...
The linkages between upward influence tactics and salary attainment were studied within the context of observed salary differences between men and women. Upward influence tactics uniquely accounted for variation in salaries for both men and women, and there was evidence of gender specificity in the salary allocation process.
The determinants of early career rate of advancement (ROA) and current total income for young managers and professionals were examined. Mentoring contributed most to the early career ROA of those from higher social class origins. Mentoring also contributed to the prediction of the current income of all respondants regardless of socioeconomic origin...
Employed an information-processing perspective to analyze the judgments of individual employment interviewers in a corporate setting. Linear policy-capturing equations were estimated from 3 interviewers' ratings of 120 job applicants in live and audiotaped interviews. The equations were evaluated across interviewers to identify sources of predictiv...
Tested the generalizability of findings reported by J. Pfeffer (see record
1978-26287-001) by examining the determinants of starting and current salaries for 314 graduates (mean age 29 yrs) from the business schools of 3 large state universities. Results support Pfeffer's conclusion that a master's in business administration (MBA) is particularly...
Two models of the nature of linkages among precursors of voluntary turnover were examined using four distinct samples. A model which includes both job satisfaction and organizational commitment as exogenous variables leading to one's intention to resign was shown to provide results which support its usage in future research. Analyses of longitudina...
New measures of role ambiguity, role conflict, and role overload were developed for a group of attorneys located in the headquarters of a large energy company. These measures were based upon a recently developed theory of behavior in organizations, which focuses on specific job products as an essential component of organizational roles. The measure...
A causal model of direct and indirect linkages from role stressors to voluntary turnover was tested for 391 managerial-professional employees. Path analysis supported the hypothesized sequence from role ambiguity, conflict, and overload through job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and intention to resign, to employee turnover.
Questionnaire data collected from male and female university students 25 years of age or older were used to investigate correlates of their performance, satisfaction, and adjustment in college. Men reported lower levels of performance and satisfaction. Multiple regression analyses of predictors of college grade-point average, satisfaction with coll...