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Description:: Rising social inequality across economic, gender, and racial lines is a pressing issue of our time. Despite widespread agreement that inequality exists, there are stark ideological disagreements about its extent, its victims, and about what – if anything – should be done to address it. Prior work demonstrates that the...
Keyword:: interventions, ideology, and inequality
Subject:: Organizational behavior and Psychology
Creator:: Waldfogel, Hannah Benner
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16147 and etdadmin_upload_916195

Description:: This dissertation imagines the near future of teamwork, when AI agents will join teams,interacting, collaborating, and completing tasks as a team member. Broadly, I seek to answer the questions: how do humans integrate a new AI teammate onto their team, and how does the AI teammate’s function influence this integration...
Keyword:: team, AI teammate, team technology adaptation, and team cognition
Subject:: Organizational behavior and Communication
Creator:: Larson, Lindsay Elizabeth
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 10/07/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15725 and etdadmin_upload_843833

Description:: This dissertation explores cognitive and action errors that occur in communication networks. I leverage theories on organizational errors and social networks to develop a novel, conceptual, and empirically testable framework to understand how individuals make errors when using their networks to share information. Here, I argue that information sharing is...
Keyword:: Information Sharing, Communication Networks, Small-world Experiment, Error, and Network Cognition
Subject:: Organizational behavior, Organization theory, and Communication
Creator:: Tanaka, Kyosuke
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/28/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_809056 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15509

Description:: Employees’ social class backgrounds remain a critical but often overlooked source of inequality in white-collar workplaces: employees from working-class backgrounds are less likely to be hired, less likely to advance to leadership positions, and earn less on average than their counterparts from middle- and upper-class backgrounds, even with the same...
Keyword:: organizational culture, inequality, and social class background
Subject:: Social psychology and Organizational behavior
Creator:: Dittmann, Andrea G
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_744046 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15136

Description:: More than a quarter century of research finds that teams often fail to make high-quality decisions. This literature is based on observing team decisions in one-off decision making episodes, when in reality, most teams work together for an extended period of time, making repeated decisions together. Do teams improve or...
Keyword:: Hidden Profile and Decision Making
Subject:: Management and Organizational behavior
Creator:: Gokhman, Ilya Gokhman Alexander
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_756064 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15192

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