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Adaptational Proximity and the Innovation Process: An End-User Focus

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Organizations promote widely ranging workplace programs and initiatives with the goal of instituting change or maintaining previously adopted change.
Show moreOrganizations promote widely ranging workplace programs and initiatives with the goal of instituting change or maintaining previously adopted change. Often these programs and initiatives are designed to establish global standards through consistent member behavior. Using data from over 400 members of diverse organizations, this study examines several factors that affect program commitment and usage. Drawing upon innovation theory, I focus on the concept of end-user adaptation, or, as used herein, adaptation proximal activities. With regard to this mechanism, I propose and establish the mediating role that personal engagement plays in employee propensity to adopt adaptation proximal activities with regard to the program commitment and usage outcomes. Further, several conditions antecedent to personal engagement are identified with a focus on the elements of trust, control, and management behavior. Lastly, the role of risk taking propensity is explored and found to be more complex than originally conceptualized. Taken together the results indicate that characteristics of both the organization member and the workplace environment determine the degree to which workplace programs and initiatives will prove successful.
Doctorate of Management Programs
English
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Author

Krug, Robert M

Creator

Krug, Robert M.

Permanent URL

http://hdl.handle.net/2186/ksl:weaedm170

And So To Bed

Description

Act 2
Cleveland Play House Collection, Kelvin Smith Library

Creator

The Gordon Conner Studio

Permanent URL

http://hdl.handle.net/2186/ksl:cphima00326

Androcles and the Lion

Description

Portrait of Noel Leslie as The Emperor
Cleveland Play House Collection, Kelvin Smith Library

Creator

Trout-Ware Studio

Permanent URL

http://hdl.handle.net/2186/ksl:cphima00613

Androcles and the Lion

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Portrait of Frederic McConnell as Androcles, Russell Collins as The Lion
Cleveland Play House Collection, Kelvin Smith Library

Creator

Trout-Ware Studio

Permanent URL

http://hdl.handle.net/2186/ksl:cphima00609

Androcles and the Lion

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Portrait of Emily Buchwalter, Alberta Reid, Betty Winkler
Cleveland Play House Collection, Kelvin Smith Library

Creator

Trout-Ware Studio

Permanent URL

http://hdl.handle.net/2186/ksl:cphima00618

Androcles and the Lion

Description

Photograph from the Cleveland Play House Archives
Cleveland Play House Collection, Kelvin Smith Library

Creator

Clifford Norton

Permanent URL

http://hdl.handle.net/2186/ksl:cphima00133

Androcles and the Lion

Description

Photograph from the Cleveland Play House Archives
Cleveland Play House Collection, Kelvin Smith Library

Creator

Gordon Conner

Permanent URL

http://hdl.handle.net/2186/ksl:cphima00134

Androcles and the Lion

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Portrait of Thomas Gomez as Ferrovius
Cleveland Play House Collection, Kelvin Smith Library

Creator

Trout-Ware Studio

Permanent URL

http://hdl.handle.net/2186/ksl:cphima00619

Androcles and the Lion

Description

Portrait of Ian Martin, Raymond Leyhart
Cleveland Play House Collection, Kelvin Smith Library

Creator

Trout-Ware Studio

Permanent URL

http://hdl.handle.net/2186/ksl:cphima00620

Androcles and the Lion

Description

Portrait of Noel Leslie as The Emperor
Cleveland Play House Collection, Kelvin Smith Library

Creator

Trout-Ware Studio

Permanent URL

http://hdl.handle.net/2186/ksl:cphima00612