Nancy Da Silva

Organizational Strategy and Employee Outcomes: A Person–Organization Fit Perspective

ABSTRACT This study adopted a person–organization fit framework to examine (a) whether employees’ perceptions of organizational strategy for adaptation predicted their commitment to their organization and their intentions to stay and (b) whether these 2 relationships were moderated by perceived job alternatives. Support was found for both hypotheses. Specifically, when there are numerous perceived job alternatives, employees who perceive a misfit between their companys strategy and their preferred strategy were less committed to their organization and less likely to stay than their fit counterparts.

Promoting Service Quality and Client Adherence to the Service Plan: The Role of Top Management's Support for Innovation and Learning

Abstract Relationships were examined among managements support for innovation and learning, employee attitudes, and client outcomes. Results from an employee sample within six nonprofit service organizations indicated that if organizational leaders create a work environment supportive of learning and innovation, supervisors may support their staffs empowerment, and staff may respond with increased trust and perceive service quality as higher. The results also indicated that as employees increase their trust in management, they become more affectively committed to the organization. Although fostering employee commitment may provide benefits not shown in this study, commitment did not appear to be directly related to increased perceptions of service quality.

Absorptive Capacity at the Individual Level: Linking Creativity to Innovation in Academia

The absorptive capacity construct has been examined across various country, interorganization, and organizational level phenomena. This paper presents a framework that adopts the absorptive capacity framework to explain the relationship between creative and innovative performance at the individual level. The framework is illustrated by predicting research scholarship among university faculty.

Adopting Employees' Ideas: Moderators of the Idea Generation–Idea Implementation Link

This study examined the possibility that the relationship between the number of ideas an employee generated and the number of those ideas that were adopted by the organization was moderated by the general radicalness of the employees ideas (i.e., the extent to which the ideas were breakthrough or groundbreaking), the employees intention to stay, psychological safety, and coworker support. Ninety-three employees generated one or more ideas and raters evaluated the radicalness and implementation of these ideas. Results showed a positive relationship between the number of ideas generated by an employee and the number adopted when the employees ideas were generally low in radicalness. However, when an employees ideas were generally high in radicalness, there was a positive relationship between the numbers generated and implemented only when the employee intended to remain a member of the organization or felt psychologically safe at work. The implications of these results for future research and practice are discussed.

Predicting Risk Factors for Intimate Partner Violence Among Post-9/11 College Student Veterans

The current conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq present unique risk factors for military personnel that increase the likelihood of psychological distress and concomitant consequences related to trauma. Several studies have found that the stress brought about by financial difficulties, unemployment, and the need to renegotiate roles and responsibilities with spouses following discharge increases the likelihood of relationship strain and even intimate partner violence in the veteran population. This study was undertaken to determine the challenges related to maintaining healthy relationships for college student veterans who have served in the armed forces since September 11, 2001. Psychological distress, substance use, and hypermasculine attitudes were explored as risk factors for intimate violence. Social support was found to be a protective buffer against psychological aggression. However, approximately a third of college student veterans reported low social support along with symptoms of distress, placing them at elevated risk of partner abuse. The current article explores models for predicting risk of perpetrating aggression in college student veterans and concludes that culturally tailored programs and services are needed.