{"title":"You Belong to Me: An African American Narrative","authors":"Nola C. Veazie PhD, DM, LPC, CADC-II","doi":"10.1002/jpoc.21201","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jpoc.21201","url":null,"abstract":"<p>You Belong to Me is a compelling documentary film that examined the underpinnings of racism, prejudice, and discrimination in the United States. John Cork's superlative and honest writing depicted the dichotomous view of African Americans as free agents endowed with rights versus African Americans as a subordinate group. The film addresses the narrative about racism in America and defines the connection between subordinate groups and learned helplessness, a connection that likely reinforces the glass ceiling for women and African Americans. On the surface, the Ruby McCollum story is a tantalizing tale of sex, murder, and racial tension in the small community of Live Oak, Florida. On a deeper level, however, the writer captured the psychological consequences of racism, passed down from one generation to another. These psychological consequences affect every social organization in the United States.</p>","PeriodicalId":100827,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychological Issues in Organizational Culture","volume":"6 4","pages":"74-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/jpoc.21201","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88344326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Essential E-Mentors’ Characteristics for Mentoring Online Doctoral Dissertations: Faculty Views","authors":"Auslyn Nieto PhD","doi":"10.1002/jpoc.21204","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jpoc.21204","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Effective mentoring is an integral component of the doctoral dissertation process. Prior research amply explored the triadic symbiosis of faculty mentoring skills, responsibilities, and values within the dyadic mentor–protégé relationship, but did not substantively analyze faculty views of the essential e-mentors’ characteristics for mentoring online doctoral dissertations. As a result of the lacunae in the mentoring literature, this qualitative case study investigated these views, using purposeful sampling methodology. Mentoring characteristics within the trifold convergence of values, professional skill, and relationships were explored through the lens of online doctoral faculty. Insights were gained through a voluntary, anonymous survey distributed to 10 experienced online doctoral dissertation Chairs via e-mail. Data were collected from electronically administrated open-ended surveys, telephone interviews with faculty, and faculty reflective journals. NVivo 10 software was utilized for organization, management, and categorization of data, and a custom-built database to record and analyze 8 emergent themes using a pattern-matching coding technique congruent with case study analysis. The results of Second Cycle coding corroborated extant faculty perspectives across the three mentoring domains—professional, psychosocial, and career—and revealed supplemental traits of tenacity, innovation, and adaptability to restrictive administrative protocols. When connected to the eight emergent themes, quality review processes presented barriers to both chairs and doctoral students. The study results may be transferred to similar contexts as this proposed research should prove beneficial to e-mentors and doctoral learners. E-mentors will be able to utilize the recommendations to more effectively mentor their students and better manage their relationship to the university.</p>","PeriodicalId":100827,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychological Issues in Organizational Culture","volume":"6 4","pages":"35-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/jpoc.21204","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74244498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multigenerational Perspectives on The Gen Z Effect","authors":"Mansureh Kebritchi PhD, Yasamin Sharifi","doi":"10.1002/jpoc.21205","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jpoc.21205","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100827,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychological Issues in Organizational Culture","volume":"6 4","pages":"83-87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/jpoc.21205","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80421098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"African American Culture","authors":"Thabiti Mtambuzi","doi":"10.1002/jpoc.21206","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jpoc.21206","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article summarizes a study about the convergence of influences that led African American parents and educators to decide to support Independent Black Institutions (IBIs) through registering children or accepting employment. Parents and educators (teachers, administrators, and staff) who chose to support IBIs explained the values and preferences that led to their choices. Five themes emphasized a need for acceptance of community values and experiences whose preferences differed from the dominant White culture in the United States. Understanding these preferences could shed light on the experiences of minority or subcultural communities throughout the nation. The insights have implications for social organizations of every size within the diverse population of the 21st-century American culture.</p>","PeriodicalId":100827,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychological Issues in Organizational Culture","volume":"6 4","pages":"7-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/jpoc.21206","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82717292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Moral Identity Influences Leadership Ethics: A Historical Case Study","authors":"Sandra G. Nunn DM, John T. Avella EdD","doi":"10.1002/jpoc.21200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jpoc.21200","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This historical case study of U. S. Presidents Kennedy and Nixon explored how individual moral identity can influence leadership ethics in decision making. The study examined how four key influences of education, family, peers, and religion could affect a leader's ability to make ethical or unethical decisions. Data analysis determined emergent themes from these influences to establish positive or negative moral identity development. Study results contributed to the literature by demonstrating how moral identity influences that emphasize societal welfare versus a self-focus can affect a leader's ability to make ethical or unethical decisions.</p>","PeriodicalId":100827,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychological Issues in Organizational Culture","volume":"6 3","pages":"40-59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/jpoc.21200","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71966120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Keri L. Heitner PhD, Eric E. Muenks PhD, Kenneth C. Sherman PhD
{"title":"The Rhetoric of Gaydar Research: A Critical Discourse Analysis","authors":"Keri L. Heitner PhD, Eric E. Muenks PhD, Kenneth C. Sherman PhD","doi":"10.1002/jpoc.21199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jpoc.21199","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As dozens of countries around the world actively enforce antigay legislation or conduct antigay crackdowns, interest grows about research on “gaydar,” using nonverbal behavior to identify sexual orientation. Identifying sexual orientation based on perceptual cues is replete with social implications. Empirical evidence may add more fuel to the fire of hatred, discrimination, and punishment based on sexual orientation. This article addresses the highly charged debate on the ethics of research on identifying in-group and out-of-group membership in an increasingly polarized world of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) rights through critical discourse analysis (CDA) of text appearing on a public Internet discussion board in response to gaydar research. Analysis at the macro level placed the narrative in the broader social context. Analysis at the meso level focused on logistics and audience. The micro level of analysis revealed language used to convey thoughts and beliefs about gaydar research and its implications.</p>","PeriodicalId":100827,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychological Issues in Organizational Culture","volume":"6 3","pages":"60-69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/jpoc.21199","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71965209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Future of Homosexuality in Christian Denominations","authors":"Christopher Michael McAuliffe","doi":"10.1002/jpoc.21198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jpoc.21198","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores the current state of homosexuality in Christian denominations across the United States and gives reasonable implications for the direction institutions are moving. The biblical and sanctity of marriage arguments against homosexuals are accessed. When it comes to the sanctity of marriage, divorce is offered as a much worse force tainting the holiness of marriage. “If sanctity is the state of being holy or sacred, then divorce completely destroys marriage, and gay marriage in no way affects heterosexual divorce” (p. 6). Paul, who appears to be a source against homosexuals in many minds, is logically flipped to instead be an advocator for gay marriage. “A reasonable extrapolation of Paul's views can lead to the expectation that he would actually be in favor of gay marriage” (p. 4). The article goes on to discuss the view of homosexuals in various denominations and draws conclusions on where Christianity is headed.</p>","PeriodicalId":100827,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychological Issues in Organizational Culture","volume":"6 3","pages":"70-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/jpoc.21198","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71965208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Robert E Fulkerson DM, IST, Randall L. Thompson EdD, Elizabeth H. Thompson PsyD
{"title":"Team Member Perceptions of Software Team Leader Communication Influencing Motivation for Achievement of Project Goals","authors":"Robert E Fulkerson DM, IST, Randall L. Thompson EdD, Elizabeth H. Thompson PsyD","doi":"10.1002/jpoc.21202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jpoc.21202","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The purpose of this exploratory multiple-case study was to explore team member perceptions of team leader communication and the perceived influence of that communication on motivation and drive to achieve project goals. The data collection tool consisted of face-to-face interviews with open-ended questions. NVivo 10, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft Excel were the software tools used to analyze data. Study findings resulted from the highest participant count in combination with the highest participant response frequency, which identified four overriding categorical themes. Categorical themes evolved through multiple iterations of coding, theming, and categorizing case study data resulted in four major findings: (1) Good team leaders recognize and promote internal and external motivators that drive the effort to achieve goals; (2) respectful team leaders express personal consideration in communication, actions, and disposition; (3) a leader who micromanages team members and controls the information they receive may constrain their abilities, which could lead to resentment, low motivation, and less than optimal performance; and (4) effective, honest communication is a foundation for sharing information, building knowledge, and developing competency.</p>","PeriodicalId":100827,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychological Issues in Organizational Culture","volume":"6 3","pages":"24-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/jpoc.21202","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71966121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stonewall, directed by Roland Emmerich","authors":"Charlita L. Shelton PhD","doi":"10.1002/jpoc.21203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jpoc.21203","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100827,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychological Issues in Organizational Culture","volume":"6 3","pages":"77-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/jpoc.21203","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71966123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editor's Introduction","authors":"Kenneth C. Sherman PhD","doi":"10.1002/jpoc.21207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jpoc.21207","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100827,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychological Issues in Organizational Culture","volume":"6 3","pages":"5-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/jpoc.21207","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71965210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}