Matthias Heinz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1044854 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthias Heinz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthias |
| FAMILY NAME | Heinz |
| SIGNATURE | HEINZ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Roads University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3690-926X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Interpersonal Communication Between Transgender and Cisgender People: A Polish-Canadian Comparison
Interpersonal communication between transgender/gender-diverse and cisgender people is an understudied area within the fields of communication studies and gender studies; studies on Canadian and Polish interpersonal communication dynamics involving these demographic groups are even rarer. The purpose of this research project therefore was two-fold. On an applied level, this study sought to document and analyze interpersonal communication dynamics…
What Do Employee Referral Programs Do? Measuring the Direct and Overall Effects of a Management Practice
Employee referral programs (ERPs) are randomly introduced in a grocery chain. On direct effects, larger referral bonuses increase referral quantity but decrease quality, though the increase in referrals from ERPs is modest. However, the overall effect of having an ERP is substantial, reducing attrition by 15% and significantly decreasing labor costs. This occurs, partly, because referrals stay longer than nonreferrals, but, mainly, from indirect …
Measuring the Indirect Effects of Adverse Employer Behaviour on Worker Productivity: A field Experiment
We conduct a field experiment to study how worker productivity is affected if employers act adversely towards their co-workers. Our employees work for two shifts in a call centre. In our main treatment, we lay off some workers before the second shift. Compared to two control treatments, we find that the lay-off reduces the productivity of unaffected workers by 12%. We find suggestive evidence that this result is not driven by altered beliefs abou…
Communicating While Transgender: Apprehension, Loneliness, and Willingness to Communicate in a Canadian Sample
This mixed-methods study draws on quantitative and qualitative data on interpersonal communication measures and experiences of Canadian transgender people under the framework of Meyer's minority stress model. Based on administration of three surveys (Willingness to Communicate; Personal Report of Communication Apprehension; and University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA] Loneliness scales), the participants in this study rated higher on communic…
Spatial Transitions in Communication Studies
dinner conversation with friends so how has it beena friend inquires over the dinner tablehis question trapping dessert silence hushes forks, knives & the clatter of my thoughtsas i watch my hand
The Hidden Costs of Downsizing
We analyse whether a principal’s decision to lay off an agent affects the performance of the surviving agents in a laboratory experiment. We find that agents reduce their performance by 43% as a response to the lay‐off decision. Heterogeneity in principals’ decisions can largely be explained by different beliefs about how agents react to lay‐offs
Island Lives: A Trans Community Needs Assessment for Vancouver Island
In 2010-2011, the Vancouver Island Transgender Needs Assessment, a community-based, applied research project, sought to identify the health and social needs of trans people on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. An advisory board consisting of trans-identified community members and trans-service providers guided this descriptive analysis. A total of 54 individuals identifying as transgender participated in a survey modeled after the Trans…
Greenpeace Greenspeak: A Transcultural Discourse Analysis
This cross-cultural discourse analysis examines the construction of environmental issues on Greenpeace web pages in China, Japan and Germany. To uncover the semantic representation of environmental activism on these sites, the authors sought to identify discursive homogeneity and divergence and to bring to light embedded cultural assumptions. The sites were examined between January and July 2003 to the fifth level. Multiple readings considered fi…
Backchannel responses as strategic responses in bilingual speakers’ conversations
Sounds Queer to Me: The Politics of Disillusionment
Under the Rainbow Flag: Webbing Global Gay Identities
Fish in the river’: Experiences of bicultural bilingual speakers
This hermeneutic phenomenological study describes, analyzes, and interprets the lived experience of eight proficient bilingual individuals in the United States. Common themes of speaking one's native language and English as one's second or third language are described. The essences of participants' first-language communicative experiences ranged from feeling more at home and comfortable (‘Fish in the river’) to feeling challenged and uncomfortabl…
Getting down to the meat: The symbolic construction of meat consumption
This essay examines the symbolic construction of meat consumption in U. S. culture. Commodity fetishism in marketplace exchange removes the production process from the meaning of meat and, thereby, silences the slaughter of animals. Through the critical employment of a Burkean associational analysis and the identification of symbolic alignments, this essay traces the rhetorical transformation of a live animal into a consumer product. In so doing,…
Getting down to the meat: The symbolic construction of meat consumption
This essay examines the symbolic construction of meat consumption in U. S. culture. Commodity fetishism in marketplace exchange removes the production process from the meaning of meat and, thereby, silences the slaughter of animals. Through the critical employment of a Burkean associational analysis and the identification of symbolic alignments, this essay traces the rhetorical transformation of a live animal into a consumer product. In so doing,…
Backchannel responses as strategic responses in bilingual speakers’ conversations
Under the Rainbow Flag: Webbing Global Gay Identities
Measuring the Indirect Effects of Adverse Employer Behaviour on Worker Productivity: A field Experiment
We conduct a field experiment to study how worker productivity is affected if employers act adversely towards their co-workers. Our employees work for two shifts in a call centre. In our main treatment, we lay off some workers before the second shift. Compared to two control treatments, we find that the lay-off reduces the productivity of unaffected workers by 12%. We find suggestive evidence that this result is not driven by altered beliefs abou…
The Hidden Costs of Downsizing
We analyse whether a principal’s decision to lay off an agent affects the performance of the surviving agents in a laboratory experiment. We find that agents reduce their performance by 43% as a response to the lay‐off decision. Heterogeneity in principals’ decisions can largely be explained by different beliefs about how agents react to lay‐offs
Island Lives: A Trans Community Needs Assessment for Vancouver Island
In 2010-2011, the Vancouver Island Transgender Needs Assessment, a community-based, applied research project, sought to identify the health and social needs of trans people on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. An advisory board consisting of trans-identified community members and trans-service providers guided this descriptive analysis. A total of 54 individuals identifying as transgender participated in a survey modeled after the Trans…
Fish in the river’: Experiences of bicultural bilingual speakers
This hermeneutic phenomenological study describes, analyzes, and interprets the lived experience of eight proficient bilingual individuals in the United States. Common themes of speaking one's native language and English as one's second or third language are described. The essences of participants' first-language communicative experiences ranged from feeling more at home and comfortable (‘Fish in the river’) to feeling challenged and uncomfortabl…
What Do Employee Referral Programs Do? Measuring the Direct and Overall Effects of a Management Practice
Employee referral programs (ERPs) are randomly introduced in a grocery chain. On direct effects, larger referral bonuses increase referral quantity but decrease quality, though the increase in referrals from ERPs is modest. However, the overall effect of having an ERP is substantial, reducing attrition by 15% and significantly decreasing labor costs. This occurs, partly, because referrals stay longer than nonreferrals, but, mainly, from indirect …
Communicating While Transgender: Apprehension, Loneliness, and Willingness to Communicate in a Canadian Sample
This mixed-methods study draws on quantitative and qualitative data on interpersonal communication measures and experiences of Canadian transgender people under the framework of Meyer's minority stress model. Based on administration of three surveys (Willingness to Communicate; Personal Report of Communication Apprehension; and University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA] Loneliness scales), the participants in this study rated higher on communic…
Spatial Transitions in Communication Studies
dinner conversation with friends so how has it beena friend inquires over the dinner tablehis question trapping dessert silence hushes forks, knives & the clatter of my thoughtsas i watch my hand
Greenpeace Greenspeak: A Transcultural Discourse Analysis
This cross-cultural discourse analysis examines the construction of environmental issues on Greenpeace web pages in China, Japan and Germany. To uncover the semantic representation of environmental activism on these sites, the authors sought to identify discursive homogeneity and divergence and to bring to light embedded cultural assumptions. The sites were examined between January and July 2003 to the fifth level. Multiple readings considered fi…
Getting down to the meat: The symbolic construction of meat consumption
This essay examines the symbolic construction of meat consumption in U. S. culture. Commodity fetishism in marketplace exchange removes the production process from the meaning of meat and, thereby, silences the slaughter of animals. Through the critical employment of a Burkean associational analysis and the identification of symbolic alignments, this essay traces the rhetorical transformation of a live animal into a consumer product. In so doing,…
Fish in the river’: Experiences of bicultural bilingual speakers
This hermeneutic phenomenological study describes, analyzes, and interprets the lived experience of eight proficient bilingual individuals in the United States. Common themes of speaking one's native language and English as one's second or third language are described. The essences of participants' first-language communicative experiences ranged from feeling more at home and comfortable (‘Fish in the river’) to feeling challenged and uncomfortabl…
Under the Rainbow Flag: Webbing Global Gay Identities
Backchannel responses as strategic responses in bilingual speakers’ conversations
Sounds Queer to Me: The Politics of Disillusionment
Greenpeace Greenspeak: A Transcultural Discourse Analysis
This cross-cultural discourse analysis examines the construction of environmental issues on Greenpeace web pages in China, Japan and Germany. To uncover the semantic representation of environmental activism on these sites, the authors sought to identify discursive homogeneity and divergence and to bring to light embedded cultural assumptions. The sites were examined between January and July 2003 to the fifth level. Multiple readings considered fi…
Island Lives: A Trans Community Needs Assessment for Vancouver Island
In 2010-2011, the Vancouver Island Transgender Needs Assessment, a community-based, applied research project, sought to identify the health and social needs of trans people on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. An advisory board consisting of trans-identified community members and trans-service providers guided this descriptive analysis. A total of 54 individuals identifying as transgender participated in a survey modeled after the Trans…
Spatial Transitions in Communication Studies
dinner conversation with friends so how has it beena friend inquires over the dinner tablehis question trapping dessert silence hushes forks, knives & the clatter of my thoughtsas i watch my hand
The Hidden Costs of Downsizing
We analyse whether a principal’s decision to lay off an agent affects the performance of the surviving agents in a laboratory experiment. We find that agents reduce their performance by 43% as a response to the lay‐off decision. Heterogeneity in principals’ decisions can largely be explained by different beliefs about how agents react to lay‐offs
Communicating While Transgender: Apprehension, Loneliness, and Willingness to Communicate in a Canadian Sample
This mixed-methods study draws on quantitative and qualitative data on interpersonal communication measures and experiences of Canadian transgender people under the framework of Meyer's minority stress model. Based on administration of three surveys (Willingness to Communicate; Personal Report of Communication Apprehension; and University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA] Loneliness scales), the participants in this study rated higher on communic…
Measuring the Indirect Effects of Adverse Employer Behaviour on Worker Productivity: A field Experiment
We conduct a field experiment to study how worker productivity is affected if employers act adversely towards their co-workers. Our employees work for two shifts in a call centre. In our main treatment, we lay off some workers before the second shift. Compared to two control treatments, we find that the lay-off reduces the productivity of unaffected workers by 12%. We find suggestive evidence that this result is not driven by altered beliefs abou…
What Do Employee Referral Programs Do? Measuring the Direct and Overall Effects of a Management Practice
Employee referral programs (ERPs) are randomly introduced in a grocery chain. On direct effects, larger referral bonuses increase referral quantity but decrease quality, though the increase in referrals from ERPs is modest. However, the overall effect of having an ERP is substantial, reducing attrition by 15% and significantly decreasing labor costs. This occurs, partly, because referrals stay longer than nonreferrals, but, mainly, from indirect …
Interpersonal Communication Between Transgender and Cisgender People: A Polish-Canadian Comparison
Interpersonal communication between transgender/gender-diverse and cisgender people is an understudied area within the fields of communication studies and gender studies; studies on Canadian and Polish interpersonal communication dynamics involving these demographic groups are even rarer. The purpose of this research project therefore was two-fold. On an applied level, this study sought to document and analyze interpersonal communication dynamics…
Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Social science (3 works)