Thomas A Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 3481610 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas A Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas A |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT T A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Reno |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7955-5679 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 134 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Implications of the fragility of opioid agonist treatment continuity on hepatitis C re-exposure concerns among people in prison: A qualitative study
Continuity of OAT and HCV care remains a fragile experience for people who cycle in and out of incarceration. People who miss their OAT appointment in the community might wait several months upon re-incarceration to re-enter the OAT program. This leaves people vulnerable to injection sharing in custody and, subsequently, increased risk of HCV (re-)exposure while waiting to recommence OAT or to return to the optimal dosing level
You Take the High Road…I’ll Take the Low Road
Character in crisis
Why character matters
Hepatitis C reinfection in prisons with broad access to Direct Acting Antiviral treatments
Best practice recommendations for scale construction in organizational research: The development and initial validation of the Character Strength Inventory (CSI)
Proper scale development and validation provide the necessary foundation to facilitate future quantitative research in the organizational sciences. Using the framework provided by the Researcher's Notebook , the purpose of this study is twofold. First, we present a modern summary of best practice procedures for scale development, reliability analysis, and validity analysis. Second, we explain and illustrate these best practice procedures by descr…
Distinguished Scholar Invited Essay: Reflections on the Role of Character in Business Education and Student Leadership Development
The study of character is a legitimate and beneficial topic for organizational analysis. Through the lens of character and character-based leadership, and incorporating the 3-H (“head,” “heart,” and “hands”) approach to knowledge generation and dissemination, my reflections are provided to engage the Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies readership on how character can be used to provide our students as well as ourselves with a more mean…
The call for an increased role of replication, extension, and mixed‐methods study designs in organizational research
Examples from previously published work by the lead author on the role of employee health indicators on individual and organizational outcomes provide an intriguing backdrop through the use of illustration for suggesting some of the many benefits obtained by the incorporation of replication, extension, and mixed‐methods study designs in organizational research. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Cronbach's alpha reliability: Interval estimation, hypothesis testing, and sample size planning
Cronbach's alpha is one of the most widely used measures of reliability in the social and organizational sciences. Current practice is to report the sample value of Cronbach's alpha reliability, but a confidence interval for the population reliability value also should be reported. The traditional confidence interval for the population value of Cronbach's alpha makes an unnecessarily restrictive assumption that the multiple measurements have equa…
Putting your best “face” forward: The role of emotion‐based well‐being in organizational research
Organizational researchers have long been interested in the role played by employee “happiness” in workplace life. What remains less clear is what exactly constitutes happiness. The present purpose is not to invent a new definition of happiness. Rather the goal is to present the extant body of knowledge about “happiness” in a more manageable and consistent manner to assist future research endeavors. To that end, an overview of the literature is p…
The “Incubation” of high‐impact ideas: Past directions and future perspectives
Best‐practice recommendations for estimating interaction effects using meta‐analysis
One of the key advantages of meta‐analysis (i.e., a quantitative literature review) over a narrative literature review is that it allows for formal tests of interaction effects—namely, whether the relationship between two variables is contingent upon the value of another (moderator) variable. Interaction effects play a central role in organizational science research because they highlight boundary conditions of a theory: Conditions under which re…
Sample size requirements for multiple regression interval estimation
Sample size planning is one of the most important issues in the design of a study. Simple and accurate sample size formulas for a desired confidence interval width have been developed for many statistical procedures, but a simple and accurate sample size formula for the squared multiple correlation has been a notable exception. Several rule‐of‐thumb sample size recommendations for a multiple regression analysis have been proposed over the years b…
The Researcher's Notebook: Mission and scope
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject—the actual enemy is the unknown. Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 5. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
The role of employee psychological well‐being in cardiovascular health: When the twain shall meet
Consistent with the emerging positive agenda in organizations, the present research examines the role of psychological well‐being (PWB) in predicting employee cardiovascular health. We tested this possibility in a sample of 113 supervisory level personnel employed by a medium‐sized (500 employees) public sector organization in California. More specifically, while neither diastolic blood pressure (DBP) ( r = .09, ns, 95%CI = −0.11 to 0.28) or syst…
The emerging positive agenda in organizations: Greater than a trickle, but not yet a deluge
The evidence is clear regarding applied science's longstanding fascination with the negative aspects of organizational life. The purpose of this special issue of the Journal of Organizational Behavior is to tangibly demonstrate that the concept of a “positive psychology” is gaining importance in both psychology and organizational behavior. To that end, our lead article focuses on five topic areas. First, we provide a limited historical backdrop o…
The role of positive‐based research in building the science of organizational behavior
The role of the positive organizational movement continues to garner significant attention in the applied sciences. Using Kipling's “six honest serving men” framework ( What , Why , When , How , Where , and Who ), we discuss six potential challenges and opportunities facing the positive organizational movement. First, we review what constitutes the realm of positive behavior. Next, we discuss why an awareness of the holistic model is highly germa…
Character in organizational research: Past directions and future prospects
Character (ethos) refers to those interpenetrable habitual qualities within individuals, and applicable to organizations that both constrain and lead them to desire and pursue personal and societal good. In our Incubator article, we undertake two objectives. First, we provide our conceptualization of character; briefly specifying what character is and is not. Second, we introduce several promising directions for organizationally based research on…
Job Satisfaction and Psychological Well-Being as Nonadditive Predictors of Workplace Turnover
Data from a 2-year field study were used to examine the relationships among psychological well-being, job satisfaction, and employee job performance with employee turnover. Using a sample of 112 managers employed at a large organization on the West Coast of the United States, and controlling for employee age, gender, ethnicity, and job performance, well-being and job satisfaction were found to predict turnover in a nonadditive manner. As expected…
The moderating role of employee positive well being on the relation between job satisfaction and job performance.
This research provides further clarification to the age-old quest to better understand the happy/productive worker thesis. Using data from 109 managers employed by a large (over 5000 employees) customer services organization on the West Coast of the United States, both job satisfaction (r=.36, p<.01, 95% CI=.18 to .52) and psychological well-being (PWB; r=.43, p<.01, 95% CI=.26 to .58) were associated with supervisory performance ratings. Using F…
Getting the ‘pulse’ of your employees: The use of cardiovascular research in better understanding behavior in organizations
Cardiovascular disease has severe consequences for both individual betterment and organizational health. Yet, organization‐based cardiovascular research remains quite limited. This commentary addresses this void by integrating research dating from the famous Hawthorne experiments with current medical science. It then suggests future organizational research on cardiovascular health and recommends use of specific composite cardiovascular measures t…
The ‘Incubator’ is alive and well at the Journal of Organizational Behavior
Positive organizational behavior: An Idea Whose Time Has Truly Come
Sample Size Requirements for Estimating Pearson, Kendall and Spearman Correlations
Interval estimates of the Pearson, Kendall tau- a and Spearman correlations are reviewed and an improved standard error for the Spearman correlation is proposed. The sample size required to yield a confidence interval having the desired width is examined. A two-stage approximation to the sample size requirement is shown to give accurate results.
Psychological well-being and job satisfaction as predictors of job performance.
Positive organizational behavior: An Idea Whose Time Has Truly Come
Cronbach's alpha reliability: Interval estimation, hypothesis testing, and sample size planning
Cronbach's alpha is one of the most widely used measures of reliability in the social and organizational sciences. Current practice is to report the sample value of Cronbach's alpha reliability, but a confidence interval for the population reliability value also should be reported. The traditional confidence interval for the population value of Cronbach's alpha makes an unnecessarily restrictive assumption that the multiple measurements have equa…
Best‐practice recommendations for estimating interaction effects using meta‐analysis
One of the key advantages of meta‐analysis (i.e., a quantitative literature review) over a narrative literature review is that it allows for formal tests of interaction effects—namely, whether the relationship between two variables is contingent upon the value of another (moderator) variable. Interaction effects play a central role in organizational science research because they highlight boundary conditions of a theory: Conditions under which re…
Correctional employee turnover: A longitudinal study
Character in organizational research: Past directions and future prospects
Character (ethos) refers to those interpenetrable habitual qualities within individuals, and applicable to organizations that both constrain and lead them to desire and pursue personal and societal good. In our Incubator article, we undertake two objectives. First, we provide our conceptualization of character; briefly specifying what character is and is not. Second, we introduce several promising directions for organizationally based research on…
The emerging positive agenda in organizations: Greater than a trickle, but not yet a deluge
The evidence is clear regarding applied science's longstanding fascination with the negative aspects of organizational life. The purpose of this special issue of the Journal of Organizational Behavior is to tangibly demonstrate that the concept of a “positive psychology” is gaining importance in both psychology and organizational behavior. To that end, our lead article focuses on five topic areas. First, we provide a limited historical backdrop o…
The effect of turnover on work satisfaction and mental health: Support for a situational perspective
This study finds support for the situational approach to affect determination in a prospective, two‐year longitudinal field study. Specifically, turnover was shown to predict changes in subsequent job measures of work satisfaction and mental health. Employees who changed jobs and occupations showed greater increases in both work satisfaction and mental health than employees who only changed jobs or employees who remained in their initial position…
The call for an increased role of replication, extension, and mixed‐methods study designs in organizational research
Examples from previously published work by the lead author on the role of employee health indicators on individual and organizational outcomes provide an intriguing backdrop through the use of illustration for suggesting some of the many benefits obtained by the incorporation of replication, extension, and mixed‐methods study designs in organizational research. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Best practice recommendations for scale construction in organizational research: The development and initial validation of the Character Strength Inventory (CSI)
Proper scale development and validation provide the necessary foundation to facilitate future quantitative research in the organizational sciences. Using the framework provided by the Researcher's Notebook , the purpose of this study is twofold. First, we present a modern summary of best practice procedures for scale development, reliability analysis, and validity analysis. Second, we explain and illustrate these best practice procedures by descr…
The Researcher's Notebook: Mission and scope
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject—the actual enemy is the unknown. Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 5. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
Getting the ‘pulse’ of your employees: The use of cardiovascular research in better understanding behavior in organizations
Cardiovascular disease has severe consequences for both individual betterment and organizational health. Yet, organization‐based cardiovascular research remains quite limited. This commentary addresses this void by integrating research dating from the famous Hawthorne experiments with current medical science. It then suggests future organizational research on cardiovascular health and recommends use of specific composite cardiovascular measures t…
The “Incubation” of high‐impact ideas: Past directions and future perspectives
The role of employee psychological well‐being in cardiovascular health: When the twain shall meet
Consistent with the emerging positive agenda in organizations, the present research examines the role of psychological well‐being (PWB) in predicting employee cardiovascular health. We tested this possibility in a sample of 113 supervisory level personnel employed by a medium‐sized (500 employees) public sector organization in California. More specifically, while neither diastolic blood pressure (DBP) ( r = .09, ns, 95%CI = −0.11 to 0.28) or syst…
The role of positive‐based research in building the science of organizational behavior
The role of the positive organizational movement continues to garner significant attention in the applied sciences. Using Kipling's “six honest serving men” framework ( What , Why , When , How , Where , and Who ), we discuss six potential challenges and opportunities facing the positive organizational movement. First, we review what constitutes the realm of positive behavior. Next, we discuss why an awareness of the holistic model is highly germa…
Putting your best “face” forward: The role of emotion‐based well‐being in organizational research
Organizational researchers have long been interested in the role played by employee “happiness” in workplace life. What remains less clear is what exactly constitutes happiness. The present purpose is not to invent a new definition of happiness. Rather the goal is to present the extant body of knowledge about “happiness” in a more manageable and consistent manner to assist future research endeavors. To that end, an overview of the literature is p…
The ‘Incubator’ is alive and well at the Journal of Organizational Behavior
Correctional institution workers' coping strategies and their effect on diastolic blood pressure
Coping Strategies and Diastolic Blood Pressure
An organizational field study involving 95 civil service employees examined the ways these individuals coped with the stressful events of their daily living. Lazarus' cognitive-phenomenological analysis of psychological stress provided the theoretical framework. Subjects indicated on Lazarus' Ways of Coping Checklist those coping thoughts and actions used in the specific encounter described as stressful. As hypothesized, individuals experiencing …
The Ways of Coping Instrument: Reliability and Temporal Stability for a Sample of Employees
Convergent support is demonstrated for the use of seven empirically derived scales of the Ways of Coping instrument developed by Lazarus and his colleagues. While the instrument is widely used, until now the internal consistency of the coping measures and stability of the factor structure have yet to be shown for a sample of employed adults. While type of job and type of coping incident reported are not dependent, analysis indicates that work and…
The Ways of Coping Instrument: Reliability and Temporal Stability for a Sample of Employees
Correctional institution workers' coping strategies and their effect on diastolic blood pressure
Coping, behavior, and adaptation in prison inmates
The effect of turnover on work satisfaction and mental health: Support for a situational perspective
This study finds support for the situational approach to affect determination in a prospective, two‐year longitudinal field study. Specifically, turnover was shown to predict changes in subsequent job measures of work satisfaction and mental health. Employees who changed jobs and occupations showed greater increases in both work satisfaction and mental health than employees who only changed jobs or employees who remained in their initial position…
Correctional employee turnover: A longitudinal study
Further Examination of the Cosmopolitan-Local Latent Role Construct
Organizational researchers widely accept the 1957 work of Gouldner describing the influence of cosmopolitan-local “latent roles” on various organizational outcome variables. New cosmopolitan and local scales were described here for further research
Time revisited in organizational behavior
Time revisited in organizational behavior
The contribution of burnout to work performance
While the notion that ‘burnout’ is related to a decline in work performance is widely recognized, empirical support for this relationship is lacking. The present study, composed of human services personnel, is the first to empirically test the relationships among Maslach's three dimensions of burnout and work performance. A negative relationship was established between one dimension of burnout, emotional exhaustion, and subsequent work performanc…
Emotional exhaustion as a predictor of job performance and voluntary turnover.
Recent research suggests that a better understanding of emotional exhaustion requires the development of new theoretical perspectives. To that end, with the conservation of resources model (COR) as the theoretical framework, the present 1-year longitudinal study was undertaken. Composed of 52 social welfare workers, this research examined the relationship of emotional exhaustion to job satisfaction, voluntary turnover, and job performance. Positi…
Organizational behavior ‘rediscovers’ the role of emotional well-being
Life and Job Satisfaction
While research on life and job satisfaction continues to interest scholars and practitioners in management, a controversy exists in the literature regarding which of the major theories (compensation, segmentation, or spillover) is most appropriate. In the present study, we found partial support for the spillover model testing a sample of 63 professional card dealers employed in Nevada's legalized gambling industry. More specifically, positive cor…
Ethical responsibility and the organizational researcher: A committed-to-participant research perspective
Ethical responsibility and the organizational researcher: A committed‐to‐participant research perspective
Further thoughts on the happy-productive worker
Ledford's commentary on our paper titled, ‘Affect and favorable work outcomes: Two longitudinal tests of the happy–productive worker thesis’, is a thought-provoking attempt to place the research and its findings in a larger theoretical context. His comments address three general questions. First, why have so many academics and practitioners alike been willing to accept the existence of the happy–productive worker relationship? Second, to what ext…
Affect and favorable work outcomes: Two longitudinal tests of the happy-productive worker thesis
This research examined relationships between alternative measures of affect and supervisory performance ratings. The first study showed that dispositional rather than state affect significantly predicted supervisory ratings of performance over time. Since the measures of affect differed on both content and temporal dimensions, a follow-up study was conducted to explicate the results. The second study found that a pleasantness-based measure of dis…
Sample Size Requirements for Estimating Pearson, Kendall and Spearman Correlations
Interval estimates of the Pearson, Kendall tau- a and Spearman correlations are reviewed and an improved standard error for the Spearman correlation is proposed. The sample size required to yield a confidence interval having the desired width is examined. A two-stage approximation to the sample size requirement is shown to give accurate results.
Psychological well-being and job satisfaction as predictors of job performance.
How our ‘values’ influence the manner in which organizational research is framed and interpreted
How our ?values? influence the manner in which organizational research is framed and interpreted
The ‘Incubator’ is alive and well at the Journal of Organizational Behavior
Positive organizational behavior: An Idea Whose Time Has Truly Come
Getting the ‘pulse’ of your employees: The use of cardiovascular research in better understanding behavior in organizations
Cardiovascular disease has severe consequences for both individual betterment and organizational health. Yet, organization‐based cardiovascular research remains quite limited. This commentary addresses this void by integrating research dating from the famous Hawthorne experiments with current medical science. It then suggests future organizational research on cardiovascular health and recommends use of specific composite cardiovascular measures t…
Psychology (33 works) · Social Psychology (21 works) · Social Psychology (21 works) · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior (19 works) · Computer Science (16 works) · Management (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Economics (12 works) · Job satisfaction (9 works) · Mathematics (9 works)