William Terris
Biographic Data
| ID | 4199303 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Terris |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Terris |
| SIGNATURE | TERRIS W |
| AFFILIATIONS | DePaul University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Deviance in the fast-food restaurant
Existing research suggests that employee deviance is highest in occupational settings that rely heavily on "marginal" workers—especially those who are young with little tenure—who believe that they are treated unfairly by their employers. As a test of this proposition, an anonymous survey was conducted among a two‐company national sample of 341 fast‐food restaurant workers. Three fifths of the respondents reported some level of personal involveme…
Predicting Employees' Theft in Home Improvement Centers
An 8-mo. predictive validity study in 8 home improvement centers showed that 86 employees' attitudes and cognitions toward theft reliably predicted future theft and counterproductivity. Employees with dishonest attitudes and cognitions toward theft, as measured by the Personnel Selection Inventory, were rated by store managers as having committed significantly more counterproductive acts during the 8-mo. period than employees with more honest att…
Psychological Factors Related to Employees' Theft in the Convenience Store Industry
Four studies are presented that examine various aspects of theft in the convenience store industry. Study 1 was a survey of both managers' ( n = 24) and retail clerks' ( n = 54) opinions on how and why convenience store employees steal. Results showed that the most frequently used theft techniques involved various ways of stealing cash from a register. Major reasons for employees' theft included financial need, low wages, revenge, and thrill-seek…
Approach-Avoidance Conflict Behavior as a Result of Prior Exposure to a Conflict Situation
(1972). Approach-Avoidance Conflict Behavior as a Result of Prior Exposure to a Conflict Situation. The Journal of General Psychology: Vol. 86, No. 1, pp. 117-130
Generalized resistance to the effects of psychological stressors
Stimulus Ambiguity, Discrepant Information, and Task Importance in Opinion Structure and Change
Ss given initial instructions intended to either maximize or minimize the perceived importance of the experiment subsequently made anonymous written estimates of the mean as well as the highest and lowest values the mean could assume for a critical list of numbers having a mean of 88 but one of four standard deviations. In addition, Ss were exposed to either high or low discrepant information from confederates of E. The main results were that the…
Deviance in the fast-food restaurant
Existing research suggests that employee deviance is highest in occupational settings that rely heavily on "marginal" workers—especially those who are young with little tenure—who believe that they are treated unfairly by their employers. As a test of this proposition, an anonymous survey was conducted among a two‐company national sample of 341 fast‐food restaurant workers. Three fifths of the respondents reported some level of personal involveme…
Stimulus Ambiguity, Discrepant Information, and Task Importance in Opinion Structure and Change
Ss given initial instructions intended to either maximize or minimize the perceived importance of the experiment subsequently made anonymous written estimates of the mean as well as the highest and lowest values the mean could assume for a critical list of numbers having a mean of 88 but one of four standard deviations. In addition, Ss were exposed to either high or low discrepant information from confederates of E. The main results were that the…
Generalized resistance to the effects of psychological stressors
Approach-Avoidance Conflict Behavior as a Result of Prior Exposure to a Conflict Situation
(1972). Approach-Avoidance Conflict Behavior as a Result of Prior Exposure to a Conflict Situation. The Journal of General Psychology: Vol. 86, No. 1, pp. 117-130
Psychological Factors Related to Employees' Theft in the Convenience Store Industry
Four studies are presented that examine various aspects of theft in the convenience store industry. Study 1 was a survey of both managers' ( n = 24) and retail clerks' ( n = 54) opinions on how and why convenience store employees steal. Results showed that the most frequently used theft techniques involved various ways of stealing cash from a register. Major reasons for employees' theft included financial need, low wages, revenge, and thrill-seek…
Predicting Employees' Theft in Home Improvement Centers
An 8-mo. predictive validity study in 8 home improvement centers showed that 86 employees' attitudes and cognitions toward theft reliably predicted future theft and counterproductivity. Employees with dishonest attitudes and cognitions toward theft, as measured by the Personnel Selection Inventory, were rated by store managers as having committed significantly more counterproductive acts during the 8-mo. period than employees with more honest att…
Deviance in the fast-food restaurant
Existing research suggests that employee deviance is highest in occupational settings that rely heavily on "marginal" workers—especially those who are young with little tenure—who believe that they are treated unfairly by their employers. As a test of this proposition, an anonymous survey was conducted among a two‐company national sample of 341 fast‐food restaurant workers. Three fifths of the respondents reported some level of personal involveme…
Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (3 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (2 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Test (biology (2 works) · Advanced Text Analysis Techniques (1 works) · Ambiguity (1 works)