Journal of Undergraduate Research

Rebekah Inez Brau and Nile Hatch, Organizational Leadership and Strategy Department Introduction Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), defined by the UN Industrial Development Organization as “initiatives by firms to integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations and interactions with their stakeholders” is a controversial topic in the management literature. Although CSR is widely discussed, […]

Derick Simmons and Jeff Bednar, Organizational Leadership and Strategy Introduction Impostor Phenomenon (or Impostor Syndrome) is a psychological phenomenon in which individuals are unable to internalize their accomplishments. Despite external evidence of their competence, persons with the syndrome remain convinced that they are frauds and do not deserve the success they have achieved. The primary […]

Cameron Zenger and Faculty Mentor: Paul Godfrey, Department of Organizational Leadership and Strategy Introduction Housing is closely related to mental and physical health. Extensive research demonstrates that even relatively basic housing features such as cement floors or running water create life-altering improvements in the health of occupants. Predictably, homeless populations benefit from such interventions. Utah […]

Grant Russell and David Kryscynski, Organizational Leadership and Strategy Introduction The aim of this project was to better understand how individuals within an organization would affect the organization’s ability to innovate, compete, and sustain strategic advantage in the marketplace as measured through ‘expert’ surveys. This was driven by David Kryscynski in partnership with the RBL […]

Rolf David Dixon Jr. and Jeff Bednar, Organizational Leadership and Strategy Introduction The retention of employees is a major financial and cultural concern for almost all organizations. As a result, the study of voluntary turnover has a rich history in the domain of organizational behavior. We believe that this research has at least two blind […]

Reese Haydon and Dr. Kurt Sandholtz, Organizational Leadership and Strategy Prior techniques for solving intergroup prejudice have shown limited practical application. Common to these techniques is an emphasis on understanding and appreciating the competencies of the out-group members (i.e., disconfirming the in-group’s stereotypes of the out-group). The purpose of our research is to build a […]

Barry West and Gibb Dyer, Organizational Leadership and Strategy In developing countries throughout the world, one often-used approach to alleviating poverty has been to encourage entrepreneurship among the poor. Micro-credit is a highly popular solution to encourage the poor to launch new enterprises, but has somewhat mixed results (Field et al., 2013; Banjeree et al., […]

Lyndon Garrett and Dr. Curtis LeBaron, Organizational Leadership and Strategy Routines within organizations enable members to execute their work plans and achieve their strategic objectives. Because routines involve replication and repetition, some researchers have regarded them as rather mindless patterns of action, but recently scholars have begun to view routines as “mindful” accomplishments—especially routines that […]

Weston Hadlock and Dr. Katie Liljenquist, Department of Organizational Leadership and Strategy The initial goal of this study was to explore the different effects of counter-factual thinking on one’s assignment of meaning to life. The creation of these ‘what-if’ scenarios for many people has often been associated with regret. We, however, hypothesized that constructing these […]