Companies often send valued employees overseas, and these new cultural situations require stressful and often radical adjustments on the part of the expatriate employee.
Unlike individualistic cultures like that of the US, in collectivist cultures like Korea, group harmony is valued more highly than individual expression. To understand how collectivism interacts with trust propensity, or expectancy that “the words and promises of others are reliable,” the authors conducted four studies with multiple methods in multiple countries, and found a strong relationship between collectivism and trust.
The average cost to rent housing across the country continues to become more expensive, but the price increases are slowing, according to a monthly rent index compiled by three colleges including The Alabama Center for Real Estate (ACRE) at Culverhouse.
They pitched a product that has the ability to monitor the health of first and second-use batteries that retire from Electric Vehicles (EVs) in a variety of applications, derived from research and inventions from UA engineering professor Dr. Jaber Abu Qahouq’s lab.
Survey researchers have a tricky dilemma to solve: choose the faster and potentially less-frustrating single-item measures and run the risk of invalid or unreliable results, or choose the time-consuming multi-item measures, and run the risk of losing time, money, and research subjects due to fatigue or frustration.
When workers encounter traumatic experiences, from military combat exposure to civilian sexual harrassment, we expect negative impacts. But what about their intimate partners — spouses or life partners? Does trauma affect them also? How, how much, and why?
In “Drawing on Attributional Engineering to Unlock the Potential of Cybervetting to Combat Gender Discrimination in Hiring,” published in the June 2021 issue of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Culverhouse’s Dr. Maura Mills and Younsung Cho, along with Dr. Angela Grotto (Manhattan College) consider the nuanced – and sometimes less-than-intuitive – ways that cybervetting may affect gender bias in hiring.
Research productivity is a key indicator of business school quality, and one of the most important benchmarks is the protocol established by the University of Texas at Dallas’ Naveen Jindal School of Management. In the year since Culverhouse has made the list, the school has climbed from #96 to #88 in North America.
Groundbreaking modeling from The University of Alabama is credited with assisting in the identification of dozens of potential sex trafficking victims in Alabama, according to new research detailed in the INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics.
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February, Culverhouse Professor of Management Dr. Peter Harms was troubled and wanted to help. Though no lover of violence or war—he is a Mennonite by background, a pacifist—he had long helped the U.S. military with research concerning mental health and well-being.
