Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Organizational Leadership , Franklin University, 2022, International Institute for Innovative Instruction

The purpose of this correlational study was to explore if there was a relationship between the amount of tuition reimbursement, partnership benefits, and turnover intention at the partner organizations of a mid-size, private, non-profit university in the Midwest United States. It also examined if other factors, like tenure within an organization, industry, or position type, impacted turnover intention when employees utilized education benefits. The study applied social exchange theory and human capital theory to explain why benefits may influence an employee's turnover intentions. Using a non-experimental, correlational design, the researcher used surveys responses from 152 partnership students. Their responses were analyzed through descriptive and inferential statistics, and a correlation analysis was run to determine if there was a relationship between the variables. A statistically significant relationship was found between turnover intention and both tenure and an employee's commitment to their organization due to additional partnership benefits. Both of these relationships aligned with the ideas of social exchange theory. The study emphasizes the need for H.R. professionals at organizations to evaluate their education benefits and policies to help reduce turnover intention.

Committee: Patrick Bennett (Committee Chair); Yuerong Sweetland (Committee Member); Kevin Daberkow (Committee Member) Subjects: Education; Educational Leadership; Higher Education; Higher Education Administration; Management; Organization Theory

Doctor of Education (Ed.D.), Bowling Green State University, 2017, Leadership Studies

Rachel Vannatta Reinhart, Advisor The purpose of this study was two-fold: (1) to explore the relationship between investments that students make in themselves while enrolled in a higher education program and their post-graduation career satisfaction, and (2) to gather information about the importance apparel and textile professionals place on selected competencies identified by the International Textile and Apparel Association (ITAA). Graduates (n=123) of an apparel and textiles (A&T) program at a four-year, public research institution were surveyed to examine which investments in self best predict post-graduation career satisfaction. The Survey of A&T Graduates' Career Satisfaction consisted of 86 items measuring perceived importance and preparation of the ITAA meta-goals and competencies, career satisfaction, co-curricular activity involvement, on-the-job training, health and well-being, career competencies, and willingness to relocate. Multiple regression showed that Career Competencies and Health and Well-being best predicted participants' post-graduation career satisfaction. Participants rated the Professional Development meta-goal; the Ethics, Social Responsibility, and Sustainability meta-goal; and Critical and Creative Thinking meta-goal of highest importance. These same meta-goals received highest perceived preparation ratings. Lastly, ANOVA findings revealed that buyers, retail managers, marketing professionals and others indicated differences in perceptions of competencies and meta-goals. The buyers/merchandisers rated the Industry Processes and the Critical and Creative Thinking meta-goals of higher importance than retail managers. Retail managers perceived the Global Interdependence meta-goal as less important than marketing professionals did. The Ethics, Social Responsibility, and Sustainability meta-goal was perceived more important by retail managers than “others” category did. Graduates' career satisfaction differed mostly by Income levels (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Rachel Vannatta Reinhart (Advisor); Gregory Rich (Other); Barbara Frazier (Committee Member); Joyce Litten (Committee Member); Patrick Pauken (Committee Member) Subjects: Adult Education; Curricula; Curriculum Development; Design; Economic Theory; Economics; Education; Education Policy; Educational Evaluation; Educational Leadership; Health; Health Education; Higher Education; Higher Education Administration; Home Economics; Home Economics Education; Mental Health

Doctor of Philosophy, University of Toledo, 2014, College of Social Justice and Human Service

Community colleges now serve more than 13 million students annually, nearly half of all American undergraduates. Because of their open access mission, community colleges are a primary point of entry for many students, particularly underserved populations. Timely degree completion for associate-degree seeking students is important for promoting social equality and economic development. This dissertation examined what influence if any input and environmental variables, specifically the amount and type of federal financial aid received have on a community college student's time to associate degree attainment. Data from the Beginning Postsecondary Students (BPS) 2004-2009 dataset were used to conduct a multiple regression analysis using a weighted total of 288,436 graduates. The final model identified 124 variables that were significantly related to months enrolled prior to associate degree attainment, and explained 42.3% of variance. Initial and ongoing goals and commitments emerged as the strongest predictors of time to associate degree attainment, followed by financial aid variables. This study supports Vincent Tinto's student departure model; it provides a foundation for future research, and can inform theory, policy and practice.

Committee: Ronald Opp Ph.D. (Committee Chair); Debra Gentry Ph.D. (Committee Member); Sunday Griffith Ph.D. (Committee Member); Edward St. John Ed.D. (Committee Member) Subjects: Higher Education Administration

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2020, Kinesiology

There are many factors to consider when analyzing the success of a coach. Previous research into the coaching profession has primarily focused on the psychological, educational, and strategical elements of a coach (Gordon, 2017; Hedlund, Fletch, Pack, & Dahlin, 2018; Kim, Lee, & Kang, 2019; Koschmann, 2019; Lee, Chelladurai, & Kim, 2015). Very little research has been done considering the role that networks and relationships may play in effecting outcomes related to coaching and how coaches acquire their human and social capital. Network theory has become an emerging and innovative theoretical framework used for analyzing the various types of relationships which occur in sport (Quatman & Chelladurai, 2008). One specific area of sport which would benefit from a better understanding of the network is in college football, particularly the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) Power-5 Conferences. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to conduct an in-depth exploratory analysis which examines the role of networks at one of the most important levels of sport, in order to help researchers understand what network structures exist and how these structures operationalize the spread of human and social capital in the network of Power-5 coaches.

Committee: Donna Pastore Dr. (Advisor); Catherine Quatman-Yates Dr. (Committee Member); Leeann Lower-Hoppe Dr. (Committee Member); Brian Turner Dr. (Committee Member) Subjects: Sports Management

Doctor of Philosophy in Urban Studies and Public Affairs, Cleveland State University, 2015, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs

A region's workforce has been described as its greatest asset. Guided by human capital theory and new growth theory, regions have pursued economic development policies to increase the number of college-educated workers and expand the pool of STEM -- science, technology, engineering, and math -- talent. Academic literature and policy interventions have focused on a region's human capital in terms of educational attainment instead of a more fine-grained definition of human capital based on skills and competencies. This dissertation integrates economic and business theory and combines three federal databases to explore regional human capital assets. Findings suggest that policymakers may be overestimating the importance of STEM knowledge requiring a bachelor's degree or higher and undervaluing the importance of soft skills such as communication and critical-thinking. Moreover, results indicate that regions may be best served by crafting distinct human capital interventions that reflect the particular needs of their mix of industry.

Committee: Edward W. (Ned) Hill PhD (Committee Chair); Nicholas C. Zingale PhD (Committee Member); Wendy C. Regoeczi PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: Education Policy; Labor Economics; Public Policy; Urban Planning

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2014, Comparative Studies

The goal of this dissertation is to demonstrate some of the ways in which neoliberal social and economic discourse, in particular the work of Friedrich Hayek and Gary Becker, has influenced the cultural evolution of the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. Chapter One introduces the scope and methods of the project and situates market-oriented social epistemology alongside the development of complexity theory in the physical and information sciences. Chapter Two situates Hayek's philosophies of social science and communication within the broader science cultures of the postwar decades, arguing that his conceptualization of prices and markets is deeply rooted in coterminous projects of cybernetics and general systems theory. Consequently, Hayek's ideas about autonomy, information, and cultural transmission are seen to dovetail with the dominant scientific paradigms and media technologies of the late twentieth century. Chapter Three argues that contemporary financial markets and telematic screen cultures have become operationally analogous in their actualization of neoliberal rationality and social thought. Expanding my reading of neoliberalism beyond Hayek's macrological approach to examine the emerging and all-consuming micrological approach of “human capital” theorists like Becker, this chapter details the ways in which new media platforms, algorithmic cultural practices, and what cultural critics have named the “financialization of daily life” have become primary agents of governmentality today. Chapter Four offers an original interpretation of Michel Foucault's 1979 lectures on neoliberalism, one that reads the abrupt change of course in his research—which, directly following his interrogations of Hayek, Becker, and others, jumped from contemporary political economy to ancient cultures of self-care—as an attempt to locate a genealogical precedent for the subjectivist governmental rationality he had revealed as a dominant theme of neoliberal discourse. (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Brian Rotman (Committee Co-Chair); Philip Armstrong (Committee Co-Chair); Eugene Holland (Committee Member); Kris Paulsen (Committee Member) Subjects: Communication; Comparative; Economic Theory; Philosophy; Philosophy of Science; Social Research; Social Structure; Technology; Web Studies