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- Genre: Doctoral Dissertation
- Creators: Jiang, Zhan
- Creators: Counts, Virginia
- Creators: Harmon-Vaughan, Elizabeth
- Creators: Ozel, Filiz
- Member of: ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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ABSTRACT Recent studies indicate that top-performing companies have higher-performing work environments than average companies. They receive higher scores for worker satisfaction with their overall physical work environment as well as higher effectiveness ratings for their workspaces (Gensler, 2008; Harter et al., 2003). While these studies indicate a relationship between effective office design and satisfaction they have not explored which specific space types may contribute to workers' overall satisfaction with their physical work environment. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between workers' overall satisfaction with their physical work environments and their perception of the effectiveness of spaces designed for Conceptual Age work including learning, focusing, collaborating, and socializing tasks. This research is designed to identify which workspace types are related to workers' satisfaction with their overall work environment and which are perceived to be most and least effective. To accomplish this two primary and four secondary research questions were developed for this study. The first primary question considers overall workers' satisfaction with their overall physical work environments (offices, workstations, hallways, common areas, reception, waiting areas, etc.) related to the effective use of work mode workspaces (learning, focusing, collaborating, socializing). The second primary research question was developed to identify which of the four work mode space types had the greatest and least relationship to workers' satisfaction with the overall physical work environment. Secondary research questions were developed to address workers' perceptions of effectiveness of each space type. This research project used data from a previous study collected from 2007 to 2012. Responses were from all staff levels of US office-based office workers and resulted in a blind sample of approximately 48,000 respondents. The data for this study were developed from SPSS data reports that included descriptive data and Pearson correlations. Findings were developed from those statistics using coefficient of determination.
ContributorsHarmon-Vaughan, Elizabeth (Author) / Kroelinger, Michael D. (Thesis advisor) / Bernardi, Jose (Committee member) / Ozel, Filiz (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2013
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The 21st-century professional or knowledge worker spends much of the working day engaging others through electronic communication. The modes of communication available to knowledge workers have rapidly increased due to computerized technology advances: conference and video calls, instant messaging, e-mail, social media, podcasts, audio books, webinars, and much more. Professionals who think for a living express feelings of stress about their ability to respond and fear missing critical tasks or information as they attempt to wade through all the electronic communication that floods their inboxes. Although many electronic communication tools compete for the attention of the contemporary knowledge worker, most professionals use an electronic personal information management (PIM) system, more commonly known as an e-mail application and often the ubiquitous Microsoft Outlook program. The aim of this research was to provide knowledge workers with solutions to manage the influx of electronic communication that arrives daily by studying the workers in their working environment. This dissertation represents a quest to understand the current strategies knowledge workers use to manage their e-mail, and if modification of e-mail management strategies can have an impact on productivity and stress levels for these professionals. Today’s knowledge workers rarely work entirely alone, justifying the importance of also exploring methods to improve electronic communications within teams.
ContributorsCounts, Virginia (Author) / Parrish, Kristen (Thesis advisor) / Allenby, Braden (Thesis advisor) / Landis, Amy (Committee member) / Cooke, Nancy J. (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2018
Description本文采用2010年1月1日至2017年12月31日在香港主板IPO上市的共574家公司作为研究样本，系统采集包括与发行人、承销商、投资人、发行热度、市场每日交易数据等相关的数据近100项，对超额配售选择权在香港IPO中的实际效用进行实证研究，研究发现：1）超额配售选择的确可以起到提高发行价格，降低IPO抑价率的作用，但是同时也是破发的主要原因。2）由超额配售选择权赋予承销商稳价行为中，市场买入量越大，最大回撤越大，市场下跌风险越大同时超额配售选择权还导致了最大回撤日的推后，增大了稳价结束后的市场风险，而这很有可能是由于承销商追求更高利益造成的。3）没有证据显示，超额配售选择权会降低承销商的佣金比例，但是，超额配售选择权却为承销商带来非常高的额外收益，而这个收益与市场下跌幅度和承销商从市场购买股份的比例直接相关。
其中，本文首次对最大回撤率、最大回撤日与承销商市场买入量之间的关系进行实证研究，揭示了承销商市场买入量与承销商收益正相关，与最大回撤率负相关，与最大回撤日正相关的关系，可能是增加市场下跌风险的因素。这与现有理论中及监管机构的预期中，“超额配售选择权具有向上稳定价格的作用”是有一定偏差的。
根据研究结果，本文首先建议发行人要客观对待超额配售选择权提升发行价格的作用，以免引起破发。其次建议市场投资人要客观认识超额配售选择权的作用，不要由于超额配售选择权的存在给与发行过高的认同价格。再次建议发行人要能够认识到超额配售选择权是承销商零成本获得的一个有固定收益保障的看空期权，是承销商在承销IPO时的收益之一，而股价下跌幅度与承销商的收益正相关。因此要对承销商的稳价行为进行一定管控，同时可以因为超额配售选择权的存在而要求更低的承销佣金比例。最后建议承销商要维护市场公平，爱护自己的声誉，尽可能避免因超额配售选择权的使用对市场造成不应有的干扰。
其中，本文首次对最大回撤率、最大回撤日与承销商市场买入量之间的关系进行实证研究，揭示了承销商市场买入量与承销商收益正相关，与最大回撤率负相关，与最大回撤日正相关的关系，可能是增加市场下跌风险的因素。这与现有理论中及监管机构的预期中，“超额配售选择权具有向上稳定价格的作用”是有一定偏差的。
根据研究结果，本文首先建议发行人要客观对待超额配售选择权提升发行价格的作用，以免引起破发。其次建议市场投资人要客观认识超额配售选择权的作用，不要由于超额配售选择权的存在给与发行过高的认同价格。再次建议发行人要能够认识到超额配售选择权是承销商零成本获得的一个有固定收益保障的看空期权，是承销商在承销IPO时的收益之一，而股价下跌幅度与承销商的收益正相关。因此要对承销商的稳价行为进行一定管控，同时可以因为超额配售选择权的存在而要求更低的承销佣金比例。最后建议承销商要维护市场公平，爱护自己的声誉，尽可能避免因超额配售选择权的使用对市场造成不应有的干扰。
ContributorsXie, Hui (Author) / Gu, Bin (Thesis advisor) / Yan, Hong (Thesis advisor) / Jiang, Zhan (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2019
Description在科创企业中，知识型员工占据绝大比重，如何调动知识型员工的工作积极性，激发其更有效地投入时间和精力、贡献知识对企业持续成长十分关键。现有研究关注到授权管理对员工激励的重要性，但仅强调制度形式上的授权，忽视了员工主观感知层面的授权，授权激励的有效性难以保障。另外，由于知识型员工的自主性、独立性较高，管理者仅强调结果性激励，忽视了员工在过程中需要的帮助和支持，从而难以提高工作效率。本研究从心理感知视角出发，探讨了知识型员工的心理授权和工作投入度之间的关系，并进一步分析组织创新氛围的调节作用。本研究收集了8家科创企业，共421份有效问卷，通过信度、效度和共同方法偏差分析后，利用回归分析验证了心理授权对工作投入度的促进作用。具体来看，心理授权前三个维度的工作意义、自主性、自我效能对工作投入度三个维度活力、奉献和专注都有正向的促进作用，而第四个维度工作影响对奉献的正向作用显著，对其他维度的影响不显著。在组织创新氛围的调节方面，发现领导躬行、上级支持、团队协力正向调节自主性与奉献之间的关系，而在其他关系中的影响不显著。意味着当员工能够自行安排工作实施方式和进度时，充分的组织支持能够提高其投入时间和精力意愿，而对于体现工作精神状态的活力和专注没有显著影响。另外，组织促进，即组织宽松自由的氛围，负向调节自主性与工作专注度的关系，意味着高度工作授权和过于宽松的氛围，容易滋生懒散行为，反而会降低工作效率。
在实践方面，科创企业需要充分关注员工主观感知到的工作授权，并在工作目标和内容明确的情况下，对工作方式和进度进行有效控制。其次，企业领导者要以身作则，打造和谐和互相帮助的文化氛围，以保证员工在日常工作可获得足够的帮助。另外，工作授权需要张弛有度，过度宽松的工作方式和氛围容易降低员工的专注度，反而会降低工作效率。
ContributorsFeng, Hua (Author) / Zhang, John (Thesis advisor) / Shi, Weilei (Thesis advisor) / Jiang, Zhan (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2022
Description本文基于我国2006-2020年间IPO的上市公司上市当年的样本数据，研究了IPO视角下大股东控制权结构对上市公司盈利成长性的影响效应及影响机制。首先从机理上探讨了大股东控制权结构对上市公司盈利成长性的影响效应、中介机制和调节机制，并相应地构建了本文的三个研究假说。接下来，本文构建了证研究框架，具体包括模型构建、变量选择与数据选取三方面。最后，进行实证分析以验证本文的三个研究假说。通过实证研究，本文发现：首先，大股东控制权结构对上市公司盈利成长性存在显著影响，具体表现为大股东控制权中直接持股比重越高，上市公司盈利成长性则越低；第二，在大股东控制权中直接持股比重对上市公司盈利成长性的负影响中，存在着来自公司主营业务投入的负向中介效应，约占总影响效应的0.162；第三，在大股东控制权中直接持股比重对上市公司盈利成长性的负影响中，还存在着来自公司主营业务利润的负向调节作用，并且在考虑调节作用后，大股东控制权中直接持股比重对上市公司盈利成长性的直接影响不再显著；第四，大股东控制权中直接持股比重对上市公司盈利成长性的影响效应及其具体作用机制主要存在于制造业公司中，而在非制造业公司中并不明显。
最后，基于研究结论，本文从上市公司治理的角度提出两点提升公司盈利成长性的对策建议：一是上市公司尤其是制造业上市公司，在经营管理中应适度引入外部投资机构；二是上市公司在经营管理过程中应注重于主营业务的发展。
ContributorsLuo, Xuan (Author) / Shen, Wei (Thesis advisor) / Cheng, Shijun (Thesis advisor) / Jiang, Zhan (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2023