Barbara Wech

Barbara Wech
Associate Professor of Business

Associate Professor (P), Management, Information Systems and Quantitative Methods , Collat School of Business

Overview

Dr. Barbara Wech is an Associate Professor in the Management, Information Systems, and Quantitative Methods department in the Collat School of Business. She holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Louisiana State University, majoring in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management and minoring in Industrial Organizational Psychology. Dr. Wech is the Director of the Collat School of Business honors program and currently serves as Equity Advisor for the CSOB. She brings experience as a Human Resources manager in the manufacturing industry in both nonunion and unionized settings. Her research interests include workplace bullying, aggression, incivility, and violence. She has also conducted research in the areas of teams and trust. Her current interest is the impact of industry on the perception of acceptability of violence in the workplace.

Selected Publications

Academic Article

Year	Title	Altmetric
2020	Workplace Bullying Model: a Qualitative Study on Bullying in Hospitals. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal. 32:73-96. 2020
2019	Workplace bullying model: A qualitative study on bullying in hospitals. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal. 2019
2018	Creating a Learning Culture in the Accounting Department 2018
2017	Managerial Succession Planning for a Viable Organizational Future 2017
2016	Aggression and Bullying in the Workplace: It’s the Position of the Perpetrator that Influences Employees’ Reactions and Sanctioning Ratings. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal. 28:79-100. 2016
2016	Aggression and Bullying in the Workplace: It's the Position of the Perpetrator that Influences Employees' Reactions and Sanctioning Ratings.. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal. 2016
2015	Managing poor performance to a successful conclusion 2015
2013	Sources, reactions, and tactics used by RNs to address aggression in an acute care hospital: A qualitative analysis. JONA's Healthcare Law, Ethics and Regulation. 43:155-159. 2013
2013	Engaging remote employees: The moderating role of "remote" status in determining employee information security policy awareness 2013
2013	Reigning in the Remote Employee: Applying Social Learning Theory to Explain Information Security Policy Compliance Attitudes 2013
2013	Sources, reactions, and tactics used by RNs to address aggression in an acute care hospital 2013
2012	A Model of Organizational and Job Environment Influences on Workplace Violence. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal. 24:111-127. 2012
2012	An exploration of leadership experiences among white women and women of color. Journal of Organizational Change Management. 25:392-404. 2012
2012	A Model of Organizational and Job Environment Influences on Workplace Violence. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal. 24:111-127. 2012
2012	An Exploration of Leadership Experiences Among White Women and Women of Color. Journal of Organizational Change Management. 25:392-404. 2012
2009	A multi-level analysis of customer contact teams. Journal of Services Marketing. 23:436-448. 2009
2009	A Multi-Level Analysis of Customer Contact Teams. Journal of Services Marketing. 23:436-448. 2009
2009	An Exploratory Study of the Comparison of Attitudes toward Business Training Between Caucasian and African American Female Small Business Owners. Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship. 21:21-37. 2009
2008	Are there differences in the perception of the importance of training for female and male entrepreneurs?. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business. 5:389-400. 2008
2008	Differences in attitudes toward business training: African-American female and male small business owners. International Journal of Business and Globalisation. 2:92-102. 2008
2007	A study of the difference in training preferences between full-time and part-time entrepreneurs. Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship. 19:45-59. 2007
2006	African American small business owners' attitudes toward business training. Journal of Small Business Management. 44:577-591. 2006
2006	African-American Small Business Owners' Attitudes Towards Business Training. Journal of Small Business Management. 44:604-618. 2006
2004	An introduction to hierarchical linear modeling for marketing researchers. 2004
2003	Samuel A. Stouffer and The American Soldier: The serendipitous discovery of relative deprivation and its contribution to management thought. 2003
2002	Trust Context: Effect on Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Supervisory Fairness, and Job Satisfaction Beyond the Influence of Leader-Member Exchange. Business and Society. 41:353-360. 2002
1998	Does work group cohesiveness affect individuals' performance and organizational commitment? A cross-level examination 1998

Chapter

Year	Title	Altmetric
2009	Job Analysis 2009

Research Overview

Dr. Wech conducts research in the areas of workplace bullying, aggression, incivility, and violence. Her current interest is the impact of industry on the perception of acceptability of violence in the workplace.