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Item Open Access Safe Is Not Enough: Better Schools for LGBTQ StudentsFine, Leigh E.; fine; Fine, Leigh E.The preponderance of literature related to LGBTQ youth prior to the mid-2000s tended to focus on the ways in which claiming a minority sexual or gender identity led to persistent disadvantage in American society. Schools in particular were found to be spaces where homophobia and transphobia were omnipresent, leaving queer young people with low self-esteem, high levels of fear, and numerous reports of vicitimization (D’Augelli et al. 2001; van Wormer and McKinney 2003). Since the mid-2000s, though, a new stream of literature has begun to explore the ways in which LGBTQ youth are resilient and in what contexts they thrive (McCormack 2012; Savin-Williams 2005). Michael Sadowski’s book Safe Is Not Enough: Better Schools for LGBTQ Students is an important contribution to the latter tradition.Item Open Access Item Open Access Organizational slack, firm performance, and the role of industry(2013-03-21) Wefald, Andrew J.; Katz, Jeffrey P.; Downey, Ronald G.; Rust, Kathleen G.; wefald; jkatz; downeyItem Open Access Organizational slack and performance: the impact of outliers(2013-03-21) Wefald, Andrew J.; Katz, Jeffrey P.; Downey, Ronald G.; Rust, Kathleen G.; wefald; jkatz; downeyExtending initial theory development and empirical studies conducted in the early 1980s, the investigation of the relationship between slack resources and the performance of the firm has experienced renewed attention. Over the past 25 years enough empirical research has been conducted that researchers have begun to question the frequently found ambiguous results. We assess the impact statistical outliers may have on the relationship between organizational slack and firm performance trying to determine whether the positive, curvilinear, or ambiguous results that have been reported are impacted by the presence of outliers. We found that the measures of organizational slack were highly variable due to five general factors. When the outliers, extreme values, were statistically identified and removed, the relationship between organizational slack (Available Slack) and performance (ROA) became non-linear and consistent over years. Implications suggest that future research should consider the potential impact that non-normal distributed data could have on the validity of findings, particularly when employing data from archival sources. Suggestions for future research in the slack-performance relationship are offered.Item Open Access A structural model of workload, job attitudes, stress, and turnover intentions(2013-03-19) Wefald, Andrew J.; Smith, Michael R.; Savastano, Tony C.; Downey, Ronald G.; wefald; downey
