I/O Graduate Students' Work Experiences

DePaul graduates have pursued jobs in both applied and academic settings. The following list is a sample of organizations where DePaul alumni have worked:

• 3-D Group
   
• Advocate Health Care
   
• California State University
   
• Cisco
   
• Darden Restaurants
   
• Deloitte Consulting
   
• DePaul University
   
• Disney
   
• Halverson Group
   
• Hewitt Associates
   
• Home Depot
   
• I/O Solutions, Inc.
   
• MICA Consulting Partners
   
• Motorola
   
• NIKE
   
• Organizational Psychologists, L.L.C.
   
• Organizational Studies International
   
• Personnel Decisions, Inc.
   
• Sears
   
• Square D
   
• Stanard & Associates
   
• United Airlines
   
• United States Post Office
   
• Wonderlic

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I/O Graduate Students' Master's Theses

Although students' theses often coincide with the research interests of the I/O faculty, students may explore their own interests. Below is a list of recent theses titles:

• "The Relationship Between Transformational and Transactional Leadership and Team Effectiveness: A Meta-analysis."
   
• "Destructive versus Constructive Negative Feedback: Impact on Perceptions of Organizational Justice and Task Performance in Men and Women."
   
• "Person-Centered versus Variable-Centered Approach to Goal Orientation Research."
   
• "Self and Identity within the Work Domain: The Development of a Measure of Job Identity Salience"
   
• "An Investigation of the Relationship Between Psychological Climate and Work Outcomes."
   
• "On Nepotism: An Examination of Kinship, Merit, and Perceptions of Fairness."
   
• "Predicting Workplace Retaliation: An Examination of Psychological Contracts and Fairness Heuristic Theory."
   
• "Examining Coping with Sexual Harassment Via a Motivational Perspective."
   
• "Gender and Race Differences in Perceived Fairness and Related Outcomes For a Male Caucasian Led Interpersonal Interview and Computerized Interview Condition."
   
• "Group Participative Strategy Formulation: Effects on Goal Attributes and Performance."
   
• "Organizational Strategies for Stopping and Preventing Sexual Harassment: Effective Deterrents or Continued Endurance?"
   
• "Perceptions and Uses of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993."
   
• "Personality as a Predictor of Expatriate Success."
   
• "Personality Predictors of Workplace Accidents."
   
• "Religious Influences on Faking Personality Inventories."
   
• "Self-Other Rater Agreement in Managerial Multi-Source Feedback Ratings."
   
• "The Impact of Work Beliefs, Family Socialization and Union Knowledge on Labor Union Attitudes of College Students: A Quasi-Experimental Design."

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I/O Graduate Students' Doctoral Dissertations

Students choose to complete their doctoral dissertations on a wide variety of topics.
Below is a list of recent dissertation titles:

• "The Service-Profit Chain: Understanding the Relationship Between Service and Profit in Montessori School Environments."
   
• "An Examination of Ratings Congruence and Organizational Level on Longitudinal Multi-Source Feedback Ratings."
   
• "The Use of Video and Audio Technology in Structured Interviews: Effects on Psychometric Properties, Group Differences, and Candidate Perceptions."
   
• "Global Leadership Development: Measurement Equivalence of Subordinate Feedback Ratings Across Cultures."
   
• "Organizational Climate in a Health Care Setting and Its Relationship to Patient Safety."
   
• "Humor As Emotional Labor."
   
• "Business Unit Level Relationships Between Interactional Justice, Customer Orientation, and Service Performance."
   
• "Investigation of Organizational Climate and General Psychological Climate: Implications for Organizational Commitment."
   
• "An Examination of the Validity Paradox of Assessment Centers: Is It Illusory?"
   
• "The Black Corporate Experience: Perceptions of the Impact of Skin Color and Gender on Black Professionals' Success."
   
• "The Effects of the Type of Service Interaction on the Relationship Between Employee and Customer Attitudes."
   
• "An Examination of the Influence of Climate on Multisource Feedback Ratings."
   
• "The Search for Integrity: A Leadership Impact Study."

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