Ronald 1xbet online sports betting , Ph.D.
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Office: BH 472
Phone: Office 532-5475; Cell 785-341-6330
E-mail: 1xbet online sports betting @ksu.edu
Educational Background
University of Texas, Austin, B.A., 1966, Psychology
Temple University, M.A., 1968, Psychology
Temple University, Ph.D., 1971, Quantitative Psychology
Dr. Downey retired at the end of the 2013 academic year after 38 years of service at Kansas State University with the title of Professor Emeritus and Associate Provost Emeritus. He will continue to 1xbet online sports betting with past students and colleagues on current research projects and manuscripts.
1xbet online sports betting . Downey will be continuing as an Executive Editor for the Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied. He will also continue to serve as a reviewer for other journals in the Industrial and Organizational area.
Dr. Downey continues to be engaged in a variety of community activities. He has served on the boards for The Crisis Center, The Boys and Girls Club, United Way, and The Manhattan Community Gardens. He plans to continue 1xbet online sports betting service to the Manhattan Community.
1xbet online sports betting Interests
Over the years several themes have emerged in Dr. Downey's research. Dr. Downey’s students and colleagues have supported much of this 1xbet online sports betting . The major efforts have included: 1) part-time employment; 2) service orientation of employees; 3) 1xbet online sports betting -family conflict; 4) job stress and burnout; 5) customer contact; and employee engagement. When possible, these efforts have over lapped. Brief descriptions of these major areas follow.
1xbet online sports betting Employment: As part of a contract with a quick service restaurant chain, one of Dr. Downey's graduate students conducted a study of part-time workers. This was based on a nation-wide survey of crew members. This line of research identified the general characteristics of part-time workers and how they differed from full-time employees. One of the more important findings was that part-time workers with a greater sense of job control (e.g., scheduling of 1xbet online sports betting ) were more satisfied with their 1xbet online sports betting and had a lower intention to leave. Several of Dr. Downey's students' theses and dissertations involved part-time 1xbet online sports betting and control. Dr. Downey's interests in service orientation and 1xbet online sports betting -family conflict grew out of this study and were expanded in later studies.
Service Orientation of Employees: The crew survey also contained a brief set of questions related to service orientation of employees. Dr. Downey has continued working on the development of this scale. This 1xbet online sports betting has demonstrated the importance of employees' perceptions of the service environment in understanding the quality of service provided by an organization. Much of the earlier 1xbet online sports betting in this area was done in conjunction with students from the Institutional Management program here at K-State. More recently, this 1xbet online sports betting has now been linked with the Job Burnout and Customer Contact 1xbet online sports betting being done by Dr. Downey's students.
1xbet online sports betting -Family Conflict: Dr. Downey's efforts in this area were primarily carried out by two of his students in their dissertations. One linked 1xbet online sports betting -family conflict to job satisfaction and included a large part-time sample. The second dissertation developed a new approach to 1xbet online sports betting -family conflict and included the concept of family-1xbet online sports betting conflict (i.e., the degree to which 1xbet online sports betting causes conflict with the family). This is clearly a critical issue in today's workforce.
1xbet online sports betting Stress and Burnout: This is a more recent effort by Dr. Downey's students. The interest has been on understanding the antecedents and consequences of job burnout. He and his students have explicitly linked this 1xbet online sports betting to a service environment and customer contact issues. Their 1xbet online sports betting suggests that both traits of the workers and the state of the organization need to be considered in understanding the service environment.
Customer 1xbet online sports betting : This has been a more recent effort and grew out of Dr. Downey's job burnout research. Many researchers have named customer contact as the source of job burnout, but little 1xbet online sports betting has been done to empirically demonstrate this or to understand the nature of the customer contact. Preliminary 1xbet online sports betting has concerned developing a better understanding of the contact and develops ways to measure it. Preliminary research has found that customer contact is a multi-faceted construct (e.g., frequency, emotional content, etc.). The various facets are directly related to different aspects of job burnout.
Employee 1xbet online sports betting : Again, this is a more recent area of development and grew out of Drs. Peter Shin’s and Andy Wefald’s dissertations. Employee engagement is a concept about how tied workers are to the physical, emotional, and cognitive aspects of their 1xbet online sports betting . It is a relatively new area of research. Our 1xbet online sports betting has focus on Dr. Shirom’s definitions and measures. Job engagement has been found to be a good predictor of job satisfaction, job commitment; and intention to leave the job.
To contact 1xbet online sports betting . Downey email him at downey@ksu.edu.