Browsing by Author "Oswald, Frederick L"

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    Can organizational resources improve well-being for employed caregivers of children with disabilities?
    (2024-04-12) Wu, Felix Y; Oswald, Frederick L
    Across the United States, an estimated 32.6 million employees in 2020 have informal caregiving responsibilities for those with health conditions. For such employees, they manage not only the demands from their job, but also the demands that come with caregiving, often resulting in burnout, as well as other deleterious mental and physical health conditions. However, as suggested by the Job Demands-Resources model (JD-R model; Demerouti et al., 2001), caregiving employees may also have resources that buffer these negative health effects, such as social support at home, and flexible time arrangements in the workplace. To better understand the underlying processes, the current study examines 327 employees: 89 of whom are also caregivers for children with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD; a neuromuscular disease), and 238 are parents of children without disabilities, as a comparison group. Specifically, the study uses the JD-R model to integrate the demands and resources found in both the employment and caregiving roles and settings. My study generally did find support for demands leading to greater burnout. Yet, the impact of resources was relatively mixed, where many workplace policies did not reduce informal caregiving burnout and a rare few actually increased informal caregiving burnout. Furthermore, I did not find evidence of any resources (for the job or informal caregiving) acting as buffers for work-related and informal caregiving burnout. These results suggest that the resources received by the informal caregivers is largely inadequate, and that organizations and government should devote more effort in designing more effective and accessible work and informal caregiving resources to support working informal caregivers.
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    What makes a good leader: Validation of a situational judgment test to assess leader behavioral knowledge
    (2025-04-25) Chen, Rebecca; Oswald, Frederick L
    Leadership behavior is a critical reflection of one’s leadership capability. Notably, having knowledge of leadership behaviors contributes to actually enacting these behaviors. Thus, the purpose of the current research is to validate a situational judgment test (SJT) measure to assess leadership behavioral knowledge. The first study aims to establish a multidimensional framework of leadership behaviors based on Campbell’s Model of Leader Performance (2012) and leadership inclusion behaviors toward diversity, equity, and inclusion (Shore et al., 2011; Silver et al., 2022). Using this framework, the second study proceeds to validate a SJT measure of leadership behavioral knowledge. Study findings suggest evidence supporting the multidimensional framework of leadership behaviors, in addition to the need for further refinement and validation of the SJT leadership measure. Altogether, the findings contribute to theoretically informing the construct space of effective leadership, in addition to providing practical guidance for developing a leadership assessment to be used for future leader selection, training, and development.