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 Dr. Kath's Research Lab  





Training Effectiveness and Motivation Lab ----------------------------
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Lisa M. Kath

Applied Psychology


Curriculum Vitae



In general, our research lab focuses on workplace training motivation and effectiveness, self-efficacy, organizational climate and change, and women and minorities in the workplace. More specifically, we’re currently working on:

  • Workplace stress
  • Sexual harassment awareness training effectiveness
  • Safety training effectiveness
  • Diversity training effectiveness



Grants
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  • Currently, my research on the effectiveness of sexual harassment awareness training is being funded by:

    National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Minority Research Infrastructure Support Program Minigrant (August 2007-July 2008). Principal Investigator: Lisa Kath.
    Project title: Effectiveness of Ethics-based Sexual Harassment Awareness Training
    Funding in the amount of $27,314 to cover teaching release for PI and experiment materials development.

  • My research on workplace stress experienced by nurse managers and directors is being funded by:

    AWHONN (August 2007-July 2008). co-Principal Investigators: Jaynelle Stichler, Mark Ehrhart, and Lisa Kath.
    Project title: Understanding Workplace Stress Experienced by AWHONN Nurse Managers
    Funding in the amount of $10,000 to cover research assistant salary and survey development, deployment, and analyses.









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Current Projects
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  • Effectiveness of Sexual Harassment Awareness Training (with Bowes-Sperry)
    • Designing and preparing computer-based training (CBT) modules
    • Collecting experimental data using the CBT training modules

  • Workplace Stress of Nurse Managers (with Stichler and Ehrhart)
    • Identifying scales and creating survey instruments
    • Collecting survey data across multiple hospitals

  • Grocery Store Employees Safety (with McGonagle and Mathieu)
    • Analyzing data to determine how organizations can help employees be safe at work

  • Comprehensive List of Measures Project, CLOMP (with Ehrhart)
    • Creating a MS Word document and MS Access database with survey scales









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