Jessica Kamrath
Jessica K. Kamrath is an Assistant Professor at California State University, Fullerton. She earned her BA in Communication from the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh in June of 2005. She returned to school the following fall to earn her teaching licence. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh Cum Laude in June of 2008 with a BS in Education certified to teach grades 6-12 in Speech Communication and English.
Jessica moved to Arizona with her husband in 2008 and started working at Williams Field High School in Gilbert teaching English and Speech and Debate. Jessica also continued her coaching career and began her third season coaching Forensics/Speech and Debate, Cross Country, and Track and Field. Jessica began her masters in 2011 upon acceptance to the Masters of Communication Studies program at ASU West. She graduated in May of 2015 with her MA in Communication Studies.
Jessica graduated with her Ph.D. in Communication from the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication. Her research interests focus on organizational communication, leadership communication, and communication and sport. Specifically, she is interested in how organizational leaders can create a culture of resilience and well-being through community development approaches. She is also interested in leadership pedagogy and the impact of transformational approaches to leadership and sport culture and identity. She is passionate about education and teaching and loves teaching courses, such as Communication and the Art of Happiness, Communication and Sport, and Leadership courses.
Jessica loves spending time in the outdoors with her husband, Erik, and dog - a white boxer named Happy. She loves camping, hiking, and running. She also enjoys watching Wisconsin sports or attending sporting events.
Supervisors: Sarah J. Tracy
Phone: (657)278-3617
Address: Department of Human Communication Studies
California State University Fullerton
College Park (CP), Fullerton, CA 92831
Jessica moved to Arizona with her husband in 2008 and started working at Williams Field High School in Gilbert teaching English and Speech and Debate. Jessica also continued her coaching career and began her third season coaching Forensics/Speech and Debate, Cross Country, and Track and Field. Jessica began her masters in 2011 upon acceptance to the Masters of Communication Studies program at ASU West. She graduated in May of 2015 with her MA in Communication Studies.
Jessica graduated with her Ph.D. in Communication from the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication. Her research interests focus on organizational communication, leadership communication, and communication and sport. Specifically, she is interested in how organizational leaders can create a culture of resilience and well-being through community development approaches. She is also interested in leadership pedagogy and the impact of transformational approaches to leadership and sport culture and identity. She is passionate about education and teaching and loves teaching courses, such as Communication and the Art of Happiness, Communication and Sport, and Leadership courses.
Jessica loves spending time in the outdoors with her husband, Erik, and dog - a white boxer named Happy. She loves camping, hiking, and running. She also enjoys watching Wisconsin sports or attending sporting events.
Supervisors: Sarah J. Tracy
Phone: (657)278-3617
Address: Department of Human Communication Studies
California State University Fullerton
College Park (CP), Fullerton, CA 92831
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This study examines the ways in which employees experience moral emotions that violate employee treatment and how employees co-construct moral emotions and subsequent expressions of dissent. This qualitative study consisted of 123 full-time employees and utilized open-coding, content analysis, constant comparison analysis, and concept mapping. The analysis revealed that employees expressed dissent laterally as a series of sensemaking processes, such as validation of feelings, moral assessments, and assessing the fear of moral transgressions. Employees also expressed dissent as a series of risk assessments that overlapped with the ways in which employees made sense of the perceived infraction. Employees’ lateral dissent expression manifested as a form of social support which occasionally led to co-rumination. Employees expressed dissent upwardly when seeking a desired action or change. Circumvention was utilized as a direct reflection to the type and degree of moral transgression related to the person responsible for the mistreatment. Results indicated that experiencing moral emotions that led to expressing dissent with a designated audience was determined by where employees were situated in the cyclical model of communicating moral emotions and in relation to the co-construction of both the infraction related to employee mistreatment and the experience of moral emotions. Results contribute to the existing body of literature on dissent and emotions. A discussion synthesizing the findings and analysis is presented, in addition to the implications for future research.
KEYWORDS: Emotion, Dissent, Moral Emotions, Sensemaking, Risk-Assessment, Social Support, Co-Rumination
This study examines the ways in which employees experience moral emotions that violate employee treatment and how employees co-construct moral emotions and subsequent expressions of dissent. This qualitative study consisted of 123 full-time employees and utilized open-coding, content analysis, constant comparison analysis, and concept mapping. The analysis revealed that employees expressed dissent laterally as a series of sensemaking processes, such as validation of feelings, moral assessments, and assessing the fear of moral transgressions. Employees also expressed dissent as a series of risk assessments that overlapped with the ways in which employees made sense of the perceived infraction. Employees’ lateral dissent expression manifested as a form of social support which occasionally led to co-rumination. Employees expressed dissent upwardly when seeking a desired action or change. Circumvention was utilized as a direct reflection to the type and degree of moral transgression related to the person responsible for the mistreatment. Results indicated that experiencing moral emotions that led to expressing dissent with a designated audience was determined by where employees were situated in the cyclical model of communicating moral emotions and in relation to the co-construction of both the infraction related to employee mistreatment and the experience of moral emotions. Results contribute to the existing body of literature on dissent and emotions. A discussion synthesizing the findings and analysis is presented, in addition to the implications for future research.
KEYWORDS: Emotion, Dissent, Moral Emotions, Sensemaking, Risk-Assessment, Social Support, Co-Rumination