Examining Agency in Workplace Learningwith Cooperative Extension ProfessionalsThis basic interpretative qualitative study explored the role of individual agency within the learning experience of Cooperative Extension 4-H professionals in their workplace. Learning is a social and individual...
Factors that Deter Enlisted Personnel in Army Military Intelligence to Obtain a College Degree The purpose of this convergent, mixed-methods study was to identify the factors that deter United States Army mid to senior level enlisted service members within the Military Intelligence (MI) to obtain...
The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine how social network structure affects organizational learning. The site studied was a research and development organization that assists its clients with solving their challenging problems. This quantitative study was based on social network...
During a major organizational change, according to Albert and Whetten (1985), organizational members engage in the self-reflective question: Who are we as an organization? This study examined two of the four dynamic processes—reflecting and expressing of culture and identity—documented in Hatch...
Problem. With the high level of importance placed on service quality, and a lack of studies on the service behaviors of frontline service employees, this study was conducted to explore the influences of organizational identity (OI) on the service-oriented organizational citizenship behaviors...
This study used an ex-post facto survey for data collection and structural equation modeling for data analysis to explore the combined relationship of psychological capital and social capital on the severity of second victim syndrome experienced by registered nurses. Specifically, this study...
This phenomenological study seeks to explore the lived experiences that have led Millennials through a meaning-making process to discover their callings. The primary research question framing this study addresses what the relationship is between Millennials’ meaning-making process and the...
Abstract of DissertationThe Interaction of Change Agent Actions and Perceived Change Recipient ResponsesDuring Planned Organizational Change: A Strong Structuration StudyThis instrumental case study explored the interaction between change agent strategy and perceived change recipient response...
AbstractComplexity Leadership, Generative Emergence, and Innovation in High Performing Nonprofit OrganizationsThis study examined the function of complexity leadership in the generative emergence of new ideas in a high-performance nonprofit organization. The conceptual framework for the study...
This study contributes to the understanding of how and why many different individuals, from different walks of life, educational backgrounds, career fields, and generations, are able to survive a destructive leadership experience. This study focused on those who lived through the experience of a...
Abstract of the DissertationThis study involved a corporation that has developed new ways of organizing and managing its resources, which challenge the traditional influence models of leadership. The basic research question was: “How does power function differently with remote workers than with...
This phenomenological study explored the experience of integrating the body in learning from the perspective of coaches and trainers who had a deep understanding of the relevance of the body for learning, growth, and change and who engaged in body-oriented practices. The challenge addressed by...
Research and development (R&D;) innovation has become an important competitive advantage that is essential to the biopharma industry and critical to drug development (Bennani, 2012; Cuatrecasas, 2006; Douglas, et al., 2010; Garnier, 2008; Hine & Kapeleris, 2006; McKelvey, 2008; Pisano, 2006,...
Talent management (TM), first introduced in 1997 by McKinsey & Company consultants, is broadly defined as the creation and maintenance of human capital management systems designed to support organizational success by effectively recruiting, utilizing, developing, and retaining high-performing and...
This research study examined the organizational identification process of lay church leaders. The organizational identification process is important to all organizations, as it increases an individual’s connection to the organization and thus has the potential to increase attendance, commitment,...
Impact on Learning and Leadership of Trainees in a Federal Agency Executive Coach Training Program: An Exploratory Case StudyThe challenges facing leaders in the federal government are complex, significant, and diverse. These challenges have been exacerbated by a changing global landscape,...
The concept of implementing organizational learning principles in an organization to help individuals and groups “learn to learn” (Schein, 2017), thereby making the ongoing adaptation and change that inevitably occurs in organizations more successful, is an interesting problem to explore. While...
This qualitative transcendental phenomenological study (Husserl, 1931; Moustakas, 1994; Moerer-Urdahl & Creswell, 2004; Vagle, 2014) of professional identity explored the lived human experience of the threat of loss of professional identity among American military pilots in light of an emerging...
This study sought to understand how women entrepreneurs learn to become entrepreneurs in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The KSA’s context has a significant impact on the manifestation of entrepreneurial learning (EL) processes and the development of entrepreneurial identity. However, no...
This basic qualitative study addressed one research question: How do African American male leaders in predominantly white K-12 independent schools describe their strategies for navigating social identity? The study utilized the semistructured interview format (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016). The...
Abstract of DissertationAmerican Managers’ Lived Experience in U.S. Affiliates of Korean Companies: A Phenomenological Study in Cross-Cultural FollowershipForeign direct investment is an important part of the U.S. economy, and foreign companies employ 6.8 million Americans. Therefore, it is...
This qualitative, bounded, single case study centered on the process of building and leading the top management team during a presidential transition at a private, not-for-profit, coeducational, faith-based university in the United States. Specifically, the research concentrated on the dynamics...
This study investigated the construct of the learning organization, providing a qualitative analysis of how learning occurs in financial organizations through the lens of Marquardt’s (2011) Systems Learning Organization Model. Data were gathered through five methods: the Learning Organization...
This narrative inquiry explores the professional identity construction of Black women U.S. Government Senior Executive Service members in the Washington, DC area. In line with narrative inquiry methodology, this study is guided by a research puzzle. The research puzzle guiding this study concerns...
This qualitative, descriptive case study explored the social learning process within complex systems as described by product support managers (PSMs) assigned to acquisition programs within the Naval Air Systems Command. The research questions asked how individuals, as influenced by their values...
This qualitative research study (Merriam & Tisdell, 2016) informed by an a priori theoretical framework gathered perspectives of female law enforcement leaders on their experiences leading in hegemonic masculine police cultures (Archbold & Schulz, 2012; Morash & Haarr, 2012; Rabe-Hemp, 2009) to...
As history has taught us, cybersecurity incidents can be devastating to individuals, organizations, and nations. Unfortunately, the U.S. federal government has not been immune from the reality of the devastation caused by cybersecurity incidents. However, it has been suggested that a stronger...
Higher education is an immense sector with more than 20.4 million students, 4 million employees including 1.6 million faculty members, and estimated aggregate expenditures exceeding $400 billion not including the for-profit institutions. Colleges and universities are among our nation’s most...
A Brave New World at the Cyber-Energy Nexus: A Case Study on Cyber Security, Resilience and Organizational Change is a novel and timely study that provides an in-depth exploration of one organization’s decade-long transformation to become more cyber resilient. This case study is framed by two...
This phenomenological study focused on the lived experiences of modern day polymaths. The constructs of openness to experience, identity, self-directed learning, polymathy or multi-disciplinarily, and intrapersonal functional diversity were used to frame the research. The primary theoretical lens...
Abstract of DissertationEmployee Engagement: Exploring the Experiences of How Voice and Silence Relate to Public Sector Employees’ Feeling of Being EngagedWithin the public sector there is a growing understanding of the importance of employee engagement as a medium for driving the various...
It is increasingly being recognized that students are not developing all the skills in school that employers need. Much of this skill gap stems from students not developing soft skills such as the ability to communicate, form interpersonal relationships, and act professionally. This is a problem...
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to understand the process of learning and organization development and change (ODC) in a community-based enterprise in Myanmar as impacted by a certificate program in organizational development. Decades of military rule, civil war, and limited access...
While women entrepreneurs have significantly contributed to the U.S. economy, their enterprises have been depicted as being smaller, having less profits, concentrating in low-profit sectors, and generating fewer jobs than their male counterparts (Blank et al., 2010; Hughes, Jennings, Brush,...
With little preexisting religious, cultural and social ties, refugees undergo extreme circumstances and great struggle while thriving for a new beginning and new identity. This study examined the identity emergence, influencing social forces, social learning implications, and assimilating into a...
Narratives of Mothering & Work:A Critical Exploration of the Intersectional Experiences of Mothers of ColorThe position I adopt in this study, aligned with Lyotard (1979), asserts that the master narrative guiding societal and organizational beliefs, values, and knowledge about mothering and work...
This phenomenological study examined the lived experience of 13 active mediators who conduct mediations between individuals of differing collectives (race, gender, age, religion, etc.). These mediators were volunteers, human resource professionals, or other external professionals utilized to...
Nationally, over 84 million Americans live in areas that do not have access to a sufficient number of primary care providers, with the majority being in low socioeconomic urban areas. Many physicians who are recruited or choose to practice in these areas leave after several years, while others...
This study explored how middle managers experienced and responded to role ambiguity after they transitioned from previous roles well understood by the individuals and their role sets to new or redefined middle manager roles in high knowledge-based organizations (HKBO) that had undergone planned...
Abstract of the DissertationDeveloping Their Voices: The Experiences of Women Senior Executives in Federal Government as They Develop VoiceThe “glass ceiling” (Hymowitz & Schellhardt, 1986), invisible barriers preventing women from reaching executive-level organizational positions, has not been...
Presently referred to as the “silver tsunami”, Baby Boomers are retiring from the federal government in mass volumes threatening the leadership structure and institutional knowledge of the federal workforce. Yet, Millennial workers are entering the workforce in large numbers with over 82 million...
Here Be Dragons: How Global Business Executives Navigate Change and ParadoxGlobalization has resulted in increased international trade, enhanced information flows, diasporas, and a greater dependence on the global economy, as well as dramatically changing the context in which leaders operate...
This qualitative, explanatory case study addressed one primary research question: How do interprofessional healthcare teams adapt in response to an adverse event? There were two subquestions: How does employing the components of change enable interprofessional healthcare teams to adapt? and How...
This basic qualitative study sought to explore how employed post 9/11 veterans with service-connected disabilities experienced the career transition from the military to the civilian workforce. Framed by career construction theory, 17 veterans, most with disabilities rated at 70% or more,...
Abstract of the DissertationDoctor’s Orders:A Grounded Theory of Physician Power Relations in the Practice of Medicine Dramatic shifts in the way healthcare and related healthcare services are delivered and managed in the United States are unfolding at an unrelenting pace. Concurrent with ongoing...
This study examined how interagency collaboration occurs within one local transition community of practice using Wenger's (1998) social theory of learning. While postschool outcomes of youth with disabilities have improved moderately, there continue to be many barriers based upon changes in...
AbstractThis study explored the lived experience of subordinates in interracial supervisor-subordinate dyadic working relationships in nonprofit social welfare organizations. Although contemporary leadership theories explore leaders' traits, characteristics, skills, competencies of, and the...
This qualitative, exploratory case study addresses the primary research question, what is the nature of subcultures and their relationships in a flat organizational structure? The sub-question is, what effects do social networks and weak ties have on subcultures in a flat organizational...
Web 2.0 has transformed the way people interact in their personal and, more recently, professional lives. As professionals who create a wide variety of contemporary social media applications, software engineers (or software developers, as they are professionally known) are also early adopters and...
As technology-mediated learning continues to expand, gain critical favor, and show promise for solving a number of critical issues inherent in educating future generations, leaders of online learning (OL) units within higher education face complex challenges. It is critical that leaders of these...