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My research focuses on how leaders and teams learn, adapt and develop over time. This research helps us understand how people learn leadership skills through life experience, the impact of experience on how individuals see themselves as leaders, and how organizations can support experience-based leadership development. This research also shows how teams adapt to dynamic challenges and the role of leadership in facilitating team learning and adaptation. Below is a collection of articles, presentations, and assessments that were developed as part of this research program.
Identifies the types of developmental experiences that promote leadership skill development, and shows the importance of feedback and having a learning orientation in the leadership development process.
• Journal of Applied Psychology
Describes the process by which people come to see themselves as leaders.
• Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations: Building a Theoretical and Research foundation
Reviews the literature on team leadership and specifies the leadership structures and processes that drive team performance.
• Journal of Management
Examines the types of events that can disrupt team functioning and how leaders should respond to these disruptive events to ensure teams adapt effectively.
• Leadership Quarterly
Discusses how teams must achieve a fit with their external environment and their internal composition in order to be successful.
• Perspectives on Organizational Fit
Discusses common misconceptions about teams in organizations and how HR practice should change to address these misconceptions.
• Human Resource Management
Describes the process by which people come to see themselves as leaders. Harvard Business School.
Shows the impact of developmental experiences on leadership skill development. Duke University.
Early report of a study on how different leadership networks in teams impact team creativity and performance. Erasmus University Rotterdam.
The five key questions you must answer in order to successfully launch and complete the dissertation process. Academy of Management.
A framework for how to publish high quality scholarly research in the organizational sciences. Academy of Management.
Based on my research, I have created a series of assessments and training tools that can be used to facilitate leadership and team development. The assessments enhance individual and team self-awareness regarding key drivers of leadership success. The training tools challenge individuals and teams in ways that facilitate and promote leadership skill development. If you would like more information on these assessments and training tools, please contact me.
Reviews the literature on team leadership and specifies the leadership structures and processes that drive team performance.
• Journal of Management
Identifies the types of developmental experiences that promote leadership skill development, and shows the importance of feedback and having a learning orientation in the leadership development process.
• Journal of Applied Psychology
Examines the types of events that can disrupt team functioning and how leaders should respond to these disruptive events to ensure teams adapt effectively.
• Leadership Quarterly
Describes the process by which people come to see themselves as leaders.
• Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations: Building a Theoretical and Research foundation
Describes different configurations of efficacy (confidence) in teams, and how these configurations impact team processes and performance.
• Personnel Psychology
Shows how team members helping each other can backfire and actually interfere with team success.
• Journal of Applied Psychology
Shows how teams can effectively adapt to disruptive events, in this case a downsizing event that requires teams to adapt in order to achieve team goals.
• Academy of Management Journal
Examines how individuals’ perceptions of fit with their team evolve and what factors predict these changes in fit over time.
• Journal of Applied Psychology
Discusses common misconceptions about teams in organizations and how HR practice should change to address these misconceptions.
• Human Resource Management
Discusses how teams should organize and function in order to rapidly and efficiently achieve high levels of creativity.
• Research on Managing Groups and Teams
Discusses how teams must achieve a fit with their external environment and their internal composition in order to be successful.
• Perspectives on Organizational Fit
Investigates the conditions under which being transparent and straightforward in negotiations is a liability.
• Journal of Applied Psychology
Shows the effects of workload and affect at work on conflict and participation in social activities at home. The results are troublesome considering how time and energy we invest at work.
• Journal of Applied Psychology
Investigates the impact of individuals’ subjective fit perceptions on job performance, satisfaction, and organizational commitment.
• Journal of Applied Psychology
Illustrates the adverse impact of small sample sizes on statistical analyses.
• Journal of Applied Psychology
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