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Kentucky Voices: Education Reform Is Futile Without New Set Of Principles, Aaron W. Hughey
Kentucky Voices: Education Reform Is Futile Without New Set Of Principles, Aaron W. Hughey
Counseling & Student Affairs Faculty Publications
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Book Review: Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure, Aaron W. Hughey
Book Review: Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure, Aaron W. Hughey
Counseling & Student Affairs Faculty Publications
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Developmental Leadership: A New Perspective For Human Resource Development, Paul Shelton
Developmental Leadership: A New Perspective For Human Resource Development, Paul Shelton
Faculty Publications - College of Business
Research indicates that numerous variables influence an organization’s ability to change and innovate. There is a need to understand a leadership model that focuses on the aspects of human resource development (HRD). Furthermore, it is important for the HRD model of leadership to foster and support creativity and innovation in organizations. In response to this need, this article identifies and explains a developmental leadership model rooted within the HRD framework of organized learning, change, interventions, and development. The focus of this work is to discuss how a developmental leadership style can generate new perspectives in HRD that translate to innovation …
A Tale Of Two Paradigms: The Impact Of Psychological Capital And Reinforcing Feedback On Problem Solving And Innovation, Fred Luthans, Carolyn M. Youssef, Shannon L. Rawski
A Tale Of Two Paradigms: The Impact Of Psychological Capital And Reinforcing Feedback On Problem Solving And Innovation, Fred Luthans, Carolyn M. Youssef, Shannon L. Rawski
Department of Management: Faculty Publications
This study drew from two distinct paradigms: the social cognitively based emerging field of positive organizational behavior or POB and the more established behaviorally based area of organizational behavior modification or OB Mod. The intent was to show that both can contribute to complex challenges facing today’s organizations. Using a quasi-experimental research design (N = 1,526 working adults), in general both the recently recognized core construct of psychological capital (representing POB) and reinforcing feedback (representing OB Mod), especially when partially mediated through a mastery-oriented mindset, were positively related to problem solving performance, reported innovation, and subsequent psychological capital. The implications …