Human Resource Development Category
Article Critique: Learning to Lead: Foundations of Emerging Leader Identity Development
Posted on October 15, 2016 Leave a Comment
October 15, 2016 Yeager, K. L., & Callahan, J. L. (2016). Learning to lead: Foundations of emerging leader identity development. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 1523422316645510. The Problem: Organizations face several challenges that stand poised to place a significant strain on the availability of qualified leaders. Flatter organization structures, the use of more teams, and impending […]
Conference: AHRD 2016
Posted on March 2, 2016 Leave a Comment
March 2, 2016 What an amazing conference! Two weeks ago I attended the Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD) 2016 Conference in Jacksonville, Florida. I consider AHRD my professional home, and I thoroughly enjoyed the conversations and presentations throughout the week. I had the opportunity to present at the conference in three different formats. AHRD […]
3 Reflections from the Doctoral Colloquium at AHRD 2016
Posted on February 21, 2016 Leave a Comment
February 21, 2016 Last week, I attended the Doctoral Colloquium at the Association for Human Resource Development (AHRD) 2016 conference in the Americas in Jacksonville, FL. I will post more about the conference as a whole but first I wanted to spend a few minutes reflecting on the Doctoral Colloquium. The Doctoral Colloquium was a […]
Researching complex social issues? What’s your paradigm?
Posted on February 21, 2016 2 Comments
February 21, 2016 How would you solve a complex social issue like high school dropout? How would you study it? It turns out, it depends a lot on the assumptions you have about the nature of the world. Without too much jargon, we call this set of assumptions about the nature of reality a paradigm, worldview, […]
Changing the Discourse in Human Resource Development
Posted on June 28, 2015 Leave a Comment
As a young scholar, I get hard copies of the academic journals I subscribe to. I like to read through the articles and get a better grasp of what’s going on in the literature. One of these journals is the Human Resource Development Review (HRDR), edited by Julia Storberg-Walker of George Washington University. My friend […]
Conference: UFHRD 2015
Posted on June 27, 2015 Leave a Comment
Earlier this month I had the pleasure to attend and present at the University Forum for Human Resource Development (UFHRD) 2015 conference at University College Cork, Ireland. The conference meets in Europe annually but occurs in the UK every other year. Next year it will be in Manchester, England. The size of the conference was […]
Course: International and Multicultural Issues in Organizations
Posted on June 16, 2015 Leave a Comment
As part of my role as a Graduate Research Assistant at GW, I had the privilege of being the teaching assistant for a course called International and Multicultural Issues in Organizations. This course, led by Dr. Maria Cseh, revolved around the European Human Resource Development conference at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland. Ireland’s Cork […]
Amazing Course in Ireland – Summer 2015
Posted on April 3, 2015 Leave a Comment
One of the great things about being at the Graduate School of Education and Human Development (GSEHD) at The George Washington University is opportunities like this summer course: HOL 6747 – International and Multicultural Issues in Organizations. From June 1-5, I am going with my adviser Dr. Maria Cseh and a class of students to […]
Oliver S. Crocco 