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These Hands
Posted on April 11, 2024 1 Comment
12 April 2024 When I was young — around 9 or 10 — I remember looking down at my hands during a church service in Pittsburgh. I stared at my palms and noticed the color of my skin, the shape of my fingers, the lines running up and down and side-to-side. At the time, I […]
Recent work in Southeast Asia
Posted on January 19, 2022 Leave a Comment
19 January 2022 I’ve been fortunate to continue academic work in Southeast Asia despite (or because of) the global pandemic. Some of this has been the result of publishing my book, Developing human resources in Southeast Asia: A holistic framework for the ASEAN Community, which came out in September and has given me additional visibility […]
Finding Meaning at AHRD in Louisville
Posted on February 21, 2019 Leave a Comment
Last week was the Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD) International Conference in the Americas in Louisville, KY. What a great conference! I’m so thankful for our warm and rigor-focused community in the Academy. This was my 4th AHRD conference in the Americas but it was my first time attending as a full-time faculty member […]
Social Learning in Myanmar
Posted on October 8, 2018 Leave a Comment
I recently returned from the 67th American Association for Adult and Continuing Education conference in Myrtle Beach, SC where I presented a piece of research from my dissertation on the role of social learning in a community-based enterprise in Myanmar where I did my field research. Social learning theory comes from Albert Bandura (1977) and […]
Taking pride in what we do as scholars
Posted on November 30, 2017 Leave a Comment
With the grave implications of the Republican tax bill for graduate students and freedom of speech on campus under fire, it’s easy to get down on what it means to be a scholar today. That being said, the editorial in the August issue of the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ) provides some much-needed inspiration. Markus […]
Article Critique: Social Competence in Small Firms–Fostering Workplace Learning and Performance
Posted on October 1, 2016 Leave a Comment
October 1, 2016 Lans, T., Verhees, F., & Verstegen, J. (2016). Social competence in small firms–Fostering workplace learning and performance. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 27(3), 321-348. Abstract: While it is widely accepted that social networks are key to small-firm success, detailed studies on the specific contribution of owner-managers’ social competence to learning and performance are scarce. In […]
Being Good Consumers of Research
Posted on September 24, 2016 Leave a Comment
September 24, 2016 If there is one common goal across graduate programs in the social sciences it is for students to become good consumers of research. Unfortunately, when it comes to reading academic articles, it seems like most of us graduate students read the introduction, skip the methods/discussion/limitations, and go straight for the conclusion. Here […]
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: Educational Symposium for Research and Innovations (ESRI)
Posted on April 3, 2015 Leave a Comment
On February 28th, I presented a paper with three colleagues at the Educational Symposium for Research and Innovations (ESRI) at The George Washington University. ESRI is a flagship program at the Graduate School of Education and Human Development that allows students and faculty to share research in a conference format that is supportive and engaging. […]
Oliver S. Crocco 