Professor Robert M Yawson

Strategic flexibility analysis of agrifood nanotechnology skill needs identification

• Technological Forecasting and Social Change
• May 2017

A Systems Approach to Identify Skill Needs for Agrifood Nanotechnology: A Multiphase Mi...

• Human Resource Development Quarterly
• September 2016

Systems Theory and Thinking as a Foundational Theory in Human Resource Development—A My...

• Human Resource Development Review
• October 2012

• It is time for managers, faculty, students, so-called thought leaders, and everyone else in our body politic start to unlearn some of the deeply ingrained thought patterns that result in unproducti...

The Ecological System of Innovation: A New Architectural Framework for a Functional Evi...

• SSRN Electronic Journal
• January 2009

The 'wicked problem construct'

• International Journal of Business and Systems Research
• January 2015

• Wicked problems require a deliberate leader with the pattern recognition skill of an artist as well as the empirical gift of our 20th Century managerial inheritance.

Leadership Development in South Africa

• January 2017

The role of HRD in university – community partnership

• European Journal of Training and Development
• March 2019

• This paper seeks to identify ways by which the core functions of HRD can be used to enhance the UCP in lieu of the “town and gown era.” Furthermore, we seek to tout the need to extend HRD activitie...

Systems Mapping of Consumer Acceptance of Agrifood Nanotechnology

• Journal of Consumer Policy
• May 2010