About my research
Robert M. Yawson, Ph.D., is a Professor of Management and the Chair of the Entrepreneurship, International Business, and Strategy Department at the School of Business, Quinnipiac University, CT. He is also the Faculty Coordinator for the MS in Organizational Leadership Program. Robert has over 135 publications, including peer-reviewed papers in several leading academic journals. His current research is on using the "wicked problem construct" for leading Organizational Effectiveness and change and using a systems approach to human resource development for emerging technologies. Robert is Co-Editor-In-Chief of the Organization Management Journal and Editor of the Business and Management Section, SAGE Open.
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- Diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives: the proactive application of strategic decision-making
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- Nested Complexity: A Conceptual Framework for Leveraging AI for Sustainable Organizations and HRD
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- Navigating contemporary issues in business and management
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- Leading and Managing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Organizations
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- A Conceptual Framework for Leveraging AI for Sustainable Organizations and Communities
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- Taking a New Look at an Old Concept: A Review of Leadership Development in Ghana
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- The Role of HRD in University-Community Partnership for Leadership Development.
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- Trusting the Fall: Repetitive Obstacle Performance Evaluation System (ROPES) Course as Organization Development and Change Intervention
- Review of: "Unlocking Proficiency: Experts’ Views on the Use of Generative AI"
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- Participant journaling as a data collection method in management education research
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- Social Sector and Business Strategies for Complex Adaptive Change
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- The Tema Shipyard, Dry Dock Company Limited – A Leadership Consulting Lessons
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- Avoiding Cognitive Biases in Managing Wicked Problems
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- Education and Human Resource Development in Ghana: The Need to Revisit Indigenous Forms
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- The use of The Balanced Scorecard as a Tool for Organizational Development and Change
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- Assurance of Learning: Developing Interventions for Continuous Improvement in Curriculum
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- Beyond Discussion Boards: Engagement Methods in the Online Classroom
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- Management and Human Resource Development of Nanotechnology Workforce: Dialogue at The Interface.
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- Using the World Café Approach for Class Discussion Participation and Engagement.
- Alleviating Discussion Board Grading Fatigue With Generative Artificial Intelligence.
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- Envisioning Responsible Integration of Generative AI in Academia and Human Resource Development.
- Peer Attentiveness During Student Presentations: a technique for enhancing attentiveness and feedback
- Rethinking Organizational Management and Governance in Engaging IMF.
- System Dynamics Modeling of Effective Social Sector and HRD Strategies for Social Change
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- From business school dean to university president: leadership lessons from Dr Judy Olian
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- Thinking beyond the Comparison of Online Versus Traditional Learning: A Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis
- Individual Dimensions of Organizational Change: Unleashing Human Potential for Transformation
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- Review of: "The Psychology of Generative AI in Higher Education: Mapping Benefits and Risks"
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- The catalytic effect of organizational learning on ambidexterity for firm performance
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- Advancing management scholarship: from athletics to ethics and CEO compensation.
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- Understanding and Improving How Parents in Ghana Manage Children's Febrile Seizures at Home
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- Role of Strategic Flexibility Analysis in Organizational Adaptation to VUCA
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- Perspectives on the promise and perils of generative AI in academia
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- Storytelling: Generational Losses in Translation of IDEA Concepts and Terminologies
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- Storytelling: Generational Losses in Translation of IDEA Concepts and Terminologies
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- The OMJ at 20: bridging theory and practice for 20 years and counting
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- Systems Perspective of the Use of the Balanced Scorecard for Organization Development and Change,
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- The Knowledge Café as a Case Method in Synchronous Online Classroom
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- The Knowledge Café as a Case Method in Synchronous Online Classroom – "The OD Consultant at Animens" Case Study
- Editorial: Exploring the progressive facets of modern management: virtual reality, universal design, and inclusive workplace practices
- An examination of Leapfrog safety measures and Magnet designation
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- Editorial: Navigating the intersection of organizational justice, trust, emotional intelligence, work location decisions, and work outcomes
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- The promise of artificial intelligence in combating public corruption in the emerging economies
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- Developing Leaders for Disruptive Change: An Inclusive Leadership Approach
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- The future of work and becoming an employer of choice
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- Healthcare System Innovation The Case of Adoption of Telemedicine in Ghana
- Philosophical Underpinnings of the Current Immigration Debate in the United States
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- Re-examining the Philosophical Underpinnings of the Melting Pot vs. Multiculturalism in the Current Immigration Debate in the United States
- Corporate – Nonprofits Partnerships to Improve Social Innovation and Corporate Social Responsibility
- Corporate – Nonprofits Partnerships to Improve Social Innovation and Corporate Social Responsibility
- Understanding the Theories and Interventions of Motivation in Organization Development
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- Understanding the Theories and Interventions of Motivation in Organization Development
- Expectancy Model of Motivation as an Alternative Model for Examining Ethical Leadership Behaviors
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- Transformativism: A paradigm whose time has come
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- The ‘dead goat syndrome’ in organizations
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- Correction to: Promise and Peril of Big Finance
- The 'dead goat syndrome' in organisations
- Understanding the Theories and Interventions of Motivation in Organization Development
- Enhancing student understanding of networks using experiential learning
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- Tempered radicalism as an approach to revisiting indigenous forms of critical HRD
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- Strategic flexibility analysis of HRD research and practice post-COVID-19 pandemic
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- Recruiting For Success. Does Board Diversity Matter?
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- RECRUITING FOR SUCCESS. DOES BOARD DIVERSITY MATTER?
- Culture Change in Healthcare Delivery
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- The emergence of Social Finance as a Driver for Social Change
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- An Empirical Case for Culture Change in Healthcare Delivery
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- HRD and the Emergence of Social Finance as a Driver for Social Change
- Collective Impact: Dialogue at the Interface of the Colliding Systems of Philanthropy
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- Navigating Big Finance and Big Technology for Global Change
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- Wicked Problems and Deliberate Leadership: Finding True North
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- Big Finance, Big Technology, Wicked Problems, and the World’s Poor
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- Promise and Peril of Big Finance
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- How Do We Know? Measuring Impact
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- The Surround Sound of Technology as an Accelerator of Social Good
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- From Theory to Practice
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- Human Resource Development and the Internet of Things
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- Human Resource Development and the Internet of Things
- The Impact of Big Finance & Tech on the World's Most Vulnerable
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- Human Resource Development and Executive Leadership Succession Planning in Nonprofits
- Human Resource Development and Executive Leadership Succession Planning in Nonprofits
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- The role of HRD in university – community partnership
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- Work and occupational profile of Eastern African immigrants in the United States
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- The Ecological System of Innovation: A New Architectural Framework for a Functional Evidence-Based Platform for Science and Innovation Policy
- The Ecological System of Innovation: A New Architectural Framework for a Functional Evidence-Based Platform for Science and Innovation Policy
- Collective Impact and the Colliding Systems of Philanthropy
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- Stakeholder Analysis as a Tool for Systems Approach Research in HRD
- Stakeholder Analysis as a Tool for Systems Approach Research in HRD
- Complex Adaptive Leadership for Organization and Human Development
- Complex Adaptive Leadership for Organization and Human Development
- A Systems Model of Using the Deliberate Leadership
- Systematic Review to Identify Skill Needs for Agrifood Nanotechnology Workforce
- Strategic flexibility framework: a scenario analysis tool
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- Leadership Development in South Africa
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- Leadership Development in Ghana
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- Leadership Development in Emerging Market Economies
- A Multiphase Mixed Methods Study to Identify 21st Century Skill Needs
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- The importance of multimethods and mixed methods research in understanding complexity in leadership
- Multimethods and Mixed Methods Research
- From Theory to Practice
- The 'wicked problem construct'
- Book review: Leadership and management development: Developing tomorrow’s managersDaltonKevin, Leadership and management development: Developing tomorrow’s managers, Pearson: Harlow, 2010; 520 pp.: 978027370470, £44.00 (pbk)
- A Systems Approach to Identify Skill Needs for Agrifood Nanotechnology: A Mixed Methods Study
- Systems Theory and Thinking as a Foundational Theory in Human Resource Development—A Myth or Reality?
- Climate change and food security: The role of biotechnology
- Leadership and management development: developing tomorrow's managers
- Nanotechnology Workforce Development
- Organizational change: themes and issues
- The future of Nanotechnology in Africa
- An epistemological framework for nanoscience and nanotechnology literacy
- Skill needs and human resources development in the emerging field of nanotechnology
- Systems Mapping of Consumer Acceptance of Agrifood Nanotechnology
- Performance Management in R&D Organisations
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- Ethics of Conducting Qualitative Social Science Research in the Emerging Field of Nanotechnology
- The Ecological System of Innovation: A New Architectural Framework for a Functional Evidence-Based Platform for Science and Innovation Policy
- Systems Mapping of Evidence Review and Expertss Opinion on Consumer Acceptance of Agrifood Nanotechnology
- Developing a performance measurement framework to enhance the impact orientation of the Food Research Institute, Ghana
- Management of Technology in Ghana - Problems and Prospects
- Institutionalizing Impact Orientation: Building a Performance Management Approach that Enhances the Impact Orientation of Research Organizations - Food Research Institute Case Study Summary
- Crystallisation of Miraculin - A Taste Modifying Glycoprotein from the Fruits of Richadella Dulcifica