Professor Robert M Yawson

Strategic flexibility framework: a scenario analysis tool

• Technological Forecasting and Social Change
• May 2017

• The breadth of trends and technologies present an uncertain landscape for decision-makers entrusted with strategic planning. Given the time horizon and uncertainties in predicting the future accura...

A Multiphase Mixed Methods Study to Identify 21st Century Skill Needs

• Human Resource Development Quarterly
• September 2016

• This research is based on a theory that accounts for the dynamic aspect of systems modeling, complexity theory, skill identification, and workforce development. The methods and approaches for this ...

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

• As with many other aspects of leadership studies, the issue of leadership development and its impact remains highly contentious especially if discussed within the context of non-Western cultures.

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

Expectancy Model of Motivation as an Alternative Model for Examining Ethical Leadership...

• SAGE Open
• April 2021

• Incessant occurrences of character failure of people in leadership positions that have characterized organizations in recent years call for critical examination of leadership behaviors. The Social ...

Tempered radicalism as an approach to revisiting indigenous forms of critical HRD

• European Journal of Training and Development
• October 2020

• This paper draws on the concept of a tempered radical approach to provide a framework for a critical HRD (CHRD) and explore ways by which this view can contribute to developing HR who possess the r...

Strategic flexibility analysis of HRD research and practice post-COVID-19 pandemic

• Human Resource Development International
• June 2020

• While governments, intergovernmental organizations, non-profits, corporations are all aware that disruptions through pandemics and other natural bio-disasters like the COVID-19 pandemic can happen,...