Followership: A Classroom Exercise to Introduce the Concept

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 281-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Hurwitz
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Multicultural Training ◽  
Senior Management ◽  
Organizational Success ◽  
Work Output ◽  
Senior Executives ◽  
Classroom Activity ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
Classroom Exercise

Followership is valuable for personal and organizational success, whether success is measured by satisfaction with work, improved team relationships, obtaining promotions, or quality and quantity of work output. Furthermore, senior executives and coaches recognize it as a critical skill. Despite this, creating effective followership training in the classroom is challenging because of media messages that preference leadership, internal schemas held by students that ignore followership, and cultural biases against it. This article presents a memorable kinaesthetic, visual classroom activity that introduces followership in a theory-agnostic way. The exercise begins with students introducing each other as leaders or followers, and then debriefing that activity using the Describe, Analyze, and Evaluate methodology from multicultural training. Over a 10-year period, the exercise has successfully engaged undergraduate and graduate students, MBA candidates, and working professionals from frontline to senior management.

scholarly journals ADVERTISING, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, AND CAPITAL MARKET RISK: HIGHER RISK FIRMS VERSUS LOWER RISK FIRMS

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 724-744 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miao-Ling Chen ◽  
Chi-Lu Peng ◽  
An-Pin Wei
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Stock Returns ◽  
Capital Market ◽  
Lower Risk ◽  
Idiosyncratic Risk ◽  
Senior Management ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Advertising Research ◽  
Senior Executives ◽  
Firm Risk

This study examines how a firm's advertising and R&D affects the firm's β-risk and idiosyncratic risk, which are metrics of interest to both finance executives and senior management. Due to the existence of a non-normal and heteroscedasticity dataset, we use quantile regression to analyze the sample to understand the full behavior of our non-normally distributed datapoints. The evidence of this study shows that: (1) Advertising is significantly associated with lower β-risk for firms with lower, median and higher β-risk. (2) R&D significantly increases β-risk for firms with median and higher β-risk firms. (3) Advertising is significantly associated with lower idiosyncratic risk for firms with higher idiosyncratic risk. (4) R&D is significantly associated with higher idiosyncratic risk for firms with median and higher idiosyncratic risk. In summary, our evidence shows that both advertising and R&D have a stronger effect on firms with higher β- and idiosyncratic risk than on those with lower β- and idiosyncratic risk, respectively. Our findings are useful to help both management executives and investors. Firm managers can allocate limited resources more efficiently to reduce their firm risk; investors could exert their influence on firm's senior executives to make decisions that are beneficial to stock returns.

Reengineering a Large Technology-Based Organization

1994 ◽  
Vol 38 (12) ◽  
pp. 779-783
Author(s):  
Heidi Ann Hahn ◽  
Richard P. Bastian ◽  
Pamela R. French
Keyword(s):  
National Laboratory ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Senior Management ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Senior Executives ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Los Alamos National Laboratory ◽  
Management Group ◽  
Management Hierarchy ◽  
Technical Organizations

Los Alamos National Laboratory is a large science- and technology-based organization that has recently undertaken a major reengineering effort in an attempt to maintain its competitiveness in a rapidly changing world. Although the initial thrust was toward altering processes, management systems, and culture, it was decided that a major reorganization was needed as well. Along with the reorganization came a flattening of the management hierarchy and an almost complete change in the composition of the senior management group. This restructuring has had profound effects on the organization, requiring a new approach to management by the senior executives, and, at least initially, has swamped process and systems changes that will ultimately determine the success or failure of the effort. This paper documents the journey – how the structure and behaviors of the senior management group had to change to work in the new environment, trickle-down effects of reorganization, levels of decision-making, integrating processes and systems, and communicating with employees – and identifies some lessons learned that might be useful to other large technical organizations contemplating such changes.

Maximizing the Impact of Multicultural Training: Graduate Students' Perspectives

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terah Bowling ◽  
Melvin L. Varghese ◽  
Martha Bergen ◽  
Amanda P. Dickson ◽  
Rebecca A. Baumann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Multicultural Training ◽  
The Impact

Selling Project Management to Senior Executives: The Case for Avoiding Crisis Sales

2002 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice Thomas ◽  
Connie L. Delisle ◽  
Kam Jugdev ◽  
Pamela Buckle
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Senior Management ◽  
The Other ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Senior Executives ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Executive Level

Worldwide, project management is gaining acceptance as a business competency for many organizations. On one hand, the authors note a growing interest in the use of elements of project management in virtually every segment of every industry. On the other hand, long-term investment in project management remains a tough sell at the executive level. Knowing that the lack of senior management support is consistently identified as a key factor in failed projects, this disconnect is of growing concern for practitioners. This paper presents the preliminary results of the first phase of a research project designed to develop an understanding of the reasons for this conundrum.

Legends of the Field: Influential Scholars in Multicultural Counseling

2012 ◽  
Vol 111 (2) ◽  
pp. 364-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph G. Ponterotto ◽  
Esther C. Fingerhut ◽  
Ryan McGuinness
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Multicultural Counseling ◽  
Multicultural Training ◽  
Scholarly Productivity ◽  
Scientific Impact ◽  
H Index ◽  
Counseling Training ◽  
Beta Coefficient ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
Number Of Citations

This study identified the most frequently cited scholars across 28 leading multicultural textbooks used in the training of counselors and counseling psychologists. Four spheres or clusters of multicultural scholars were identified and were characterized, respectively, as having either a profound, highly significant, significant, or important impact on the academic multicultural training of counseling graduate students. The top-cited scholars across the textbooks were also examined in relation to their scholarly productivity (number of publications) and their impact (number of citations) in peer-reviewed journals. Specifically, multicultural scholars were assessed on the delta-beta coefficient, Scopus and PsycINFO publications count, Scopus citations, and the increasingly popular h-index of scientific impact. Limitations of the study and implications of the findings for counseling training were highlighted.

Making Multicultural Education Effective for Everyone

1998 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Craig Rooney ◽  
Lisa Y. Flores ◽  
Chantele A. Mercier
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Multicultural Training ◽  
Developmental Differences ◽  
Culturally Competent ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Multicultural Perspective

The purpose of this article is to respond to and elaborate on Kiselica's article on preparing Anglo graduate students for the journey toward a multicultural perspective. This article affirms Kiselica's assertions for a balanced support-challenge model in multicultural training, for the usefulness of self-disclosure in these courses, and for articulation of the rewards of struggling to become a multiculturalist. The authors also suggest that the experiences and reactions of non-Anglo trainees in the process of developing positive multicultural attitudes must be included in the dialogue regarding the preparation of culturally competent psychologists. In addition, the authors suggest the importance of acknowledging developmental differences among trainees. Throughout this article, they provide their experiences as students who have and continue to struggle through the process of becoming multiculturally competent individuals and professionals.

scholarly journals Technological and pluricultural teacher training for a quality educational inclusion

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 224-239
Author(s):  
Cláudia de Barros Camargo
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Multicultural Training ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
National Training ◽  
Educational Inclusion ◽  
Exploratory Factorial Analysis

The present work aims to establish the links that may exist between technological training and multicultural training of teachers with educational inclusion. The research design is non-experimental, explanatory and correlational, with a quantitative method. A reliable and content-validated Likert-type scale has been used. The sample used is 594 subjects, formed by university students in their last year of Primary Education and graduate students (Master of Teacher Training) (University of Jaen, Spain). An exploratory factorial analysis was carried out which validated the scale's construct and which allows us to conclude that greater value is given to foreign training than to national training, and furthermore, little value is given to teacher training as a key to an educational system in accordance with the 21st century. Spearman's Rho was applied, where the significant correlation between the training provided by non-university institutions and pluricultural training can be observed. Structural equation modeling (SEM) concludes by demonstrating the strong relationship between inclusive and pluricultural teacher education, and between the latter and technology, with a weak relationship between technology and general teacher education.

scholarly journals Moving beyond GK–12

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Ufnar ◽  
Susan Kuner ◽  
V. L. Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Classroom Activity ◽  
Potential Models ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
National Science ◽  
Internet Searches ◽  
K 12

The National Science Foundation GK–12 program has made more than 300 awards to universities, supported thousands of graduate student trainees, and impacted thousands of K–12 students and teachers. The goals of the current study were to determine the number of sustained GK–12 programs that follow the original GK–12 structure of placing graduate students into classrooms and to propose models for universities with current funding or universities interested in starting a program. Results from surveys, literature reviews, and Internet searches of programs funded between 1999 and 2008 indicated that 19 of 188 funded sites had sustained in-classroom programs. Three distinct models emerged from an analysis of these programs: a full-stipend model, in which graduate fellows worked with partner teachers in a K–12 classroom for 2 d/wk; a supplemental stipend model in which fellows worked with teachers for 1 d/wk; and a service-learning model, in which in-classroom activity was integrated into university academic coursework. Based on these results, potential models for sustainability and replication are suggested, including establishment of formal collaborations between sustained GK–12 programs and universities interested in starting in-classroom programs; development of a new Teaching Experience for Fellows program; and integration of supplemental fellow stipends into grant broader-impact sections.

Multicultural Training in Applied Sport Psychology

2000 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew P. Martens ◽  
Michael Mobley ◽  
Samuel J. Zizzi
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Sport Psychology ◽  
Graduate Training ◽  
Multicultural Training ◽  
Psychology Programs ◽  
Multicultural Issues ◽  
Psychology Graduate Students ◽  
Psychology Graduate Training ◽  
Racial Ethnic ◽  
Applied Sport Psychology

One of the challenges facing the field of applied sport psychology involves addressing the needs of athletes of various racial/ethnic backgrounds. An important step in facing this challenge is providing sport psychology graduate students with training in multicultural issues. A review of current models of sport psychology graduate training reveals a lack of emphasis on multicultural training. In this article we offer a description of multicultural training. We also provide a rationale for its inclusion in sport psychology programs and present several models and ideas for implementing multicultural training.

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