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Faculty Research Interests

Dr. Michael Beyerlein, Department Head

  • Collaboration and Innovation
  • Virtual Teaming
  • Team based organizations
  • Knowledge work in face-to-face and virtual teams
  • Organizational design and change
  • Creativity and innovation
  • Knowledge management and the learning organization
  • Science education

Prof. Al Crispo

  • Appreciative Inquiry and Action Learning to facilitate organizational change.
  • Impact of technological advances on human behavior and the leadership of change.

Dr. Lisa Ncube

  • Global Leadership Issues
  • Program evaluation

Dr. Scott Homan

  • Instructional systems design, training development, and job task analysis.
  • Virtual collaboration systems implementation.
  • Project management
  • Executive leadership development

Dr. Linda L. Naimi

  • Global, legal, technological and ethical challenges of organizational leadership
  • Unintended consequences of technology

Prof. Rodney C. Vandeveer

  • Discovery of emerging leadership strategies allowing organizations to compete in the global environment
  • Application of human and organizational behavior skill in the development of a more effective workforce
  • Researching and writing case studies for the classroom and training use
  • Researching the development of greater participative management culture leading to a transformational organization

Dr. Mara H. Wasburn

  • Team mentoring and career advancement; women in technology-rich disciplines

Dr. Andrew Hurt

  • Organizational and Human Resource Development
  • Paradigmatic Inquiry
  • Virtual Training and Learning

Dr. Jenny Daugherty

  • STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math)professional development
  • Professionalization
  • Instructional design
  • Program evaluation

Prof. William Krug

  • Leadership of teams
  • Virtual teaming and collaboration

Dr. Darrel Sandall (Anderson site)

  • Technology innovations applied to management, collaboration, learning and leadership
  • Technology applications to revolutionize staffing, training, personnel, and education and management in organizations.

Dr. Thomas K. Capozzoli (Kokomo site)

  • The causes of workplace and school violence and how to reduce or prevent such incidents from happening
  • The application of team concept as integrated with lean manufacturing in the workplace
  • The application of conflict management to ensure the success of workplace teams

Prof. Michelle Summers (Lafayette site)

  • Workforce development focusing on adult education

Prof. Beverly J. Davis (Lafayette site)

  • Human Behavior and Technology Related Research
  • Technoism; Individual and Organizational
  • Workplace Development: Technology, Psychological Contracts, and Leadership

Prof. Nathan W. Harter, J.D. (Greensburg site)

  • Philosophical perspectives on leadership
  • An integral, systems approach to leadership
  • Moral development and ethics education in technology
  • Rural leadership and community building

Dr. Fred Ziolkowski (Southbend site)

  • Leadership – global issues and ethical perspectives

Prof. Julie Phillips (Columbus site)

  • Organizational Behavior
  • Leadership of teams
  • Quality and Productivity
  • Systems Thinking

Prof. Jodel Steuver (Greensburg site)

  • Vitural learning
  • Service learning

 

 

 

OLS applied research contact info:

To find out more on how to become involved in a sponsored project or applied research, contact:

Michael Beyerlein, OLS department head

or

Dr. Melissa Dark, assistant dean for planning and research
E-mail: dark@purdue.edu
Phone: (765) 494-2554·

contact info:

Organizational Leadership and Supervision
Young Hall
302 Wood Street
West Lafayette, IN
47907-2108

Phone: (765) 494-0940
Fax: (765) 496-2519