UMUC Research and Scholarship

- Strategic management Approach to curriculum internationalization for undergraduate business programs: Focus on small U.S. based colleges and universities
- Hogan, Tom C.
- Curriculum; Internationalization; Undergraduate business
- The purpose of the research is to explore a strategic management approach to curriculum internationalization for small U.S. based colleges and universities and small undergraduate business programs.
- Theoretical analysis of leadership style preferences among millennial generation company-grade army officers
- Summers, Ann L.
- Millennial generation; Generation Y; Net generation; Leadership; Transactional; Transformational; Army; Military
- Purpose of the research: - Ascertain whether Millennial generation Army officers prefer a transactional or transformation leadership style - Ascertain the leadership style commonly practiced in the Army - Ascertain whether a conflict of leadership...
- Knowledge transfer in multigenerational organizations
- Bragg, Melanie L.
- Knowledge transfer; Multigenerational organizations; Traditionalists; Baby Boomers; Generation X; Generation Y; Millennials; Competitive advantage
- The purpose of the research is to identify factors that influence the effective transfer of knowledge among generationally diverse employees within multigenerational organizations and the benefits resulting from effective transfer.
- Role of leadership credibility and effective communication in achieving organizational change
- Babarinsa, Olutunde O.
- Organizational change; Resistance; Communication; Leadership
- The purpose of the research is to investigate the relationship between communication and leadership credibility during organizational change and to explore any correlations between leadership credibility and successful organizational change.
- Under-representation of women in Information Technology (IT) leadership: An analysis of why women opt out of the IT pipeline at mid-career levels
- Acholonu, Omogbemiboluwa
- Women; Information technology (IT); Innovation; IT pipeline; Leadership
- The purpose of the research is to identify barriers women face in IT that contribute to the leak in the IT pipeline.
- Institutional renewal and adaptation (IRA): Creating and managing sustainable competitive advantage (SCA)
- Alfadda, Bashir
- Institutional Renewal & Adaptation (IRA); Competitive advantage index (CAI); Competitive advantage; Performance; Innovation; Competency; Sociopolitical legitimacy
- The purpose of the research is to explore and propose a framework to enhance firm’s performance, overcome organizational decline inertia and counter possible complacency as organizations evolve through their life cycles.
- Telework as part of a business continuity strategy: A path toward organizational resilience
- Colbert, Carrie J.
- Telework; Knowledge worker; Business continuity; Organizational resilience
- The purpose of the research is to evaluate the role of Teleworkas a critical component of a Business Continuity Plan(BCP).
- Women in educational leadership: An examination of what can be done to increase the number of women presidents at four-year institutions
- Dean, Michelene D.
- Women; Gender; Leadership; Higher education; University president
- The purpose of the research is to explore the benefits of having more women in the upper echelons of leadership, the challenges faced by women seeking leadership roles, and what can be done to help women seeking to progress in career advancement.
- Process mapping of CMMI for services (CMM-SVC) and IT infrastructure information library (ITIL)
- DeSot, Julie
- Capability maturity model integration for services (CMMI-SVC); IT infrastructure information library (ITIL); IT services management (ITSM); Business process frameworks
- The purpose of the research is to provide managers and service professionals with a tool to compare and contrast the two process frameworks.
- Innovative capacity index for managing the effectiveness of open innovation
- Greenwood, Dolly
- Innovation; Open innovation; Social capital; Network ties; Boundary spanning; Absorptive capacity
- The purpose of the research is to understand the conditions and factors for business practices that create and sustain competitive advantage with open innovation.
- Organizations sharing tacit knowledge through organizational culture and trust
- Clinton, Bridgett E.
- Tacit knowledge; Knowledge sharing; Trust in management; Affective trust; Organizational culture; Social interaction
- The purpose of this dissertation is to bring to light the importance of knowledge sharing for the transfer of tacit knowledge in organizations.
- Exploratory study of organizational integrity: Women leaders and ethical leadership in Non-Governmental Organizations in Africa
- Siganda, Carolyn A.
- Women leaders; Ethical leadership; Organizational integrity; NGOs
- The purpose of the research is to examine the unique leadership attributes of women leaders in non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Africa in order to document the effectiveness of women leaders in contributing to organizational integrity.
- Study of the effectiveness of the chief technology officer (CTO) position in the promotion of innovation and enhancement of financial performance in manufacturing companies
- Hartley, Scott M.
- Chief technology officer; Innovation; R&D efficiency
- The purpose of the research is to address an existing theory gap regarding CTO effectiveness and to investigate two hypotheses looking at CTO effectiveness.
- Enhancing workplace performance through executive education
- Hassan, Kavitha R.
- Executives -- training of; Quantitive research; Work & education; Executives; Management science
- The purpose of the research is to examine the management skills that are the focus of executive education programs to see if they enhance the participants’ performance at the workplace.
- Integrating media synchronicity with global mindset to improve cross-cultural communication performance
- Stone, Katherine Y.
- Management information system; Communication; Communication in organizations; Synchronization; Multiculturalism; Leadership
- The purpose of this research is to integrate the concepts of Media Synchronicity and Global Mindset to create a conceptual framework.
- Why maximizing access to corporate employment and training opportunities for persons with visual impairments will benefit corporations
- Leslie, Garthen
- People with visual disabilities -- Employment; Professional and management development training; Blind -- employment; Discrimination in employment; Personnel management
- The purpose of the research is to provide evidence that will refute widely held myths and misconceptions of persons with visual impairments and to prove that hiring, training, and retaining them will benefit corporations.
- Emerging risk: A systems thinking and complexity approach
- Locklear, Kathleen
- Risk; Emerging risk; Complexity; Systems thinking; Scenario planning
- The purpose of the research is to propose a framework for understanding and assessing emerging risk.
- Strategic change: Inclusion of middle managers in the development of strategy may lead to improved organizational effectiveness
- Sanders, Randee L.
- Middle management; Organizational effectiveness; Strategic consensus; Strategic change; Behavior; Culture; Structure
- The purpose of the research are - to explore how middle managers can contribute to the development of strategy. - to investigate what conditions such as management behavior, culture, and structure influence the inclusion or exclusion of middle...
- Middle-level managemen resistance to telework
- Stanley, Mark A.
- Management resistance; Alternative work arrangements; Telework
- The purpose of the research are - to determine the existenceof middle-level management resistance to telework and how it might be manifested. - to propose practices that might alleviate such resistant behavior.
- Agile project management and the creation of intellectual property
- Gonzalez, Winston
- Intellectual property; New product development; Project management; Agile project management; Innovation
- The purpose of the research is to advance knowledge in the area of agile project management and its applicability to the creation and management of different types of intellectual property.