UMUC Research and Scholarship

- Evaluation of corporate and government crisis management during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill: A comparative analysis of the effectiveness of differing leadership styles
- Aaron, Colin R.
- Crisis management; Leadership; Emergency management; Crisis communication; Oil spills; Management styles
- The purpose of this research is to: •Assist organizations in identifying and selecting leaders that will be an asset in leading and managing any organization in times of crisis. •Get a better understanding of the best qualities of leadership...
- Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson, 5 vols as part of the 40-volume New Edinburgh Edition of the collected works of Robert Louis Stevenson Edinburg University Press
- Abrahamson, Robert-Louis
- Essays; STEVENSON, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
- The Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson is the first scholarly edition of this significant body of work from a writer whose literary and cultural importance is recognized by scholars and critics working in many different fields. The five volumes of...
- 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.
- Keys to unlocking prior learning: Transformation of UMUC's portfolio assessment "The Sequel"
- Acker-Ball, Shawna; Horton, Cheryl
- Education; Portfolio assessment (Education); Portfolios in education; Prior learning; Transformative learning
- Why Prior Learning Assessment? –Open admission university –Non-traditional learners –Adult learners bring a wealth of prior learning experiences to the classroom –Prior learning assessment values students’ knowledge
- Systems thinking and systems dynamics: Connecting the dots
- Aje, John
- Decision making; Executive ability (Management); Innovation management
- Recent breakdown in our homeland security system, which almost resulted in the fatal bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, has left many wondering how this could have happened. President Obama described the incidence as...
- 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.
- Shift happens II: How critical forces of change are reshaping the US higher education paradigm
- Allen, Nicholas H.
- Higher education; Educational technology; Educational innovations; Distance education
- The higher education paradigm we knew for much of the 20th century will not be the same for the 21st. The forces of change in the US are: 1. Acute national needs 2. Major demographic shifts 3. Continued, rapid change in technology 4. Growing...
- Shift happens: Five critical forces that are changing U.S. higher education
- Allen, Nicholas H.
- Education, higher; Universities & colleges; Demographic transition
- Dr. Nick Allen, Provost Emeritus and Collegiate Professor in the Graduate School, discussed five forces that are changing U.S. higher education and what we must do to meet these challenges. The five critical forces discussed were: 1. An...
- Shift happens II: How critical forces of change are reshaping the US higher education paradigm
- Allen, Nick
- Education, higher; Universities & colleges; Demographic transition
- This is a video of the presentation at the 1st Annual UMUC ShareFair on Research and Scholarship. Free registration is required to view this webcast.
- Preventing organization senescence and failures: Application of organizational homeostasis as a new survival orthodoxy
- Amadasun, Patrick I.
- Organizational adaptation; Organizational change;
- This paper examined the various models of organization life cycle in terms of how organizations develop, age, fail, and survive by exploring the influence of system thinking concepts and the maintenance of organizational homeostasis in reversing,...
- Women in leadership: A case study of executive women in the U.S. banking industry
- Anderson, Mary J.
- Self-Efficacy; Mentoring; Emotional intelligence; Organizational culture; Business networks
- The purpose of this study was to explore various factors that women perceive as significant in their achievement of executive level positions in the U.S. banking industry.
- Where are we going?: What I learned at Leo Burnett Advertising Agency
- Andriasova, Anna
- Consumers' preferences; Benchmarking (management)
- Dr. Andriasova spoke of her experiences Leo Burnett Advertising Agency, where she participated in the Advertising Educational Foundation's Summer Visiting Professor's Program. She discussed how marketing is changing and research is responding, and...
- Winning through conflict: Successful management of multiple goals in the online education environment
- Andriasova, Anna; Pocheptsova, Anastasiya
- Goal conflict; Online courses; Conflict management
- This document is a summary of findings of the research study that was supported by UMUC’s Faculty Research Grant Fall 2012 program received by Anna Andriasova. The study was looking at the impact of multiple goal conflict on behavior of online...
- Winning through conflict: Successful management of multiple goals in the online education environment
- Andriasova, Anna; Pocheptsova, Anastasiya
- Goal conflict; Online courses; Conflict management
- Abstract: People often have multiple goals, and pursuing them at the same time creates a sense of inter-goal conflict, which is detrimental for successful goal pursuit. For example, majority of adult learners balance multiple important goals (such...
- Examination of the role and strategies of mindfulness in effectuating change and organizational transformation
- Aviles, Peter R.
- Organizational change; Mindfulness
- The purpose of the study is to examine, learn, and expand the current literature on mindfulness and change to provide organizations methodologies to use mindfulness in a way that may better facilitate change initiatives leading to organizational...
- 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.
- Organizational commitment in higher education: A study of career patterns of midlevel student servicesprofessionals
- Baker-Tate, Ixchel M.
- Organizational commitment; Higher education; Midlevel managers
- Organizational commitment of student services professionals is positively influenced by age and tenure and negatively affected by lack of advancement opportunities, compensation and burnout.
- Semiclassical Derivation of the QCD Coupling
- Batchelor, David
- Quantum mechanics; Quarks; Quantum chromodynamics; Vacuum fluctuations
- Abstract: The strength of the fundamental nuclear strong force is characterized by the QCD coupling αs. In this paper the measured value of the QCD coupling αs at the energy MZ 0, the variation of αs as a function of energy in QCD, and...
- White hegemony and the perpetuation of native american mascots in sports
- Bearns, Susan
- Race discrimination; Symbolism; Race awareness; Indians of north america; Indians as mascots; Racism; Stereotypes; Mascots
- The Department of Social Science, along with the Maryland Theta chapter of Pi Gamma Mu (International Social Science Honor Society), is pleased to announce the winners of the 4th annual UMUC Social Science Essay Contest. This yearly contest invites...
- Executive scorecard: Evaluating a CEO’s performance using the balanced scorecard and stakeholder theory approach
- Beckenholdt, Patricia
- Executive compensation; Stakeholder theory, Balanced scorecard; Agency theory
- The purpose and scope of this research are as follows: Purpose: To develop an executive compensation model Literature review on executive compensation at senior executive level (mostly CEO) Identify criteria to determine and develop a set of...