The Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD) is the leading international professional association in the human resource development (HRD) field. AHRD sponsors three conferences a year, in the Americas, in Europe, and in Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa (Asia-MENA). A requirement for a top-tier research conference is to have the scholarship of our OLPD faculty and students subjected to rigorous peer review, and for those papers accepted, to be present at the conference, sharing new discoveries.

Many faculty, students, and alumni from the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development (OLPD) attended the 2014 AHRD International Research Conference in the Americas Conference held February 19-22, 2014 in Houston, TX.

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Current faculty and students attending:

Dr. Alexandre Ardichvili (OLPD faculty)

• A Theory of Knowledge Use in Organizations
• Being a Reviewer for AHRD: What Does It Take?
• Cambodia and the ASEAN Economic Community 2015: Opportunities, Challenges, and Implications for HRD
• Impact of Prior Experience and a Broader Socio-cultural Context on Employees’ Participation in Communities of Practice
• National Human Resource Development (NHRD) and its Past, Present, and Future: A Historical Review of the NHRD Knowledge Domain Evolution

Dr. Brad Greiman

• Stakeholder Analysis as a Tool for Systems Approach Research in HRD

Huh Jung Hahn (Ph.D. student, human resource development track)

• The Impact of Leadership Behaviors on Leaders’ Perceived Job Performance across Cultures: Comparing the role of Charismatic, Directive, Participative, and Supportive Leadership Behaviors in the U.S. and Four Confucian Asia Countries

Ji Yun Kang (Ph.D. student, human resource development track)

• Developing physician leaders as coaches

Patrick Mars (undergraduate student, human resource development)

• Is the Millennial Generation more Narcissistic at Work?: A Longitudinal  Analysis of Multisource Feedback Trends among Young Adults born in 1961 through 1982

Dr. Louis Quast (OLPD faculty)

• Is the Millennial Generation more Narcissistic at Work?: A Longitudinal  Analysis of Multisource Feedback Trends among Young Adults born in 1961 through 1982
• The Impact of Leadership Behaviors on Leaders’ Perceived Job Performance across Cultures: Comparing the role of Charismatic, Directive, Participative, and Supportive Leadership Behaviors in the U.S. and Four Confucian Asia Countries

Sowath Rana (Ph.D. student, human resource development track)

• Cambodia and the ASEAN Economic Community 2015: Opportunities, Challenges, and Implications for HRD
• National Human Resource Development (NHRD) and its Past, Present, and Future: A Historical Review of the NHRD Knowledge Domain Evolution

Dr. Karen Seashore (OLPD faculty)

• Impact of Prior Experience and a Broader Socio-cultural Context on Employees’ Participation in Communities of Practice

Oleksandr Tkachenko (Ph.D. student, human resource development)

• Impact of Prior Experience and a Broader Socio-cultural Context on Employees’ Participation in Communities of Practice
• National Human Resource Development (NHRD) and its Past, Present, and Future: A Historical Review of the NHRD Knowledge Domain Evolution

Joseph Wohkittel (Ph.D. student, human resource development)

• Is the Millennial Generation more Narcissistic at Work?: A Longitudinal  Analysis of Multisource Feedback Trends among Young Adults born in 1961 through 1982
• The Impact of Leadership Behaviors on Leaders’ Perceived Job Performance across Cultures: Comparing the role of Charismatic, Directive, Participative, and Supportive Leadership Behaviors in the U.S. and Four Confucian Asia Countries

Xi Yu (Ph.D. student, work and human resource education)

• Exploring Lived Experiences of Chinese Mainland Expatriates Working in the US: A Phenomenological Proposal

List of emeriti faculty and alumni attending:

• Dr. Gary McLean (WHRE emeriti faculty)
• Dr. Mesut Akdere (Ph.D. alumni, WCFE, 2005)
• Dr. Sanghamitra Chaudhuri (Ph.D. alumni, WHRE, 2011)
• Dae-seok Chai (M.Ed. alumni, HRD, 2007)
• Dr. Jana Craft (Ph.D. alumni, HRD, 2013)
• Dr. Toby Egan (Ph.D. alumni, WCFE, 2002)
• Dr. Marcia Hagen (Ph.D. alumni, WHRE, 2008)
• Dr. Gertrude Hewapathirana (M.A. alumni, CIDE, 2007; Ph.D. alumni, WHRE, 2009)
• Dr. Sujin Kim Horwitz (Ph.D. alumni, WCFE, 2004)
• Dr. Seog Joo Hwang (Ph.D. alumni, WHRE, 2013)
• Dr. Karen Johnson (Ph.D. alumni, WHRE, 2011)
• Dr. Baek Kyoo Joo (Ph.D. alumni, WHRE, 2007)
• Youngsoon Kang (M.A. alumni, 2013)
• Dr. Russell Korte  (Ph.D. alumni, WHRE, 2007)
• Dr. K. Peter Kuchinke (Ph.D. alumni, WCFE, 1997)
• Dr. Susan Madsen (Ed.D. alumni, WCFE, 2001)
• Dr. Kyoung-Ah Nam (Ph.D. alumni, CIDE, 2011)
• Dr. Sunyoung Park (Ph.D. alumni, WHRE, 2011)
• Dr. Wendy Ruona (Ph.D. alumni, WCFE, 1999)
• Dr. Ingo Stolz (Ph.D. alumni, CIDE, 2012)
• Dr. Julia Storberg-Walker (Ph.D., WCFE, 2004)
• Dr. Robert Yawson (Ph.D. alumni, WHRE, 2013)