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Professor Jamie Callahan's Outputs (75)

The Tyranny of Technology: A Critical Assessment of the Social Arena of Online Learning (2007)
Journal Article
Callahan, J., & Sandlin, J. (2007). The Tyranny of Technology: A Critical Assessment of the Social Arena of Online Learning. New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development - Wiley Online Library, 21(3-4), 5-15. https://doi.org/10.1002/nha3.10286

Educators and learners in adult education have been sentenced to online learning before we have truly explored the verdict of whether online learning is all it is touted to be. The vast majority of online learning dialogue has extolled the virtues of... Read More about The Tyranny of Technology: A Critical Assessment of the Social Arena of Online Learning.

Investigating Fourth Amendment Judicial Outcomes Across Contrasting Minority School Settings: Subjectivity in Disciplinary Decision Making in Diverse Settings? (2007)
Journal Article
Torres, M., & Callahan, J. (2008). Investigating Fourth Amendment Judicial Outcomes Across Contrasting Minority School Settings: Subjectivity in Disciplinary Decision Making in Diverse Settings?. Education and Urban Society, 40(3), 377-405. https://doi.org/10.1177/0013124507304450

This study explores the court system's treatment of students' Fourth Amendment rights in cases emerging from contrasting minority school settings and whether discrepancies exist in case outcomes between these extremes. From virtually every search and... Read More about Investigating Fourth Amendment Judicial Outcomes Across Contrasting Minority School Settings: Subjectivity in Disciplinary Decision Making in Diverse Settings?.

Navigating the good ol’ boys club: Women, marginality, and communities of practice in a military non-profit organization. (2007)
Journal Article
Callahan, J., & Tomaszewski, L. (2007). Navigating the good ol’ boys club: Women, marginality, and communities of practice in a military non-profit organization. Studies in Continuing Education, 29(3), 259-276. https://doi.org/10.1080/01580370701403324

When women work in male-dominated organizations, do they form collaborative networks with other women or do they take on the practices of the male-dominated community they are a part of? In this paper, we explore how female staff and volunteer member... Read More about Navigating the good ol’ boys club: Women, marginality, and communities of practice in a military non-profit organization..

Creating leaders or loyalists: Conflicting identities in a leadership development programme. (2007)
Journal Article
Carden, L., & Callahan, J. (2007). Creating leaders or loyalists: Conflicting identities in a leadership development programme. Human Resource Development International, 10(2), Article 169-186. https://doi.org/10.1080/13678860701347099

Emerging leaders are involved in a continual learning process that includes professional and personal identities that intersect and diverge. The identities are coupled with multiple roles and expectations that are embedded within work and non-work id... Read More about Creating leaders or loyalists: Conflicting identities in a leadership development programme..

Pop goes the program: Using popular culture artifacts to educate leaders. (2007)
Journal Article
Callahan, J., & Rosser, M. (2007). Pop goes the program: Using popular culture artifacts to educate leaders. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 9(2), 269-287. https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422306298902

The problem and the solution. Creating leaders requires both leadership education and leadership development activities.This article describes an innovative leadership education program that uses the popular culture artifacts described in this issue... Read More about Pop goes the program: Using popular culture artifacts to educate leaders..

The Art of Creating Leaders: Popular Culture Artifacts as Pathways for Development (2007)
Journal Article
Callahan, J., Whitener, J., & Sandlin, J. (2007). The Art of Creating Leaders: Popular Culture Artifacts as Pathways for Development. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 9(2), 146-165. https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422306298856

The problem and the solution. Leadership development is arguably one of the most important activities undertaken by human resource development (HRD) professionals.The process of leadership development has implications for each of the three primary ca... Read More about The Art of Creating Leaders: Popular Culture Artifacts as Pathways for Development.

The role of emotion and narrative in the reciprocal construction of identity. (2006)
Journal Article
Horrocks, A., & Callahan, J. (2006). The role of emotion and narrative in the reciprocal construction of identity. Human Resource Development International, 9(1), 69-83. https://doi.org/10.1080/13678860600563382

Each individual has a life story, and it is this story that gives us an identity, allowing us to exist and function among one another. It is natural for us to communicate through narratives. The process of creating a sense of identity through storyte... Read More about The role of emotion and narrative in the reciprocal construction of identity..

Mary Parker Follett: A Rediscovered Voice Informing the Field of Human Resource Development (2006)
Journal Article
Wheelock, L., & Callahan, J. (2006). Mary Parker Follett: A Rediscovered Voice Informing the Field of Human Resource Development. Human Resource Development Review, 5(2), 258-273. https://doi.org/10.1177/1534484306287258

Human resource development (HRD) uses a wide variety of theories from multiple disciplines and fields of study to create its own unique field of scholarly practice. As with any field, however, we tend to get comfortable with familiar theories and the... Read More about Mary Parker Follett: A Rediscovered Voice Informing the Field of Human Resource Development.

Making subjective judgments in quantitative studies: The importance of using effect sizes and confidence intervals. (2006)
Journal Article
Callahan, J., & Reio, T. (2006). Making subjective judgments in quantitative studies: The importance of using effect sizes and confidence intervals. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 17(2), 159-173. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrdq.1167

At least twenty-three journals in the social sciences purportedly require authors to report effect sizes and, to a much lesser extent, confidence intervals; yet these requirements are rarely clear in the information for contributors. This article rev... Read More about Making subjective judgments in quantitative studies: The importance of using effect sizes and confidence intervals..

The spectrum of school-university partnerships: A typology of organizational learning systems (2006)
Journal Article
Callahan, J., & Martin, D. (2007). The spectrum of school-university partnerships: A typology of organizational learning systems. Teaching and Teacher Education, 23(2), 136-145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2006.04.038

School–university partnerships are not uni-dimensional projects. Success in these partnerships can be found in loosely-coupled systems such as client–server partnerships and in more tightly-coupled systems such as collaborative development centers. U... Read More about The spectrum of school-university partnerships: A typology of organizational learning systems.

“Speaking a secret language”: West Coast Swing as a community of practice of informal and incidental learners. (2005)
Journal Article
Callahan, J. (2005). “Speaking a secret language”: West Coast Swing as a community of practice of informal and incidental learners. Research in Dance Education, 6(1-2), 3-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/14617890500372974

This study reports the findings of a qualitative study of competitive West Coast Swing dancers that incorporated both ethnographic and phenomenological techniques. A modern variation of the original Lindy Hop, West Coast Swing is typically learned in... Read More about “Speaking a secret language”: West Coast Swing as a community of practice of informal and incidental learners..

Perceptions of emotion expressiveness: Gender differences among senior executives. (2005)
Journal Article
Callahan, J., Hasler, M., & Tolson, H. (2005). Perceptions of emotion expressiveness: Gender differences among senior executives. Leadership and Organization Development Journal, 26(7), 512-528. https://doi.org/10.1108/01437730510624566

Purpose
Folk theory and empirical studies generally indicate that women tend to be somewhat more expressive than men. The present study seeks to determine whether there are gender‐related emotion‐expressiveness differences among senior executives an... Read More about Perceptions of emotion expressiveness: Gender differences among senior executives..

Bringing creativity into being: Underlying assumptions that influence methods of studying organizational creativity. (2005)
Journal Article
Taylor, M., & Callahan, J. (2005). Bringing creativity into being: Underlying assumptions that influence methods of studying organizational creativity. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 7(2), 247-270. https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422305274529

Different epistemological frameworks are presented for the effective collection of creativity data in organizations. It is suggested that researchers’ epistemological approaches can significantly influence collection methods and subsequent outcomes.... Read More about Bringing creativity into being: Underlying assumptions that influence methods of studying organizational creativity..

Affect, Curiosity, and Socialization-Related Learning: A Path Analysis of Antecedents to Job Performance (2004)
Journal Article
Reio, T., & Callahan, J. (2004). Affect, Curiosity, and Socialization-Related Learning: A Path Analysis of Antecedents to Job Performance. Journal of Business and Psychology, 19, 3-22. https://doi.org/10.1023/B%3AJOBU.0000040269.72795.ce

This study examined the influence of affect, curiosity, and socialization-related learning on job performance, with 233 service industry employees from a diverse variety of occupations completing surveys at their places of work. Both state and trait... Read More about Affect, Curiosity, and Socialization-Related Learning: A Path Analysis of Antecedents to Job Performance.

Reversing a conspicuous absence: Mindful inclusion of emotion in structuration theory (2004)
Journal Article
Callahan, J. (2004). Reversing a conspicuous absence: Mindful inclusion of emotion in structuration theory. Human Relations, 57(11), 1427-1448. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726704049416

As the concept of emotion in organizations gains popularity in both research and practice, the danger of atheoretical application grows. Scholars of emotion in organizations have begun to refer to Giddens’ (1979) structuration theory as potentially r... Read More about Reversing a conspicuous absence: Mindful inclusion of emotion in structuration theory.

An impressionistic framework for theorizing about human resource development. (2004)
Journal Article
Callahan, J., & Dunne de Davila, T. (2004). An impressionistic framework for theorizing about human resource development. Human Resource Development Review, 3(1), 75-95. https://doi.org/10.1177/1534484303261229

Human resource development (HRD) can be seen as both a professional field and an organizational function; the I-A framework introduced in this article is a heuristic that enables us to understand HRD from both of these perspectives. Although scholars... Read More about An impressionistic framework for theorizing about human resource development..

Masking the Need for Cultural Change: The Effects of Emotion Structuration (2002)
Journal Article
Callahan, J. (2002). Masking the Need for Cultural Change: The Effects of Emotion Structuration. Organization Studies, 23(2), 281-297. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840602232005

This study explores the ways in which the expression and management of emotion influence organizational action. The interview sample consisted of 21 volunteer leaders of a non-profit professional association. The triangulated design included intervie... Read More about Masking the Need for Cultural Change: The Effects of Emotion Structuration.

Conceptualizations of emotion research in organizational contexts. (2002)
Journal Article
Callahan, J., & McCollum, E. (2002). Conceptualizations of emotion research in organizational contexts. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 4(1), 4-21

The problem and the solution. Emotion research is frequently classified into psychological and sociological approaches; the authors believe this dichotomization is limiting and not representative of the nature of emotion in organizations. The authors... Read More about Conceptualizations of emotion research in organizational contexts..