National Research Awards
March 3, 2015
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UT Tyler Nationally Recognized in Human Resource Development Research
March 3, 2015
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The University of Texas at Tyler was recognized at the 2015 Academy of Human Resource Development Conference of the Americas in St. Louis, Dr. James Lumpkin, College of Business and Technology dean, announced.
UT Tyler human resource development doctoral graduate Dr. Paula E. Anthony-McMann of Tyler received the Esworthy Malcolm S. Knowles Dissertation of the Year Award. The award is given to commend an outstanding doctoral dissertation that exemplifies scholarly work and contributes to the HRD field. Anthony-McMann’s award-winning dissertation is titled, “The Meaning and Measurement of Employee Engagement: Exploring Different Operationalizations of Employee Engagement and Their Relationships with Workplace Stress and Burnout Among IT Professionals in Community Hospitals.” Anthony-McMann graduated from UT Tyler’s HRD doctoral program in December 2014.
Dr. Andrea Ellinger, UT Tyler professor of human resource development, served as dissertation chair.
In addition, UT Tyler associate vice president for business affairs Dr. D. Harold Doty and his colleagues received the Richard A. Swanson Research Excellence Award, which recognizes the best Human Resource Development Quarterly referred article in each annual volume.
Doty coauthored the award-winning 2014 article, “The Organizational Context and Performance Implications of Human Capital Investment Variability,” with Dr. Mousumi Bhattacharya from Fairfield University and Dr. Thomas Garavan from the Edinburgh Napier Business School in Scotland.
Founded in 1993, AHRD is a global organization made up of, governed by and created for the Human Resource Development scholarly community of academics and reflective practitioners.
The academy was formed to encourage systematic study of human resource development theories, processes and practices; to disseminate information about HRD; to encourage the application of HRD research findings; and to provide opportunities for social interaction among individuals with scholarly and professional interests in HRD from multiple disciplines and from across the globe.
The organization’s vision is “Leading Human Resource Development through Research.”
For more information, visit the AHRD website.
One of the 15 campuses of the UT System, UT Tyler features excellence in teaching, research, artistic performance and community service. More than 80 undergraduate and graduate degrees are available at UT Tyler, which has an enrollment of more than 8,000 high-ability students. UT Tyler offers courses at its campuses in Tyler, Longview and Palestine as well as a location in Houston.