UMES Professor Appointed to Editorial Board

Dr. Karin Klenke, professor and research coordinator in the Organizational Leadership Ph.D. Program at UMES has been appointed to the editorial board of The International Leadership Journal.

According to Dr. Klenke, the journal is a new, peer-reviewed periodical that promotes new, innovative, provocative and controversial perspectives in the field of leadership studies and offers integrative, international and inter-organizational approaches to the study of leadership from different theoretical and epistemological perspectives.

Dr. Klenke currently serves on the editorial boards of The International Journal of Mixed Methods Research; Leadership, the premier European leadership journal; The Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion; an Academy of Management publication; the Journal of Leadership and Organization Development; and The Qualitative Report. In addition, Dr. Klenke serves as guest editor of a special issue of The Journal of Management Systems, (Flagship of the Association of Management) titled Mary Parker Follet: Prophet of Management, Prophet of Chaos.

YES, it IS Time For A Change - in ideas!

I recently read an article by Robert I. Sutton called Making a Case for Evidence-Based Management in which he states “We keep pretending the same old ideas are brand-new, and we never learn from what’s already happened. ”

The purpose of AoM/IAoM’s blog is the spread of ideas and arguments that will change the way people think. Ideas can’t spread when people are fixated in their ideologies and conditioned to ignore arguments. We want to harness the power of people, ideas and communities of knowledge providers and creators and bring together theoreticians, researchers, practitioners, and concerned participants interested in making significant contributions to emergent new paradigms in the domains of Management, Education, Leadership, and Technology;

So consider this your invitation to debate, discuss and exchange ideas - a conversation, not a monologue or an infomercial. And as such, we not only want, but need, your participation. Don’t be afraid to share your ideas if you believe in them. Let’s keep the current flowing - ideas that flow from person to person, leaving a stream of changed minds in their wake.

Qualitative Research in the Study of Leadership

by Karin Klenke
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Review written by Renee Escoffery-Torres
"UMES Doctoral Student", Hampton, Virginia USA

As a budding qualitative researcher in the field of organizational leadership, Dr. Karin Klenke's landmark text has emerged as an invaluable resource pertaining to the design and development of qualitative research approaches, specifically considered in the broader context of leadersip studies. Qualitative Research in the Study of Leadership captures a more comprehensive appreciation of not only qualitative research as paradigm but as method, and helps to diminish the consistent skepticism so frequently associated with qualitative research, perceived by some undiscerning researchers as an inauthentic, imprecise approach to empirical responsibility.

Although content is not explicated in "how-to" primer fashion, the book provides all-encompassing guidance for every qualitative consideration--from understanding elements and principles used for a specific method, to the major attributes of a particular design, including strategies for collection and subsequent analysis of data. For me, for any leadership student--from the neophyte to the seasoned or unconvinced practitioner of leadership research--this book is quite an illuminating and wise investment.