Transcending the here and now: Examining the impact of leader’s future oriented communication on employee voice
Exploring the role of leader’s use of temporal communication in helping individuals transcend immediate gains and goals
Leaders differ in the extent to which they routinely communicate about the future goals, objectives and larger organizational vision. A leader may choose to focus on immediate pressing issues such as current expectations and job responsibilities, or instead a leader may choose to transcend the immediate present and instead focus on the broad future, or anticipated outcomes, future objectives, and larger purpose. Leaders who effectively transcend the here and now are more likely to propel their followers to consider future gains of prohibitive voice.
Dr. Joshi’s research involves two studies to examine the relationship between leader communication style and follower voice. […]
Dr. Priyanka Joshi
Fellow since July 2022
t2pRI’s 2021-2022 Research Fellows
Monalisa Saikia, Research Fellow since 2021
Research Project: Impact of Integrated Emotional Self Enhancement (IESE) Program on Emotional Intelligence, Intrinsic Motivation, Self–Compassion and Emotional Labour among staff nurses of a selected hospital at Mangalore: a quasi–experimental study
Bio: Monalisa Saikia is a PhD scholar in the department of Fundamentals of Nursing at Manipal College of Nursing, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Karnataka, India. My dissertation focuses on developing a training program on emotional intelligence for nurses, where we also want to observe whether emotional intelligence influences nurses’ intrinsic motivation, self-compassion, and emotional labour, and vice-versa.
After pursuing my bachelor’s degree in nursing from Sikkim Manipal College of Nursing, Sikkim, India, in the year 2011, I worked as a staff nurse for a year. Psychiatry and mental health always fascinated me. After completing my masters in Psychiatric and mental health nursing from one of the reputed mental health institutions in India, LGB Regional Institute of Mental Health, Assam, in 2015, I worked in the same institution as a staff nurse for 2 years, working closely with patients with mental illness and their family.
My research interests are in mental health, organizational psychology, and substance use & abuse. To build myself in the areas of my interest and to contribute towards research in the field of mental health and organizational psychology, I am now working on a project which focuses on staff nurses’ emotional intelligence. In these times of uncertainty, and huge amount of stress the nurses face, my research team and I believe, that our project and program will work as a window to the emotional and mental health needs of nurses.
Monalisa presented the outcomes of her research project to the t2pRI Board of Directors in August 2022.
Learn more about Monalisa’s research project outcomes here.
Udayan Dhar, Research Fellow (2021-2022)
Research Project: Leaders in Limbo: How Can EI-based Coaching Help Leaders Deal with Feelings of “In-betweenness?
Bio: Udayan Dhar holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior (2022) from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Cleveland. Since fall 2022, Dr. Dhar has served as faculty in leadership theory and practice at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
His research is inspired by the tenets of positive psychology, and is focused on development and change in organizations from a complex systems perspective. For his dissertation, he is using a mixed methods approach to understand how a diverse range of developmental work-related experiences can allow people’s professional identities to emerge and evolve over time. He is also conducting research at the Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit at CWRU on how organizations develop and sustain their benefit-corporation identities. Udayan has published his work in journals such as the Journal of Management Development and American Psychological Association’s Consulting Psychology Journal; and has presented at academic conferences such as the Academy of Management meetings. On the teaching front, he has taught undergraduate courses in HRM at CWRU, and is currently co-facilitating the Fowler Center’s inaugural ThinkImpact program, a platform for emerging student leaders in sustainable management.
Dr. Dhar presented his research project — Understanding Subjective Liminality and Exploring Its Application to Leadership — to the t2pRI Board of Directors in July 2022. View Dr. Dhar’s research abstract and presentation.
How can leaders create diverse and equitable ventures?
Investigating asset funneling and early leadership decisions in start-ups.
Women and racial minority men are drastically underrepresented as leaders in finance and technology. A key to explaining these trends lies in who has access to capital to become entrepreneurs and investors within these fields. Venture capital and technology startup firms feature striking disparities in who gets leadership opportunities and investor capital. Women hold only 12 percent of the check-writing seats in the venture capital industry […]
Dr. Megan Tobias Neely
Fellow since Feb 2020
Our Better Angels: The Effects of Implicit Assumptions on the Integrity and Mentoring Behavior of Top Executives.
Integrity is the bedrock for sustainable business performance. It is also an important component of a leader’s character and moral intelligence. The purpose of this study is to examine the psychological foundations of integrity and leadership development […]
Dr. Jeffrey K. Yip & Dr. Dayna Herbert Walker
Research Fellows, 2019-2021
How important is character and purpose to driving results?
Use of Self in Leadership: A Core Element in Driving Effectiveness with Character, Purpose, Behavior and Presence
When leaders show up to work it is important that they bring out their best selves and bring out the best in those they lead to engage with customers, peers, team members and leaders. Every situation is another opportunity to act in alignment with our best selves. While technical, business acumen and professional experience are foundational to create sustainable, positive impact, Use of Self in leadership involves seeing more options, knowing one’s intentions and acting in alignment with them, with the understanding that the only person we can control is ourselves […]
David Jamieson, PhD
Lennick Faculty Fellow, December 2020-June 2021
How can empathy be used to create greater belonging?
Understanding the Effects of Empathy and Inclusion in Organizations
A substantial amount of sociological research finds that when women and underrepresented racial minority men move into jobs in which white men are the majority, they often report negative experiences related to interpersonal interactions, frequently involving exclusion and feeling invisible at work. Yet, surprisingly little research has studied interpersonal interactions as an obstacle to workplace diversity and inclusion. As a result, we may be missing an important piece of the puzzle […]
Christianne Corbett
Fellow since October 2020
Dr. Dutch Franz
Fellow since Oct 2016
How can leader self-awareness be enhanced?
Effects of insight meditation on self-awareness in leaders: A quasi-experimental study.
Emotional intelligence has been linked to positive leadership outcomes. The construct of self-awareness is a foundational competency in emotional intelligence theory. There is a gap in current research literature exploring ways to develop self-awareness in organizational leaders. This research used a quantitative methodology to explore the effect of a mindfulness-based training program on self-awareness in a sample of organizational leaders […]
What technological and leadership factors contribute to performance of virtual workers?
Leader communication style and coaching behaviors effects on virtual worker’s engagement
The construct of work engagement has received much attention in the literature over the last two decades; however, limited research has been conducted regarding virtual workers and work engagement. Advances in Information Communication Technology (ICT) have provided increased flexibility in working arrangements to employers and workers. Media-rich communications, such as voice/video communications provided by Adobe Connect, are known to be more effective at communicating complex information and ideas while less rich media communications, such as e-mail, have been found to be less effective […]
Dr. Wendy Anson
Fellow since Oct 2016
Dr. Eve Tracy Coker
Fellow since Apr 2017
How can managers better engage Millennials at work?
The experience of meaning in work for millennials
Research was performed to study the experience of meaning in work for millennials. Meaning in work pertains to the sense of why people apply themselves to what they do for work. Millennials have become a growing part of the modern workforce. Both topics have been identified as valuable areas of study in the field of Industrial-Organizational Psychology, with multiple authors calling for more study on both topics […]
How can managers further develop their engineering team leaders?
The experience of engineers leading project teams: A case study
This inquiry focuses on the leadership experiences of engineers leading project teams. Ten face-to-face interviews were conducted with current engineers in project leadership roles. These individuals were selected by their organizational leaders and other engineers as effective project leaders. The results indicated that although these leaders do not necessarily use a common leadership style, they lead their project team members by: developing trust-based relationships, committing to the team, perspective taking, learning from experience, and utilizing the engineering mindset […]
Dr. Halle A. Horvath
Fellow since Oct 2016
Dr. Solimar Miranda
Fellow since Oct 2016
Is Emotional Intelligence linked to leader traits, age, or gender?
A non-experimental quantitative study: Predicting Emotional Intelligence ability through the investigation of Trait Emotional Intelligence, burnout, age and gender of non-profit organizational leaders.
Nonprofit organizations traditionally lack in areas such as financial resources and leadership development. Emotional Intelligence has been associated with effective leadership skills. This study applied a non-experimental quantitative analysis to examine the models of Emotional Intelligence (ability and trait) as related to current nonprofit organizational leaders. This study has indicated that trait EI is a predictor of EI ability of nonprofit leaders. Therefore, a screening process to determine future leaders may be (developed) based on behavioral dispositions related to the trait EI domain. Finally, the practical implications of this study will impact nonprofit organizations by creating a culture shift that is founded on use of psychological principles to increase leadership competencies and leadership developmental […]
How do Millennials describe group loyalty?
Group loyalty: The experiences of the Millennial employee with a transformational leader mentor
The specific topic to be studied is group loyalty, the concept of remaining in a group when members could potentially obtain better outcomes by leaving the group (Vugt & Hart, 2004). Specifically, this qualitative study will focus on understanding millennial group loyalty in the workplace through the personal descriptions by millennial participants. The millennial generation […]
Brein Olmstead Haugen
Fellow since Oct 2016
Research in process
Kristen Obarka
Fellow since Apr 2017
Research in process
Are Millennial women’s experience of work values different from women in Gen x? How do differences present at work?
A comparison case study of Millennial and Gen x women’s work values
The purpose of this study is to gain insight into whether millennial women describe different work values than the gen xers women. Parry and Urwin, 2011 suggested the need to explore the differences between two generations of women by focusing on work values as an area of needed research. It has been suggested that the utilization of qualitative methodologies is needed in the investigation in inter-generational dynamics while taking into consideration organizational variables like industry (eg. non-profits) (Urick,2012; Lyons & Kurons , 2013) . This study will fill the current gap in the existing literature […]