Several members of the management department have been recognized for their work by the university
and their peers:
Dr. Donna Ledgerwood was selected as one of two recipients
for the President’s Council Teaching Award. This prestigious
award honors those committed to teaching excellence and
service.
Four members of the management faculty were award honors within the College of Business:
Dr. Danielle Cooper has
been selected as the 2011
Junior Outstanding
Researcher.
Dr. Derrick D’Souza (left) and Dr. Grant
Miles (right) jointly were selected for the
2011 Innovative Teaching Award for their
development and work with the Business
Policy Case Competition!
Dr. Warren Watson has been
selected as the 2011 Senior
Outstanding Researcher
Each of these individuals will receive a contribution of $2,500 to a research account.
Dr. Derrick D’Souza also won the “2011 Cutting Edge Research" award at the Academy of
Human Resources Development International Conference, held in February, 2011. He
coauthored a paper with Dr. Jessica Li from the Department of Learning Technologies and Dr.
Yunfei Du from the Department of Library Sciences entitled, “The Promise of Virtual Worlds to
Learning in Organizations.”
The paper investigates the applicability of Virtual Worlds (VWs) in organizational learning
interventions. Recognizing that organizational learning interventions occur at three levels
within the organization, the paper develops a theoretical framework that relates VW
capabilities to organizational learning outcomes at each level. Their research contributes to the
field of organizational learning by synthesizing and integrating multiple theoretically anchored
dimensions and by offering frameworks that will serve as building blocks for future research on
virtual worlds in organizational learning interventions.