2012‐2013 Seminar Participants "An examination of the role of narrative discourse in organizational behavior teaching"

"An examination of the role of narrative discourse in organizational behavior teaching" Prof. Brian Glibkowski A common problem of teaching Organizational Behavior (a course I teach at Stonehill) is a failure to use an explicit method by which important concepts (e.g., satisfaction, turnover, transformational leadership) are interconnected as cause‐and‐effect models by students. In the vernacular of Díaz and Pace (2011), it is often possible to ‘decode the discipline' by taking an assimilated and forgotten explicit approach and resurrecting it for the benefit of students. Unfortunately, causal modeling within Organizational Behavior doctoral programs is taught as a craft‐like experience and there is no formal approach to causal modeling that awaits explication.