Publications
This page contains details on articles that I have written and/or presented over the last few years.
Published
Title:
"The Stories We Tell: Using Story to Spur the Diffusion of HRD Innovations"
Status:
Published in the 24th Annual Proceedings of the Southern Industrial Relations and Human Resource Conference (SIRHRC), October 2003.
Authors:
Peter E Thorsett, MBA and Deborah S. Butler, Ph.D.
Summary:
In the past, human resources (HR) professionals often had time, resources, and the specific mission to diffuse new human resource development (HRD) innovations into their organizations. In today’s change based, resource starved, and knowledge intensive economy, new HRD innovations are entering the workplace at a rapidly accelerated pace. For HR professionals, it is just barely possible to keep abreast of the most significant changes and trends in HRD. Yet, their mission remains to continuously train, educate, and lead their organizations in the acceptance and use of these new HRD innovations in spite of constraints well beyond their control. The use of story by these professionals, however, could shift the resource demands and increase the speed that HRD innovations are accepted and put into practice throughout an organization.
Title:
"The Effect of a Coaching Course on a Participant's Self-Perception
as a Coach:
A Preliminary Report from a Survey of Graduate Business Students"
Status:
Published in the 23rd Annual Proceedings of the Southern Industrial Relations
and Human Resource Conference (SIRHRC), October 2002.
Authors:
Peter E Thorsett, MBA, and Deborah S. Butler, Ph.D.
Summary:
Understanding the relationship between the completion of a course and
a student's self-perception of his or her own skill set (and how it has
changed) is of paramount importance in evaluating the efficacy, and determining
the appropriate delivery length, of skills-based courses.
This is a preliminary report from a study that is currently under way at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business, where graduate business school students who are participating in a Coaching for Leadership skills-based course are being surveyed. The study is utilizing the Coaching Skills Inventory (developed by Dennis C. Kinlaw) to take a pre-course assessment of a student's own self-perceived coaching ability as well as a post-course assessment to determine if there is any significant change in their self-reporting of their own coaching abilities.
Accepted
In Progress
Title:
"Cost-of-Progress Adjustment: Creating An Effective Measurement Device
for Understanding Educational Pursuit Decisions"
Author:
Peter E Thorsett, MBA
Summary:
Understanding how and why adults choose to pursue or defer educational
endeavors is of critical importance to the educational and corporate training
industries. This article evaluates the concept of "cost-of-living
adjustments" as applied to inflation and develops the new concept
"cost-of-progress adjustment" as a measurement device to predict
how, and possibly when, an individual will choose to pursue informal instruction,
training, or formal education.
Status:
In Progress - finalizing research.
