Jepson faculty, alumni present research at global leadership conference

Seventeen Jepson faculty, staff and alumni presented scholarly work, led roundtable and panel discussions, and attended sessions at the International Leadership Association’s Tenth Annual Global Conference in Los Angeles, Nov. 12-15.

Jepson professors Terry L. Price, Crystal L. Hoyt and Douglas A. Hicks presented papers on their latest research. Price and Hoyt’s paper, “The Psychology of Leadership Ethics,” focused on their research on the tendency of leaders to see their group goals as being more important than average. Hicks presented a paper titled “Globalizing Spain: Islam, Immigration, and Convivencia.”

Jepson alumni Jonathan Zur, ’03, and Joshua Walker, ’03, presented papers on “The Complexity of Diversity in Leadership: Exploring the American Past and Present” and “Globalizing Turkey’s Imperial Past,” respectively.

Sandra J. Peart, dean of the Jepson School, led a panel discussion on how the liberal arts can be integrated with leadership studies. Peart discussed the collaboration between the Jepson School, Claremont McKenna College and Loyola Marymount College that led to the development of interdisciplinary team-taught courses, workshops for other colleges interested in focusing on leadership studies and the 2008 Jepson School Summer Institute for Leadership and the Liberal Arts. In addition, she led a roundtable discussion building on the momentum of the Jepson Summer Institute.

Jepson professors Gill Robinson Hickman and Joanne B. Ciulla also led roundtable discussions. Hickman’s roundtable discussion was on cultivating scholarship on leading change in a global context; Ciulla’s focused on cultivating scholarship on ethics and leadership. Ciulla, Hoyt and Goethals also led a panel discussion on their new three-volume set, Leadership at the Crossroads.

Price and Hicks participated in a book signing reception for their most recent books.

The Fredric M. Jablin Dissertation Award, presented annually by the Jepson School at ILA to recognize new scholars who are developing outstanding research on leadership, was given to Dr. Rita Palrecha for her dissertation on “The Transformational Leader Model, the Nurturant-Task Leader Model, and the Unique Local Leadership Mode: A Quantitative and Qualitative Competitive Test of Three Leadership Models in India.”

The Jepson School also hosted a reception for scholars and co-sponsored a breakfast during which leadership scholar James MacGregor Burns, author of the perennial book Leadership, was given a lifetime achievement award.

Posted November 20, 2008