Creighton Journal of Interdisciplinary Leadership

Organizational Leadership and Work-Life Integration: Insights from Three Generations of Men

(Creighton University, vol. 2, no. 1, )

The literature has traditionally portrayed work-life balance as a women’s issue. However, working men, specifically those classified as Generation X and Generation Y, are starting to speak up and share that they too are ...

Teaching with Batman and Sherlock: Exploring student perceptions of leadership using fiction, comic books, and Jesuit ideals

(Creighton University, vol. 2, no. 1, )

Employers seek college graduates with leadership skills, but studies indicate not all students graduate with leadership ability. Furthermore, an interdisciplinary perspective of leadership implies that leadership learning ...

Leadership Epistemology

(Creighton University, vol. 2, no. 2, )

The scientific study of “leadership” depends on the ability to intersubjectively test theories about leadership and to thereby identify leadership causation. Such a scientific endeavor is difficult because the study of ...

The Relevance of Four Types of Knowledge for Leader Preparation in Radically Different Settings: Reflections on Data from a Case Study in Qatar and Teaching at a United States Military Academy

(Creighton University, vol. 2, no. 2, )

Based on our experiences at a military service academy and the study of leadership informing administrators in overseas branch campuses, we propose a link between conceptual leadership development in these learning ...

The Relationship between Transformational Leadership and Organizational Commitment in Nonprofit Long Term Care Organizations: The Direct Care Worker Perspective

(Creighton University, vol. 1, no. 2, )

The United States population is rapidly aging, and retaining direct care workers (DCWs) will continue to be a workforce concern for the industry in addressing the demand for long term care services. To date, scant literature ...

Pratfalls, Pitfalls, and Passion: The Melding of Leadership and Social Justice

(Creighton University, vol. 1, no. 2, )

Frequent conflicts over money, land, power, and other resources make it difficult for some societies to find or sustain any sense of equilibrium. Additionally, racial, ethnic, religious, socioeconomic, educational, and ...

An Exploration of the Moderating Effect of Work Motivation on the Relationship between Utilization of Virtual Team Effectiveness Attributes and Work Satisfaction: A Mixed Methods Study

(Creighton University, vol. 1, no. 2, )

A unique challenge for organizations is in leading diverse, dispersed teams whose members are motivated to work independently, but are willing to collaborate. The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of how ...

Human Resource Management and Human Resource Development: Evolution and Contributions

(Creighton University, vol. 1, no. 2, )

Research agrees that a high performance organization (HPO) cannot exist without an elevated value placed on human resource management (HRM) and human resource development (HRD). However, a complementary pairing of HRM and ...

Holistic Mentoring and Coaching to Sustain Organizational Change and Innovation

(Creighton University, vol. 2, no. 1, )

Collaborative problem solving, creativity, innovation, and continuously improved performance outcomes are the normative expectations for organizations in the early 21st century. At the same time, workers seek not only ...

Influence of Teamwork Behaviors on Workplace Incivility as it Applies to Nurses

(Creighton University, vol. 2, no. 1, )

Workplace incivility, or bullying, experienced by nurses has been shown to have negative consequences on nurses and the care they provide patients. Nurses’ roles are being challenged in the healthcare environment because ...

Administrators’ and Faculty’s Perceived Online Education Barriers and The Role of Transformational Leadership at a U.S. University in Lebanon

(Creighton University, vol. 2, no. 1, )

The purpose of this quantitative study was to identify the perceived barriers obstructing the implementation of online education by administrators and faculty at the School of Arts and Sciences of a U.S. university located ...

Communication Behaviors of Principals at High Performing Title I Elementary Schools in Virginia: School Leaders, Communication, and Transformative Efforts

(Creighton University, vol. 2, no. 2, )

Principals of modern Title I elementary schools, where at least half of the student population lives in poverty, must possess a broader set of leadership skills than has been historically necessary. The ability to motivate ...