Graduate Training Session Applying Social Cognitive Theory to study the dynamics of organizational behaviour topics
The aim of this workshop is to equip students with knowledge of the models and methods for a dynamic approach to the study of individuals in organizations and to identify research questions and opportunities for application of the dynamic approach in your area of interest.
The workshop will cover the following topics:
- Between person approaches to the study of individual and situations in organizational behaviour research.
- Assumptions, measures and analytical methods.
- The problem of using nomothetic results to make idiographic inferences.
- Research opportunities in two key but understudied constructs, agency and development.
- Social cognitive approaches
- States versus traits
- Dynamic personality processes, models and measurement
- Emerging research evidence
- Research opportunities
- Your research topic — key research questions and evidence base
- Using the Triadic Reciprocal Determinism model (Bandura 1986) to identify research questions and opportunities in your topic
- Turning the research question into a research project
Robert (Bob) is Professor of Behavioural Decision Theory at Macquarie University Business School. His research on human adaptivity, leadership, and personality within a social cognitive framework has won multiple awards, including the 2016 Jay Forester Award. He is ranked in Stanford's Top 2% of researchers globally in organizational psychology and, with his postdoctoral supervisor Albert Bandura, pioneered the application of social cognitive theory to management (Wood & Bandura, 1989). Bob is a Fellow of APA, FASSA, IAAP, and ANZAM. He completed his PhD at the University of Washington and postdoctoral work at Stanford. As a Global Fellow at St Andrews, he will collaborate with the Business School on financial decision making among Scottish youth.
Event organised with the support of the Global Office and Centre for Research in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (CREDI)