Ferris, William P.

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Organization Management Journal Volume 6 Issue 1 Article 1 3-1-2009 From organizational design and change to experiential exercises and emotional intelligence William P. Ferris Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.shu.edu/omj  Part of the Organizational Behavior and Theory Commons, and the Organizational Communication Commons Recommended Citation Ferris, William P. (2009) "From organizational design and change to experiential exercises and emotional intelligence," Organization Management Journal: Vol. 6 : Iss. 1 , Article 1. Available at: https://scholarship.shu.edu/omj/vol6/iss1/1 Editor-in-Chief’s IntroductionFrom organizational design and change toexperiential exercises and emotionalintelligenceWilliam P FerrisEditor-in-ChiefOrganization Management Journal (2009)6, 1–2. doi:10.1057/omj.2009.8This issue features interesting papers primarily in two of oursections – Linking Theory & Practice and Teaching & Learning.Section Co-Editor of LT&P Alvin Hwang has written a niceintroduction of the two papers in his section. Authors of the firstpaper Joan van Aken and Georges Romme both teach at EindhovenUniversity of Technology in the Netherlands. They have longpublished in the field of management and organization researchfrom the perspective of design science, which is the subject of thepaper published first in this issue. The second paper by VictorWooddell of Wayne State University uses an action researchmodel to compare the way moderately successful organizationalchange through employee empowerment occurs in a large citygovernment agency and what was learned by participants in theprocess.The next two papers are introduced by Don Gibson, Co-chair ofthe Experiential Learning Association of the Eastern Academy ofManagement (EAM), who also wears the hat of Current EmpiricalResearch Co-Editor of the journal. Since 2007, OMJ has alwayspublished a special issue consisting of the winner and runner-up ofthe Outstanding Experiential Paper Awards held as part of the EAMannual meeting, which was in Washington, DC this past year.There were 21 papers submitted and two rose to the top, followinga full demonstration at the conference. Thus, they have gonethrough three peer review processes – the EAM conference process,the anonymous judge contest process, and Don’s OMJ reviewers.Kristin Backhaus of SUNY – New Paltz shows how to turn a caseinto an experiential exercise in the runner-up paper. My own paperon demonstrating emotional intelligence both to online and face-to-face parts of a blended course in the same lesson, was luckyenough to get through the gauntlet to win the Best ExperientialPaper Award and also appears as part of the special issue. Donintroduces the two papers below.We have one additional management education paper featuredin the issue. Steve Meisel, Teaching & Learning Co-Editor,introduces a third experiential paper by Nathan Hartman ofJohn Carroll University and Tom Conklin of Gannon University,who demonstrate how we can help students look in the mirror ofpoetry, art, and especially music lyrics, to facilitate self-awareness.Organization Management Journal (2009) 6, 1–2& 2009 Eastern Academy of Management All rights reserved 1541-6518Our last paper, by Robert Klein of Western NewEngland College, continues the emotional intelli-gence (EI) theme from the Ferris paper, centeringitself on a review of McKee, Boyatzis, and John-ston’s recent book, Becoming a Resonant Leader,which is about improving one’s EI. The authorcontexts this review in a remarkably rich discus-sion of EI at the outset, and in an extendedconcluding section on the usefulness of the book’sexercises in team development. Professor Kleinhas spent much of his career developing aninstrument called the Klein Group Instrument thatenables individuals to identify habitual behaviorsthat may be helping them or hurting them in theirdesire to become effective team leaders and team-mates; then it is up to a coach or facilitator, perhapswith the use of a book such as Becoming a ResonantLeader, to provide experiential and other exercisesto develop what the book’s authors call EI compe-tencies.Editor-in-Chief’s Introduction William P Ferris2Organization Management Journal

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