About Research
Dr Chika-James conducts research on organizational change and management education. Her research on organizational change examines the intricacies involved in the process of effecting change in organizations such as factors and conditions that facilitate or impede change efforts, the implications of change processes on internal and external members of organizations and how this informs the theory and practices of organizational change management. Research on management education focuses on understanding and evaluating the teaching methods of service-learning, exploring how service-learning affects students’ learning and development, the community organizations and communities involved in service-learning.
In addition, Dr. Chika-James conducts collaborative research on organizational behavior with other scholars exploring how individuals behave within organizations with a focus on organizational members responses to interpersonal mistreatment in the workplace. Here, she explores individual and organizational outcomes of interpersonal mistreatment. Her research has received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant, and other institutional funds from MacEwan University and Cardiff University. Her research work has been published in academic journals, edited books, and textbooks. She has also presented in national and international conferences including the annual conferences of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC), European Academy of Management (EURAM), British Academy of Management (BAM), the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and Engagement Scholarship Consortium (ESC) amongst others.
Published Outputs
- Learning in crisis: Analysing a university-wide transition to microlearning using infographics.
- Our gains, pains, and hopes: Community partners’ perspectives of service-learning in an undergraduate business education.
- Facilitating service-learning through competencies associated with relational pedagogy: A personal reflection.
- It follows! The relationship between perceived prior experienced co-worker interpersonal mistreatment on newcomer employee social integration.
- Students’ ratemyprofessors.com evaluations as predictors of faculty-to-faculty incivility: A theoretical examination.
For more information:
For Research contact me at: chikajamest@macewan.ca or connect on LinkedIn.
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