Faculty Research Profiles: Andrea Ellinger

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Human Resource Education
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Research Biography

My passion and long-term research agenda has been to understand how managers and leaders serve as facilitators of learning within learning-oriented organizational contexts. My research has focused on examining the informal learning behaviors that managers and leaders enact, the catalysts for learning, beliefs associated with such behaviors, and the outcomes of learning episodes at the individual, and organizational levels. This main area of research has resulted in subsequent streams of inquiry related to assessing the learning organization concept and financial performance, creating managerial and supervisory coaching behavior measures and examining the relationships between such coaching and job satisfaction and performance. More recently, my research has sought to understand the organizational contextual factors that shape informal workplace learning and the facilitation of informal workplace learning within learning-oriented organizations. My long-term research goals relate to building a more comprehensive understanding of managerial coaching behavior, and a deeper examination of the learning organization concept as a performance enhancing organizational change endeavor.

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Adult Education, University of Georgia-Athens, 1997
  • M.S., Business Administration, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1989
  • B.S., Business Administration, Bryant College, 1986

Key Professional Appointments

  • Assistant Professor, Human Resource Education, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003--
  • Research Associate, Center for Business and Economic Research/ Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration, The University of Alabama, 2001-2003
  • Adjunct Professor, Human Resource and Organization Development, The University of Georgia, 2002-2002
  • Assistant Professor and Doctoral Program Coordinator, Adult Education, The Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg, 1997-2001
  • Research Assistant, Adult Education, The University of Georgia, 1995-1996

Activities & Honors

  • Series Co-Editor for The Adult Learning Theory and Practice Book Series, American Management Association Communications (AMACOM), American Management Association Communications, 2005- present
  • Chapter contributor to Research in Organizations: Foundational Principles, Processes and Methods of Inquiry, Recipient of the 2005 Outstanding Book of the Year Award from AHRD, Academy of Human Resource Development, 2005
  • Recipient of the Richard A. Swanson Research Excellence Award presented by AHRD for best refereed publication in 2005 Human Resource Development Quarterly, Academy of Human Resource Development, 2005
  • UIUC Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent By Their Students, College of Education, 2004- present
  • Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring, 2003- present
  • 2003 Richard A. Swanson Research Excellence Award, Academy of Human Resource Development, 2003
  • Editorial Board Member, Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2001-2007
  • Editorial Board Member, Advances in Developing Human Resources, 1998-2004

Grants

  • Principal Investigator, Exploring the contextual factors that shape employees' informal learning and employees' facilitation of informal learning in the workplace. The Cyril O. Houle Scholars in Adult and Continuing Education Program, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, 2001

Selected Publications

  • Ellinger, A. D., Trent, R., Wang, Y., Wofford, G., Howard, Y., Cho, I., Freeman, M. Kim, E., Kim, S., McGlaughlin, P. Oh, S., Sutton, W., & Wooten, B.  (Forthcoming).  Experiencing scholarly writing through a collaborative course project.  Reviewing some of the literature on the learning organization.  Book chapter submission accepted for Experiential Learning and Management Education, R. Vince & M. Reynolds (Eds.).  Oxford University Press.
  • Ellinger, A. D., & Cseh, M. (2007). Contextual factors influencing the facilitation of other’s learning through everyday work experiences. Journal of Workplace Learning, 19(7), 435-452.
  • Ellinger, A. D., Hamlin, R. G., & Beattie, R. S. (Forthcoming).  Behavioural indicators of ineffective managerial coaching:  A cross-national study.   Journal of European Industrial Training. 
  • Ellinger, A. E., Elmadag, A. B., & Ellinger, A. D. (2007). An examination of organization’s frontline service employee development practices. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 18(3), 293-314.
  • Hamlin, R. G., Beattie, R. S., & Ellinger, A. D. (2007). Utilizing qualitative methodological pluralism to develop theory: Analytical triangulation enhancing understanding of ‘managerial effectiveness’ and ‘managerial coaching effectiveness’. International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, 2(3), 255-276.