Professor Robert Wood
Macquarie University, Australia
2025-2026 University of St Andrews Global Fellowship.
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