Mayfield, Milton R
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ProfessorCONTACT INFO
(956) 326-2534
mmayfield@tamiu.edu
WHT-223B
COURSES TAUGHT
- Advanced Regression Models (BA 6330)
- Business Research Methods (BA 5310)
- Business Strategy (BA 4390)
- Dissertation Research (BA 6399)
- Dissertation Research (BA 6999)
- Industrial Relations (MGT 4330)
- Leadership Theory and Practice (MGT 4340)
- Leadership&Cooperative Mgt (MGT 6325)
- Organizational Theory&Change (MGT 6315)
- Principles of Management (MGT 3310)
- Principles of Mgt&Org Behavior (MGT 3310)
- Seminar in Management Concepts (MGT 5310)
- Strategic Management (BA 5390)
RESEARCH
The role of leader motivating language in employee absenteeism
EDUCATION
- University of Alabama (Doctor of Philosophy)
- University of Montevallo (Bachelor of Science)
PUBLICATIONS
Digital Capitalism: Networking the Global Market System (Book Review) - The International Trade Journal 2000
Motivating language theory: Effective leader talk in the workplace - Springer 2017
Fundamental theories of business communication - Laying a foundation for the field - Palgrave Macmillan 0000
Fundamental theories of business communication - Laying a foundation for the field - Palgrave MacMillan 0000
Absenteeism outcomes in rapport with hostile environment:sexual harassment - Pearson FT Press 2016
The rapport between perceived organizational support for development and worker outcomes - Pearson FT Press 2016
Innovation - Academic Press 2011
Management/Business - Academic Press 2011
Keep them on-board! How organizations can develop employee embeddedness to increase employee retention - Development and Learning in Organizations 2018
Step by step to better performance: Organizational-citizenship behavior can transform employees and the workplace - Human Resource Management International Digest 2014
“What's past is prologue”: A look at past leadership communication research with a view toward the future - International Journal of Business Communication 2016
Strategic vision and values in top leaders’ communications: Motivating language at a higher level - International Journal of Business Communication 2015
Developing a scale to measure the creative environment perceptions: A questionnaire for investigating garden variety creativity. - Creativity Research Journal 2010
Leader-level influence on motivating language: A two-level model investigation on worker performance and job satisfaction - Competitiveness Review 2010
Tacit knowledge sharing: Techniques for putting a powerful tool in practice - Development and Learning in Organizations 2010
Employee communication, information technology use, and mandatory training - International Journal of Liability and Scientific Enquiry 2009
Making Garden Variety Creativity a Strategic Priority - Business Strategy Series 2009
Sparking worker creativity: Cultures where garden variety creativity can flourish - Development and Learning in Organizations 2009
The relationship of generic strategy typing and organizational longevity: A preliminary analysis in the comic book industry using the Miles and Snow typology - Competitiveness Review 2007
The relationship of generic strategy typing and organizational longevity: A preliminary analysis in the comic book industry using the Miles and Snow typology - Competitiveness Review 2007
The benefits of leader communication on part-time worker outcomes: A comparison between part-time and full-time employees using motivating language - Journal of Business Strategies 2006
Industrial Relations Web Sites: Innovative Media for Labor Relations Education - Central Business Review 2005
Human resource information systems: A review and model development - Advances in Competitiveness Research 2003
Leader communication strategies: Critical paths to improving employee commitment - American Business Review 2002
Strategic insights from the international comic book industry: A comparison of France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and the U.S.A. - American Business Review 2001
Manga and the pirates: unlikely allies for strategic growth - SAM: Advanced Management Journal 2000
Time perspectives of the crosscultural negotiations process - American Business Review 1997
The nonverbal dimension in crosscultural negotiations - Journal of Business and Management 1996
Learning the Language of Leadership: A Proposed Agenda for Leader Training - Journal of Leadership Studies 1995
Motivating language: Exploring theory with scale development - Journal of Business Communication 1995
The effects of spousal support and gender on workers' stress and job satisfaction: A cross national investigation of dual career couples - Journal of Applied Business Research 1995
Learning about health care cost containment: The CWA-BellSouth case - Labor Studies Journal 1993
A commentary on “The Call Center Agent’s Performance Paradox: A Mixed-Methods Study of Discourse Strategies and Paradox Resolution” - Academy of Management Discoveries 2018
Empathetic Leadership: How Leader Emotional Support and Understanding Influences Follower Performance - Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies 2018
Introduction: Leadership Communication: Reflecting, Engaging, and Innovating - International Journal of Business Communication 2017
The role of leader leader-follower relationships in leader communications: A test using the LMX and motivating language models - Journal of Business Inquiry 2009
Speaking to the Self: How Motivating Language Links With Self-Leadership - International Journal of Business Communication 2017
Leader Talk and the Creative Spark - International Journal of Business Communication 2017
“What’s Past Is Prologue” - International Journal of Business Communication 2017
Growing self-leaders: The role of motivating language - Development and Learning in Organizations 2016
Leader talk and the creative spark: A research note on how leader motivating language use influences follower creative environment perceptions - International Journal of Business Communication 2016
Talent development for top leaders: Three HR initiatives for competitive advantage - Human Resource Management International Digest 2016
The diffusion process of strategic motivating language: An examination of the internal organizational environment and emergent properties - International Journal of Business Communication 2016
The effects of leader motivating language use on employee decision making - International Journal of Business Communication 2016
The effects of leader motivating language use on employee decision making - International Journal of Business Communication 2015
Motivating Language as a Moderator Between Servant Leadership and Employee Outcomes - Management Research Review 2015
The relationship between leader motivating language and self-efficacy: A partial least squares model analysis - Journal of Business Communication 2012
Empathetic leadership: How leader emotional support and understanding influences follower performance - Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies 2018
Creating training and development programs: Using the ADDIE method - Development and Learning in Organizations 2011
The role of leader motivating language in employee absenteeism - Journal of Business Communication 2009
Leadership techniques for nurturing worker garden variety creativity - Journal of Management Development 2008
The creative environment's influence on intent to turnover: A structural equation model and analysis - Management Research News 2008
The effects of leader communication on worker's intent to stay: An investigation using structural equation modeling - Human Performance 2007
Recent trends in pregnancy discrimination law - Business Horizons 2005
Useful web sites for international business communication education: New information sources for an expanding field - Journal of Teaching in International Business 2005
Human resource regulation and legal issues: Web sites for instructional and training development - Journal of Education for Business 2004
The effects of leader communication on worker innovation - American Business Review 2004
What Workers Want: A global perspective - Competitiveness Review 2014
Developing your organization with models and simulations - Development and Learning in Organizations 2013
Effective performance feedback for learning in organizations and organizational learning - Development and Learning in Organizations 2012
Logoleadership: Breathing life into loyalty and putting meaning back into work - Development and Learning in Organizations 2012
National culture and infrastructure development: A comparison among four cultural typologies - Competitiveness Review 2012
NLRB election delays: Do they make a difference? - Labor Law Journal 1999
How locations impact international business negotiations - Review of Business 1998
Increasing worker outcomes by improving leader-follower relations - The Journal of Leadership Studies 1998
The effects of leader motivating language on subordinate performance and satisfaction - Human Resource Management 1998
Cultivating voice through hands, heart, and spirit: Motivating language’s role in gaining feedback
Cultivating voice through hands, heart, and spirit: Motivating language’s role in gaining feedback
Cultivating voice through hands, heart, and spirit: Motivating language’s role in gaining feedback
Enhancing student learning and engagement with interactive fiction using Twine, by Chris Klimas
Enhancing student learning and engagement with interactive fiction using Twine, by Chris Klimas
Enhancing student learning and engagement with interactive fiction using Twine, by Chris Klimas
Speaking to the self: How motivating language links with self-leadership
The diffusion process of strategic motivating language: An Examination of the internal organizational environment and emergent properties
A commentary on “The Call Center Agent’s Performance Paradox: A Mixed-Methods Study of Discourse Strategies and Paradox Resolution”
Empathetic leadership: How leader emotional support and understanding influences follower performance
Empathetic leadership: How leader emotional support and understanding influences follower performance
Empathetic leadership: How leader emotional support and understanding influences follower performance
Innovation matters: Creative environment, absenteeism, and job satisfaction
Academic Dual Careers - Workshop for the Annual Academy of Management Meeting 2002
New job strategy: Go the extra mile early in the game - LareDos 1996
Exercises: Chapters 1 to 17 - SAGE Publications, Inc. 2016
Increasing Tacit Knowledge Sharing with an HRIS - Encyclopedia of Human Resources Information Systems: Challenges in e-HRM 2008
Older workers an asset to today's businesses - Laredo Morning Times 2000
Performance perspective: Human resource orientation is the key to top performance - Laredo Morning Times 1998
New Worker Orientation Guide - Ramsay Conference Center - Ramsay Conference Center, University of Montevallo 1987
GRANTS
Publishing Agreement Palgrave MacMillan: Motivating Language Theory - Effective Leader Talk in the Workplace
Summer research grant for the development of a new motivating language scale
Summer research grant for study of the creative environment's effect on worker job satisfaction
Provost's release time grant for study of motivating language use and organizational commitment
College of Business Summer Research Grants
College of Business Summer Research Grants
Summer Research Grant for study of the relationship between an organization's generic strategic type (Miles & Snow) and organizational mortality in the U.S. Comic book industry
Summer Research Grant for the study of the relationship between an organization's market entry timing and mortality in the international motorcycle industry
Summer Research Grant for study of the relationship between a leader's communication use and worker innovation
Research project on the international comic book industry
Research project on international profit sharing effectiveness
Faculty Development Workshop
EXHIBITS
AWARDS
Scholar of the Year - College of Business Administration, Texas A&M International University - 01-01-2015
Emerald Literati Network 2013 Highly Commended Award for "Logoleadership: breathing life into loyalty and putting meaning back into work - Emerald Literati Network - 01-01-2013
Teacher of the Year - College of Business Administration, Texas A&M International University - 01-01-2011
Emerald LiteratiNetwork 2010 Highly Commended Award for Sparking worker creativity:Cultures where garden variety creativity can flourish - Emerald LiteratiNetwork - 01-01-2010
Emerald LiteratiNetwork 2008 Highly Commended Award for The relationship of generic strategy typing and organizational longevity: A preliminary analysis in the comic book industry using the Miles and Snow typology - Emerald LiteratiNetwork - 01-01-2008
Beta Gamma Sigma - National Honors Society of Schools of Business - 01-01-2007
Teacher of the Year - College of Business Administration, Texas A&M International University - 01-01-2005
Citation of Excellence Award - Anbar Publishing - 01-01-1999
Nominated for the Society of Human Resources Management Research Award - Society of Human Resources Management - 01-01-1999
Best Paper Award for Organizational Behavior, Theory, and Organizational Development Division - The Institute for Behavioral and Applied Management National Conference - 01-01-1994
Representative of University of Alabama - Industrial Relations Research Association Doctoral Consortium - 01-01-1992
PUBLIC SERVICE
Developed a flood warning communication evaluation survey in conjunction with the National Weather Service Office in San Antonio/Austin. Future implementation is planned with selected National Weather Service offices.
Designed and implemented a six month leadership training program for managers at Doctor's Hospital.
Participated in a series of management seminars that were targeted for the Laredo Business Community and TAMIU, faculty, staff, and students. Seminar topics covered included Causal Modeling for Statistical analysis, Strategic goal setting (City of Laredo), Human Resource Management Issues for Health Care, Data Analysis Techniques for NAFTA markets, Medical Practice Management, Legal Trends in Human Resource Management, and Leadership in Academic Settings.
Coordinated class activities with the Laredo Association of Human Resource Management (LAHRM). Speakers visited classes and students participated in monthly organizational lunches.
Developed and conducted seminars for the Laredo, TX chapter of the Society for Human Resources Management with Jacqueline Mayfield.
Developed and implemented speakers forum at TAMIU for Human Resources Month in Laredo.
Assisted Texas Migrant Council with reorganization plan.
Developed and conducted seminars for the Laredo, TX chapter of the Society for Human Resources Management with Jacqueline Mayfield.