Mayfield, Milton R
ACADEMIC TITLE
Professor (Professor Emeritus)CONTACT INFO
mmayfield@tamiu.edu
COURSES TAUGHT
- Advanced Regression Models (BA 6330)
- Business Strategy (BA 4390)
- Leadership Theory and Practice (MGT 4340)
- Principles of Management (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 Montevallo (Bachelor of Science)
- University of Alabama (Doctor of Philosophy)
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 - 2016
The rapport between perceived organizational support for development and worker outcomes - 2016
Innovation - 2011
Management/Business - 2011
Keep them on-board! How organizations can develop employee embeddedness to increase employee retention
Step by step to better performance: Organizational-citizenship behavior can transform employees and the workplace
“What's past is prologue”: A look at past leadership communication research with a view toward the future
Strategic vision and values in top leaders’ communications: Motivating language at a higher level
Developing a scale to measure the creative environment perceptions: A questionnaire for investigating garden variety creativity.
Leader-level influence on motivating language: A two-level model investigation on worker performance and job satisfaction
Tacit knowledge sharing: Techniques for putting a powerful tool in practice
Employee communication, information technology use, and mandatory training
Making Garden Variety Creativity a Strategic Priority
Sparking worker creativity: Cultures where garden variety creativity can flourish
The relationship of generic strategy typing and organizational longevity: A preliminary analysis in the comic book industry using the Miles and Snow typology
The relationship of generic strategy typing and organizational longevity: A preliminary analysis in the comic book industry using the Miles and Snow typology
The benefits of leader communication on part-time worker outcomes: A comparison between part-time and full-time employees using motivating language
Industrial Relations Web Sites: Innovative Media for Labor Relations Education
Human resource information systems: A review and model development
Leader communication strategies: Critical paths to improving employee commitment
Strategic insights from the international comic book industry: A comparison of France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and the U.S.A.
Manga and the pirates: unlikely allies for strategic growth
Time perspectives of the crosscultural negotiations process
The nonverbal dimension in crosscultural negotiations
Learning the Language of Leadership: A Proposed Agenda for Leader Training
Motivating language: Exploring theory with scale development
The effects of spousal support and gender on workers' stress and job satisfaction: A cross national investigation of dual career couples
Learning about health care cost containment: The CWA-BellSouth case
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
Introduction: Leadership Communication: Reflecting, Engaging, and Innovating
The role of leader leader-follower relationships in leader communications: A test using the LMX and motivating language models
Speaking to the Self: How Motivating Language Links With Self-Leadership
Leader Talk and the Creative Spark
“What’s Past Is Prologue”
Growing self-leaders: The role of motivating language
Leader talk and the creative spark: A research note on how leader motivating language use influences follower creative environment perceptions
Talent development for top leaders: Three HR initiatives for competitive advantage
The diffusion process of strategic motivating language: An examination of the internal organizational environment and emergent properties
The effects of leader motivating language use on employee decision making
The effects of leader motivating language use on employee decision making
Motivating Language as a Moderator Between Servant Leadership and Employee Outcomes
The relationship between leader motivating language and self-efficacy: A partial least squares model analysis
Empathetic leadership: How leader emotional support and understanding influences follower performance
Creating training and development programs: Using the ADDIE method
The role of leader motivating language in employee absenteeism
Leadership techniques for nurturing worker garden variety creativity
The creative environment's influence on intent to turnover: A structural equation model and analysis
The effects of leader communication on worker's intent to stay: An investigation using structural equation modeling
Recent trends in pregnancy discrimination law
Useful web sites for international business communication education: New information sources for an expanding field
Human resource regulation and legal issues: Web sites for instructional and training development
The effects of leader communication on worker innovation
What Workers Want: A global perspective
Developing your organization with models and simulations
Effective performance feedback for learning in organizations and organizational learning
Logoleadership: Breathing life into loyalty and putting meaning back into work
National culture and infrastructure development: A comparison among four cultural typologies
NLRB election delays: Do they make a difference?
How locations impact international business negotiations
Increasing worker outcomes by improving leader-follower relations
The effects of leader motivating language on subordinate performance and satisfaction
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.