Shari Peterson
Associate professor; Coordinator of work and human resource education programs
Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development
410J Wulling Hall
86 Pleasant St S E
Minneapolis,
MN 55455
Tel: 612-624-4980
Fax: 612-625-2798
Areas of Interest
Organizational and institutional cultures as related to:
Strategic human resource development
Employee turnover
Organizational learning
Student persistence
Faculty satisfaction
Profile
My current research is on the topic of strategic HRD. I developed a model (published in 2006) and have recently collaborated with an international colleague with whom I co-authored a paper that was presented at the 2010 AHRD conference in Shanghai. The paper was based on the survey I developed to determine the organizational factors that may lead to HRD being at the Strategic Planning Table, which my colleague and I recently pilot-tested in corporate settings. In Fall, 2011, I also will be resuming research on organizational cultures that are conducive to lowering employee turnover as well as cultures that foster organizational learning.
I have a BA degree in business administration from Drake University, after which I spent over a decade in the corporate world in marketing and management. Both my Master’s and Ph.D. are in education from the University of Minnesota.
My overarching mission is to foster and contribute to the intellectual development of adult learners. To that end, I would be delighted to work with M.A. and Ph.D. students who share an interest in any of the topics noted above and who would be willing to engage in research with me on those topics.
Selected Publications
Peterson, S. (2010). Employer sponsored learning in the workplace. In C. Kasworm, A. Rose, & J. Ross-Gordon (Eds.), The 2010 handbook of adult and continuing education, (pp. 243-252). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Peterson, S. (2009). Career-decision-making self-efficacy and the likelihood of retention in government agencies. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 20(4), 451-475.
Peterson, S. (2008). Creating and sustaining a strategic partnership: A model for human resource development. Journal of Leadership Studies, 2(2), 82-94.
Peterson, S. (2007). Managerial turnover in U.S. retail organizations. Journal of Management Development, 26(8), 770-789.
Peterson, S. (2006). Strategic human resource development: Sustaining organizational cultures and retaining employees. International Journal of Knowledge, Culture, and Change Management (Vol. 6), 79-86.