Dr. Shucks' curriculum vitae [PDF]
Educational Background
- EdD, Adult Education and Human Resource Development, Florida International University, 2010
- M.A.E., Counseling and Student Affairs, Western Kentucky University, 2005
- BA, Education and Behavioral Sciences and Arts and Humanities, 2002
Research Interests
- Employee engagement
- Human resource development
- Experiential leadership and management development
- Positive psychology
- Instructional design and emerging e-learing strategies
- Organization development
Teaching Experience
- Business Ethics and Knowledge Management
- Leadership
- Designing Learning
- Instructional Design
- Adult Teaching Models
Honors and Awards
- The World HRD Congress 101 Top Global Training & Development Minds
- UCWHRE Outstanding Assistant Professor of the Year, Finalist
- Commonwealth Scholar, Commonwealth Institute of Kentucky
- Emerald Literati Network Award for Excellence, Emerald Publishing
- Early Career Scholar, Academy of Human Resource Development
- AHRD Excellent in Scholarly-Practice, Academy of Human Resource Development
- E. F. Holton III Article of the Year, Human Resource Development Review
- Top Four Faculty, University of Louisville
- Professional Practice Research Recognition Award, Child Life Council
- Reviewer of the Year, Human Resource Development Review
- E. F. Holton III Article of the Year, Human Resource Development Review
- Faculty Favorite Nominee, University of Louisville (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
- Issue of the Year, Advances in Developing Human Resources
- Awarded membership to the Honorable Kentucky Colonels
Professional Activities & Interests
- New Horizon's in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member
- Group and Organization Management, Editorial Board Member
- Journal of Managerial Psychology, Editorial Board Member
- Human Resource Development Review, Editorial Board Member
- Human Resource Development Quarterly, Editorial Board Member
- Human Resource Development International, Editorial Board Member
- Advances in Developing Human Resources, Editorial Board Member
Selected Publications
- Shuck, B., #Osam, K., Zigarmi, D., & Nimon, K. (2017). Definitional and conceptual muddling: Identifying the positionality of employee engagement and defining the construct. Human Resource Development Review, 16, 263-293. doi: 0.1177/1534484317720622
- Shuck, B., Alagaraja, M., Rose, K., Owen, J., #Osam, K., & Bergman, M. (in press). The health-related upside of employee engagement: Exploratory evidence and implications for theory and practice. Performance Improvement Quarterly
- The employee engagement scale: Initial evidence for construct validity and implications for theory and practice. Human Resource Management. doi: 10.1002/hrm.21811
- Shuck, B., Adelson, J., & Reio, T. (2016). The employee engagement scale: Initial evidence for construct validity and implications for theory and practice. Human Resource Management. doi: 10.1002/hrm.21811
- Shuck, B., Nimon, K., & Zigarmi, D. (2016). Untangling the predictive nomological validity of employee engagement: Decomposing variance in employee engagement using job attitude measures. Group and Organizational Management. 42(1), 79-112. doi: 10.1177/1059601116642364
- Shuck, B., Collins, J., Diaz, R., & Rocco, T. (2016). Deconstructing the privilege and power of employee engagement: Issues of inequality for management and human resource development. Human Resource Development Review,, 15, 208-229. doi: 10.1177/1534484316643904
- Nimon, K., Shuck, B., & Zigarmi, D. (2016). Construct overlap between employee engagement and job satisfaction: A function of semantic equivalence? Journal of Happiness Studies, 17(3),1149-1171. doi: 10.1007/s10902-015-9636-6
