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Corporate University: A Systems Thinking Situating Senior Leader Assessment and Development in Context to Enhance Organizational Viability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Lihui Zhang  and
Kathleen Boies
Lihui Zhang*
Affiliation:
Department of Management, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University
Kathleen Boies
Affiliation:
Department of Management, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Lihui Zhang, Department of Management, John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montréal H3G 1M8, Québec, Canada. E-mail: lihui.zhang@mail.concordia.ca
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Reynolds, McCauley, Tsacoumis, and the Jeanneret Symposium Participants (2018) present outcomes of the 2-day Jeanneret Symposium describing the state of the science and practice related to the assessment and development of senior leaders. They call for cross-disciplinary and/or organization-level research that examines “how organizations mature their assessment and development practices toward an integrated system embedded in a development culture” (p. 646). The purpose of this commentary is to answer this call and add to their work by proposing a systems thinking framework of organizational development where a corporate university plays a pivotal role.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , December 2018 , pp. 669 - 676
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2018 

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