Tribe Guidelines

This outcome-oriented research team strives to meet team-determined goals that enhance the careers of team members and the faculty leader. This is a faculty-led and peer-mentored team with a designated student team leader appointed by Dr. Allen.

  • Membership in the Sage Research Tribe is an annual appointment based on overall team cohesion, team performance, and membership capacity. Members may be added or removed at any time. Membership decisions are at the sole discretion of Dr. Allen in consultation with the student team leader.
    • Members are expected to participate satisfactorily, meet team and individual deadlines, and interact positively with all other members. Communication and strong interpersonal skills are integral to team success.
  • Missing deadlines leads to poor overall team performance. Missing team meetings leads to a decline in team cohesion. It is your personal job to enhance this team with your unique ability.
  • The primary purpose of the team is research scholarship. The secondary purpose is to provide students with mentorship to enter the professoriate.
  • Membership is always optional. Degree completion and membership are mutually exclusive.
  • The degree is always the most important. Performance on the team is not an evaluative decision for satisfactory progress in your doctoral program.
  • Membership requires a commitment outside of the normal degree activities of  10 – 15 hours per week, depending on the time of the year and overall annual goals of the team (July 4th through August 31st). Our schedule does not follow the academic calendar.
  • Our research team conducts research in the broad fields of human resource development, knowledge management, and workforce development to better understand how people interact with knowledge through a global lens of workforce innovation.

Dr. Allen’s Goal:

Influencing generations of scholars and scholar-practitioners through mentored scholarship. It is important to have faculty and student engagement in each other’s research, teaching, and service scholarship projects as part of the professorate mentoring process. This compatibility and common professional interest help ensure long-term collegiality as students join and move through the rank of academic scholarship.