Honors conference 2013

Step up to Saxion.

Learning to innovate

10 different honors programs; 10 unique

student profiles?

Janina Banis-den Hertog MSc

University of Twente (Prof. dr. A.J. Groen) School of Strategic HRM Saxion (Dr. ir. M.J. van Riemsdijk)

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Researchgroup

Dr. Mark Gellevij Coördinator Simone van der Donk MSc

Jolise ‘t Mannetje MSc Evaluation study Janina Banis-den Hertog MSc Student profile Dr. Karin Truijen Teacher profile

Overview

• Honors at Saxion

• Research goal

• Relevance

• Methods

• Results

• Conclusions

• Discussion

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Honors at Saxion

• 11 programs, 9 of which are honors programs (HP’s) • Start 2nd year

• Duration 3 years • Extra curricular

• Some disciplary, some interdisciplinary • 2011-2012: 9 HP’s

• 2012-2013: 13 HP’s • 2013-2014: 9 HP’s • 146 students

• ABO Excelleren is ondernemen

• TFNL Talents for Natural Leadership

• ABR Sapere aude! Durf te denken

• LED Life Science, Engineering & Design

• MIM Marketing & International Management

• APO Academic Teacher training College

• HP Energie of the future/Factory of the future

• LA&S Liberal Arts & Science

• AMM/AGZ Health Care & Social Work

• ROB Changing Cities: People, Places and Choices

• FEM Excellence in Finance & Management

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Research goal

Compare honors students to

‘regular’ students. Compare students

from different programs on relevant

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The world is changed,

I feel it in the water,

I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air

"People can be divided into three groups: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder

what happened."

- Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947) – Nobel Peace Prize winner

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An excellent professional is an

innovative professional

“An organization that depends solely upon its blueprints of prescribed behavior is a very fragile social system”

(Katz, 1964, p. 132).

Innovation takes a central role in the survival of

organizations (Amabile, 1998; Cummings & Oldham, 1997; Seibert, Crant, & Kramer, 1999)

It is innovative behavior of employees that is crucial for attaining organizational success (Axtell, Holman, Unsworth, Wall, & Waterson,

2000; Conti, Coon, & Amabile, 1996; Gatignon, Tushman, Smith, & Anderson, 2002; Unsworth & Parker, 2003; West & Farr, 1989; Woodman, Sawyer, & Griffin, 1993).

Innovative behavior

“Innovation is the successful implementation of creative ideas

within an organization” (Theresa M. Amabile, 1996, p. 1).

Innovative behavior can be separated in two different but related processes, the generation of a useful idea and the implementation

of an idea (Axtell et al., 2000)

‘Creativity’ is referred to as the generation of ideas (Hennessey & Amabile, 2010) and in fact is often described in many studies with innovation

simultaneously (Theresa M. Amabile, 1996).

‘Proactivity’ is: “taking initiative in improving current circumstances or creating new ones; identifying opportunities to improve things,

challenging the status quo and creating favorable conditions” (Crant, 2000, p. 436).

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Predicting innovative

behavior

innovative behavior

Big five: Conscientiousness, openness and extraversion are

more strongly related to proactive behavior concepts than

neuroticism and agreeableness (Tornau & Frese, 2013)

Locus of control : High confidence is important for creativity

(Barron & Harrington, 1981) and persistence for proactive behavior (Parker et al. 2006).

Proactive personality predicts creative (T. Kim, Hon, & Lee, 2010) and

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Methods

• Quasi-experimental longitudinal

design

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Survey

Response

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10 Different HP’s

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Honors students different from

Non-honors?

ondernemen

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ABO-Talent for Natural

Leadership

denken

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MIM – Marketing and

International Management

degree

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HP-Energy of the Future/

Energy of the future

Work

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HP – Excellence in Finance

& Management

Conclusions

• Honors students differ from

Non-honor students

control, openness and conscientiousness)

• Honors students do not seem to

differ much from one program to

the other

• Honors students have higher

potential to be innovative (?)

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Discussion

An Excellent Professional is an

Innovative Professional

Contact

Subject Name E-mail

Student profile Janina Banis-den Hertog [email protected] Teachers profile Karin Truijen [email protected] Evaluation study Jolise ‘t Mannetje

Simone van der Donk [email protected] [email protected] Coördination Mark Gellevij [email protected]

• Thursday October 3rd 11.30-12.45 room RD 3.23 ‘Development of a framework for teaching competencies in honors education’ Karin

Truijen

• Friday October 4th 11.15-12.30 hrs. Room 1D1.61 ‘Capturing the effectiveness of honors programs’ Simone van der Donk and Jolise ‘t Mannetje