ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Bergin, David A. "Leisure activity, motivation, and academic achievement in high

school students." Journal of leisure Research 24.3 (1992): 225.
2. The main purpose of the work investigates the reciprocal relationship between high
school students school achievement, on the one hand, and their leisure activities and
motivation on the other.
3. The content of the work includes a scientifically formatted investigation with a
hypothesis, a study, the methods, the materials, and a discussion. The author
investigates how leisure activities are related to academic achievement, how motivation
is related to academic achievement, the school effects on leisure ( continuing motivation).
Answering these four main questions through his study: Do leisure activities and
motivation predict in-school achievement? Is student academic achievement related to
intense participation in sports, academic leisure activities, and other leisure activities in
different ways? Does school influence leisure activities by creating continuing
motivation?
4. The possible audience for the work would be educational researchers, leisure
researchers, teachers, students, and scientists.
5. This information would be relevant to educational and leisure researchers as a means of
reference to guide their further research.
6. The special features in this piece of work were data tables containing the experimental
research.
7. There was weakness in this journal in that there is still more research to be conducted,
the conclusions made were preliminary.

1. Smith, Karl A., et al. "Pedagogies of engagement: Classroom based practices." Journal
of engineering education 94.1 (2005): 87-101.
2. The purpose of this work was to observe engineering student teams from the
organizational behavior perspective using linguistic analysis of student reflections and
focus group interviews.
3. This paper investigates group/team development in computer engineering courses at a
University in the Central US from the perspective of organizational behavior theory,
specifically Tuckmans model of the stages of group development. The investigation,
conducted through linguistic analysis of student
reflection essays, and through focus group interviews, also presents STEM education
researchers with a method to obtain nuanced information about interpersonal skills issues
such as how groups and teams function. A third contribution of the paper is a review of
the organizational behavior literature
on teams and groups with a concern for its application to modern engineering education.
4. Students, teachers, educational researchers, those interested in STEM education.

5. The review of the current literature is paired with a qualitative case study that includes
data collected over the course of three academic years at a public research university in
the Central USA. It specifically considers the development of groups and teams within
the computer engineering classroom and laboratory environment.
6. These data were collected as a part of a larger study on
the impact on student learning of PLP, the Progressive Learning Platform (PLP) , a
hardware/software system that creates both scaffolding and authenticity
in the computer engineering curriculum. As would only be appropriate for an article of
this nature, the research team was interdisciplinary in both content (comprised of
professionals with expertise in organizational behavior, education, engineering, and
linguistics) and in research paradigm (qualitative/inductive and quantitative/deductive
researchers).
7. Additional research is needed on what factors cause groups or teams to develop at
different paces or with differing emphasis on particular stages.

1. Goleman, Daniel. "What makes a leader." Organizational influence processes(2003):

229-241.
2. Provides an overview of scholarly work on topics related to the exercise of influence by
individuals and groups within organizations. They have organized the readings around
this framework, preceded by an introductory group of articles dealing more generally
with the nature of influence processes and power.
3. In selecting articles for inclusion the editors were guided by the conviction that the most
useful and interesting way to view organizational influence is to take a directional
approach - that is, to consider the process from the perspective of downward, lateral, and
upward influence.
4. College students, professors, teachers, anyone wanting to learn more about organizational
behavior, leadership, group behavior, leadership, and politics.
5. The book would be useful for any upper level undergraduate or graduate course
concerned with organizational behavior, group behavior, leadership or power and
politics.
6. The book includes both classic readings and the l research from experts writing in the
field.
7. The book can only be previewed online unless purchased, however it does contain a
sufficient amount of reading to go off of for citations and information. The books
authors opinions about social influence may not correlate with everyones view in the
aspect of organizations.

1. Rosener, Judy. "How women lead." Harvard business review 68.6 (1990): 119-125.

2. The article brings up that first female executives, because they were breaking new
ground, adhered to many of the "rules of conduct" that spelled success for men. Now a
second wave of women is making its way into top management, not by adopting the style
and habits that have proved successful for men but by drawing on the skills and attitudes
they developed from their shared experience as women. These second generation
managerial women are drawing on what is unique to their socialization as women and
creating a different path to the top. They are seeking and finding opportunities in fastchanging and grow.
3. The article contains an IWF Survey of Men and Women Leaders,
4. Harvard students, business professionals, common article readers, women.
5. The article is relevant to students studying politics because it makes an interesting point
and conclusion that Large, established organizations should expand their definition of
effective leadership. If they were to do that, several things might happen, including the
disappearance of the glass ceiling and the creation of a wider path for all sorts of
executives-men and women-to attain positions of leadership. Widening the path will free
potential leaders to lead in ways that play to their individual strengths. Then the newly
recognized interactive leadership style can be valued and rewarded as highly as the
command and-control style has been for decades. By valuing a diversity of leadership
styles, organizations will find the strength and flexibility to survive in a highly
competitive, increasingly diverse economic environment.
6. The special features in this article include a strong interviews, good sources, and an IWF
survey.
7. The author is biased in that they state that the command-and-control style of managing
others, a style generally associated with men in large, traditional organizations, is not the
only way to succeed.

1. Yurtseven, H. Oner. "How does the image of engineering affect student recruitment and
retention? A perspective from the USA." Global J. of Engng. Educ 6.1 (2002): 17-23.
2. This paper attempts to trace the image of an engineer throughout history and to describe
how the modern day engineer is viewed in the USA.
3. The paper includes an introduction to the study, discusses engineering and engineers in
the USA, it includes graphs, charts, and trends, and discussed the current image of
engineering.
4. The possible audience for the work would be engineers, professors, undergraduate or
graduate students, and those interested in engineering.
5. The information is relevant in that since 2002 recruiting US students to study
engineering has not been an easy task. In spite of the shortage of engineers, great
technological leaps and attractive job offers for graduates, the number of bachelor of
science in engineering degree holder decreased by 15% during the past decade while the
degree holders in all other fields combined increased during the same period. And still

the percentage of women and minority students coming into engineering is also
disappointingly low as compared to patterns in the general population.
6. Some of the projects funded by various engineering societies and foundations in hopes of
enhancing the image of engineering in the USA are also included in the paper. This paper
focuses on the issue of the image of engineering. It also provides some examples of the
efforts to improve the image of the profession.
7. The observations and conclusions in this paper are restricted to the USA only.