Dr. David Szabla

Dr. David Szabla is an Assistant Professor of Human and Organizational Learning at The George Washington University where he teaches organizational change, organizational learning, and organizational culture. His research focuses on the content, process, and context of organizational change. Currently, Dr. Szabla is studying the relationship between receptivity to organizational change and change strategy, the relationship between organizational change content and organizational change strategy, and the relationship between national culture and organizational change achievement. Dr. Szabla is also interested in scale development and currently is developing and validating two measures: one that assesses perception of change strategy as perceived by those undergoing an organizational change, and one that assesses receptivity to organizational change along cognitive, emotional, and intentional dimensions. In addition, Dr. Szabla is exploring the complexity sciences, e.g., complex adaptive systems, chaos theory, dissipative structures, and self-organization, and developing a new process model for thinking about and leading organizational change. Dr. Szabla received his masters in Human Resource Education from Boston University and his doctorate in Human and Organizational Studies from The George Washington University.

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