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Item Creighton Law Review - Volume 59, Number 1, 2025(Creighton University School of Law, 2025-12) - Loading...
Item Innovative Teamwork: Advancing Sustainable Energy and Grid Modernization(Creighton University, 2025)This document discusses the crucial importance of teamwork for innovation and resilience in the context of sustainable energy and electrical grid modernization. Following qualitative research of practitioners engaged in grid innovation projects, this research pinpointed psychological safety, interdisciplinary collaboration, transparent communication, and empowering leadership as core characteristics for effective collaboration among team members; crucial building blocks to help solve technical, organizational, and policy challenges of the energy sector. The research findings show that strong collaborative dynamics turn obstacles into opportunities and also stimulate forward-looking solutions necessary to meet goals for energy security, reliability, and decarbonization. Interdisciplinary teams are demonstrated as essential to ensuring grid modernization and a sustainable energy future by combining diverse expertise to promote environments where creativity and accountability can flourish. The study suggests that the human element is key—the capability of teams to work together, communicate and innovate—in partnership that actually makes the difference in an energy system innovation success for a successful transformation, rather than technology. To realize large-scale innovation and resilience across those that will be charged with the energy transition to these organizations, institutionalization of psychological safety, cross-functional integration, traceable communication, leadership alignment, and adaptive implementation is proposed as the recommendation to increase institutionalization for fostering these key aspects of transformation to scale both innovation and resilience. - Loading...
Item Leaders Inspiring Creativity for Innovation: A Phenomenlogical Study(Creighton University, 2025)Abstract This dissertation centers on the lived experiences of leaders who enhance creativity for innovation. Section 1 discusses elements from the literature, including recent findings on the subject, definitions of leadership, creativity, and innovation, and the aim and the propositions. Included are examples of leaders and leadership styles that enhance creativity and innovation in organizations. Section 2 presents an overview of the study in an article format. The main findings were that creativity and innovation can be learned and taught, leaders are responsible for the cultural and environmental conditions of the workspace, and creativity training increases workers’ skills. Section 3 provides practitioner recommendations in the form of four training workshops. Participants explore discussions and activities intended to strengthen respect and listening, authenticity and empowerment, psychological safety amid creativity, and creativity training. Also included are my reflections on the dissertation in practice journey and my personal leadership philosophy.Keywords: leadership, creativity, innovation, leadership styles, creativity training - Loading...
Item The Leading Edge: A Case Study on Collaboration and Leadership Frameworks on Four NASA Space Missions(Creighton University, 2025)Over the last 70 years, humanity has continued to push the boundaries of exploration in outer space. While this initial race for space began in an antagonistic fashion between superpowers, over time, space exploration has become a collaborative effort among nations and an industry unto itself. The globalized economy, coupled with satellite research and communications stations, has encouraged nearly half of Earth’s nations to create space agencies. Collaboration between teams, from within an agency or through joint missions, brings together not only experts in their field but also diverse backgrounds and cultures. For this research, we utilize a comparative case study approach on four NASA spaceflight missions, seeking themes of collaboration and leadership, and discuss the outcome of these missions. - Loading...
Item Altruism and Civic Virtue Phenomenology Study(Creighton University, 2025)The subject for this DIP is Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB), specifically altruism and civic virtue. The first chapter is the introductory chapter containing the statement of the problem, purpose of the study, research question, aim of the DIP, definition of relevant terms, and methodological overview. The second chapter is the literature review that highlights workplace deviance behavior (WDB), OCB, altruism, and civic virtue. The third chapter is the methodology with an overview of the research design, participants, data collection procedures and tools, data analysis, methodological integrity, and ethical considerations. The fourth chapter is the results and findings with an overview of the coding and theming process, a discussion about the emergent themes, and a discussion about how the themes work together to answer the research question. The fifth chapter is the conclusions and recommendations with an overview of the overall study, the implications of the findings, and recommendations for future application and academic exploration.