Marie-Hélène Budworth researches and teaches in the areas of individual development and learning. She holds a PhD is in Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management, a Master’s in Counselling Psychology, and a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Psychology. Her early work in psychology and natural science guides her work and her approach to research. Her current research program is focussed on development and interpersonal interactions within the context of work. She is interested in how people learn, acquire knowledge, make choices, and negotiate with one another in order to succeed. She believes that learning and development are socially constructed and, therefore, looks at the individuals and networks that surround people as a way of understanding conditions for success. She also examines the value of psychologically based interventions for enhancing and promoting development within systematically disadvantaged populations. She is particularly interested in how people succeed when faced with systemic barriers such as discrimination and bias. She is currently serving an Associate Editor at the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences and sits on the editorial boards of Organizational Dynamics, Human Resources Management Review, Human Resource Development Quarterly.

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Marie-Hélène Budworth researches and teaches in the areas of individual development and learning. She holds a PhD is in Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management, a Master’s in Counselling Psychology, and a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Psychology. Her early work in psychology and natural science guides her work and her approach to research. Her current research program is focussed on development and interpersonal interactions within the context of work. She is interested in how people learn, acquire knowledge, make choices, and negotiate with one another in order to succeed. She believes that learning and development are socially constructed and, therefore, looks at the individuals and networks that surround people as a way of understanding conditions for success. She also examines the value of psychologically based interventions for enhancing and promoting development within systematically disadvantaged populations. She is particularly interested in how people succeed when faced with systemic barriers such as discrimination and bias. She is currently serving an Associate Editor at the Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences and sits on the editorial boards of Organizational Dynamics, Human Resources Management Review, Human Resource Development Quarterly.

Marie-Hélène Budworth’s research is guided by the principle that learning is socially constructed. Individuals develop their knowledge, skills, and abilities through interaction with others in the training programs, classrooms, and workplaces. She is interested in how people learn and adapt in applied settings. She has a special interest in how groups benefit from the knowledge, skills, and abilities held by individuals. Her studies have investigated how knowledge is used by groups and how information flows among its members. For example, her work on group learning processes suggests that teams do not utilize important and relevant information when it is held by only one person. Her work has been presented at scholarly conferences in the UK, Portugal, Ireland, the US and Canada and published in the Journal of Vocational Behavior, International Journal of Selection and Assessment. She teaches Negotiations for Human Resource Managers, Managing Teams, and Leadership and Managerial Skills.

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