Kathleen Zimmerman-Oster
Kathleen Zimmerman-Oster is a professor in the Department of Psychology at University of Detroit Mercy. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, she serves as the director of the Industrial/Organizational Psychology Master of Arts Program and Director of Research, Evaluation, and Leadership Development for the Institute for Leadership and Service at Detroit Mercy.
Professor Zimmerman-Oster earned a master of arts and a doctorate in Social and Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Wayne State University. She is a social/organizational psychologist with expertise in the areas of program assessment and evaluation; vocational, organizational, and leadership development; and executive team development. She has extensive experience in the area of "leadership development across the lifespan"; including youth development and alcohol and other drug abuse prevention planning and research, college-age youth development, and management and executive coaching.
Dr. Zimmerman-Oster has taught more than 40 sections of courses on leadership development, psychology, and research methods using a practical, real-world approach based on her consulting experience. She has presented local workshops on leadership, assessment, and evaluation as well as professional papers on research and evaluation methods at national conferences of the American Evaluation Association, American Psychological Association, and American Psychological Society. Her current research is in the areas of assessment and evaluation of leadership development programs; youth prevention programs; the assessment of leadership potential and its relationship to emotional intelligence and executive coaching; as well as community engagement, coalition building, servant leadership, and service learning.
Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Group Processes
- Interpersonal Processes
- Organizational Behavior
- Research Methods, Assessment
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Journal Articles:
- Leever, M. G., Daniels, J., & Zimmerman-Oster, K. A. (2006). Ethics and service-learning: Toward the development of compassionate servant-leadership. Teaching Ethics, 7(1), 15-32.
- Parrish, D., & Zimmerman-Oster, K. (2010). Servant-leadership at forty: The case for contemporary research. International Journal of Servant-Leadership, 6(1), 91-101.
Courses Taught:
- General Psychology
- Industrial/Organizational Psychology
- Social Psychology
Kathleen Zimmerman-Oster
Department of Psychology
University of Detroit Mercy
8200 West Outer Drive, P.O. Box 19900
Detroit, Michigan 48219
United States of America
- Phone: (313) 993-1137
- Fax: (313) 993-1166
