People First - Serving Our Stakeholders

8-11 December 2004, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Programme

Download the Conference Programme in .pdf format here

Roundtables

Some papers were assigned to roundtable discussions rather than to a paper session. The purpose of the roundtable is to bring together a community of scholars who are working on closely related issues and to provide an opportunity for discussion. Presenters will give short (ten minutes) presentations and a faclitator will help coordinate the ensuing discussion.

ANZAM Clinics (Workshops)

There are a number of clinics presented by distinguished people on the Thursday and Friday. See Below

Unfortunately the Clinic "Obtaining Funding for Management Research in Australia" (10.30 - 12.00 Friday 10th December) has now been cancelled (26th November 2004).

Pre-Conference Workshops

There are now thirteen pre-conference workshops available.

Please indicate your attendance on the registration form, apart from Workshop 13 which has been added later (4 November).

Wednesday 8th 1300-1430

1. Brain Drain and Talent Flow: An Australian/New Zealand Human Resource Issue (1300-1430, Wednesday, 8th December).

Kerr Inkson, Stuart Carr, Duncan Jackson, Nicola Allfree, Margot Edwards, Kaye Thorn, and Jill Hooks, all from Massey University, New Zealand; Helen De Cieri and Marilyn Fenwick, both from Monash University, Australia.

The continuing internationalisation of the labour market creates major HR problems for both Australia and New Zealand businesses, particularly in respect of flows of highly qualified talent offshore to other English-speaking countries which often offer better business and career opportunities and higher salaries ("brain drain"). These outflows are potentially compensated for by return flows, and inflows of new skilled immigrants ("brain gain"), but these immigrants are often underutilized ("brain waste"). Such flows are complex, and research information on the psychodynamics and human resource implications is sparse.

The New Zealand Talent Flow Programme based in the Department of Management and International Business at Massey University, has initiated a series of studies to investigate this topic. This work is now being extended to Australia by researchers at Monash University.

It is envisaged that this workshop would be a 90 minute round table, beginning with a brief overview of the New Zealand Talent Flow Programme as an example of a multidisciplinary research project. The workshop would then be open for contributions from participants and developing networking opportunities. The workshop will be of most interest to those researchers of international HR flows, those developing a significant team research programme, and those interested in integrating quantitative and qualitative approaches to research.

2. Strategising Activity and Practice (1300-1430, Wednesday, 8th December).

Paula Jarzabkowski, Aston University, UK, Gerry Johnson, University of Strathclyde, UK, Colin Campbell-Hunt, University of Otago, NZ, and Peter Smith, University of Auckland, NZ.

This workshop seeks to bring together scholars who share an interest in understanding more about the practice of strategy - or strategizing - within organizations. We apply the practice turn in social theory and the management sciences to the strategy field to argue that we need to understand more about how the detailed processes and practices that constitute the day-to-day activities of organizational life, and in turn the processes of strategy development and content of strategies that contribute to strategic outcomes. Our focus is on the work of the strategist, but tempered by the recognition that actors outside the senior management team, such as middle and operational level managers, consultants, and regulators can play a significant role in the strategizing process. This is consistent with calls to acknowledge that people are agents who construct their work environment, with outcomes shaped through negotiation between different groups and not just senior management direction. We argue that there is a growing sense that strategy research would benefit from a strengthened focus on the micro level practices that generate and are generated by macro level phenomena, and the linkages between the two. If we see strategizing as something more distributed throughout the firm, however, and seek to understand how the myriad actors involved contribute, this has significant implications for how we do research and how we theorize about strategy. It also has significant implications for practice, since it is these more micro level activities that managers not only seek to manage but in which they are engaged in their organizational lives. In this workshop we address these issues and invite interested participants to join us in discussing how to take these issues forward.

3. Researching Emotions in Organisational Settings (1300-1430, Wednesday, 8th December)

Neal Ashkanasy, University of Queensland, Peter Jordan, Griffith University; Charmine Härtel, Deakin University, all from Australia.

The subject of emotion has attracted considerable recent interest in organizational behaviour, manifested in high profile edited books, special journal issues, and articles in leading journals. Today, leading OB textbooks have begun to include material on emotions. The presenters in this workshop are three of the leading scholars in this field. Härtel and Ashkanasy are organisers of the biannual "Emonet" conference and the consequent edited books, and Jordan has co-authored articles with Ashkanasy and Härtel published in the Academy of Management Review. Between them, the presenters have been awarded more than ten ARC grants on the topic. The presenters will cover emotions at three levels. Ashkanasy will deal with the individual level, focusing on Affective Events Theory, and will present research demonstrating how cognition and affect interactively determine employee behaviour. Jordan will focus on teams, and will present research on links between emotion, team performance and team conflict resolution. Härtel will deal with role of emotion in the fit between organisational culture/climate and organisationally desired outcomes, including development of a theoretically grounded definition and valid measures of the emotional dimensions of organisational culture/climate. Presentations will be followed by active engagement with participants to incubate new research ideas in the field.

Participants: Up to 40

4. Professional Growth and Development (1300-1430, Wednesday 8th December)

Sue Mate, Victoria University, Australia.

Purpose: This workshop builds on a doctoral investigation that is exploring the lived experience of developing as a professional within the contemporary market.

Professional development is typically measured via profiling or testing, these methods may be confronting and potentially traumatic as is the context in which performance reviews are conducted. High performers may be 'rewarded' in some organisations with opportunities to engage in professional development activities or at times of change organisations may contact consultants to assist employees embark on the transition and or transformation the organisation/company considers necessary to remain competitive. But the richness and fullness that is the nature of human experience cries out to be attended to in ways other than this. The purpose of this study is to understand the 'lived experience' and variation in the experience of professional growth.

The workshop will present three narratives representing contrasting cases of professional development. The narratives are selected from people at different times in their career and from both men and women. The cases presented are from a professional who has recently completed studies. An executive professional focused on their mid career and a retired professional.

After hearing about the cases, workshop participants will then be invited to explore their own stories of development and consider how these are typical or atypical of patterns represented in the mainstream professional development literature.

Maximum Participants: 25

5. Managing Cultural Change: Irony, Commitment and Emotion at Cokemaking Oz (1300-1430, Wednesday 8th December)

Richard Badham, Macquarie University, Michael Zanko, University of Wollongong, Garry Langton, Bluescope Steel Company, all from Australia, and Ian McLoughlin, University of Newcastle, United Kingdom.

This workshop will use a presentation from the plant manager, two videos, art material as well as presentations of published material on cultural change at Cokemaking Oz to facilitate a broad ranging discussion on managing cultural change programs in organisations.

Based on a 6 year ethnographic study of a normative 'strong culture' change programme, followed by a more 'rational' structural programme, this workshop will seek to explore in some detail a number of the issues often only touched on in academic studies of change - the chaos and uncertainty of operating in 'cultures of ambiguity', the moral ambiguity of more or less 'ironic' forms of commitment to the organisation, and cultural change, and the extreme emotions amongst those who, in their words, are 'living in the blender of change'.

Maximum Participants: 30

6. Women Succeeding in Academe: Glad, Sad, Mad or ...? (1300-1430, Wednesday, 8th December)

Judith Pringle, University of Auckland, Barbara Myers, Auckland University of Technology, Deborah Jones, Victoria University of Wellington, all from New Zealand, and Anne Ross-Smith, University of Technology Sydney, Australia,

This workshop will explore and stimulate reflective discussion by participants on the various paths for women to succeed within what is often perceived as a masculine academic environment. Our workplace is increasingly contained by government strictures and demands for measurable outcomes. Within this changing academic context how do we balance the more traditional academic roles with the need to meet business school profiles and accountabilities? Are the present senior women creating spaces in which women can flourish and fully contribute?

Each workshop contributor will address a particular aspect of contemporary academia and the implications for women. During and following the contributors' remarks, all workshop participants will be invited to reflect, contribute and discuss the issues.

A. Women in Leadership. A development programme for academic and general staff women will be presented and assessed.

B. Women and careers in a New University. Reflections on the challenges for women in a new university. This discussion will focus on a specific university setting and explore the challenges of creating flexible and meaningful career paths in times of change.

C. Insights of Senior Academics from Australian universities. This discussion will outline findings from a research project seeking to identify factors that supported and sustained women in senior managerial roles.

D. Ambition, oppression and ambivalence in the promotions process
How much can we blame the promotions process for women's relative lack of progress in the academic hierarchy compared with men? I will discuss recent New Zealand (& international) research which suggests it is not the actual promotions meeting but the more complex political and social context of the promotions process which keeps women down. I would like us to discuss what kinds of research and actions can create a shift.

This workshop offers participants the opportunity to identify the key issues that currently impact on academic women. It is envisaged that the exploration of contemporary challenges and issues will allow not only the establishment of a collective sense of what makes us mad and sad, but also to rediscover and celebrate what makes us glad to be women in academe.

Wednesday 8th 1500-1630

7. Leading Change in Universities - The Relevance of the Theory and Practice of Change Management (1500-1630, Wednesday, 8th December).

Ian McLoughlin (University of Newcastle), Patrick Dawson (University of Aberdeen), both from the United Kingdom, Greg Bamber (Griffith University), Richard Badham (Macquarie University), both from Australia.

Like most other public sector agencies in the western world, Universities are facing major change management challenges in the face of, inter alia, the globalisation of educational markets, the effects of new e-learning technologies, creeping commercialisation and 'privatisation', and pressures to 're-energise the academic core' as entrepreneurial income generators. It is for good reason that 'leadership' and the capacity to manage change and large-scale projects is being seen by at least some senior academic managers and policy makers as an increasingly important capability.

Business schools and academics occupy a peculiar position amidst these changes. On the one hand we produce much of the knowledge about leadership, change management etc. which might be used to better understand the transformation of the institutions in which we work. At the same time this know-how might be mobilised by universities individually or at a sector level to assist in building the capacity required to respond to the challenges being faced. Finally, as practising academics we ourselves variously; on the 'receiving end' of change, participating within in it, or indeed carrying some of the managerial responsibility for its strategic formulation and implementation.

The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum in which business school academics can reflect upon and exchange views on the nature and role of leadership and the relevance of change management theory and practice to the University of the 21st century.

8. Cross Sector Research and Development Collaboration (1500-1630, Wednesday, 8th December).

Tim Turpin, AEGIS, University of Western Sydney, Paul Couchman, and Sam Garrett-Jones, the University of Wollongong, Liz Fulop, Griffith University, all from Australia.

Cross sector R&D collaboration takes on an even more important role with Australian Education Minister Brendan Nelson's suggestion in the Research Collaboration Review the "universities should be forced to compete and collaborate with industry and research agencies to win access to a new $500 million contestable funding pool (Cooper & Maiden, 2004). Similarly in New Zealand, the release of a public comparison of the research performance of universities involving criteria of 'application' and external research income creates a similar urgent focus on collaborative R&D.

The workshop will discuss investigative strategies for facilitating cross-sector R&D collaboration, identify the factors which contribute to sustainable cross-sector linkages, examine how the dynamics of collaboration are managed across the institutional domains and industry partners, and investigate the diversity in research cultures which emerges from cross-sector collaboration. The aim is to develop a model to enhance successful management of university-industry research partnerships.

Coinciding with the culmination of a three-year ARC Discovery Grant project by Turpin, Fulop, Couchman and Garrett-Jones the workshop will explore the scope and focus of current research with a view to bringing interested scholars together for future research into the management of cross sector collaboration in R&D.

Participants: The maximum number of participants preferred is 40.

9. Working with Stakeholders: Collaborative Advantage or Collaborative Inertia? (1500-1630, Wednesday 8th December)

Paul Hibbert, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom, and Michel Rod, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Inter-organizational collaboration is an essential modus operandi for addressing complex, intractable problems requiring input from a wide range of stakeholders in commercial, public sector, community and cross-sectoral settings. However, bringing multiple organizations and individuals together to address difficult issues often results not in the benefits collective input but frustration and inertia. We propose to facilitate a discussion on the issues associated with working in collaboration with stakeholders. Beginning with the summary of the issues and research directions collated at the 11th Multi-Organisational Partnerships, Alliances and Networks conference (MOPAN - an international conference series), we will develop a contextual map of the field with participants, with the following aims:
" Investigating whether the character of the issues raised at MOPAN, attended largely by a European and North American academic audience, rings true in the Australia/New Zealand region;
" Exploring commonalities and differences in research directions, approaches and objectives in the field of inter-organizational collaboration with the ANZAM community.
In this way we intend to build academic bridges, with the aim of supporting researchers addressing the complex and demanding issues associated with collaboration - whether researching or working interactively with stakeholder groups.

Maximum Participants: 20

10. Debating Best Practices in Professional Doctorate Programs (1500-1630, Wednesday 8th December)

Ronel Erwee, University of Southern Queensland, Australia.

The Council of Deans and Directors of Graduate Studies formulated a "Framework for Best Practice in Doctoral Education in Australia" in April 2004. The document recognizes the diversity of research and research training needs, contexts and outcomes. The council debated the balance between coursework and research in such programmes and formulated perspectives on the role of coursework in doctoral programs. Furthermore, the document provides guidelines on outcomes, entry requirements, nature of the program, generic skills components, supervision and related components.

This workshop aims to create a forum for debate about the best practices recommended in the April 2004 Council of Deans document. Specific aims are to stimulate the audience to a) debate the models that have evolved to deal with diverse challenges of professional doctorate programs, b) discuss what research and other methodologies or technologies can be used to enrich candidates' learning experiences, and to c) share strategies to guide local and international candidates in remote locations to dissertation completion.

It is recommended that Directors of Doctoral programs - postgraduate students, academic supervisors and DBA students attend the session.

11. People First? On the Possibilities of Ethics and Critique (1500-1630, Wednesday 8th December)

Shayne Grice, University of Otago, New Zealand, Campbell Jones, University of Leicester, United Kingdom, and Carl Rhodes, University of Technology, Australia.

What might it mean to talk of 'people first'? What does such talk mean to those interested in ethics and critique? We approach ethics as it is positioned in relations between people and the way managers consider their ethical responsibility to others in and through their managerial practice. If managerial discourse attests to the value of people, we propose to ask what is meant by 'people' and 'first'. Specifically, the workshop will interrogate questions such as:

1) Community - Who are 'the people'? In what sense might `the people' be referred to as collective? To what extent is the particularity of persons considered when implicating them in collectives?
2) Messianism - Where are the people going? Where are they being taken? How do others lay claim to be doing this 'taking'? What sort of relation might be understood to have with this future not yet realised?
3) Responsibility - How we might understand the relation between the critic, organizations and people? What are the (im)possibilities of putting people first?

The session will be introduced by the panel co-ordinators who will each deliver a short paper on each question. Session participants will have a selection of readings made available to be read prior to attending the workshop. These readings will form the basis of the papers delivered and serve as an entree into as discussion of the question of the (im)possibilities of ethics and critiques.

Participants: Approximately 15

12. Alternative Approaches to the Study of Management (1500-1630, Wednesday 8th December)

Michael Small, and Carolyn Bennett, both from Curtin University, Australia

The rationale for this workshop is to review and discuss a range of topics in management studies that could be useful for graduate students who wish to undertake research at either master or doctoral level. The workshop will consist of two distinct sections. They are related to the extent that both workshops will focus on events and personalities from the past. Implications and inferences will be drawn from current management practice. The aim of the first part is to: (i) relate selected material to current management theory and practice, (ii) highlight examples of early management and administrative practice which are colourful and different, and (iii) motivate students who are new to the study of management to undertake further research into theoretical aspects of management related subjects. As an illustration, the aim of the second part is to review leaders and leadership behaviour from translations of original texts from the classical worlds of Greece and Rome. The workshop will feature and require active participation and critical discussion of these two related areas.

13. Developing Skills for Global Management using Distributed Web-based Business Simulations (1500-1630, Wednesday 8th December)

Darl Kolb, Peter Smith, Emma Dawson, all University of Auckland, and Bill Smith, Eastern Institute of Technology, all from New Zealand

This workshop will begin with an exploration and discussion of the experiences of management educators who have linked their students, competitively and cooperatively, with a single, web-based business simulation called Mike's Bikes. This initiative has been developed over the past 6 years between the University of Auckland and EIT, Hawkes Bay, with plans to include the University of the South Pacific in 2005. Implications and ideas will be drawn from participants about how Australian and New Zealand schools and universities can better prepare our students for global management, especially managing across distances-both physical and cultural.

Since the business simulation incorporates multiple disciplines, including strategy, marketing, operations, finance and human resource management, participants from any discipline or field may find applications for their discipline. Experience with web-based and other forms of business simulations would be useful, but certainly not necessary. In fact, anyone interested in new forms of teaching in general is welcome! Expected format is informal, casual with participant involvement.

ANZAM Clinics

1. Research Supervision (1030 - 1200, Thursday 9 December)
Amrik Sohal, Monash University, Australia

This clinic is designed for those who are new to research supervision and will focus on the following topics.
" First meeting with the student.
" Initial three to four month period (full-time equivalent): defining and refining the research proposal, and shaping the research program.
" Reading and providing feedback on student`s work.
" Monitoring student progress.
" Producing the thesis and the examination process.

The clinic will be led by Professor Amrik Sohal (Associate Dean Research Degrees, Faculty of Business and Economics,) Monash University, Australia. He is an experienced supervisor and received the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Postgraduate Supervision in 2001. He will be assisted by a number of other experienced supervisors.

2. Managing Teaching and Learning in Highly Diverse Classrooms
(1500 - 1630, Thursday 9 December)
Prem Ramburuth, University of New South Wales, Australia

This workshop examines the changing nature of today's higher education classrooms, the increasing diversity characterising the classes we teach, and the challenges encountered in managing and teaching to the diversity.

It seeks to share strategies for identifying student needs, addressing the multiplicity of emerging expectations, and enhancing teaching and learning. The workshop offers suggestions for innovations in management education, including the use of student initiated cases, on-line learning with external and international linkages, course and task specific support mechanisms, cross cultural team-work, and industry based projects. It also looks at assessing the outcomes and impact of these innovations and approaches to learning.

Finally, on a more pragmatic level, the workshop highlights the need for the systematic recording of learning outcomes and teaching/learning performance, as an essential aspect of promotional and other applications (often not a priority in the busy lives of academics, but becoming an increasingly important feature).

3. Research Funding (two in parallel) (1030 - 1200 Friday 10 December)
(A): Obtaining Funding for Management Research in Australia (CANCELLED)
Gael McDonald, UNITEC, New Zealand

The Research Clinic is intended to assist individuals who are preparing proposals for Australian Research Council (ARC) Grants. Academics, who wish their research proposals to be reviewed by an experienced reviewer prior to the Conference and with a face-to-face meeting during the research clinic timeslot, are requested to submit their proposals to anzam@uts.edu.au by 20th November. Upon receipt of the proposal from those who wish to participate in the Research Clinic, they will be matched with an relevant academic reviewer. Both parties will be notified in order for them to arrange to meet on Friday 10 December from 1030-1200. The intention of the Clinic is to provide positive feedback in an effort to enhance the success of the research proposal in generating external funding.

(B): Obtaining Funding for Management Research in New Zealand
Delwyn Clark, Ted Zorn, both University of Waikato, Kate Kearins, Auckland University of Technology, and Shane Stuart, Foundation for Research, Science & Technology, all from New Zealand

In New Zealand, the major sources of research funding target investment in science and technology. This workshop will focus on how management researchers can bid successfully to obtain funding from the Royal Society's prestigious Marsden Fund and from the Foundation for Research Science and Technology (FRST). A panel of experts will share their knowledge/experiences and provide practical advice on proposals for specific research grants.

Professor Kate Kearins, who was a Marsden Social Sciences Panel Member in 2004 will explain where management research fits in the Marsden Fund panels and share lessons from her experience with a successful collaborative Marsden grant. In addition, she will provide insight from the perspective of the social science review panel on the assessment process and criteria for Marsden proposals.

Dr Shane Stuart will provide an update on the priorities for the key FRST portfolios that include social science and management research. He will explain FRST`s requirements for successful proposals and briefly discuss their review processes.

Professor Ted Zorn will discuss his experiences obtaining and delivering on FRST contracts drawing upon four years as the Principal Investigator for a major multi-disciplinary research programme on the socio-economic impacts of Information and Communication Technologies.

Questions on research funding processes will be welcomed from workshop participants.

4. Enhancing Publishing Success (1500 - 1630 Friday 10 December)
Ted Zorn, University of Waikato, New Zealand

In a talk designed for doctoral students and relatively new researchers, Professor Ted Zorn will discuss strategies and tactice for getting published in refereed journals.

Topics to be discussed include:
* Getting started (e.g. assessing your goals and choosing the journal)
" Preparing manuscripts for submission
" Dealing with editors and reviewers
" Using "tricks of the trade" to increase your chances of getting published
" Ethics and professionalism

Concrete examples will be provided demonstrating powerful introductions and manuscripts that are "aligned" - both of which increase publication chances. Plus, sample letters to editors and reviewers will be provided. Experienced researchers are invited to come along to share their experience and wisdom.

Doctoral Workshop

Please indicate your attendance on the registration form.

Research students and research training have become central to ANZAM. The annual pre-conference workshop is run over two days beginning on the morning of Tuesday 7th, includes informal round-table sessions with senior research scholars over dinner and concludes with lunch of Wednesday 8th. ANZAM's doctoral workshops aim:

• To encourage questioning and interaction that will contribute to further development of students’ theses
  
• To facilitate sharing of ideas and discovery of common interests
  
• To develop a supportive student community, and
  
• To provide an introduction to senior management scholars from around the world

This year will begin with a morning of research training sessions, followed by student presentations, and other interesting sessions.

Look at the current programme. For the full conference programme see above.

One of our aims is to facilitate sharing of ideas and discover common interests, so we need to know something about you. Please fill out the details on the form attached and return to the ANZAM student rep, Lyn Batchelor (Lyn.Batchelor@griffith.edu.au), so we can tell everyone about your work. If you would like to present at one of the student sessions (10 minutes only), let Lyn know as soon as you can as places are limited.