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ANNUAL REPORT 2011

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

DIRECTOR’S ADDRESS 1

ABOUT THE CGSB 2

CGSB COURSES 3

PARTNERSHIPS 3

MBA ACCREDITATIONS 4

MBA RANKINGS 4

CGSB ADVISORY BOARD 5

CGSB ACADEMIC STAFF 6

CGSB PROFESSIONAL STAFF 8

VISITING ACADEMICS AND ADJUNCTS 10

LEADER IN RESIDENCE 11

INDUSTRY TEACHING ASSOCIATES 12

GUEST LECTURERS FROM INDUSTRY 13

VALE PETER KENYON 14

HIGHLIGHTS OF 2011 15

MASTER OF BUSINESS LEADERSHIP REPORT 16

DEPT OF MINERAL AND ENERGY ECONOMICS REPORT 17

MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION REPORT 18

GRADUATE CERTIFICATE AND GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS 19

EXECUTIVE EDUCATION REPORT 19

THE ECONOMIST MBA RANKINGS 20

THE ASPEN INSTITUTE ‘BEYOND GREY PINSTRIPES’ RANKINGS 20

PRINCIPLES FOR RESPONSIBLE MANAGEMENT EDUCATION 21

AUSTRALIA-EUROPEAN UNION PARTNERSHIP FRAMEWORK 21

FAREWELL TO STAFF 22

STAFF ACHIEVEMENTS 23

ACADEMIC PROMOTIONS IN 2011 23

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS 24

“DON”T BUMP YOUR HEAD” MARKETING CAMPAIGN 26

BUILDING REDESIGN 27

CGSB STAFF RETREAT - ROTTNEST ISLAND 28

OUR STUDENTS 29

2011 ENROLMENTS 30

STUDENT SATISFACTION - eVALUate 2011 31

CGSB GRADUATION CELEBRATIONS 32

CGSB ALUMNI 33

IT’S TIME TO CELEBRATE 34

HIGHER DEGREES BY RESEARCH 36

HDR CANDIDACIES AND COMPLETIONS 36

CGSB DOCTORAL RESEARCH FORUM 41

CGSB RESEARCH SEMINAR PROGRAM 42

EVENTS AT THE CGSB 43

CGSB 2012 BUSINESS LEADERS SERIES 44

BUILDING YOUR CAREER 46

THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN CLUB 46

CAREER PATHWAY SEMINARS 47

2011 EVENTS IN RETROSPECT 48

LINKING BEYOND THE CGSB: EXTERNAL LINKS AND RESEARCH 49

AUSTRALIAN LEADERSHIP AWARDS: LEADERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

50

AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR NATURAL GAS MANAGEMENT 51

CEDA: COMMITTEE FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF AUSTRALIA 52

AMCHAM: AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 53

CGSB CENTRES AND RESEARCH UNITS 54

NATIONALLY COMPETITIVE GRANTS AND INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH

56

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIPS 56

CONFERENCE AND RESEARCH FORUM PARTICIPATION 57

EXECUTIVE ‘NOT-FOR-AWARD’ EDUCATION PROGRAM DELIVERY 58

ARTICULATION AGREEMENTS 58

CGSB PUBLICATIONS 59

CGSB ACADEMIC STAFF PROFILES 62

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DIRECTOR’S ADDRESS

2011 has been yet another amazing and exciting year for the Curtin Graduate School of Business.

This Annual Report details most of the highlights of the 2011 academic year which range from international achievements such as new accreditations and our rise up The Economist ‘Which MBA?’ global top 100 MBA ranking to internal changes such as the beautiful refurbishment of Levels 1 and 4 that add to the enjoyment of working and studying at the CGSB.

During the year we celebrated yet another teaching award when Professor Rick Ladyshewsky collected his Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) citation for his outstanding contribution to student learning.

In September we signed up to the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) and hosted a Peer Review Team from the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) to evaluate and assess our application for EPAS (EFMD Program Accreditation System) accreditation. EPAS is a program accreditation based on the same principles as its EQUIS accreditation; i.e. how well the assessed program meets its criteria of successful internationalisation and its high standards in the areas of academic rigour, corporate relevance and quality assurance. It was an intensive process cumulating in a recommendation that we be granted EPAS for three years (January 2012 through to December 2014). This accreditation puts us in an exclusive league of EPAS-accredited schools globally whose number comprises less than 100 members. The Curtin MBA is one of only two such MBA programs awarded this accreditation in Australia and the only EPAS-accredited MBA program in WA.

Thanks to the dedication of staff, students and Alumni at the CGSB we continued to do well in the international rankings. We were one of only four Australian MBA programs recognised by The Aspen Institute in their 2011/12 global ranking of Green MBAs with the Curtin MBA ranking 80th. We were also proud of our continued strong performance in The Economist Which MBA ranking where we came in at 58th in 2011.

The CGSB Alumni association continued to be of great support. We bade farewell to Magodi Sakala who stepped down as CGSB Alumni President and we welcomed Marion Fulker into the role. Marion is an MBA graduate and the CEO for the Committee for Perth.

Finally we celebrated the conclusion of the multi-million dollar AusAID Leadership for Development Program which the CGSB successfully tendered for in 2007 and delivered with outstanding success for the last four years. In 2011, our final year, our learning facilitators achieved a 100% participant satisfaction score from the participating scholars.

Clearly all these achievements reflect an inspiring team effort and I sincerely thank all staff, adjuncts, Industry teaching Associates and Advisory Board members for their outstanding contribution. I’d also like to thank our wonderful students and alumni. We are fortunate in being able to attract the world’s best to our CBD-based campus. We are all very proud of their achievements. It continues to be a privilege to be the Director of such a fantastic School.

Professor Alison PrestonDirectorCurtin Graduate School of Business

Prof Alison PrestonDirector, CGSB

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ABOUT THE CGSB

The CGSB was founded in 1993 and is now one of the largest executive business schools in the Asia Pacific region serving just over 1300 post-experience students. Within Western Australia the CGSB is the only

graduate business school physically situated in the Perth CBD. It has close ties with industry, strong international connections and offers a unique set of programs including an internationally accredited and internationally ranked Master of Business Administration (MBA), a Master of Business Leadership (MBL), a Master of Science in Mineral and Energy Economics and the only double degree of its kind in the world – a Master of Science (Mineral Economics)/Master of Business Administration. The MBA is accredited through Association of MBAs (AMBA) and the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD).

The School has particular strengths in leadership (offering the longest running executive level masters leadership program in Australia), strategy and resources management. In addition to the generalist MBA the school offers a specialist MBA in oil and gas management and a specialist MBA in strategic procurement. The MBA (Oil and Gas) is run in partnership with the Aberdeen Business School at Robert Gordon University. With a mission to develop leaders who can creatively and responsively lead sustainable organisations, the CGSB is increasingly recognised for its excellence in providing its students with the academic, career, social and professional skills necessary to achieve this.

In addition to offering internationally accredited and ranked graduate business programs, the CGSB also offers tailored executive development training programs for the business sector. The School has close links with business and industry and a strong focus on regional issues. As well as highly qualified academic faculty, the CGSB draws on a number of outstanding international Visiting Professors as well as a team of highly experienced Industry Teaching Associates (ITAs) and Adjuncts. Our ITAs mostly hold appointments in industry and bring a strong practitioner focus to the program.

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CGSB COURSES

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

MBA (Business)

MBA (Oil and Gas)

MBA (Strategic Procurement)

Master of Science (Mineral and Energy Economics)/Master of Business Administration

Master of Business Leadership (MBL)

Department of Mineral and Energy Economics (DMEE)

Graduate Certificate in Mineral Economics

Master of Science (Mineral and Energy Economics)

Master of Science (Mineral and Energy Economics)/Master of Business Administration

Graduate Certificate in Business (GCB)

GCB (Business)

GCB (Leadership)

GCB (Oil and Gas)

Graduate Certificate in Procurement

Graduate Diploma in Business (GDB)

GDB (Business)

GDB (Strategic Procurement)

Master of Philosophy (MPhil)

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

PARTNERSHIPSThe CGSB enjoys collaborative partnerships with a number of institutions locally and globally.

Colorado School of Mines

Universidad de Chile

Robert Gordon University WA School of MinesUniversity of Strathclyde


MBA ACCREDITATIONS

Association of MBAsThe Curtin Master of Business Administration (MBA) program has been accredited by the international Association of MBAs (AMBA). The Association assesses the characteristics of a business school and its MBA program against a set of criteria established by an International Accreditation Advisory Board.

EFMD - EPAS and CELThe Curtin MBA was recommended for EPAS (EFMD Programme Accreditation System) accreditation in late 2011, with confirmation in early 2012. EPAS is based on the same principles as EFMD’s EQUIS accreditation; i.e. how well the assessed program meets its criteria of successful internationalisation and its high standards in the areas of academic rigour, corporate relevance and quality assurance. The Curtin MBA was granted accreditation for three years (from January 2012 until December 2014).

The Curtin MBA program also holds EFMD accreditation for technology-Enhanced Learning (CEL) for three years from January 2011 until December 2013. It marked another important achievement for the School and all involved in the delivery of our online programs.

The fundamental objective of the EFMD CEL programme is to raise the standard of technology-enhanced learning programmes worldwide. EFMD CEL aims to facilitate standard setting, benchmarking, mutual learning, and the dissemination of good practice. It allows for different approaches and diversity in designing and implementing such programmes. EFMD CEL is directed towards educational management programmes incorporating ICT-based learning.

CIPSAThe Curtin Master of Business Administration (Strategic Procurement) is accredited by The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (Australasia) which is the leading body representing the field of procurement and supply management in the region.

MBA RANKINGS

The EconomistThe Curtin MBA is one of only four MBA programs in Australia to be ranked in the Global Top 100 by The Economist Which MBA? Survey. In the 2011 global rankings of Top 100 MBA full-time programs our overall rank rose to #58.

We ranked 4th in Asia and 2nd in the world for student quality (reflecting the high level of work experience students have before they enter our course).

The Aspen Institute “Beyond Grey Pinstripes”The Curtin Graduate School of Business has ranked at #80 on a list of the Top 100 business schools globally in the 2011-12 Beyond Grey Pinstripes survey conducted by The Aspen Institute and is one of only four Australian universities listed and the only West Australian institution to appear in the ranking.

The CGSB has demonstrated significant leadership in integrating social, environmental and ethical issues into its MBA program, according to the Institute’s alternative ranking of business schools.

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CGSB ADVISORY BOARD

The CGSB is supported by an Industry Advisory Board. The Board provides advice about emerging trends in industry, the educational needs of business and government and

access to networks which enhance the School's linkages in its community.

In 2011 we welcomed the following new members: Sue Ash, David Flanagan and Kevin Gallagher and farewelled exiting members Dr Lynette Buoy, John Downing and Greg Martin. We thank our departing members for their commitment and dedication to the CGSB.

Members of the CGSB Advisory Board at the November 2011 Advisory Board Meeting (from left): Catherine Cipro, Virginie Hannah, Bronwyn Barnes, David Crawford, Rob Sharp, Alison Preston, Sue Ash, John Poulsen.

David Crawford Chair, CGSB Advisory BoardNon-Executive Director

Bronwyn BarnesManager, Strategy (Aust) & Deputy Gen. Manager (Guinea)Alliance Mining Commodities Ltd

Virginie HannahManager, Business Performance Services Advisory KPMG

John PoulsenManaging Partner Squire Sanders

Prof Phil Taylor Dean of InternationalStrathclyde Business SchoolUniversity of Strathclyde

Sue AshChief Executive Officer UnitingCare West

David FlanaganManaging Director Atlas Iron

Reg Howard-SmithChief Executive Chamber of Minerals and Energy WA

Catherine CiproGeneral Manager Blake Dawson

Kevin GallagherChief Executive Officer Clough Limited

Robert SharpHead, Global Airport Infrastructure and Services Qantas Airways


CGSB ACADEMIC STAFF

The CGSB puts great emphasis on industry experience as well as applied research and awareness of contemporary developments in the field of extpertise when recruiting

staff. The CGSB core faculty has vast local and international experience within academia and in industry, with the majority of members having either studied, taught and/or worked overseas. Others international experience includes consulting or holding management roles. This experience is well complemented by their academic and professional engagement within Australia.

Prof Alison PrestonDirector, CGSB

Dr Troy HendricksonProgram Director Master of Business Leadership (from mid-2011)

Assoc Prof Linley LordOrganisational Behaviour Program Leader MBA Part-time Director, Teaching and LearningDirector, Maureen Bickley Centre for Women in Leadership

Prof Al RainnieDirectorResearch and Development

Assoc Prof Therese JeffersonProgram DirectorHigher Degrees by Research

Prof Daniel PackeyHead Dept of Mineral & Energy Economics

Prof Kelvin WilloughbyProgram Director Master of Business Administration

Program Directors

Garry ClaxtonSenior Lecturer Legal Studies

Prof Robert EvansProgram Leader MBA (Strategic Procurement) Professor of Accounting

Dr Scott FitzgeraldResearch Fellow

Assoc Prof Byron HansonLeadership Development

Assoc Prof Graeme CoetzerOrganisational Behaviour

Astrid FackelmannSenior Lecturer Marketing

Assoc Prof Jeremy GalbreathStrategy

Dr Aileen Hoath Senior Research Fellow

Academic Staff

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John KarasinskiProgram Leader MBA (Oil and Gas) Senior LecturerEconomics & Finance

Prof Rick LadyshewskyProgram Leader MBA Online Managerial Effectiveness

Assoc Prof Verena MarshallLegal Issues and Human Resources

Dr Bryan MaybeeSenior Lecturer Mining Finance

Prof Fiona McKenzieProfessiorial Research Fellow

Prof Margaret NowakProfessor of EconomicsDirector, Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility Research Unit

Dr José Saavedra-RosasSenior Lecturer/Senior Research FellowDepartment of Mineral and Energy Economics

Janet SutherlandPrograms Director Master of Business Leadership (until mid-2011)

Assoc Prof Stephane TywoniakStrategy

Prof Alma WhiteleyProfessor of International Human Resources

Robert Johnson Senior LecturerCorporate Finance

Prof Peter KenyonProfessor of Economic Policy

Assoc Prof Des KlassProgram Leader GCB & GDB Decision Making and Strategy Director, Centre for Innovation in Decision Quality (CIDQ)

Dr Margaret McCabeExecutive Education

Assoc Prof Marita NaudéOrganisational Change & Development

Prof Mohammed QuaddusProfessor of Information & Decision Systems

Ron PettapieceSenior Lecturer

Dr Anna RoweSenior Lecturer Accounting

Prof Allan TrenchDepartment of Mineral and Energy Economics

Assoc Prof Dorothy WardaleLeadership & FacilitationDirector, Executive Education


CGSB PROFESSIONAL STAFF

CGSB Professional Staff are responsible for the core activities of the School and act as unit to ensure the smooth operation of all administrative duties. Professional Staff are important support for teaching and learning as well as research and

development. With the growing emphasis on developing the CGSB as a ‘destination’ for extra-curricula activities, the CGSB now has staff dedicated events management and student engagement. The many areas staffed by Professional Staff include:

• CGSB Student Services Office, tailored to the specific needs of postgraduate students• online and face-to-face teaching support• research assistance• project support• event management• marketing and communications• business development• library management• HR and finance• general building maintenance and improvement efforts.

In addition to our permanent staff members, the CGSB is also fortunate to have the following part-time assistants giving support to academic and professional staff as required:

Toby EvansRoisin BoydShona Fridh

Student Services Office

Fleur CorneliusStudent Services Manager

Anita RyanDeputy Student Services Manager

Jo BoycottStudent Services Officer

Alexis SalkinStudent Services Officer

Guy HarrisStudent Services Manager

Jan McDonaldSenior Student Services Officer

Trish McHughStudent Services Officer

Megan GreenStudent Services Assistant

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Administrative Staff

Andrea SwasbrookPersonal Assistant tothe Director

Kim LeeBusiness Development Manager

Debra JordanProject Officer (Surveys & Reports)

Donald MwathiExecutive Officer (Planning & Accreditation)

Nadia NelsonProject Officer(External Communications)

HR and Finance Staff

Lily TandiHR & Finance Manager

Joanna RosaHR Administrative Assistant

Satomi KusumotoHR Administrative Assistant

Online Teaching and Learning

Nicole DavidInstructional Designer

Inna GeogheganOnline Teaching & Learning Manager

Erica SimsProject Officer Online Teaching & Learning

Claire BeanALA Leadership Development Program Manager

Gloria GuALA Leadership Development Program Coordinator and then Manager

Isabelle PergerHR Administrative Assistant (AusAID)

Cecilia BraunHR Administrative Assistant

Australian Leadership for Development

Melissa MarinelliResearch Assistant

Gail ThomasResearch Fellow

Research Assistants/Fellows


VISITING ACADEMICS AND ADJUNCTS

To ensure our staff and students are kept up to date with contemporary developments in business in Australia and internationally, the CGSB together with Curtin Business School supports a number of highly experienced, international

scholars and researchers to Curtin each year. The following esteemed academics are proudly linked to the Curtin Graduate School of Business and uphold our dedication to seeking and linking locally and internationally in all areas of business education and expertise. In 2011, we were delighted to engage the following academics adjuncts to the CGSB:

Adjunct Prof Fran AckermannHead of Management ScienceUniversity of Strathclyde, UK

Adjunct Lecturer David Blyth Owner, 2nd Horizon Pty Ltd

Dr Henk BrandDepartment of Economics University of Guelph-HumberOntario, Canada

Adjunct Prof Roderick EggertColorado School of Mines, USA

Adjunct Prof Peter Galvin Strategic Management and International Business Newcastle Business School, UK

Adjunct Prof Rob GuthrieAssessor, Criminal Injuries Compensation Perth, Western Australia

Assoc Prof Susan McGrath-ChampDepartment of Work and Organisational Studies, University of Sydney

Adjunct Prof Norbert BachIlmenau University of TechnologyGermany

Prof Dede BonnerProfessor of Graduate Business ProgramsGeorge Washington State University

Adjunct Prof George BurtScenario PlanningDirector, MBAStrathclyde Business SchoolUniversity of Strathclyde, UK

Adjunct Prof Bradon EllemChair, Work and Organisational StudiesUniversity of Sydney

Adjunct Prof Pietro Guj Centre for Exploration TargetingCurtin University and the University of Western Australia

Kim Turnbull JamesExecutive Learning, Dean of Faculty and Director of Faculty Development Cranfield School of Management, UK.

Adjunct Prof Christian MoscosoAcademic Director, Mineral Economics Program University of Chile

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Leader in Residence: Adjunct Prof Elaine Rumboll

Elaine is an award winning poet and business woman, educator and

entrepreneur. She started her career running creative workshops with maximum security prisoners and then young people in care. During almost seven years as director of Executive Education at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business, she grew revenues 4.5 times and ensured a place in the top fifty globally for customised leadership development work - first in Africa according to the Financial Times of London and in the top 5 internationally according to the Economist (London). She has also taught internationally in the fields of leadership development and strategy in South Africa, Kenya, Switzerland, the United States, England and Australia.

Elaine brought incredible energy to the CGSB during her time at the School. She ran several successful leadership workshops for both student and industry groups. Elaine and her partner, Dave Duarte, also facilitated the CGSB Staff Retreat at Rottnest Island, focussing on working efficiently with new technologies and productive presencing. We thank her for her time and efforts in bringing us all into the twenty-first century!

Find out more about Elaine and her work here: elainerumboll.com

Professor Graham Murdock Professor of Economy and Culture Loughborough University, UK

Prof Ron SanchezProfessor of Strategy Institute for InnovationCopenhagen Business School

Adjunct Prof Phil Taylor Dean of InternationalStrathclyde Business SchoolUniversity of Strathclyde

Adjunct Prof Walter Wehrmeyer Centre for Environmental StrategyUniversity of Surrey, UK

Adjunct Lecturer Jim WinterDirector, Safety Leaders Group

Prof Jonathan WintertonProfessor of Human Resource Development Toulouse Business School, France

Adjunct Prof Margot WoodRio Tinto


Assoc Prof David Bac-carini Director, Dept of Construction Management School of Built Environment, Curtin University

Alison Barker Marketing Consultant Self-employed

Dr Elisa Birch Lecturer UWA Business School

Maureen Boland Lecturer Curtin University

Prof Guy Callender Professor of Procurement Curtin Business School, Curtin University

Stuart Collins Finance & Administration Manager (Western Region) Thiess Services Pty Ltd

Dr Jennifer Davies Lecturer/ researcher Independent Consultant

Dr John Dixon Assistant Director, ICT Sourcing Department of Treasury and Finance

Joanne Eggleston Organisational Behaviour Independent Consultant

Gavan Forester Director of Economics and Housing Master Builders Association of WA

Prof Peter Galvin Professor and subject group leader (Strategic Management and international Business) Newcastle Business School

Justin Geoghegan Lawyer Legal Aid WA

Prof David Gilchrist Assistant Auditor-General Office of the Auditor-General

Prof Pietro Guj Director Centre for Exploration Targeting, Curtin University & University of Western Australia

William Layer Former Senior Policy Advisor Carbon Capture & Storage

Prof Philip Maxwell Adjunct Professor WA School of Mines, Curtin University

Julia Maybee Lecturer Curtin University

Dr Robert Plummer Regional Manager- Transmission and Distribution – Western Australia Transfield Services (Aust) Pty Limited

Prof Ron Ripple Professor Centre for Research in Energy and Minerals Economics, Curtin University

Dr Kim Schofield Deputy Commissioner, Capability and Development Public Sector Commission

Dr Helen Sitlington HRM Consultant Self-employed

Prof Michael Ward Professor (Finance) Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria

Peter Westlund Management Consultancy Interim Executive and Business Mentor

INDUSTRY TEACHING ASSOCIATES

The CGSB has always attracted the best practitioners in the industry to uphold our belief in combining theory with practical application. Following is a list of the Industry Teaching Associates (ITAs) who taught at the CGSB in 2011:

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GUEST LECTURERS FROM INDUSTRY

Leadership Development 510

Bill Withers CEO/Managing Director Acquire Technologies

Tim Kenworthy Social Pioneer and Managing Director; Coordinator of the BIG HELP MOB Youth Tree

Yuki Ghantous Ambassador Consulate of Japan

Akio Kawanabe Director Hyogo Japanese Cultural Centre

Sam Nelson Environmental Entrepreneur Greenbase, Maia Maia Emission Reduction Currency and Australian Institute of Environmental Accounting

Dave Platt Practice Leader Resilient FuturesSeveral participants and individuals from Interwork Disability Employment Service to talk about diversityDave Duarte Managing Director Ogilvy Digital Media

Business Strategy & International Business 660

Julian Andrews General Manager, Business Development Wesfarmers

Tony Considine CEO North West Iron Ore Alliance

Bob Humphries Manager, Sustainability Water Corporation

Andrew Kite Chief Development Officer Rio Tinto

Marketing Management 555

Michael Le Page General Manager Rio Tinto

Bill Richardson Co-Founder Jester’s Pies

Dr Maud Eijkenboom Director HiLighter

Francene Leaversuch CEO Commonwealth Royal Life Saving Society

Mineral and Energy Economics Capstone

Prof Cam McCuaig Director Centre for Exploration Targeting

Graham Walker Senior Associate Evans and Peck

Prof Peter Lilly Executive Director Curtin Institute of Mining and Energy

Bronwyn Barnes Manager, Strategy (Aust) & Deputy General Manager (Guinea) Alliance Mining Commodities Ltd

Leading in a Dynamic Global Environment 520

Jim McGuire Senior Manager Water Corporation

Mike Borman Managing Director Jojara

Dave Koutsoukis Managing Director Acropolis Leadership

Regional and Socioeconomic Impacts 601

Kelvyn Eglington Regional Manager Asia Pacific - Social Responsibility Newmont Gold Asia Pacific

Sustainable Leadership Practice 610

Marie Finlay Director The Nexus Network

John Beech Director John Beech & Associates Pty Ltd

Marion Fulker CEO Committee for Perth

Malcolm Fialho Senior Diversity Officer University of Western Australia

Rob Sharp General Manager, Airports Infrastructure QANTAS

Ian Carter CEO Anglicare

Our philosophy at the CGSB is to always present the latest thinking from people working in industry. The following list upholds our reputation for bringing leaders in the community, not-for-profit and business community

into the classroom to share knowledge and insights with our students.


Vale Peter Kenyon

Peter Kenyon was Professor of Economic Policy at the CGSB. Peter was educated at Monash University and the Universities of Adelaide and Virginia and taught at a number of universities in Australia and

overseas. He had a long association with Curtin University, originally commencing as a lecturer at the Western Australian Institute of Technology in 1983.

In 1986 he moved to Murdoch University and then onto the Melbourne Institute for Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne. He returned to CBS and Curtin University in 1997 as Director of the Institute for Research into International Competitiveness (IRIC). He transferred to the newly established John Curtin Institute of Public Policy (JCIPP) in 2004 before moving on to the CGSB in 2007.

His research interests covered a wide field, including labour economics (Australian and international), economic policy, international economics and macroeconomics. Peter published over 60 papers in academic books and journals, including Kyklos, the American Economic Review, the Review of Economics and Statistics, Applied Economics, Australian Economic Papers and the Australian Economic Review (of which he was joint editor between 1993 and 1995). He also undertook a large number of consultancies and contract research projects for numerous government and private sector clients, resulting in over 60 reports and papers. He was also co-founder of the Australian Society of Labour Economists.

Peter felt at home when teaching, with his students benefiting from his experiences and humorous anecdotes. Besides his teaching and research work, he was a frequent commentator on economics and economic policy to a variety of audiences through television, radio, newspapers and magazines.

His economic expertise was interwoven with his deep sense of social justice and equity and he will be fondly remembered by colleagues and students for his innate ability to present the driest economic policy within a humanitarian context. This was demonstrated with Peter’s involvement as Chair of the WA Advisory Board of The Big Issue, a street paper that assists homeless, long term unemployed and disadvantaged people.

Peter’s interests were as interesting as they were diverse. A big picture thinker and regular media commentator on economic issues within the State – he was a larger-than-life character. Peter loved engaging with students and his colleagues, even when serious illness beckoned. His great love of fine food and wine saw Peter establish his own cooking school, The Cooking Professor and travel extensively throughout Europe with his wife, Jan.

His amazing talent - in the classroom and in the kitchen - his storytelling, his generous spirit and his joyous laughter will be sorely missed.

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HIGHLIGHTS OF 2011

MASTER OF BUSINESS LEADERSHIP REPORT 16

DEPT OF MINERAL AND ENERGY ECONOMICS REPORT 17

MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION REPORT 18

GRADUATE CERTIFICATE & GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS REPORT 19

EXECUTIVE EDUCATION AT THE CGSB 19

THE ECONOMIST MBA RANKINGS 20

THE ASPEN INSTITUTE ‘BEYOND GREY PINSTRIPES’ RANKINGS 20

PRINCIPLES FOR RESPONSIBLE MANAGEMENT EDUCATION 21

AUSTRALIA-EUROPEAN UNION PARTNERSHIP FRAMEWORK 21

STAFF ACHIEVEMENTS 22

ACADEMIC PROMOTIONS IN 2011 22

FAREWELL TO STAFF 23

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS 24

“DON”T BUMP YOUR HEAD” MARKETING CAMPAIGN 26

BUILDING REDESIGN 27

CGSB STAFF RETREAT - ROTTNEST ISLAND 28


MASTER OF BUSINESS LEADERSHIP REPORT

The Master of Business Leadership program continued to grow and thrive as Australia’s premiere postgraduate leadership program in 2011. Our increasing trimester intakes

resulted in the need to offer many MBL units more than once throughout the year. We have always attracted leading business and leadership experts to guest lecture and this year was no exception with leadership guru Barry Posner, co-author of the bestselling book, The Leadership Challenge visiting the CGSB in August. The program also had its own leadership change in 2011 with the departure of Janet Sutherland in August. Janet has given enormous energy to the program during her tenure as Program Director, being an integral player in the rebranding of the program from the Master of Leadership and Management (MLM) to the MBL in 2009. We wish her every success in her PhD journey and will miss her incredible drive and style! Dr Troy Hendrickson, who has been involved with the program for many years, is now bringing his energy and focus to the MBL and will continue to seek out new avenues for promotion of this wholly unique program.

Professor Alma Whiteley continued her streak of consecutive 100% teaching satisfaction across all categories in Philosophy and Ethics and Critical Thinking Courses. We thank Alma for her amazing contribution to the School.

Dr Byron Hanson was welcomed back to the CGSB after a hiatus at Duke University where he was the Managing Director of Duke Corporate Education with a focus on Leadership Development. He is now, again, a valuable team member of the CGSB teaching faculty.

In 2011, the AusAid Leadership Development Program (built upon the ethos of the MBL program) and delivered by Curtin faculty received 100% satisfaction ratings from over 200 scholars of the 2011 cohort from around the world. Over the life of the program (2008-11), more than 800 scholars benefitted from the excellent leadership development afforded by the program.

We also enjoyed the energy and expertise of 2011 CGSB Leader in Residence, Adjunct Professor Elaine Rumboll, who delivered a number of leadership lectures to students and staff. Her provocative and unique thinking energised several MBL functions throughout October 2011.

Assoc Prof Linley Lord and Dr Troy Hendrickson presented at the International Studying Leadership Conference in Bristol, UK in preparation for hosting the event in 2012.

The MBL program signed formal agreements with Cranlana, the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) and Leadership WA to offer graduates from these programs advanced standing in the MBL. We look foward to reaping the rewards of these collaborations in 2012.

Other arrangements are being pursued with IPAA, CCI, and AmCham that will acknowledge the opportunities for individuals to continue their own leadership development as postgraduate students.

As the MBL continues to gain a reputation for being the most advanced and unique postgraduate leadership program in the region, there are several enhancements and partnerships that are being explored that will further bolster the program in 2012 and beyond.

Barry Posner (centre) with Dr Troy Hendrickson and Janet Sutherland at the CGSB in August 2011.

Janet SutherlandMBL Program Director(until Aug 2011)

Dr Troy HendricksonMBL Program Director(from Aug 2011)

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DEPT OF MINERAL AND ENERGY ECONOMICS REPORT

This year has been a great one for the Department of Mineral and Energy Economics (DMEE) with an 60% increase in enrolments in the past year. We attribute this success

to the growing reputation of the program both locally and internationally and to the fine teaching of the DMEE staff. In 2011, we welcomed Prof Fiona McKenzie, Bob Johnson and John Karasinski’s participation and contributions in the delivery of DMEE programs. Fiona and Peter taught Regional and Socioeconomic Impacts to high reviews. John Karasinski developed and taught Natural Resource Economics for its debut as an online unit and garnered 100% student satisfaction reviews - well done John!.

Dr Bryan Maybee expanded his endeavours and participated in AusAid Africa Downunder. He enlarged his teaching load and taught Mineral Finance and Project Evaluation to members of a number of different African nations’ Ministerial staff. The program was well received. Dr. Maybee also worked with the World Bank in Western Africa on the procedures to administer royalty policies and payments. He is currently writing a report for the World Bank detailing the experience.

DMEE saw two new additions to the Department this year. Professor Allan Trench came on board in November and he will head up the Centre for Exploration Targeting Risk and Valuation program (CET is a joint effort between Curtin University and the University of Western Australia). DMEE populates the entire Risk and Valuation space for CET. In addition Professor Trench will use his international experience (Professor Trench raised over $100 Million in capital last year) to teach Cost and Capital Estimation in the DMEE program.

The other addition staff member is Dr. Jose Saavedra-Rosas in our Sr. Lecturer/Sr. Researcher position. Dr. Rosas comes to us from Western Australia School of Mines. He is DMEE’s participant in the Memorandum of Understanding with the Colorado School of Mines Energy in Mining program. He will also be working with CET and he will be joining DMEE’s participatory group in the Minerals Geoscience Masters (MGM) program. MGM is an across Australian Universities program that provides post graduate instruction to geoscientists in various areas. DMEE is Curtin’s participant in the MGM program.

We look forward to continuing to grow our programs in 2012 with an increase in events and marketing to local and international students. Our diverse student cohort is growing and is a testament to the relevance of DMEE’s programs here and internationally.

Prof Daniel J PackeyHead, DMEE

Colorado School of Mines

Universidad de Chile

WA School of MinesCentre for Exploration Targeting


MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION REPORT

Whilst global economic uncertainty impacted on the demand for MBA programs in Europe and the US, in Australia and many Asian markets, the MBA remained popular and

continued to prosper. MBA numbers at the CGSB uphold this. By the end of 2011 there were 624 MBA students at the CGSB: 517 students in the generalist MBA; 37 in the MBA (Oil and Gas); 36 in the MBA (Strategic Procurement); and 34 in the double masters MScMEE/MBA degree. Across the Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma in Business, two programs which are embedded in the MBA, there were a further 391 students. One noticeable shift was away from full-time enrolments to an increase in those opting to study part-time.

The popularity of the Curtin MBA reflected the strength of our academic reputation as reflected in the international accreditations awarded to the MBA and our strong performance in the prestigious international Economist and Aspen Institute global MBA rankings. We are also proud at being granted EFMD CEL and EPAS accreditation.

Whilst some students select an MBA to change career direction many more select an MBA to advance their career. Demand was particularly strong for our part-time or executive MBA with the CGSB offering flexible study options including evening, intensives, blended and fully online.

In 2011, we introduced a new Career Pathway series aimed at providing students with connections to top management consulting firms such as PwC and Ernst and Young. The popularity of these events has guaranteed that this type of seminar will become a regular item on the CGSB calendar. Top student Lara Moltoni was a beneficiary of the E&Y seminar, securing a position with the company after attending their recruitment event in May.

Sadly our planned April International Study Tour was cancelled due to the tragic Japanese earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. We hope to be able to offer this study tour in the coming years as it was a popular choice for students when it ran in 2010.

We continued to ensure the industry relevance of our curriculum through our Business Leaders Seminar series and also through the engagement of senior level executives in our units (as guest lecturer and guest speakers) and also as panel members for student group work projects.

The MBA Entrepreneurial Business Plan Presentations to panel members drawn from the West Australian Club has been a particularly successful event in building up practical relationships with business people and firms in Perth and having them mentor our students in the art of planning for the creation of new ventures (see photo below)

A strong marketing campaign for the MBA program combined with our many accolades and tributes will hopefully ensure a positive growth for the MBA in 2012.

Prof Kelvin WilloughbyMBA Program Director

Prof Kelvin Willoughby with E&C660 students and judges at the Western Australian Club, 1 December 2011.

John KarasinskiDeputy MBA Director and Director MBA (Oil and Gas)

Prof Rob EvansProgram Director MBA (Strategic Procurement)

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Assoc Prof Des KlassProgram Leader GCB & GDB

Graduate Certificate in BusinessThe Graduate Certificate in Business (GCB) is four unit (100 credit) degree program fully nested within the MBA. It comprises the four MBA foundation units which means students completing the GCB will have, simultaneously completed four units of the Curtin MBA. In 2011 there were 160 new commencing enrolments into the GCB (up by 5.3% from 2010) taking total headcount GCB enrolments to 295 by December 2011. Around 90% of GCB graduates progress on to complete a Curtin MBA.

The GCB is a popular route into the MBA for students who have eight years or more of senior level industry experience but are without an undergraduate qualification and who wish to study and network with similarly experienced industry professionals. Students may choose from the generalist GCB or specialize in areas such as leadership, oil and gas, energy and mineral economics or strategic procurement.

Graduate Diploma in BusinessLike the GCB the GDB is also nested within the MBA. It is comprised of 8 MBA units which means students completing the GDB only need complete a further four units to graduate with an MBA. Over the last few years demand for the GDB has been gradually declining as students increasingly opt to move directly from the GCB to the MBA. At December 2011 there were 96 GDB students, the majority of whom were sponsored students from the Department of Finance undertaking a Graduate Diploma in Business majoring in Strategic Procurement.

GRADUATE CERTIFICATE & GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS REPORT

EXECUTIVE EDUCATION REPORT

Assoc Prof Dorothy WardaleDirector, Executive Education

Kim LeeBusiness Development Manager

The Centre for Executive Education, located within the CGSB, offers custom designed short programs to industry as well as opportunities for tailored CGSB ‘for-award’ degree

programs.

In 2011 we were delighted to continue our long standing relationship with Main Roads WA and the Department of Finance on the delivery of ‘for-award’ programs leading to a Graduate Certificate in Business (GCB) for Main Roads participants and either a GCB or Graduate Diploma in Business (GDB) in the case of the Department of Finance.

Participants in the Water Corporation Management Essentials who opted to complete the assessment component of this program were also awarded a unit of advanced standing into the MBA or MBL if they successfully completed the program.

In 2011, the CGSB sent a contingent to Singapore to participate in the HR APAC Summit. Assoc Prof Dorothy Wardale, Prof Kelvin Willoughby, Assoc Prof Des Klass and Kim Lee presented to HR managers from over 130 top companies, such as Bank of America, Pfizer, Boral Limited and Alcatel/Lucent. The team is optimistic that the venture will result in the formation of several educational linkages for the CGSB.

For a full list of ‘not-for-award’ programs in which CGSB staff deliver, please see the table at the end of this Annual Report.

Students in the Water Corp Management Essentials course with CGSB Business Development Manager, Kim Lee (centre) and right, marketing materials for the APAC HR Summit.


THE ASPEN INSTITUTE “BEYOND GREY PINSTRIPES” RANKINGS

The CGSB has demonstrated significant leadership in integrating social, environmental and ethical issues into its MBA program, according to the Aspen Institute’s 2011-2012

edition of Beyond Grey Pinstripes, a biennial survey and alternative ranking of business schools. The CGSB has ranked at #80 on a list of the Top 100 business schools globally, one of only four Australian universities listed and the only West Australian institution to appear in the ranking.

While many MBA rankings exist, only one looks beyond reputation and test scores to measure something much more important: how well schools are preparing their students for the environmental, social and ethical complexities of modern-day business. This year, 149 business schools from 22 countries participated in a year-long effort to map the landscape of teaching and research on issues pertaining to business and society.

Being judged positively on a commitment to environmental and social stewardship rather than on salaries or career services is refreshing. With the School’s recent EU-AU Joint Mobility Program, which provides opportunities for our students to study overseas in the area of sustainable development, the Curtin MBA is really becoming the benchmark for ethical MBA programs regionally.

The Curtin Master of Business Administration (MBA) program ranked 3rd in Australia, 4th in Asia and 58th globally in the 2011 The Economist Which MBA? global ranking of full-

time MBA programs.

Only four Australian business schools made this prestigious international ranking: Curtin Graduate School of Business, Melbourne Business School, Queensland University Business School and Macquarie Graduate School of Management.

Of the four Australian programs ranked the Curtin MBA ranked 1st in Australia across each of the following components; personal development and educational experience (31st globally); student quality (2nd globally) and student diversity (42nd globally).

Prof Alison Preston, Director of the CGSB attributed the excellent performance to the quality of the student body, the changing global job market and the extra-curricula activities that the School offers.

“We interview all entrants to the MBA program and have excellent students drawn from middle and senior ranks of industry. This undoubtedly contributes to the quality of the learning experience”.

“Many students come to us because of our teaching excellence and also because we offer a highly flexible program. Our fully online component is internationally accredited.”

“We are the only business school based in Western Australia offering an internationally accredited and internationally ranked MBA program” said Prof Preston.

THE ECONOMIST MBA RANKINGS

Criteria 2009 2010 2011

Regional rank (Asia) 10 8 4

Educational Experience 91 67 67

Student quality 2 2 2

Overall Rank 93 76 58

Curtin MBA Position in 2011 The Economist Global Top 100 MBA Program rankings

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PRINCIPLES FOR RESPONSIBLE MANAGEMENT EDUCATION

PRME is a voluntary engagement platform for business schools and management education-related institutions. An organisation that signs on to PRME

expresses its conviction that academic institutions, through integrating universal values into curriculum and research, can contribute to a more stable and inclusive global market and help build prosperous and thriving societies.

Curtin Business School (CBS) has been accepted as a participant in the PRME initiative.

As a faculty of CBS, the CGSB will be dedicated to inspiring and championing responsible management education, research and though leadership around the world. The School has pledged to engage in a continuous process of improvement in applying the principles, to regularly share information on our progress, and to contribute to the learning experience of other academic institutions participating in PRME worldwide. The aim is to develop a new generation of globally responsible leaders.

At the time of the announcement, then-CBS Pro Vice-Chancellor Duncan Bentley said involvement with the initiative was further evidence of CBS’ commitment to international excellence and sustainability focused research. “Corporate responsibility and sustainability have entered the academic environment but they haven’t become fully embedded in the mainstream of business-related education yet,” Professor Bentley said. “PRME provides the impetus for business schools and universities around the world to gradually adapt their curricula, research, teaching methodologies and institutional strategies to adapt to these new business challenges and opportunities.”

Assoc Prof Linley Lord from the CGSB and Dr Martin Brueckner from the School of Management will act as PRME co-champions. Together with the Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor, and the CBS Deans of Teaching & Learning and Research & Development, they will plan the implementation of PRME within CBS and the CGSB.

The PRME initiative reinforces standard business practice at the CGSB. The School’s strong position in The Aspen Institute’s Beyond Grey Pinstripes rankings confirms that the CGSB is already a strong advocate of these principles in its curriculum. A strong basis of ethical business leadership practice underpins all units and courses taught at the CGSB. The School will continue to look for ways and means of strengthening its commitment to corporate social responsibility and ethical standards.

AUSTRALIA-EUROPEAN UNION PARTNERSHIP FRAMEWORK:SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT FOR ORGANISATIONS, BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT

The European Union/Australia Joint Cooperation Projects fund consortia of Australian higher education and vocational education and training (VET) institutions to undertake student mobility projects between the European Union (EU) and

Australia, meaning students are able to study for a semester at a partner institution in the EU. Six rounds of projects have been initiated to date with the seventh becoming operational in 2011. Amongst the ‘seventh round’ successful projects was the Sustainable Management for Organisations, Business and Government (SMOG) application of which Curtin was a partner.

This project aims to provide mobility opportunities for one semester to 24 EU and 24 AU Masters coursework students. At Curtin University the opportunity will be restricted to the MBA program. The academic exchange program will develop best education practice in sustainable management and include aspects of interdisciplinary teaching and learning, such as joint curriculum development, methods of evaluation and programmes planning, focussing on innovation in education in the emerging field of sustainability.

The Australian partners are: The University of Sydney, NSW (lead institution), Curtin University and the University of South Australia. The EU partners are: Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic (lead institution), University of Bologna, Italy and the University of Salford, UK.

We are very proud of Dr Anna Rowe who was an active participant in the application process and congratulate her on her part in this prestigious linkage.


STAFF ACHIEVEMENTS

Prof Rick Ladyshewsky of the CGSB, was honoured by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) for his outstanding contribution to student learning. The citation was presented to Prof Ladyshewsky in a ceremony at the Sydney Opera House in July, 2011.

The citation reads: For the development of authentic approaches to learning in postgraduate business education through the innovative use of elearning, peer coaching, and evidence-based practice.

Rick draws upon his extensive scholarship and experience with peer coaching, elearning and leadership to provide his students with an authentic learning experience that has direct relevance to their current leadership roles and which positions them for ongoing development of their managerial effectiveness. Rick also makes a broader contribution to the development of academic leadership across the higher education sector through his extensive project work.

In 2009 Rick was a nominee for an ALTC Award for Teaching Excellence in the category Law, Economics, Business and Related Studies.

We congratulate Rick on his achievement and acknowledge his contributions to teaching and learning at the CGSB.

ALTC Award for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning

Prof Ladyshewsky (r) with Ron Pettapiece at the Sydney Opera House.

Congratulations to Professor Fiona McKenzie who was invited by Hon Simon Crean, (Minister for Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government; Minister for the Arts) to a five-person panel for a five-year appointment to join the Regional Development Australia Advisory Panel which will advise on the disbursement of $1 billion earmarked by the Federal Government for Regional Development Australia wide.

Other members include Brad Orgill (BER Taskforce Chair), Justin Hanney (ex-Head of Regional development Victoria), Christian Zahra (Ex MP) and Barbara Norman (Canberra University). Fiona accepted the invitation with the support of the School, Faculty and University.

The panel will meet regularly over the duration over the life of the program and will provide independent advice and recommendations on priorities for RDAF grants; seek external advice if necessary and rank all proposed on whether they are suitable or recommended for funding.

Appointment to Regional Development Australia Advisory Panel

Academic Promotions in 2011

Congratulations to the following academic staff members on their promotions in 2011:

Senior Lecturer to Associate Professor:

• Jeremy Galbreath• Therese Jefferson• Linley Lord

Associate Professor to Professor:

• Daniel J. Packey

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FAREWELL TO STAFF

Dr Margaret McCabe Margaret has officially retired from academic life and has moved to Canada to join her husband. Margaret was the former CGSB Director of Executive Education Programs and helped build a very solid reputation for the CGSB in the area of delivering first class programs to organisations such as Woodside, Main Roads WA and the Department of Treasury and Finance. She was actively involved in the AusAid Leadership for Development Program, the CGSB chapter of Toastmasters and in setting up of the CEO Weekend and the award-winning Curtin iPortfolio. These are just a few of the many accomplishments Margaret achieved in her time at the CGSB. We wish her well as she enjoys her retirement!

Janet SutherlandJanet has been with the CGSB for five years and in that time has made an amazing contribution to the School. She was instrumental in Curtin winning the largest ever consultancy tender and together with her team, developed the Australian Leadership for Development Program for AusAID scholars. In 2009 Janet stepped down from her role as Manager of the Program but stayed on as Program Director combined with her move into the academic faculty with teaching responsibilities in OB and Fundamentals of Leadership. In 2010 Janet was appointed MBL Director and during her time in that role has continued to grow and build the excellent reputation of the program. We will miss our ‘ resident style maven’ - the only good thing about Janet leaving was the fun we had buying her going-away present!

Assoc Prof Graeme CoetzerGraeme came to the CGSB from Griffith University where he was associate professor of management and Director of Executive Education. As a specialist in online learning he gave significant input into the methodology of delivery of online materials. His areas of expertise include human resources, management and organisational behaviour.Graeme has now taken up a position with Central Washington University. Many thanks to Graeme for his recommendations for improving our online facilities. We wish him well.

Alexis SalkinAlexis came into the CGSB Student Services Office and quickly impressed students and staff with her friendly smile and quick and keen uptake of processes and procedures. She assisted in developing more streamlined processes in the SSO and we thank her for her attention to detail and ernest dedication to service. Alexis is also an enrolled MBA student and gracefully combined both her roles within the CGSB.We miss her sunny smile in the SSO and wish her every success in her future and are looking forward to seeing her in the building as she continues on as a student.

Megan GreenMegan was a delightful addition to the CGSB family and her quirky humour and wit is legendary. She combined SSO duties with the role of CGSB receptionist and also assisted Andrea Swasbrook and Nadia Nelson with the coordination of CGSB events. A talented writer, we keep track of her through her blog and wish her every success in her literary pursuits.

In 2011, we bid farewell to the following members of staff. We thank all for their dedication and commitment to the School and wish them every success with their post-CGSB pursuits. We encourage all to stay in contact with the CGSB and are very happy that Margaret and Janet are staying connected by taking up roles as Adjunct Fellows.


In December 2010 CGSB Master of Science (Mineral Economics) student, Andrew Gunua, won the prestigious Prime Minister’s Pacific Australia (PMPA) Award, for commitment to

improving mining practices in his home country, Papua New Guinea (PNG).

Provided by AusAID under the Australia Awards initiative, the inaugural PMPA Awards target leaders and future leaders in the Pacific, offering practical Australian-based organisation work placements to recipients of development scholarships.

Award recipients are given the opportunity to build on their postgraduate academic experience and participate in a leadership workshop before returning home to apply their new skills and knowledge for the benefit of their country.

Mr Gunua said his passion and commitment to understanding socioeconomic and environmental issues associated with mining activities in PNG, combined with academic merit, won him the highly competitive prize.

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS

Andrew Gunua, Prime Ministers’s Pacific Australia Award

MBA student Clinton Heal was named WA Young Australian of the Year 2011in December 2010. Clinton, a student at the CGSB, was awarded the honour for his work in founding

melanomaWA, an organisation that offers support and education to sufferers of melanoma. Clinton was diagnosed with melanoma when he was 22 and in the past five years has had over 30 tumours removed.

He started melanomaWA when, in his search for information about alternative therapies, found little information and even less support. The group holds regular meetings for those with melanoma as well as family members and friends helping their loved ones journey through it. The award has gained deserved press and attention for the organisation. While Clinton shies from publicity, he recognises the opportunity that this award brings in highlighting the need for further resources for education and prevention for the third most common form of cancer in Australia.

Clinton also oversaw two successful fundraising and awareness-building events in 2011: the March for Melanoma, for which the CGSB was a silver sponsor, and the Melanoma Ball. We were also honoured to host Clinton as our first speaker in the 2011 Business Leaders Series. In discussing his successes and determination, he does attribute some of the knowledge gained through his MBA to the success of the organisation.

We continue to wish Clinton every success with melanomaWA and in his continuing journey in living well with melanoma.

For more information about the organisation, visit their website: http://melanomawa.org.au

Clinton Heal, WA Young Australian of the Year

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Catherine Stoddart, WA Telstra Businesswoman of the Year

Congratulations to WA’s Chief Nurse and Midwifery Officer and CGSB Alumna Catherine Stoddart on being named the 2011 Telstra Western Australia Business Woman of the

Year. Catherine is a graduate of the CGSB, completing her MBA studies in 2008. Catherine was awarded the top honour after winning her category – the White Pages Community and Government Award. As Chief Nurse and Midwifery Officer, Catherine leads 12,000 nurses and midwives in the public system, while also providing professional leadership for about 35,000 private and non-government nurses.

Catherine has been instrumental in improving and lifting the profile of nursing in Western Australia by leading strategies to build stronger nursing career paths, attracting more Aboriginal people to the profession and creating nurse practitioners in rural areas. One of her key achievements has been the establishment of Assistant in Nursing traineeships to help those who do not achieve tertiary level requirements gain a start in the profession, while also supporting existing nurses. Catherine’s professionalism, commitment and dedication to improving nursing and midwifery in Western Australia make her a deserving winner of the 2011 Telstra Western Australia Business Woman of the Year Award. We congratulate her on this deserved honour.

Melissa Marinelli, Lunchbox List’s “Energetic Women”

Doctoral student Melissa was invited to be a speaker at the Perth Lunch Box List event Energetic Women. Melissa, who is a member of the national committee of Women in

Engineering at Engineers Australia and a researcher with the Maureen Bickley Centre for Women in Leadership, spoke of her diverse experiences while living and working in Papua New Guinea and the pathway she took in consolidating her position as an engineer in a field becoming increasingly appealing to women.

Melissa was the winner of the 2011 Clare Burton Memorial Scholarship is in the process of completing her thesis titled: “Transition from Technical Engineer to Managers and Leaders: Women’s Experience in Australia.”


To maximise on increasing numbers, rankings and accreditations, the CGSB, in consultation with Curtin University Marketing unleashed a comprehensive marketing campaign - Don’t Bump your Head - in the traditional ‘Postgrad Push’ marketing

season in late 2011. We thank Tracy Armson, Susan O’Dowd, Gillian Loh and Angela Marsland from Uni and CBS Marketing for their assistance in getting this campaign to fruition.

The campaign concentrated on the Curtin Masters of Business Administration and Business Leadership programs, urging prospective students to come to scheduled Information Evenings and seek further information through the School’s website.The Brand Agency secured a variety of media, including bus shelter shells, animated TV monitor advertising in the lobbies and elevators spots of prominent Terrace buildings and a widespread digital campaign. With numerous adverts on St George’s Terrace during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), who knows which heads of state might have seen them!

DON’T BUMP YOUR HEAD - MARKETING CAMPAIGN

Examples of the advertising campaign. Left: bus shelter poster. Above: Digital banner on the CGSB website with similar imagery.Below: Stills of animated advertising used in elevator and lobby TV monitors in Terrace high-rises.

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BUILDING REDESIGN

Extensive building renovations commenced in 2010 including the refurbishment of the Student Common Room on Level 2 and the gutting of the Library on Level 4 for the purpose of creating new office space for staff and HDR students. However,

disaster struck in January 2011 when an airconditioning unit malfunctioned on Level 4 sending water cascading down all levels into the newly carpeted Function Room on Level 1. Newly painted rooms had sheets of paint peeling off the walls as a result. The lack of sufficient airconditioning in sweltering summer heat saw us relocate our Trimester 1 Orientation to the CCIWA building and all week 1 classes to the Mercure Hotel. Staff still continued to work with no airconditioning utilising the many Dick Smith fan units purchased!

The end result of all this (sometimes stalled) labour has been the creation of some truly aesthetically functional spaces. Level 4 has been completely transformed and the CGSB Function Room, with its dual screens and soundproofing is proving to be a very comfortable space for the many events we hold at the CGSB. It is capable of catering for to up to 60 people for a sit-down meal and 80 theatre-style. In 2012, with the opening of the CGSB Library in what were the south-west tenancy offices, the refurbishments will be complete - for now.

Many thanks to Andrea Swasbrook for her persistent and tireless efforts in dealing with tradies, floods, heat waves and peeling paint. Her attention to design and detail has created teaching, learning and researching spaces with an engaging and vibrant aesthetic. Thanks also to Curtin Properties for their support, in particular Graeme Cowie and Steve Harvey, the design team at Geyer and De Francesch Builders. Many thanks to Garry Miley and Gail Epiro of the CBS Faculty Office.

Perth City Campus becomes Curtin Graduate School of BusinessNot all the changes were inside the building. New signage makes official what we have been all about since 2009. With the removal of “of Technology” from the Curtin name, we also got our name change made official on the exterior of the building.

From top left: 1.Gutting Level 4. 2. New office spaces for staff and HDR students. 3. Hosting a CEDA luncheon in the Function Room. 4. Preparation for the EPAS visit in September. 5. Using the Function Room theatre-style for John Edwards’ presentation.

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CGSB STAFF RETREAT - ROTTNEST ISLAND

The CGSB Annual Staff Retreat was, this year, held on beautiful Rottnest Island. Academic and professional staff enjoyed sessions on team building, online media and change management delivered by facilitators Adjunct Prof Elaine Rumboll

(CGSB Leader in Residence 2011) and partner, Dave Duarte (Ogilvy Digital Media).

Taking advantage of the closure of the School due to the chaos of downtown Perth during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), the Retreat was scheduled for two days and the group, after an early ferry departure and brisk walk to Kingston Barracks, was ready for productive discussion on teaching and learning strategies and the streamlining of administrative practices.

The Annual Staff Retreat is a great occasion for renewing commitment to the CGSB, open discussion and debate on how to do better and a time of bonding for staff. A lot of good work and a lot of good times and laughter.

1.All Aboard! An early ferry trip to Rotto 2.Werner Soontiens (right) soon-to-be CGSB staff member, stows away 3.Dave Duarte leads a session on social networking 4.Trish McHugh, Fleur Cornelius, Guy Harris, Kim Lee and Jeremy Galbreath 5.Leader in residence Elaine Rumboll and partner Dave Duarte, facilitators of the Retreat, with Alison Preston 6.Des Klass, Jeremy Galbreath, Kim Lee, Andrea Swasbrook, Trish McHugh, Fleur Cornelius and Nadia Nelson 7. The CGSB team in front of Kingston Barracks

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OUR STUDENTS

2011 ENROLMENTS 30

STUDENT SATISFACTION - eVALUate 2011 31

CGSB GRADUATION CELEBRATIONS 32

CGSB ALUMNI 33

IT’S TIME TO CELEBRATE 34

HIGHER DEGREES BY RESEARCH 36

HDR CANDIDACIES AND COMPLETIONS 36

CGSB DOCTORAL RESEARCH FORUM 41

CGSB RESEARCH SEMINAR PROGRAM 42


2011 ENROLMENTS

Despite the vagaries and uncertainty associated with the GFC, 2011 saw impressive growth in student enrolments with a 16% growth in commencing student numbers and a 12.3% increase in total enrolment numbers for all courses offered at

the CGSB.

Total Commencing Students (Headcount)

Course 2010 2011 +/- %

Graduate Certificate in Business (GCB) 152 160 5.3%

Graduate Diploma in Business (GDB) 16 14 -12.5%

Master of Business Administration (MBA) 190 213 12.1%

Master of Business Leadership (MBL)* 30 38 26.7%

Graduate Certificate in Mineral and Energy Economics (new course in 2011)

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Master of Science (Mineral and Energy Economics) 40 44 2.3%

MSc(MEE)/MBA 13 21 61.5%

DBA 5 2 -60%

PhD 9 13 44.4%

Total 455 528 16%

*formerly the Master of Leadership and Management (MLM)

Total Enrolments (Headcount)

Course 2010 2011 +/- %

GCB 287 295 2.8%

GDB 93 96 3.2%

MBA 550 590 7.3%

MLM/MBL 89 106 19.1%

Graduate Certificate in Mineral and Energy Economics (new course in 2011)

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Master of Science (Mineral and Energy Economics) 41 77 87.8%

MSc(MEE)/MBA 16 34 112.5%

DBA 51 42 -17.6%

PhD 41 49 19.5%

MPhil 2 2 0

Total 1170 1314 12.3%

Online Unit Enrolment Comparison (Headcount)

Tri 1 Tri 2 Tri 3 Total 2011

Total unit enrolments 1029 902 743 2674

Total online unit enrolments 344 281 374 999

Online unit enrolments as % of total 33.4% 31.1% 50.3% 37.4%

Number of online units offered 9 8 12 29

Average online unit class size 38.2 35.1 31.2 34.5

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A SNAPSHOT OF COMMENCING CGSB STUDENTS IN 2011 (ALL COURSES):

67.5% Male/ 32.5% FemaleAverage age: 34yrs Average years of managerial experience: 11 Australian passport holders: 70% Nationality breakdown of the rest of the cohort:

39% Europe32% Asia/Pacific15% Africa/Middle East14% North/South America 90% Part-time

57% plan to study at least one online unit.Most common sectors:

Mining and engineeringManufacturingPublic sectorConsulting

Employer financial assistance:48% full assistance17% some assistance35% no assistance

Average salary on commencement:AUD$ 101,000

STUDENT SATISFACTION - EVALUATE 2011

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CGSB GRADUATION CELEBRATIONS

Curtin Graduate School of Business Meritorious Achievement PrizesGraduate Certificate in Business Jackie Males

Graduate Diploma in Business Bria Baker

Master of Business Leadership Claire Bean

Master of Business Administration Jonathan Smith

Master of Science (Mineral and Energy Economics) Victor Bruinsma

Master of Science (Mineral and Energy Economics)/ Master of Business Administration Jennifer Holt

To honour the achievements of our completing students, the CGSB organised special celebrations held at the end of Trimesters 1 and 2. Graduands were invited to attend along with their partners and families and got the opportunity to

reunite with classmates and favourite lecturers.

A special awards ceremony was incorporated into the Trimester 1 Celebration and the following awards were presented on Friday 24 June 2011 held at the Western Australian Club. We are proud to recognise and honour the outstanding student academic achievements attained in the 2010 academic year in each of the following courses:

Professors Kelvin Willoughby and Alison Preston, and MBL Director, Janet Sutherland (r) with prize-winners Jonathan Smith (MBA) and Claire Bean (MBL) at the WA Club in June. Trimester 1 2011 Completing students with CGSB staff (right).

Trimester 2 Completing students were honoured at a Cocktail Function at the CGSB on Friday, 30 September. Staff and new graduates met and mingled in the CGSB Function Room. Matthew Martinovich (pictured, bottom row, far right) flew in from Singapore (and as a happy coincidence, stayed to watch the AFL Grand Final with his friends the next day). The Price family (bottom row, far left) celebrated mother Christine’s MBL completion. Lara Moltoni (top row, far left and bottom row, second from right) chats to Prof Kelvin Willoughby and classmate Michael Amato. Lara, who received her MBA with Distinction, studied the majority of her MBA while living in Canada and raising her three children. Her return to Perth saw her attend a Career Pathways seminar at Ernst and Young arranged by the CGSB which followed with the offer of a job from the company.

We congratulate all our students and wish them well with their future careers. Keep making tomorrow better!

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CGSB ALUMNI

The CGSB Alumni Chapter provides members with a means of maintaining links with former classmates, industry and professional associations and with other alumni around the world. The Chapter also facilitates activities aimed at career

advancement and life-long learning. It works to raise the profile of the CGSB and its graduates in the business community in order to increase the awareness of CGSB graduates and elevate the value of Curtin CGSB degrees.

In 2011, the CGSB commissioned Astrid Fackelman, a CGSB MBA graduate and Marketing specialist, to undertake a special project looking into ways to enhance the Alumni experience. We are very excited by her findings and look forward to implementing many of her suggestions in 2012 and beyond. The CGSB Alumni welcomed a new president appointed - Ms Marion Fulker, CEO, Committee for Perth, has agreed to head the Alumni committee for two years.

Great thanks to Magodi Sakala and all previous Alumni presidents and committee members for all their hard work.

Annual Christmas Comedy Debate: Christmas Should Be Carbon NeutralWith the CGSB Alumni “Green Grinches” arguing ‘for’ and the CGSB Toastmasters arguing ‘against’, the event was well-attended by Alumni, current students and staff. CGSB Toastmasters really went to town (just like Santa) giving us several compelling reasons why Christmas should stay the carbon-guzzling event its always been. With new Alumni President, Marion Fulker, the event was well-attended and a lot of fun for participants as well as the audience. Thanks to Tony Monaghan from The Brand Agency for acting as Adjudicator.Many brought gifts for disadvantaged children at Parkerville Children Youth Care which were collected by Parkerville staff.

“Who’s that girl...and why does she have a beard???” CGSB Alumni Comedy Debate, 10 December 2011.

From left: CGSB Alumni team: Branden Dekenah, Managing Director, Conducive; Marion Fulker, CEO, Committee for Perth; Darren Mottolini, SLIP Enabler/Interest Enquiry Manager, Landgate; Adjudicator, Tony Monaghan, The Brand Agency; Thierry Morel, Customer Account Manager, Dalkia Energy Solutions; John Forster, Dispensary Team Leader, APHS Pharmacy Hollywood; Rajesh Das, Sr Project Engineer, Worley Parsons.

ALUMNI IN SINGAPOREWhile in Singapore for the APAC HR Summit, Business Development Manager Kim Lee organised an event for CGSB Alumni based in the city.

While in Singapore for the APAC HR Summit, Business Development Manager Kim Lee organised an event for CGSB Alumni at the Intercontinental Hotel. The occasion provided a great opportunity for CGSB staff to reconnect with the School’s Singapore-based Alumni. Our Singapore grads are connected with local offices of some of the world’s top organisations such as: Deloitte and Touche, Barclays and BP Shipping.


IT’S TIME TO CELEBRATE

Student Position Organisation

Bradley Adams Chief Executive Officer Ocean Grown Abalone Pty Ltd

Maria Adriana Risk Management Professional Staff Bank Mandiri

Michael Amato Project Delivery Manager Geodynamics

Enkhjin Atarbaatar Economist Bank of Mongolia

Jeffery Barker Project Manager BHPBIO

Steven Bell Executive Marketing Manager - Healthcare Siemens Healthcare

Robert Bone General Manager University Paton Instruments

Victor Bruinsma Principal Metallurgist Iluka Resources Limited

Linda Candy Manager Finance Department of Education

Reshampreet Chail Engineer Consultant

Kenneth Chan Shift Optimisation Team Leader BP Kwinana Refinery

Ikenna Chigbo Senior Production Technologist Shell Upstream International

Stuart Collins Accountant Coates Hire Operations Pty Ltd

John Crowe General Manager, Strategic Procurement Services Department of Treasury and Finance WA

M. Joyce Dacruz Associate Director, Strategic Procurement The University of Western Australia

Joanne Demmler Project Management & Marketing, Travel & Tourism Consultant

Linda Deutsch Project Management and New Initiatives Consultant

Joshua Drakeford Operations Manager Fieldgold Corporation Pty Ltd

Matthew Duquemin Operations Officer Australian Army

Gretta Fenner-Zinkernagel

Anti-Corruption, Governance, International Development Assistance

Consultant

Albrecht Fischer Senior Engineer LogiCamms Consultants

Benjamin Foster Finance and Corporate Services Manager St John of God Health Care

Kim Garrett Project management, International business Consultant

Eugenie Green Treasury and Financial Services Manager Synergy

Joanne Hayes Private Wealth Associate ANZ Private

Daniel Heredia Deputy Director of Medical Services Hollywood Private Hospital, Ramsay Health Care

Paul Hersey Senior Manager, Advisory PricewaterhouseCoopers

Louise Hill Strategy and Development South Metropolitan Area Health Service

Thomas Hodgson Consultant Partners in Performance

Jennifer Holt Business Analyst BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance

Jay Holton Global B2B Project Manager, Procurement Alcoa

Kathryn Ingham Assistant Director Department of Finance

Benjamin Jaggard Mining Manager Crosslands Resources Limited

Clayton James Section Leader Western Power

Yun Ni Lee Programme Director Atomic Concept Pte Ltd

Sonja Manning Principal Business Analyst Iluka Resources Limited

Matthew Marinovich Indochina District Manager Champion Technologies

The following table reflects the scope of experience and quality that our students bring to the CGSB highlighting the occupations and industries of top graduating MBA, MBL and MSc (Mineral and Economics) students from 2011.

We are proud to publish these lists in The West Australian at the end of every trimester.

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Samantha McFarland Manager Human Rights State Administrative Tribunal

Michael Meaney Scientific Specialist BOC Ltd

Kenneth Mercer Divisonal Manager & Principal Consultant Snowden

Lara Moltoni Business Analyst EPCM Mining Consultancy

Barbara Muller Fullerton District Sales Manager Pfizer Australia

Susan Ng Diabetes Education Services Manager Diabetes WA

Kwok Fon Oh Auditing and Finance Consultant

Anthony O'Hara Chief Information Officer Department of Racing, Gaming and Liquor

Lynnette O'Reilly Chief Executive Officer Shire of Moora

Maxine Palmer Manager Community Services Shire of Busselton

Rodney Palmer Doctoral Candidate Curtin University

Gareth Parry Group Management Accountant Ertech

Tina Pasyar Pharmacist/Proprietor Pharmacy 777

Bradley Patrick Project Engineer Fortescue Metals Group Ltd

Ariana Paul Consultant Aka & Associates Ltd (New Zealand)

David Potts Senior Metallurgist Mineral Engineering Technical Services Pty Ltd

Andre Rampono Operations Executive ICAP (Reset)

Yael Raynor Marketing Manager Omnitronics

Annette Rebgetz Senior Geologist Mining & Exploration

Jae Rhee Senior Graduate of Architecture DnA Architects

Brigitte Rueegsegger Legal and policy consulting Consultant

Leon Ryan Accumulations Manager Gavilon Grain Australia

Joanna Sadowska Senior Management Consultant Fujitsu Australia Ltd

Elisabeth Saunders Markets Analyst Australian Securities and Investments Commission

Lena Shaw Program Manager Project Management

Jonathan Smith Contract strategy, marketing, and policy ANSON, NDS, Vinten Browning

Fiona Tainsh Business Coordinator Woodside

Ramesh Thampapillai Marketing Director Navitas Ltd

Sharon Thomas Administrator Curtin University

Reece Tonkin Team Leader Facilities Engineering Offshore Woodside Energy Ltd.

Stephen Turner Group Procurement Manager Wesfarmers Limited

Sumit Vyas Senior Engineer Technip India Limited

Cherie Wabeke Senior Consultant, Workforce Planning and Diversity Public Sector Commission

Michael Wall Senior Geologist API Managememtn Pty Ltd

Simon Waller Partner Tomorrow[at]Work

Tanya Watkins Engineering Consultant

Adam Wray Process Engineering Lead – Whiteside Operations Ma’aden Aluminium Company

Ian Wyburn Commercial Manager S&N Civil Constructions


HIGHER DEGREES BY RESEARCH

The high profile of Curtin Graduate School of Business researchers attract postgraduate students from Australia, the Asian region and the Middle

East. Research projects form an important part of most of our post graduate programs. Students are supervised by staff members with expertise in their area of business research. The CGSB had 55 students undertaking research degrees in 2010. Approximately half of these students were enrolled in the PhD programs and the other half in our DBA program.

Our population of full-time students has been growing. This partly reflects the school’s higher intake of international doctoral students as a result of our growing reputation in the region. Approximately half of our research student community is comprised of international students from a range of countries including Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and Taiwan. Our HDR student community is diverse and brings together a broad spectrum of experience and professional backgrounds. Over one-third of our doctoral students are women and, particularly among local students, we have a blend of part-time and full-time students.

HDR Candidacies and Completions

Enrolled HDR students in candidacy phase in 2011

Candidate Supervisor Co-Supervisor Current Thesis Title

Mohammed Alamgir PhD Prof Mohammed Quaddus

Pre-candidacy status

Abida Ankhi PhD Prof Mohammed Quaddus

The Prospect of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) of Australia: An Imperative for Future Direction through Scenario Analysis

Atul Chandra PhD Prof Daniel Packey Dr Bryan Maybee Real Options as a Tool in the Evaluation of Mineral Exploration and Mining Joint Venture Agreements

June Darley PhD Prof Margaret Nowak Assoc Prof Linley Lord

Women in Leadership: The Impact of Culture in Explaining the ‘Glass Ceiling’

Mohammed Dewan PhD Prof Mohammed Quaddus

Value Based e-Business Modelling

NIgel Gribble PhD Prof Rick Ladyshewsky

Assoc Prof Brenda Scott-Ladd

Influence of an International Clinical Education Placement on the Emotional-Social Intelligence of Australian University Students

Tani Khara MPhil Prof Margaret Nowak Assoc Prof Jeremy Galbreath(Assoc Supervisor)

How Can Consumers in Emerging Markets be Persuaded to Purchase Socially Responsible Products and Services?

Maria Pedersen PhD Prof Al Rainnie Assoc Prof Linley LordDr Angela Barns (Assoc Supervisor)

The Implications of HR Management on the Recruitment and Retention of Indigenous Australian Employees

Janette Rose DBA Assoc Prof Kerry Pedigo

Prof Mohammed Quaddus


Tracy Teo DBA Assoc Prof Linley Lord Prof Margaret Nowak


Alkesh Vyas DBA Prof Des Klass Assoc Prof Jeremy Galbreath

Leadership and Intellectual Capital Management: A Study of the Impacts of Cross Cultural Differences within the Resources Sector

Cherie Wabeke DBA Assoc Prof Linley Lord Assoc Prof Therese Jefferson


Shengli Yu PhD Dr Anna Rowe Environmental Accounting Information Disclosure in China

The Curtin Graduate School of Business has three Higher Degree by Research (HDR) programs:

• Master of Philosophy by research (M.Phil)• Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)• PhD in Business Administration

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Enrolled HDR students who completed candidacy in 2011

Candidate Supervisor Co-Supervisor Current Thesis Title

Raneem Alselaimi DBA Prof Al Rainnie Assoc Prof Linley Lord

Workforce participation among women in professional occupations in Saudi Arabia

Janya Chanchaichujit PhD Prof Mohammed Quaddus

Assoc Prof Martin West

Green supply chain model for the Thai rubber industry

Md Maruf Hossan Chowdhury

PhD Prof Mohammed Quaddus

Abu Siddique, UWA (Associate Supervisor)

Supply Chain Sustainability and Resilience: The case of ready made garment industry in Bangladesh

Melissa Cianfrini PhD Prof Fiona McKenzie

Brian Bishop (Psychology)

Lived experiences of transition in the mid-west region of Western Australia: the case of immigrant labour and visa

Chris Gardiner PhD Prof Rick Ladyshewsky

Assoc Prof Therese Jefferson

Competencies and Virtues: A Hermeneutical Reflection on Leadership

Eijaz Khan PhD Prof Mohammed Quaddus

Dr Anna Rowe Multi-Dimensional Assessment of Sustainable Growth of Social Micro-enterprises (SGSMEs): A Study of Informal Micro Tea-Stall Entrepreneurs in Bangladesh

Md Nuruzzaman PhD Prof Mohammed Quaddus

Ananda Jeeva Improving competitiveness of readymade garment industry of Bangladesh – Analysis of supply chains

Rodney Palmer PhD Prof Al Rainnie Assoc Prof Therese Jefferson

What lies beneath: An interpretive phenomenological analysis of FIFO work in a Neo Liberal context.

Shaghayegh Sahraei PhD Prof Mohammed Quaddus

Assoc Prof Des Klass

Assessment of relationship between knowledge management and IDSS in Iranian Banks

Shaheen Sultana DBA Prof Robert Evans Prof Greg Tower Corporate Governance Adoption and Compliance: A comparative analysis of countries at difference stages of economic development

HDR students who passed candidacy prior to 2011 but have not yet passed thesis

Candidate Supervisor Co-Supervisor Thesis Title

Nadzri Ab Ghani PhD Prof Robert Evans Assoc ProfJeremy Galbreath

Predicting Whistle-Blowing Intention: Evidence from Manufacturing Companies in Malaysia

Maznah Abdullah PhD Prof Mohammed Quaddus

Assoc Prof Margot Wood

The Impact of Team Design on Team Innovation for Operational and Organisational Performances: The Mediations and Moderating Roles of Reflexivity and Innovation Climate in Malaysian Innovative Creative Circles (ICCs)

Shatha Alabduljabbar DBA Prof Guy Callender Assoc Prof Des Klass

Enhancing Lean and Green Supply Chain System Integration: A Strategic Sustainable Management System Framework

Md. Shah Azam PhD Prof Mohammed Quaddus

Dr Mahbubur Rahim (Monash University)

Diffusion of ICT and SMEs Performance: Determinants and Strategies for Bangladesh

Graham Blick DBA Prof Mohammed Quaddus


A Comparative Study of Benefits Realisation and Change Management Using Enterprise Resource Planning Technology (SAP) in Utility Enterprises in Western Australia

Tuen Cheung Vincent Chan

DBA Prof Alma Whiteley Prof Robin Snell (Associate Supervisor)

The Motivation of Temporary Sales People in Selected IT/Telecom Companies in Hong Kong

Chi Chiu Dominic Chan

DBA Prof Kelvin Willoughby

Prof Peter Galvin (Associate Supervisor)

The Impact of Knowledge Management on New Product Development

Bright Chen DBA Prof Al Rainnie Prof Peter Galvin (Associate Supervisor)

Guanxi and Performance: The Moderating Role of Network Overembeddedness and Centrality




Garry Claxton PhD Assoc Prof Verena Marshall

Assoc Prof Dorothy Wardale

The Legal, Moral and Financial Reasons for a Safer Workplace: Implications for Motivating Managers to Get It Right

Kingsley Dunstan DBA Prof Margot Wood Assoc Prof Des Klass

Exploring Anticipatory Emotions and their Role in Self Perceived B2B Salesperson Effectiveness

Regina Flugge DBA Assoc Prof Des Klass


The Effect of Senior Management Behaviours on Sustainable Development Performance

Siu Hung (Simon) Fung

DBA Prof Rick Ladyshewsky

Assoc Prof Des Klass (Associate Supervisor)

Influences of Chinese Culture on Employee Motivation: A Study of Workers in China

Caleb Goods PhD Prof Al Rainnie Dr Scott Fitzgerald Green New Deal or Green Camouflage: Green Jobs as a Solution to the Ecological Crises and Sustained Economic Prosperity within Australia’s Current Political Economy

Mohammed Alamgir Hossein


Extended and Expanded Diffusion of RFID Technology in Asset Management: Australian Livestock Industry

Enayet Hossain PhD Prof Mohammed Quaddus

Dr Tekle Shanka Tourism Consumers’ Choice Behaviour Regarding Tour Destination Loyalty.

Md Moazzem Hossain PhD Dr Anna Rowe Prof Mohammed Quaddus

Stakeholder perspectives of Corporate Social and Environmental Reporting within a context of an emerging economy: Evidence from Bangladesh

Alan Howgrave-Graham

DBA Prof Peter Galvin Prof Mohammed Quaddus Dr Simon Carroll (WABRI)

Knowledge-Based Strategy Development for Regional Biotechnological Competitiveness

Vichulada Klinthong DBA Prof Margaret Nowak

Prof Robert Evans A Framework for Evaluating the Impact of the Firm’s Operational Governance and Employee’s Commitment on the Incidence of Misconduct in Relation to Selected Organisations in Thailand

William Leonard DBA Prof Alma Whiteley Assoc Prof Therese Jefferson

Cultural Reasoning and Stakeholders Perceptions of Information Technology Projects

Ping Li DBA Prof Mohammed Quaddus

Kent Lai (Associate Supervisor)

A New Perspective of the Relationship between Inflation and Life Insurance in Mainland China: Challenges and its Countermeasures

Ngai Wing (Paul) Liu DBA Assoc Prof Marita Naude

Prof Peter Galvin The Impact of Organisational and National Culture on the Knowledge Transfer by Expatriate Managers in the Hotel Industry of Hong Kong

Chun Kit Lok PhD Prof Mohammed Quaddus


Adoption of the Smart Card-Based Octopus E-Payment System for Retailing in Hong Kong Using an Extended Technology Acceptance Model

Ping Ho Jack Lou DBA Prof Peter Galvin Assoc Prof Graeme Coetzer

Cognitive Ability and Conscientiousness as Predictors of the Job Performance of Employees in the Hong Kong Hotel Industry and their Interactive Effects

Kwok Hung Mak DBA Prof Alma Whiteley Assoc Prof Therese Jefferson (Assoc Supervisor)

The Protection of Intellectual Properties Internet: Towards a Comprehensive Solution

Melissa Marinelli PhD Assoc Prof Linley Lord and Assoc Prof Therese Jefferson

Prof Alison Preston Transition from Technical Engineer to Managers and Leaders: Women’s Experience in Australia

Frederica Mojilis DBA Prof Robert Evans Maria Mucciarone Determinants of environmental disclosure in the oil palm industry in Malaysia

Holger Philipp DBA Assoc Prof Brenda Scott-Ladd

Assoc Prof Dorothy Wardale

The Transformation of the Human Resources Management function- incorporating research on shared services centres

Michael Preece DBA Assoc Prof Verena Marshall


Knowledge Management: A Residential Aged Care Perspective

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David Prior PhD Assoc Prof Verena Marshall


Management of Civilian Airline Flight Operational Risk within the Asia Pacific Region

Jane Pritchard DBA Prof Alma Whiteley Dr Jervis Whiteley Inter-Group Communication Between Baby Boomer Leaders and Generation Y Followers: A Cultural Reasoning Perspective

Dale Quinlivan PhD Prof Margaret Nowak


Local Government Accountability: Financial, Efficiency, Effectiveness and Sustainability Performance Reports - Stakeholder Perspectives

Puspa Rahayu DBA Prof Rob Evans Prof John Evans (Associate Supervisor)

Performance of State-Owned Enterprises in Indonesia: The Impact of Government Involvement

Arief Rahman PhD Prof Mohammed Quaddus

Assoc Prof Jeremy Galbreath

Toward A Comprehensive Conceptualization of Digital Divide And Its Impact on e-Government System Success: Evidence From Local Governments in Indonesia

Renee Ralph DBA Assoc Prof Des Klass

Prof Rick Ladyshewsky

Perceptions of Decision Making in Western Australian Iron Ore Companies Dealing with Chinese Companies

Mohammad (Rambo) Ramdianee

DBA Assoc Prof Des Klass

Prof Alma Whiteley Motivation of Volunteers in Child Welfare Not-for-Profit Organisations in Western Australia

Martin Reed DBA Assoc Prof Des Klass


The Relationship Between the Level of Strategic Planning Formality and Innovation in the Organisation and Firm Financial Performance

Guiseppe (Joe) Ripepi PhD Prof Fiona McKenzie

Prof Margaret Nowak

An Examination of Customer Perceptions of Effectiveness and Standards in Essential Functions and Services Delivery in Rural Communities

Intan Saidon PhD Prof Robert Evans Dr Jeremy Galbreath

Moral Disengagement of Business Professionals: A Malaysian Study of Antecedents and Outcomes

Marco Schultheis DBA Assoc Prof Margot Wood


The Impact of Business Intelligence Systems on the Perceived Quality of Strategic Decision Making

Mohammad Shamsuddoha



Integrating Forward and Reverse Supply Chain Processes for Sustainable Poultry Production in Bangladesh

Alros Sumner PhD Prof Al Rainnie Assoc Prof Margot Wood

An investigation of Complexity Leadership and the application of Lateral Thinking, Parallel Thinking and CoRT thinking tools at the work-team Level

Janet Sutherland PhD Prof Alma Whiteley Prof Al Rainnie How Can Leadership Create Work Value Alignment Between Different Generational Cohorts? An Exploratory Study

Chi Yuen Tik DBA Dr Margaret McCabe

Prof Alma Whiteley The New Leadership Roles of NGO Managers after the Implementation of Social Welfare Subvention Reform in Hong Kong

Dekar Urumsah PhD Prof Mohammed Quaddus

Assoc Prof Jeremy Galbreath Dr Didi Achjari (GMU)

Factors Influencing Indonesian Consumers to Use e-Services in Indonesian Public and Private Airline Companies

Amit Vohra PhD Assoc Prof Rick Ladyshewsky

Assoc Prof Verena Marshall

Decision Factors that Determine Choice of Medical Specialty Amongst Medical Students, Pre-vocational Doctors, General Practice Registrars and General Practitioners


HDR Students who passed their thesis examination in 2011


Azizah Binti Ahmad PhD Prof Mohammed Quaddus

Dr Norshuhada Shiratuddin (UUM)

Business Intelligence for Sustainable Competitive Advantage: The Case of Telecommunications Companies in Malaysia

Ralla Al Azali PhD Prof Alma Whiteley

Dr Jun Xu (Southern Cross)

Communities of Practice, Knowledge Creation and Corporate Sustainability: A Study of Bahrain Service Industry

Doug Castledine DBA Prof Peter Galvin An Evaluation Model for the Management of Public Housing Programs

Julie Crews DBA Assoc Prof Verena Marshall

Dr Kerry Pedigo What is Ethical Leadership? A Study to Define the Characteristics of Ethical Leadership: Perspectives from Australian Public and Private Sectors

Ngiang (Robin) Eng PhD Prof Peter Galvin Assoc Prof Marita Naudé

The Relationships Between Trust in Top Management and Organisational Outcomes: Implications for the Influence of Senior Manager Role-Modelling and Group Cohesiveness in the Construction Industry

Gugup Kismono PhD Assoc Prof Verena Marshall

Assoc Prof Des Klass The Relationships Between Job Embeddedness, Work-Family Conflict and the Impact of Gender on Turnover Intention: Evidence from the Indonesian Banking Industry

Sirilak Meksang DBA Prof Alma Whiteley

Assoc Prof Des Klass Organisational Learning: Creation, Implementation and Practices in Thai-Owned Companies in Thailand

Gunasegaran Muthusamy


Prof Robert Evans Behavioural Intention to use Forensic Accounting Services for the Detection and Prevention of Fraud by Large Malaysian Companies

Sirinart Paetyangkul DBA Assoc Prof Des Klass

Jervis Whiteley Implementing the 9th National Economic and Social Development Plan: A Study of Discourse between Thai Government Officials and Villagers

Michael Preece DBA Assoc Prof Verena Marshall


Knowledge Management and Knowledge Sharing: Implications for the Residential Aged Care Industry

Terry Ann Sheridan PhD Prof Alma Whiteley


Exploring Recipients’ Perceptions of Impression Management: Insights from Comparing Fraudster and Non-Fraudster Executives

Karen Trimmer DBA Prof Mohammed Quaddus


Non-Compliance by School Principals: The Effects of Experience, Stakeholder Characteristics and Governance Mechanisms on Reasoned Risk-Taking in Decision-Making

Mohammad Nasir Uddin


Dr Nazrul Islam (Ag Dept)

Impact of Knowledge Management and Inter-Organisational System on Supply Chain Performance: The Case of Australian Agri-Food Industry

HDR Students who submitted their thesis examination in 2011 but have not yet passed


Wee Gee Roy Cheo DBA Prof Peter Galvin Prof Rob Evans Dr Jeremy Galbreath

An Empirical Study of Corporate Turnaround Strategies in Australia

Gem Cheong PhD Prof Alma Whiteley

Assoc Prof Marita Naudé

Organisational Learning in Universities - Factors Influencing Organisational Agility: Case Studies in Australia and Singapore

Stephen Crawford DBA Prof Mohammed Quaddus

The Effects of the Internet on Distribution Strategies Pursued by Tourism (Exporting) Businesses in Western Australia

Wan Shakizah (Kizah) Wan Mohd Noor


Prof Alma Whiteley Influences of Non-Monetary Rewards: Perceptions of Employees in Malaysian Private Organisations

Dale Quinlivan PhD Prof Margaret Nowak

Assoc Prof Des Klass Local Government Accountability: Financial, Efficiency, Effectiveness and Sustainability Performance Reports - Stakeholder Perspectives

Nai Keung Philco Wong

DBA Prof Margaret Nowak

Dr Dean TjosvoldProf Alma Whiteley (Associate Supervisor)

Leadership Partnership: Chinese and Expatriate Managers in Multi-National Construction Companies in Hong Kong

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CGSB DOCTORAL RESEARCH FORUM

The CGSB Emerging Research Initiatives and Developments in Business forum showcased the research achievements of its doctoral student community. The Forum included the participation of CGSB’s academic staff and prominent CGSB Alumni

and representatives from Western Australia’s business, government and not-for-profit organisations.

The Forum formed an integral part of the development of each student’s research skills and contribution to the academic and broader community. It also provided an opportunity for students to meet other, hear about other research projects and to participate in a collegial and informative research event. The Forum was especially designed so that all participants, including students, could contribute to the roles typically undertaken by researchers at academic forums, including: conference paper submission; paper presentation; paper reviewing; acting as a discussant; chairing sessions; and forum organisation. Presenters were asked to submit either a full paper for blind review and publication in a volume based on the forum’s proceedings; or an extended abstract, which would not be formally reviewed but would be sent to a discussant for feedback at their session.

Day One of the Forum was opened by keynote speaker, Dr David Blyth, who was followed by student sessions and presentations as listed below. Day Two was devoted to panel discussions led by academic research staff.

The Best Paper was awarded to Mohammad Nasir Uddin, “Transaction costs in the agri food industry.” Wayne Wright won best paper for a doctoral student in the early stages of their project.

Thanks to Assoc Prof Siobhan Austen, Prof Harry Bloch and Prof Stephen Teo from CBS, Prof Geoff Soutar from UWA and all CGSB HDR students and academic staff for their participation.

Session Chair: Md Shah Azam

Presenter Discussant Presentation Title

Frederica Mojilis Dr Bryan Maybee Determinants of Environmental Disclosure in the Oil Palm Industry in Malaysia

Puspa Rahayu Prof Rick Ladyshewsky Performance of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in Indonesia: The Impact of Government Involvement

Session Chair: Md Moazzem Hossain

David Prior Assoc Prof Therese Jefferson Research design and data collection from the airline industry: A PhD candidate’s perspective

Ali Sumner Assoc Prof Des Klass Exploring what happens when business managers use lateral thinking

Session Chair: Md Enayet Hossain

Bill Leonard Dr Scott Fitzgerald Cultural Reasoning and stakeholders perceptions of information technology projects

Arief Rahman Prof Rob Evans Toward a Comprehensive Conceptualization of the Digital Divide And Its Impact on e-Government System Success: Evidence from Local Governments in Indonesia

Md Shah Azam Assoc Prof Des Klass Applying Technology Acceptance Model to Internet adoption in Bangladesh: The role of image and some methodological issues

Session Chair: Ali Sumner

Nadzri Ab Ghani Prof Alma Whiteley An analysis of Whistle-blowing intention in Malaysia

Intan Saidon Assoc Prof Dorothy Wardale Workplace Deviance Application of Social Cognitive Theory

Joe Ripepi Dr Aileen Hoath The Australian Consumer Law 2010: The latest chapter in the ongoing strategy aimed at transcending Australia’s physical state and territory borders

Session Chair: Mohammad Shamsuddoha

Eijaz Kahn Assoc Prof Therese Jefferson Managing Resources in the Stages of Micro Enterprise Life Cycle: A Conceptual View

Md Enayet Hossain

Prof Rob Evans An Empirical Study of Tourism Consumers’ Perceived Quality: The Role of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Cues

Wayne Wright Assoc Prof Byron Hanson Using the Delphi technique as a research development tool

Session Chair: Frederica Mojilis

Mohammad Hossain

Prof Kelvin Willoughby Qualitative Investigation of the Determinants of Continuance Intention of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

Mohammad Shamsuddoha

Martin West Reverse Supply Chains in the Poultry Industry

Md Nasir Uddin Assoc Prof Jeremy Galbreath Transaction costs in the agri food industry


Topic Presenter

Changes to the Curtin Library Catalogue and Databases Terry McGowan

A Journey through a Doctorate Dr Bryan Maybee

CGSB research - Where have we been, where are we heading Prof Al Rainnie

Business models and the emergence of open innovation logics Dr Laure Muselli

Issues of human rights and corporate social responsibility Dr Kate Grosser

“One out of four ain’t bad”: Insights into the ARC grant application process Assoc Prof Therese Jefferson

Traditional culture and the wellbeing of Indigenous Australians Assoc Prof Michael Dockery

The new leadership landscape: do we offer our students and clients the leadership development they ask for - or what they need ?

Prof Kim Turnball James

An Introduction to the Remote Economic Participation Co-operative Research Centre (REP CRC)

Prof Fiona McKenzie

Professional role identity reconstruction: the interplay of framing and agency Assoc Prof Stephane Tywoniak

Green jobs in the Australian Economy Caleb Goods

Endeavour Award Participation Claire Bean, Manager ALP

The ORBIS database Stephen McKinney, Bureau Van Dijk

China’s continuing influence, labour markets and the two speed economy Prof Dan Packey

Missing workers: retaining mature age women workers to ensure future labour security

Assoc Prof Siobhan Austen and Assoc Prof Rachel Ong, School of Economics and Finance, Curtin Business School

“Putting the public first”: Some comments Prof Al Rainnie and Dr Scott Fitzgerald

A new model of leadership for nurses in the WA Public Health System Assoc Prof Des Klass, Assoc Prof Linley Lord

Climate Change & the Wine Industry Assoc Prof Jeremy Galbreath

Integrating Forward and Reverse Supply Chain Processes for Sustainable Poultry Production in Bangladesh

Mohammad Shamsuddoha (Doha)

Sage Research Methods online Representatives from Sage Publishing

The Power of the Right Research Question Prof Dede Bonner (George Washington University)

A special workshop on academic writing for CGSB Doctoral Students Ellen Young

Competition between Blended Traditional and Virtual Sellers Prof Gary Madden, School of Economics and Finance, Curtin Business School

Performance of state owned enterprises in Indonesia: the impact of Government Involvement

Puspa Rahayu

An action research project on writing groups CGSB’s ‘Writing Accountability Group’: Assoc Prof Des Klass, Dr Linley Lord, Dr Troy Hendrickson, Assoc Prof Dorothy Wardale, Melissa Marinelli and Assoc Prof Therese Jefferson

An Investigation of the Endowment Effect Using a Factorial Design Prof Ross Taplin, School of Accounting, Curtin Business School & Assoc Prof Therese Jefferson

Determinants of Environmental Disclosure in the Oil Palm Industry in Malaysia Frederica Mojilis

Developing a Strategic Approach to ARC Discovery Project Proposals Dr Catherine Patenden, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Socially Responsible Mining at the University of Queensland

The submission and examination of doctoral theses Prof John Burgess, School of Management, Curtin Business School

CGSB RESEARCH SEMINAR PROGRAM

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EVENTS AT THE CGSB

CGSB 2012 BUSINESS LEADERS SERIES 44

BUILDING YOUR CAREER 46

THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN CLUB 46

CAREER PATHWAY SEMINARS 47

2011 EVENTS IN RETROSPECT 48


CGSB 2011 BUSINESS LEADERS SERIES The CGSB Business Leaders Series gives students and alumni the opportunity not only to update their knowledge of the newest trends and career opportunities in various business-related industries but also develop their professional network and engage with leaders in industry. This year saw an impressive lineup of representatives from industry, politics, academia and our student body, speaking to their strengths and sharing their vision. We sincerely thank all our speakers for giving their time, energy and expertise to the CGSB.

Wednesday 2 February Living Well and in Balance Clinton Heal, Young Australian of the Year and CEO, melanomaWA

Tuesday 15 March Insights on the Change Process Alannah MacTiernan

Friday 18 March The Premier and the CGSB Advisory Panel Premier Colin Barnett and members of the CGSB Advisory Board

Thursday 31 March Imbibing Corporate Values: Leading in a Responsible Organisation Professor Kim Turnbull-James, Cranfield School of Management

Thursday 14 April Technology and the Future of Work: A Local and International Perspective Dr David Blyth, 2nd Horizon Pty Ltd

Friday 20 May Budget Briefing Gavan Forster, Master Builders Association

Friday 27 May Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Bill Tai, Charles River Venture Charles Morgan, Resources and Technology Strategist Larry Lopez, Australian Venture Consultants (pictured)

Wednesday 1 June Economic Outlook: Issues and Challenges John Nicolaou, CCIWA

Friday 10 June Western Australia beyond the boom Senator Scott Ludlam, The Australian Greens

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Wednesday 15 June Atlas Iron: Our Version of Events David Flanagan, Atlas Iron Limited

Wednesday 22 June Building Community Resilience - Living with extraordinary hazards; a community-centred account Allen Gale, FESA

Wednesday 29 June Connecting across the Pacific Aleisha Woodward, Consul-General, US Consulate

Wednesday 29 June Strategic management and the transformation of business in large, complex international organisations – Insights from TNK-BP in RussiaTony Considine, North West Infrastructure

Tuesday 6 September Strategy and Decision Making: Successes of the service industry: business planning, strategy and decision making Kim Brotherson, Pharmacy 777

Wednesday 7 September The Mining Boom and Australia’s Economic FutureJohn Edwards, Reserve Bank Board Memberin conjunction with JCIPP

Thursday 15 September Tales and secrets from the Glass Ceiling- a survival guide for women in businessDr Dede Bonner, New Century Management, Washington DC

Monday 3 October Managing change in organisations – the role and responsibilities of leadersRob Sharp, QANTAS

Wednesday 19 October Leadership Challenges in the 21st CenturyElaine Rumboll, University of Capetown

Monday 31 October The Social Media Revolution in BusinessDave Duarte, Managing Director, Ogilvy Digital Marketing Academy, Cape Town

Thursday 3 November Strategy in Practice: Insights from HollywoodDavid Thompson, CEO, Protegic Pty. Ltd.

Friday 18 November Patti Chong, Patti Chong Lawyers


BUILDING YOUR CAREERThe CGSB Building Your Career initiative is comprised of several components, including the Effective Networking events and the Career Pathway seminars.

Every trimester, the CGSB hosts an event at the Western Australian Club at which facilitator, Ron Gibson, of Go Networking (top row, far left), runs a workshop called Effective Networking. The event is always well-attended and students have given very positive feedback on the session which allows them to hone their networking skills and effect changes to the way they communicate in order to establish firm connections with colleagues.

Kelvin Willoughby, MBA Director, also scheduled a number of seminars at which management consultant experts either presented at the CGSB or invited students and alumni to visit their premises as part of the Career Pathway Seminars. Thank you to all participants for their time and effort and thanks to Prof Willoughby for liaising with the listed organisations.

THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN CLUB

The Western Australian Club is a contemporary business club located in the heart of the Perth CBD. With a history

spanning 117 years, its aim is to be the most respected and sought after professional person’s club in WA. The Club exudes a warm and inviting ambience, ideal for entertaining business associates, hosting meetings and seminars or relaxing with friends.

The Western Australian Club offers CGSB students a competitive membership rate which includes selected access to club facilities and social networking opportunities with its almost 1000-strong membership. The CGSB holds many events at the Club, including the Effective Networking workshops and the final presentations for Prof Kelvin Willoughby’s Entrepreneurship and Creativity classes.

CGSB students putting their newly acquired networking skills into practice at the WA Club.

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CAREER PATHWAYS SEMINARSThe Challenges of managing within a large, complex multi-national corporationTony Considine CEO, North West Iron Ore Alliance (NWIOA) Friday 13 MayThis Alliance is involved with major infrastructure developments in the iron ore sector. Tony’s presentation was based on the various international career opportunities in multinational corporations in the resources sector.

Career opportunities for MBAs in Aboriginal Business DevelopmentKimberley KohanPrincipal Advisor, Aboriginal Business Development, Rio Tinto Tuesday 31 May Kimberley Kohan joined Rio Tinto in September 2010, to assist Pilbara Aboriginal businesses take advantage of the resource activities happening on their country. She shared with students some of the essential elements of a career path for this space and what is involved in this type of work.

Career Opportunities in Management Consulting presented by AccentureWednesday 6 JulyAcccenture team members lead by Bernadette Cullinane, Senior Executive, Energy Industry and Management Consulting Lead (WA) and including CGSB graduate Olatunji (Tunji) Pariola, Consultant, Management Consulting - Finance and Performance Management.

Career Opportunities in Management Consulting presented by Ernst and YoungThursday 21 JulyPresented by Tracy Deveugle-Frink, Senior Consultant at Ernst & Young Advisory; Veronica Bell, HR Services.

Career Opportunities in Management Consulting presented by WraysTuesday 11 OctoberPresenter: Jo Woodfield, Director, Brand and Culture Services, Wrays.

Career Opportunities in Management Consulting presented by PricewaterhouseCoopersThursday 17 NovemberPresented by Darren Smith, Partner, PwC Consulting; Stephanie Allen, Partner, PwC Consulting; Mark Nold, Senior Manager (and Curtin MBA Graduate), PwC Consulting; Paul Hersey, Senior Manager (and Curtin MBA graduate), PwC Consulting; Amy Summerville, Manager, Experienced Recruiting.

Prof Kelvin Willoughby (centre) with PwC’s Darren Smith (left) and Mark Nold (PwC Senior Manager and CGSB MBA graduate).


2011 EVENTS IN RETROSPECT

1. Clinton Heal and Prof Kelvin Willoughby 2. Alannah MacTiernan with OCD students and lecturer, Ron Pettapiece (right) 3. Premier Colin Barnett addresses CGSB students 4. Premier Barnett with Prof Alison Preston and members of the CGSB Advisory Board 5. Profs Alison Preston and Dan Packey with David Flanagan, Atlas Iron (centre) 6. Gloria Gu, Allen Gale (FESA), Dr Troy Hendricksona and Kim Lee 7. CGSB students at the Accenture Career Pathway Seminar 8. Tunji Pariola (MBA graduate and 2010 Accenture Essay winner) addressing CGSB students as an Accenture Management Consultant 9. & 10, Pro Vice-Chancellor Duncan Bentley and Prof Alison Preston with (centre) Dave Duarte and Leader in Residence Elaine Rumboll

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LINKING BEYOND THE CGSB: EXTERNAL LINKS AND RESEARCH

AUSTRALIAN LEADERSHIP AWARDS: LEADERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

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AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR NATURAL GAS MANAGEMENT 51

CEDA: COMMITTEE FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF AUSTRALIA

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AMCHAM: AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 53

CGSB CENTRES AND RESEARCH UNITS 54


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EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIPS 56

CONFERENCE AND RESEARCH FORUM PARTICIPATION 57

EXECUTIVE ‘NOT-FOR-AWARD’ EDUCATION PROGRAM DELIVERY 58

ARTICULATION AGREEMENTS 58

EXECUTIVE ‘FOR-AWARD’ EDUCATION PROGRAM DELIVERY 59

CGSB PUBLICATIONS 59

CGSB ACADEMIC STAFF PROFILES 62


AUSTRALIAN LEADERSHIP AWARDS: LEADERSHIP FOR DEVELOPMENT

The AusAID Australian Leadership Awards Leadership for Development Program (ALDP) was awarded to the CGSB in 2007 via a rigorous competitive tendering process. Under the contract the CGSB delivers an annual leadership conference and

residential leadership workshops across Australia.

In March 2011 the Australian Leadership Awards: Leadership for Development Program team, including 25 staff from Curtin University, Teamworks Development Australia and Australian Experiential Learning Centre travelled to Canberra to deliver the fourth annual Leadership for Development Conference to 184 global leaders from over 32 countries, the biggest and most successful event since the program’s inception.

The keynote address was delivered by David Bussau AM, Social Entrepreneur; an Open Space Session with AusAID leaders and scholars; and a Plenary Discussion involving a panel of scholars followed. Australian leaders from a variety of backgrounds, such as Prof Geoff Gallop, Prof Fiona Wood and Jeff McMullen, presented at the plenary sessions.

Peter Baxter, Director General AusAID, offered the highest praise to Claire and the team regarding the highly professional, first class conference delivered to one of the most diverse groups of future leaders. Simultaneously, the praise from Australian Leadership Award holders, the scholars, was of the highest order, achieving 100% satisfaction ratings from participants.

Having delivered yet another hugely successful conference, Claire decided to step down as Program Manager at the end of May to pursue leadership opportunities in industry. Claire was ably replaced by Gloria Gu who did a fantastic job on coordinating the remaining workshops as Curtin delivered on the final stages of the contract. When Program Director Janet Sutherland left the CGSB in August to pursue her doctoral studies, Assoc Prof Linley Lord stepped into the role for the remainder of the year and contract.

It was a privilege to have had the opportunity to deliver such a successful program over the past four years. We wish all scholars ongoing success in their global leadership endeavours.

Janet SutherlandALA Leadership for Development Program Director (until August)

Assoc Prof Linley LordALA Leadership for Development Program Director (from August)

Claire BeanALA Leadership for Development Program Manager (until May)

Gloria GuALA Leadership for Development Program Coordinator Program Manager (from June)

Isabelle PergerALA Leadership for Development HR Administrative Assistant

Cecilia BraunALA Leadership for Development HR Administrative Assistant

“I have returned from the LDP conference and in future I will consider it as one of the best things happened in my

life...the program was a great one. Now I am confident, that Australian people do really care about to change the global

scenario and wants to see a positive change. My sincere gratitude to each member of the Australian community and

to the government as they organized all these.” Reshad from Bangladesh, 2011 ALA

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AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR NATURAL GAS MANAGEMENT

The Australian Centre for Natural Gas Management (ACNGM) provides excellence in executive and management education in the natural gas sector within Australia and throughout Asia. The ACNGM has the ability to tailor unique experiences by

offering global perspectives, innovative program design and in-depth knowledge, direct from industry experts. Each program allows participants from across the Asia Pacific Region, to engage in a dynamic exchange of ideas and perspectives.

2011 saw the running of The Australia China LNG Training Program, the flagships to the ACNGM, which provided executive leadership and management education to China’s emerging leaders from the likes of CNOOC, Sinopec, Shenzhen Gas Corporation, Guangdong Dapeng LNG and Shenzhen Energy Group. The two three-month short courses, The Leadership Imperative and The Management Imperative, ran from May to August and August to November respectively. Adding to the ACNGM’s already proven track record in excellence, the team of presenters from Curtin University, industry and UWA provided an evaluated average of 91.5 per cent – this is an exceptional result. The ACNGM also provided Executive Study Tours for Shenzhen Gas Corporation and Guangzhou Gas Company with further interest being sought by China Gas Association and Korea.

As put by Jia Tieying (November 2011), monitor of The Management Imperative participants at their graduation dinner:

“Every picture has been taken by our eyes and heart. The one we meet, the place we visit and the experience we have will be deeply rooted in our memory and become part of our life.”

Established in 2005, the ACNGM is a highly successful joint venture between two of Australia’s most prestigious universities; Curtin University and the University of Western Australia. CGSB presenters include John Karasinski, Assoc Prof Jeremy Galbreath and Assoc Prof Des Klass.

The 2011 ACNGM Student Cohort meet staff from Curtin Business School, UWA Business School and the CGSB at a special morning tea held on 15 August 2011.


CEDA: COMMITTEE FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF AUSTRALIA

CEDA is an independent, not for profit body formed in 1960 that aims to inform, influence and raise the standard of discussion and research about the issues shaping Australia’s

economic and social development. It does this by publishing independent policy research; providing a forum for debate and discussion by business, government and academia; and offering a membership network to people and organisations that value knowledge, insights and ideas in Australia’s best interests. More than 800 of Australia’s leading organisations belong to CEDA of which CGSB is one. Its funding comes from membership fees, research grants, sponsorship and events.

The CGSB was delighted to co-sponsor this CEDA event with the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy (JCIPP). Held in the newly refurbished CGSB Function Room, the luncheon

was extremely well-attended.

Mr Paul McClintock is Chairman of the COAG Reform Council, Medibank Private Limited, Thales Australia and the Institute of Virology. He is also a Director of Perpetual Limited.

Introduced by Prof Alison Preston, Mr McClintock presented the findings of the council’s second ‘Report on Progress’, which was launched on 15 November. It was an opportunity to discuss the pace of activity across the whole reform agenda and the challenges that governments face in implementing the institutional reforms.

We thank new CEDA State Director, Liz Ritchie and her staff for their assistance in delivering this event to CGSB, JCIPP and CEDA guests.

Paul McClintock, Chairman, COAG Reform Council: “Where to next?”

(L-R): Prof Peter Kenyon, Prof of Economics, CGSB; Mr Paul McClintock, COAG; Mr Alan Fenna, JCIPP; Ms Liz Ritchie, CEDA; Prof Alison Preston, Director, CGSB.Mr Paul McClintock, COAG, addressing the participants, CGSB Function Room.

CEDA Trustee Event: Cranlana Programme

In conjunction with CEDA, the CGSB hosted a Trustee event at which Peter Duncan, Chairman of the Cranlana Programme (TCP) presented and spoke about the Programme. The Cranlana Programme is a non-partisan, not-for-profit organisation,

initiated by The Myer Foundation in 1993. The broad objective of TCP is to cultivate wisdom in leadership. It offers people with senior responsibilities the opportunity to enhance their understanding of the philosophical, ethical and social issues central to creating a just, prosperous and sustainable society in Australia.

Since 2003 TCP has conducted the Colloquium in WA in collaboration with Curtin University. The Colloquium, a week-long seminar, brings together senior-level participants from the private, public and not-for-profit sectors to reflect upon issues that are critical to the theory and practice of good leadership. It aims to enhance the capacity of leaders at all levels to exercise ethical and effective judgment. There are now over 390 alumni from this partnership, all of whom are senior level leaders in their field. In 2011 the CGSB took over this partnership agreement from Curtin Business School. Assoc Prof Therese Jefferson participated in the program in 2011.

In an articulation agreement between CGSB and Cranlana, graduates of the Cranlana program are eligible for 25 credit points (or 1 unit) in to the MBA or MBL on successful completion of an additional piece of assessment.

For more information about other articulation agreements, please see the table at the end of this report.

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AmCham: AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

The CGSB was thrilled to be able to sponsor this event held at the Hyatt Regency on 10 March 2011 in concert with the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM).

The event was attended by over 200 guests from resources and energy based organisations and was a very successful avenue for promoting the courses in minerals and energy as well as oil and gas run by the CGSB. Prof Alison Preston, in introducing Mr Gallagher, made mention of the highly qualified staff at the CGSB delivering these unique programs and the niche that the CGSB holds in being able to develop managers with skills in these highly-sought after industries.

Since this event, Kevin Gallagher has resigned from Woodside and is now CEO of Clough Engineering. We are also proud to say that he accepted an invitation from the CGSB and now sits on the CGSB Advisory Board.

Kevin Gallagher, Head of North West Shelf, Woodside Energy Ltd

In September, the CGSB again partnered with AMCHAM in sponsoring a Business Briefing featuring keynote speaker, Bill Evans of the Westpac Banking Corporation. Again, the event was held at the Hyatt Regency and attracted over 120 in

the area of banking and finance.

The event was a great opportunity for the CGSB to showcase its strong Department of Mineral and Energy Economics as well as staff in the economics field.

Bill Evans, Managing Director & Global Head of Economics & Research, Westpac

(L-R): Prof Daniel Packey (DMEE); US Consul General Aleisha Woodward; Prof Alison Preston (Director, CGSB); Bill Evans (Westpac); Penelope Williamson (AMCHAM); and Professor of Economics Peter Kenyon.

The American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) is Australia’s largest international Chamber of Commerce. It provides assistance to US and Australian companies and works

to promote trade, commerce and investment between Australia and the US and in the Asia Pacific region.

In 2011 AmCham celebrated its 50th Anniversary of its establishment in Australia.

The CGSB delights in collaborating with AmCham and congratulates it for its incredible achievements in connecting prominent international and local business people.


CGSB CENTRES AND RESEARCH UNITS

The Curtin Graduate School of Business hosts several research units and Centres. Our research units regularly present specialist seminars and public forums that communicate their research findings to the broader community, including

industry and practitioner groups. Our Centres create linkages beyond the CGSB to external organisations through their consultancies.

The Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility Research Unit was established at the Curtin Graduate School of Business in 2003. From the outset it was agreed to conceptualise Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility (G&CSR) in its broadest sense. The Unit was visualised as a vehicle for researchers and practitioners from the various disciplines which relate to G&CSR to have a conceptual home for their theories and innovative practices. The seminar series is a quarterly meeting

for interested academics and practitioners to discuss ideas, practices, research and policy regarding G&CSR and to have the opportunity to socialise and network.

The G&CSR unit launched a new series of seminars in 2011 commencing with the Inaugural Seminar on 5 May at which Kelvyn Eglington, Regional Manager – Asia Pacific Newmont and Dr Aileen Hoath presented.

Mr Eglington’s presentation drew on Corporate Social Responsibility Trends, integrated functions and implementation approaches through the application of activities within Newmont operations across Asia Pacific. Dr. Hoath discussed whether CSR business case models tend towards overly optimistic local impact assessments and if corporate risk mitigation deflects attention from the increased exposure of local communities to the full range of uncertainties associated with mineral extraction.

The second seminar for 2011 took place on 25 August and featured Ford Murray. Ford has over 35 years stakeholder relations and project management experience in the resources and manufacturing sectors. Ford has worked in the steel, gold, phosphate, nickel and iron ore commodities and the companies include familiar names such as Fortescue Metals Group, BHP Billiton, Minproc and Bechtel. Ford has a natural interest in people, different cultures, minority groups, human rights and self-empowered community development that is assisted by principled corporate social responsibility. Assoc Prof Stephane Tywoniak from the CGSB spoke on CSR and the lessons learned from the Alberta Oil Sands boom in Canada’s province of Alberta which is host to the world’s second largest oil reserves.

The events were co-sponsored by the CSIRO Minerals Down Under Flagship Regions in Transition Project.

RESEARCH UNITS:

CSIRO Minerals Down Under Flagship Regions in Transition ProjectThe mining industry in Australia faces serious challenges: declining ore grades and shifting local, regional and international operating environments. This realisation has prompted substantial innovation investment through the Minerals Down Under Flagship. Such technological research, however, must be accompanied by foresight into the long-term strategic challenges, future scenarios, social, economic and regional contexts in which the technology will be situated for it to achieve the flagships goal of transforming the Australian minerals landscape. The Mineral Futures cluster responds to this need.

The program of work consists of three integrated projects: Commodity Futures, Technology Futures and Regions in Transition. The Regions in Transition program is lead from the Curtin Graduate School of Business. It addresses the inter-linkages between social and economic impacts at a regional level emphasising land use change in an environmental setting. The outcomes of the project will be to develop improved methods for measuring, monitoring and assessing the social and economic impacts of mining at a regional level, and strategies for delivering positive legacies from future mining operations.

Members of staff also participate in collaborative research with other research units in Curtin Business School, including:• The Centre for Research in Applied Economics • Oil and Gas Management • The Centre for Labour Market Research• Women in Social and Economic Research (WiSER)

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The Maureen Bickley Centre for Women in Leadership (MBC) was established within the CGSB in March 2008 as a centre promoting and enabling the increased representation of women in leadership roles. The name of the centre honours the late Associate Professor Maureen Bickley. Amongst her many achievements Maureen made a significant contribution to the advancement and promotion of gender equity and women in leadership.

The MBC brings together researchers and consultants from within the CGSB and across Curtin with an interest and expertise in gender and leadership. Its vision is to be recognised nationally and internationally for its expertise in women in leadership in organisations.

The aim of the MBC is to work with organisations to promote and profile the increased participation of women in leadership and senior management roles in industry, business and the not-for-profit sector. Through its research, executive education and consultancy the MBC will increase the understanding of the issues that confront women leaders and those aspiring to leadership roles and how organisations can address these issues. Research findings will inform the development of targeted executive development programs.

in 2011, the MBC held a Research Colloquium at the CGSB on 21 and 22 July. Ten researchers from Australia and New Zealand attended the invitation-only MBC Inaugural Research Colloquium for Gender Researchers. The Colloquium provided participants with the opportunity to engage in deep conversation regarding their current research on women in management and leadership.

The aims of the Research Colloquium were to provide leading researchers with the opportunity to: • Discuss current research• Develop work in progress for conferences and journals• Identify any opportunities for joint or expanded research projects• Identify any opportunities for grant applications• Build and further develop a network of gender researchers in Australia and New Zealand


Researchers (CGSB in bold) Research project Fund Organisation

Assoc Prof Siobhan Austen; Prof Alison Preston; Assoc Prof Linley Lord; Assoc Prof Therese Jefferson

FaHCSIA Gender Panel Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA)

Assoc Prof Siobhan Austen; Assoc Prof Therese Jefferson

Missing workers: retaining mature age women workers to ensure future labour security

Australian Research Council

Assoc Prof Jeremy Galbreath A study of response to sustainability in the business sector

Curtin University

Assoc Prof Jeremy Galbreath The link between corporate governance and sustainability: A contingency approach

Australian Research Council, Curtin University of Technology, other ARC Funding

Assoc Prof Therese Jefferson Theoretical and applied approaches to economic decision-making

Curtin University

Assoc Prof Linley Lord Attraction and Retention of Women in the Minerals Industry

Minerals Council of Australia

Dr Linley Lord; Assoc Prof Therese Jefferson; Assoc Prof Des Klass and Prof Margaret Nowak

Nursing and Leadership in the Western Australian Public Health System

Department of Health WA

Prof Fiona McKenzie; Amma Buckley, Curtin, Faculty of Humanities- Alcoa Research Centre for Stronger Communities; David Brereton, Tim Horberry, Daniel Franks, University of Queensland; Stuart White, Damien Giurco, Christopher Reidy, University of Technology, Sydney; John Rolfe, Galina Ivanova, Central Queensland University

Future Sustainability of Australia’s Mineral Industry

University of Queensland, CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)

Prof Fiona McKenzie Principal Research Leader Enduring Community Value from Mining

Ninti One Ltd, Curtin University


EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIPS Prof Rick Ladyshewsky Editorial Board, International Journal of Evidence-Based Coaching and Mentoring

Editorial Committee member, HERDSA GuidesAssociate Editor, Physiotherapy Theory and Practice; Physiotherapy

Prof Margaret Nowak Editorial Board member, Australian Journal of Labour Economics

Prof Alison Preston Editorial Board member, Industrial Relations Journal; Australian Bulletin of Labour

Prof Mohammed Quaddus Editorial Board member, International Journal of Procurement Management Associate Editor, International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences Co-editor, International Technology Management ReviewEditorial Board member, Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations

Dr Anna Lee Rowe Editorial Board member, Asia Pacific Centre for Environmental Accounting Journal

Stephane Tywoniak Journal of Management and Organization

Prof Alma Whiteley Editorial review board, Journal for Teaching in International Business

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CONFERENCE AND RESEARCH FORUM PARTICIPATION

CGSB researcher Dates Forum TitleProf Al Rainnie 2 - 3 Feb Association of Industrial Relations Academics in Australia and New Zealand, Auckland

Prof Mohammed Quaddus 19 - 20 Feb Workshop on Internet Marketing, Singapore

Prof Rob Evans and Prof Alma Whiteley

3 - 4 March RBAC International Management Conference 2011, Bangkok, Thailand

Prof Alison Preston 29 March New directions in working life policy: Reflections in recent European experiences and implications for Australia, Sydney, Australia

Prof Alison Preston 30 March Employment Relations in a Global Context: An International Forum, Sydney, Australia

Prof Al Rainnie 5 - 7 April International Labour Process Conference, Leeds, UKDr Anna Rowe 17 - 23 May PRISM (Postgraduate Researchers Interested in Sustainability Matters) Conference and

Workshops, University of Gloucestershire, UK

Prof Alison Preston 26 - 27 May Associations of MBAs International Conference for Deans and Directors, Geneva, Switzerland

Prof Rick Ladyshewsky 12 May ALTC Fieldwork Coordinator Leadership Workshop, Wagga Wagga, NSWDr Troy Hendrickson 26 - 29 May 11th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Business, Hawaii, USADr Bryan Maybee and Assoc Prof Dan Packey

11 - 13 June 40th Australian Conference of Economists, Canberra, ACT

Dr Anna Rowe 13 - 15 June CSEAR France, Ile de la France, FranceProf Fiona McKenzie 14 - 17 June SDIMI conference, Aachen, GermanyDr Scott Fitzgerald 7 - 8 July Moral Economies of Creative Labour Conference, Leeds, UKProf Fiona McKenzie 13 - 20 July North Atlantic Geographers Colloquium Rural Development-Rural Geography Theories

and Applications, Manitoba, CanadaProf Rick Ladyshewsky 23 - 26 July Second World Congress on Positive Psychology by the International Positive Psychology

Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USADr Bryan Maybee 4 - 10 Aug Diggers and Dealers Conference, Kalgoorlie, WA

Assoc Prof Linley Lord 12 - 16 Aug 71st Annual meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM), San Antonio, USAProf Dan Packey 5 - 7 Sept Good Oil and Gas Conference, Fremantle, WAAssoc Prof Jeremy Galbreath

28 - 30 Sept Conference on Board Diversity and Economic Performance, Copenhagen, Denmark

Prof Dan Packey 29 - 30 Sept Green Initiatives Conference, Florida, USAAssoc Prof Linley Lord 13 - 14 Oct Gender Equality Workshop, Melbourne University


17 - 18 Nov Work and Family Roundtable Symposium, Sydney, Australia

Prof Rob Evans 26 - 27 Nov Sino Australian International Conference on Accounting and Finance 2011, Zhongnan University, Wuhan, China

Dr Troy Hendrickson 28 - 30 Nov Australian New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference (ANZMAC) 2011, Perth WA

Prof Fiona McKenzie 29 Nov - 2 Dec State of Australian Cities Conference, Melbourne, Victoria

Prof Alison Preston 30 Nov - 2 Dec AMBA Asia Pacific Conference for Deans and Directors, Singapore

Assoc Prof Jeremy Galbreath

30 Nov 2011 WA Wine Industry Outlook Conference, Bunbury WA

Assoc Prof Therese Jefferson and Prof Alison Preston

4 - 6 Dec Society for Heterodox Economics Conference, University Of New South Wales, Sydney

Dr Anna Rowe 5 - 7 Dec 10th CSEAR (Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research) Conference, University of Tasmania

Assoc Profs Desmond Klass, Stephane Tywoniak, Jeremy Galbreath and Prof Alison Preston

7 - 9 Dec 2011 Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, Wellington, New Zealand

Assoc Prof Linley Lord and Dr Troy Hendrickson

12 - 13 Dec 10th International Studying Leadership Conference Ethical Dilemmas in Leadership, Bristol, UK


EXECUTIVE ‘NOT-FOR-AWARD’ EDUCATION PROGRAM DELIVERYCGSB staff member Dates Topic

Water Corporation Management EssentialsTroy Hendrickson 15 April 2011 Leading High Performing Teams

Anna Rowe 24 August 2011 Finance for Non-Finance Managers

Jeremy Galbreath 30 August 2011 Thinking & Planning Strategically

Verena Marshall 18 April 2011 People Management & Development

Australian Centre for Natural Gas China Program

John Karasinski 7, 8, 9 June and 29, 30 August, 5 September Introduction to Natural Gas

16 May - 1 November Tutoring for the Action Learning ProjectsDes Klass 20 June Leadership & Enhanced Decision Quality

Jeremy Galbreath 13, 15, 15, 19, 20 September Strategic Management

Troy Hendrickson 5 - 28 September Town of Victoria Park

Des Klass 16, 23 February; 2, 9, 16 March

Data analysis

Australian Institute of Management

Des Klass 21 - 23 June 22 - 24 November

Facilitation services for a business simulation on two AIM Alcoa Programs

Des Klass 9 - 11 August 31 Oct - 4 November

Facilitation services for a business simulation on two AIM Westrac Programs

YouthCAREVerena Marshall 11 September 2011 Development & Delivery of 1/2 day of a Board

Development program for YouthCARE

Public Sector Management ProgramVerena Marshall 5, 6 April Strategic Human Resource Management

Verena Marshall 2 August & 29 November Strategic Human Resource Management

Verena Marshall 3 August & 30 November Performance Management

Ron Pettapiece Emotional Intelligence

ARTICULATION AGREEMENTS Organisation Program/Course CGSB recognition

Australian Institute for Company Directors

Company Directors Course 25 credit points (i.e. one general unit) towards the MBA or MBL

Chartered Secretaries Australia Ltd Graduate Diploma of Applied Corporate Governance

100 credits (4 units) towards the MBA; or 50 credits (2 units) towards the MBL.

Certified Practicing Accountants Australia

Certified Practicing Accountants Australia

100 credits (4 units) towards the MBA; or 50 credits (2 units) towards the MBL.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia

Chartered Accountant program 100 credits (4 units) towards the MBA; or 50 credits (2 units) towards the MBL.

Department of the Premier & Cabinet – Public Sector Management Program

Graduate Certificate in Public Sector Management

50 credits (2 units) towards the MBA

Leadership WA Graduate of Leadership WA Program plus additional assessment component

25 credits (or one unit) towards MBA or MBL plus exemption from the professional portfolio requirement

The Cranlana Programme Graduate of Cranlana Programme plus additional assessment component

25 credits (or one unit) towards MBA or MBL plus exemption from the professional portfolio requirement.

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CGSB PUBLICATIONS

BooksBook (Authored – Research)Ladyshewsky RK 2011, Peer coaching. A strategy to promote problem solving skills, VDM Verlag Dr. Muller, Saarbrucken.

Book (Edited)Quaddus MA, Siddique MA 2011, Handbook of corporate sustainability, Edward Elgar, Chletenham, UK.

Book chapters Book Chapter ( Authored – Research)Boddy C, Galvin PG, Ladyshewsky RK 2011, ‘Corporate psychopaths’, in Mullens, E. and Poole, E.(eds), Ethical leadership: The global perspective: Vision, theory and practice for scholars and executives, Palgrave McMillan, London., pp. 17-33

Galbreath J 2011, ‘Strategy in a world of sustainabilty: a developmental framework’, in M.A.Quaddus; M.A.B. Siddique(eds), Handbook of corporate sustainability, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham UK, Northampton USA., pp. 37-56

Galbreath J 2011, ‘Sustainable development in business: A strategic view’, in Samuel O. Idowu, Celine Louche(eds), Theory and practice of corporate social responsibility, Springer, Heidelberg., pp. 89-106

Haslam McKenzie F 2011, ‘Fly-in fly-out: The challenges of transient populations in rural landscapes’, in Demographic change in Australia’s rural landscapes. Implications for society and the environment, Springer, The Netherlands., pp. 353-374

Haslam McKenzie F 2011, ‘The Swan river: Look but do not touch’, in Lin Crase, Sue O’Keefe(eds), Water policy, tourism, and recreation. Lessons from Australia, RFF Press, New York, London., pp. 115-131

Paul V, Haslam McKenzie F 2011, ‘Agricultural areas under metropolitan threats: Lessons for Perth from Barcelona’, in Gary W. Luck, Digby Race and Rosemary Black(eds), Demographic change in Australia’s rural landscapes. Implications for society and the environment, Springer, The Netherlands., pp. 125-152

Quaddus MA, Siddique MA 2011, ‘Corporate sustainability: future directions’, in M.A. Quaddus; M.A.B. Siddique(eds), Handbook of corporate sustainability, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, USA., pp. 333-338

Rowe AL 2011, ‘Corporate environmental sustainability management strategues: looking through the Chinese lens’, in M.A. Quaddus, M.A.B.

Siddique(eds), Handbook of corporate sustainability, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham UK, Northampton USA., pp. 11-36

Siddique MA, Quaddus MA 2011, ‘Sustainable development and corporate sustainability: basic issues’, in M.A. Quaddus, M.A.B Siddique(eds), Handbook of corporate sustainability, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK. Northampton, MA, USA., pp. 1-10

Book Chapter (Textbook)Rowe AL 2011, ‘Sustainability Accounting’, in Sustainability in Australian Business, John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd, .

Wardale D 2011, ‘Case Study 5. A new look for Convoy’, in Dianne Waddell, Thomas Cummings, Christopher Worley(eds), Organisational change. Development and tansformation, Cengage Learning Australia Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia., pp. 1-581

Refereed journal articlesBartlett J, Tywoniak S, Cebon P, Lok J, Prichard C, Wilcox T 2011, ‘Stability and change’, in Journal of Management and Organization, eContent Management Pty Ltd, Australia., Vol. 17, pp. 522-533

Chitnomrath T, Evans RT, Christopher T 2011, ‘Corporate governance and post-bankruptcy reorganisation performance: evidence from Thailand’, in Asian Review of Accounting, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, United Kingdom., Vol. 19, pp. 50-67

Cockfield S, Buttigieg DM, Jerrard M, Rainnie A 2011, ‘Assessing the impact of employment regulation on the low-paid in Victoria’, in The Economic and Labour Relations Review, CAER and IRRC, Australia., Vol. 22, pp. 131-152

Dedman GL, Nowak MJ, Klass DJ 2011, ‘The dimensions of efficiency and effectiveness of clinical directors: perceptions of clinical directors and senior management in Western Australian public teaching hospitals’, in The International Journal of Clinical Leadership, Radcliffe Publishing, UK., Vol. 17, pp. 61-71

Ellem B 2011, ‘Peak union campaigning: Fighting for rights at work in Australia’, in British Journal of Industrial Relations, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd., United Kingdom.

Galbreath J 2011, ‘To what extent is business responding to climate change? Evidence from a global wine producer’, in Journal of Business Ethics, Springer Netherlands, Netherlands.

Galbreath J 2011, ‘To what extent is business responding to climate change? Evidence from a global wine producer’, in Journal of Business Ethics, Springer Netherlands, Netherlands., Vol. 104, pp. 421-432

EXECUTIVE ‘FOR-AWARD’ EDUCATION PROGRAM DELIVERY Organisation Program/Course CGSB recognition

AusAID Mineral Finance and Project Evaluation 25 credit points (i.e. one general unit) towards the Graduate Certificate in Mineral and Energy Economics or MSc (Mineral and Energy Economics)

Department of Finance Graduate Certificate in Procurement or Graduate Diploma in Business (Strategic Procurement) or MBA (Strategic Procurement)

Equivalent to 100 credits/200 credits or 300 credits dependent on qualification

Main Roads WA Inspiring Leadership Program Graduate Certificate in Business

Water Corp Management Essentials Program Option for 2 x 25 credits on completion of a workplace-based project.


Galbreath J 2011, ‘Are there gender-related influences on corporate sustainability? A study of women on boards of directors’, in Journal of Management and Organization, eContent Management Pty Ltd, Australia., Vol. 17, pp. 17-38

Goods C 2011, ‘Labour unions, the environment and ‘green jobs’’, in Journal of Australian Political Economy, Journal of Australian Political Economy, University of Sydney., Vol. 67, pp. 47-67

Guthrie R, Goldacre L 2011, ‘NFPO’s and workers’ compensation’, in Legal Issues in Business, School of Business Law, Curtin Business School, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia., Vol. 13, pp. 3-14

Hossain M, Quaddus MA 2011, ‘The adoption and continued usage intention of RFID: an integrated framework’, in Information Technology and People, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley , UK., Vol. 24, pp. 236-256

Huang LS, Quaddus MA, Rowe AL, Cheng-Po L 2011, ‘An investigation into the factors affecting knowledge management adoption and practice in the life insurance business’, in Knowledge Management Research & Practice, Houndmills, United Kingdom., Vol. 9, pp. 58-72

Jefferson TM, Preston AC 2011, ‘Labour markets and wages in Australia 2010’, in Journal of Industrial Relations, Sage Publications Ltd., United Kingdom., Vol. 53, pp. 303-323

Jefferson TM, Taplin R 2011, ‘An investigation of the endowment effect using a factorial design’, in Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, Netherlands., Vol. 32, pp. 899-907

Ladyshewsky RK, Flavell H 2011, ‘Transfer of training in an academic leadership development program for course coordinators’, in Educational Management Administration and Leadership, Sage Publications, United Kingdom.

Marshall VM 2011, ‘Our country needs you: What can you do for Australia?’, in Migration Australia, Vol. 1, pp. 142-149

McKenzie, F. 2011, ‘Attracting and retaining skilled and professional staff in remote locations of Australia.’, in The Rangeland Journal, Vol 33, pp. 353-363

McKenzie, F., Sheridan, A., Still, L., 2011, ‘Making visible the ‘space of betweenness’: Understanding women’s limited access to leadership in regional Australia’, in Gender, Place and Culture, Vol 18(6), pp. 732-748.

McKenzie, F., Sheridan, A., Still, L., 2011, ‘Complex and contradictory: The doing of gender on regional development boards’, in Gender, Work and Organisation, Vol 18(3), pp. 282-297.

Naude M, Dickie CJ, Butler B 2011, ‘Global economic crisis: Organizational and employee responses’, in International Journal of Arts and Sciences, International Journal of Arts and Sciences, United States., Vol. 4, pp. 1-18

Rainnie A, Herod A, McGrath-Champ S 2011, ‘Review and positions: Global production networks and labour’, in Competition and Change, University of Hertfordshire Business School and W.S. Maney &Son Ltd, U.K.., Vol. 15, pp. 155-169

Rosenwax L, McNamara B, Murray K, McCabe RJ, Aoun S, Currow D 2011, ‘Hospital and emergency department use in the last year of life: a baseline for future modifications to end-of-life care’, in Medical Journal of Australia, Australasian Medical Publishing Company Pty. Ltd., Australia., Vol. 194, pp. 1-4

Sheridan A, Haslam McKenzie F, Still L 2011, ‘Making visible the ‘space of betweenness’: Understanding women’s limited access to leadership in regional Australia’, in Gender, Place and Culture, Routledge, United Kingdom., Vol. 18, pp. 732-748

Sheridan A, Haslam McKenzie F, Still L 2011, ‘Complex and contradictory: The doing of gender on regional development boards’, in Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley-Blackwell, United Kingdom., Vol. 18, pp. 282-297

Singhchawla W, Evans RT, Evans JP 2011, ‘Managerial alignment versus entrenchment effects on firm performance’, in Academy of Taiwan Business Management Review, Taiwan Institute of Business Administration, Taiwan., Vol. 7, pp. 24-35

Willoughby K 2011, ‘Intellectual property management and technological entrepreneurship’, in International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management, World Scientific, Singapore.

Scholarly/professional journal – non-refereedGalbreath J 2011, ‘Study explores climate change response’, in The Australian & New Zealand grapegrower & winemaker, Ryan Publications Pty. Ltd, Australia., Vol. February, pp. 54-56

Nealer E, Naude M 2011, ‘Integrated co-operative governance in the context of sustainable development’, in The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, North West University, South Africa., Vol. 7, pp. 105-117

Packey DJ 2011, ‘China’s continuing influence, labor markets and the two speed economy’, in Australia Resources and Investment, Executive Media, Melbourne, Australia., Vol. 5, pp. 9-10

Refereed Conference ProceedingsAb Ghani N, Galbreath J, Evans RT 2011, ‘Predicting whistle-blowing intention among supervisors in Malaysia’, in Conference proceedings of annual summit on business and entrepreneurial studies.

Ab Ghani N, Galbreath J, Evans RT 2011, ‘Work experience and whistle -blowing intention: The mediating role of ethical reasoning’, in Proceedings of the 2011 ANZAM conference, New Zealand.

Chitnomrath T, Evans RT, Christopher T 2011, ‘An analysis of restructuring methods applied by companies undergoing post bankruptcy reorganisation in Thailand’, in Proceedings of the RBAC international management conference 2011, Rattana Bundit University, Bangkok,Thailand.

Fava L, Millar D, Maybee B 2011, ‘Scenario evaluation through mine schedule optimisation’, in Proceedings of the 2nd international seminar on mine planning, Gecamin, Santiago, Chile.

Galbreath J 2011, ‘Are boards on board? A model of corporate board influence on sustainability’, in Proceedings of the 2011 ANZAM conference, New Zealand.

Galbreath J 2011, ‘Are boards on board? A model of diversity, corporate board influence, and sustainability performance.’, in Refereed proceedings of the board diversity and economic performance conference.

Galbreath J 2011, ‘Is climate change really a threat to business? Exploratory evidence from the wine industry’, in Proceedings of the 2011 ANZAM conference, New Zealand.

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Haslam McKenzie F 2011, ‘Tourism: a regional panacea or an economic drain?’, in Proceedings of the ANAGEM conference, ANAGEM, Rabat, Morocco.

Haslam McKenzie F, Paul Carril V, Hoath A 2011, ‘Managing land use conflicts for sustainable futures: Tourism, agriculture and mining’, in Proceedings of the SDIMI conference, RWTH Aachen Univeristy, Aachen, Germany.

Hendrickson T 2011, ‘Innovative methods of teaching leadership in postgraduate business students’.

Hoath A, Greer L, Haslam McKenzie F 2011, ‘Growing pains in Australia in transition: Evidence of the resources curse or an absence of integrated planning?’, in Proceedings of the SDIMI conference, RWTH Aachen University, Aacehn Germany.

Hossain M 2011, ‘The effects of corporate governance and voluntary disclosure on cost of equity’, in Proceedings of 2011 Sino-Australia International conference on accounting and finance, unknown, China.

Hossain E, Quaddus MA, Shanka T 2011, ‘Examining the role of cues in developing tourism destination loyalty behaviour model: perspective of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh’, in Proceedings of the 21st annual conference Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE), University of South Australia, South Australia.

Maybee B, Fava L 2011, ‘Risk-based evaluation for underground mine planning’, in Proceedings of the 2nd international seminar on mine planning, Gecamin, Santiago, Chile.

McKenzie, F. 2011, ‘Resource boom towns: Building better towns and cities in remote places’, in Proceedings of the State of Australian Cities Conference, Melbourne, Victoria

Naude M, Barzantny C 2011, ‘Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainable development (SD) in human resource management policies: Practical implementation for managers’, in Proceedings of the 26th workshop on strategic human resource management.

Quaddus MA, Shanka T, Hossain E 2011, ‘A parsimonious destination loyalty model of Coxâ€™s Bazar, Bangladesh’, in Proceedings of the 21st annual conference Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE), University of South Australia, South Australia.

Saidon IM, Galbreath J, Whiteley AM 2011, ‘Moral disengagement and workplace deviance: The moderating role of transformational leadership’, in Conference Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Accounting, Business and Economics.

Sitlington H, Marshall VM 2011, in The impact of organisational knowledge and knowledge sharing on the quality of downsizing and restructuring outcomes, , Kuala Lumpur.

Urumsah D, Quaddus MA, Galbreath J 2011, ‘An investigation into the factors influencing consumers to use e-services of Indonesian airlines: The role of motivation’, in Proceedings of the 19th EuropeanConference on Information Systems.

Wardale D 2011, ‘Towards a model of effective group facilitation’, in Proceedings of BAM 2011, BAM, London, UK.

Whiteley AM, Gilhespy H 2011, ‘Social capital has a voice: Theory, method and practice,”capturing the voice’’, in Proceedings of the RBAC international management conference 2011, Rattana Bundit University, Bangkok, Thailand.

Industry reports Lord LA, Eastham J 2011, Attraction and retention of women in the minerals industry. Stage one report for the Minerals Council of Australia, Curtin Graduate School of Business, Perth, Western Australia.

Vilkinas T, Ladyshewsky RK 2011, Final report. Academic leadership development within the univeristy sector by dissemination of a web-based 360 feedback process and related professional development workshops, Australian Learning and Teaching Council, Sydney, Australia.

Vilkinas T, Ladyshewsky RK, Saebel J 2011, Academic leadership: Building capacity ( facilitators guide), Australian Teaching and Learning Council, Strawberry Hills, NSW.

Wardale D, Tye M 2011, Recreation framework 2011+, Department of Sport and Recreation, Perth, WA.


DirectorProfessor Alison PrestonDirector, Curtin Graduate School of Business (CGSB)Alison is the Director of the Curtin Graduate School of Business (CGSB), a position she has

held since January 2009. Prior to that she was Deputy Director (2004-2008) and MBA Director (2004-2007). Alison was born in New Zealand, raised in Scotland and has lived in Australia since 1987. She completed her undergraduate degree in 1986 at Strathclyde University in Scotland, an MPhil at Murdoch (1989), her PhD at UWA in 1998 and her MBA at Curtin in 2007.Alison’s academic expertise is in economics and industrial relations. She was awarded a personal chair as Professor of Economics in 2005. She is a member of the Australian Institute for Company Directors, a member of the International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE), a member of the Economic Society of Australia (ESA) and a member of the Australian Labour and Employment Relations Association (formerly the Industrial Relations Society of Australia). She is on the editorial board for the Industrial Relations Journal and the Australian Bulletin of Labour and is a member of the State Advisory Committee for the WA Branch of CEDA (Committee for the Economic Development of Australia).Prior to entering academia Alison held senior roles in the Commonwealth Public Service in Canberra. Previous external appointments also include membership of the WA Women’s Advisory Council. Alison continues to be involved in consultancy research with industry. Recent appointments include the Mineral Council of Australia and the Victorian Government. In 2007 Alison was a visiting scholar with the International Institute for Labor Studies with the ILO in Geneva.

Program DirectorsDr Troy HendricksonProgram Director, Master of Business LeadershipDr Troy Hendrickson is Director of the Master of Business Leadership (MBL) Program. Troy joined the CGSB in 2004. He holds a PhD in marketing

and leadership from Curtin University and a Master of Leadership and Management (now known as MBL), also from Curtin. His undergraduate degrees are in business and communication from Saginaw Valley State University in the USA. Prior to entering academia Troy held several marketing related roles in the pharmaceutical sector in the US, including for Novartis. His passion is in leadership and diversity management and he is a core member of the AusAID Leadership Development Program team. He has consulted and provided executive education across several continents including the US, Africa and the Asia Pacific Region. Troy is a member of the John Curtin Leadership Academy which works with young people in leadership development. Within the MBL program he has key responsibility for the Leadership

Development 510 unit and the MBL capstone and also inputs into the curriculum for Leading in a Dynamic Global Environment (LeDGE). Troy is regularly invited as a guest speaker at leadership events. His recent engagement was as a key note speaker at the Australian Human Resource Institute annual conference.

Associate Professor Therese JeffersonProgram Director, Higher Degrees by ResearchTherese Jefferson is a Senior Research Fellow with the Graduate School of Business and the Women in Social & Economic Research (WiSER)

unit at Curtin University. She has been an active participant in WiSER projects since the unit’s formation in 1999. In 2005 she completed a PhD thesis examining women’s strategies for securing an income in retirement. In 1998 Therese completed a Master’s degree examining a range of implications that stem from households’ increasing outsourcing of goods and services. Therese’s undergraduate degree was in industrial relations and she worked for several years in the mining industry before returning to research work within a university context. Therese’s research has been published in a range of national and international journals and other forums, including the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Australian Bulletin of Labour, Feminist Economics, Journal of Economic Methodology, Economic Record, Journal of Australian Political Economy, Labour and Industry, Journal of Industrial Relations, Industrial Relations Journal and the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics.

Professor Daniel Packey Head, Department of Mineral and Energy EconomicsDan heads the Department of Mineral and Energy Economics (DMEE) at the CGSB and teaches postgraduate courses in applied microeconomics,

alternative and secondary energy markets, international resource competitiveness, natural resource economics, international energy markets, international resource trade, socioeconomic impacts in conjunction with the Western Australia School of Mines.He has taught at the Central Michigan University, University of Oregon, California State Universities of Fresno and Hayward, Colorado School of Mines (Honors Program) and the Gulf University for Science and Technology (GUST). In addition, Dan has private sector multinational management experience. As the Director of Market Research and Market Intelligence at the International Copper Association (ICA), he was responsible for the direction and management of evaluation for all of the ICA programs, as well as gathering marketing intelligence. Prof Packey has worked for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the U.S.A and was a consultant for the Oakridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Agency. He has taught and/or conducted educational seminars and executive training in Australia, Brazil, Belgium, Chile, China, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kuwait, South Korea, and United States of America.

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Prof Packey’s research includes the profitable use of mine waste, the proper placement of renewable energy technologies, rare earths markets and the optimization between mitigation and adaptation in climate change strategies. He is a Member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM), the International Association of Energy Economists and the Economic Society of Australia.

Professor Kelvin WilloughbyProgram Director, Master of Business AdministrationProfessor Kelvin Willoughby is Director of the Master of Business Administration at the Curtin Graduate School of Business. His research,

teaching and consulting concern entrepreneurship, the management of intellectual property, and the strategic management of technological innovation. He holds doctorates in both strategic management and technology studies, and a master of laws degree in intellectual property law. Professor Willoughby has extensive experience as an educator, researcher, consultant and program leader in the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia. He has worked on a variety of university-industry collaboration projects and executive education projects internationally; and he has also been an advisor to Government in the United States and elsewhere.Professor Willoughby came to Curtin University from the Technische Universität München (TUM), where he was part of the research faculty at the TUM School of Management. Prior to that he held the positions of: Max Planck Gesellschaft Fellowship for International Scientific Cooperation at the Max-Planck-Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, Wettbewerbs- und Steuerrecht, in Germany; Professor, Endowed Chair and Program Director in Management of Technology at the University of Minnesota, in Minneapolis, USA; and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo, in Japan. He has also worked in a variety of academic and administrative roles at: the University of Minnesota, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the University of Utah, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Westminster College, the University of Western Australia, the University of California at Berkeley, and Mahidol University; and as a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York. He is a participant in Future 500 China and was also the Founding President of the Appropriate Technology Development Group, Inc., a not-for-profit organization involved in local environmental entrepreneurship.

Academic Staff (in alphabetical order)Mr Garry ClaxtonSenior Lecturer, Legal StudiesGarry Claxton is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Western Australia and an OHS and workers’ compensation senior consultant. Garry has a law degree from Murdoch University

and an MBA from Curtin University. Garry is also a professional member of the ‘American Society of Safety Engineers’ and a RAB QSA international auditor of safety management systems. He is currently a senior lecturer at the CGSB teaching business law while completing a PhD.

Professor Robert Evans Program Leader, MBA (Strategic Procurement) & Professor of AccountingProfessor Robert Evans is a Certified Practicing Accountant and member of CPA Australia. Within the CGSB he provides curriculum

leadership around Financial Management 550 and Corporate Finance 660. Rob is also a regular participant in Executive Education award programs and short-courses.Rob joined the CGSB at its inception in 1993. In 2004 he was appointed Director of the CGSB. He held this position for five years (January 2004-December 2008). Prior to taking over as Director Rob was Director of the MBA Program (1997-2003). During his time as MBA Director and CGSB Director Rob lead the School’s successful application for AMBA accreditation and presided over significant improvements in the MBA programs international rankings. Rob has over twenty years professional and managerial experience in corporate and government enterprises, together with extensive consulting experience. His research and teaching interests include corporate governance, performance evaluation and executive remuneration.Rob is frequently invited to participate on accreditation panels (eg. AMBAs) and external panels appointed to conduct School reviews in Western Australia and in the Eastern States.

Ms Astrid FackelmannSenior Lecturer, MarketingAstrid Fackelmann is a highly experienced Brand and Marketing strategist with a passion for brands. Her many years of professional experience in Australia, Germany and the United

States have provided a wealth of expertise and knowledge in the strategic and implementation tools of brand, marketing and advertising. Her areas of consulting specialisation are brand development, marketing strategy, advertising strategy and design management for start-up and mature companies. At the CGSB Astrid facilitates the Marketing Management 555 unit. She values the opportunity to help professionals integrating their Brand and Marketing knowledge into the core of an organisation, increasing business success. With a MBL from Curtin, a BA in Communication Design (University of Applied Sciences Wurzburg) and an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Marketing (AFAMI CPM) she continues to be at the forefront of her profession.


Dr Scott FitzgeraldResearch FellowScott holds a PhD in Sociology (Curtin). Scott’s thesis combined a political economy approach to information and culture with organisational sociology to analyse the development

of international media corporations within an era of marketisation. His recently published book based on this research, Corporations and Cultural Industries: Time Warner, Bertelsmann and News Corp, has been reviewed as “one of the most important contributions to the political economy of media this century”.Before lecturing at Curtin, Scott taught in Organisation and Labour Studies at UWA. As well as the sociology of communications and culture, his research and teaching interests encompass organisational behaviour, international political economy and labour studies. His current research projects focus on restructuring in both public education institutions and the not-for-profit care sector, and the changing conditions of work and employment in Western Australia’s cultural industries. He is a member of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) and The Australian Sociological Association (TASA).

Assoc Prof Jeremy GalbreathSenior Lecturer, StrategyA former business strategist and practitioner, Dr Galbreath is now a Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the Curtin Graduate School of Business, Curtin University of Technology.

His teaching vision is to create a dynamic, interactive environment where students can explore the ‘bigger picture’ of the role and function of business in society. In addition to being a sought after lecturer for executive education courses, Jeremy has responsibility for Unit Coordination and lecturing for the MBA capstone unit, Business Strategy and International Business 660. Jeremy’s research focuses on the intersection of strategy, corporate governance and sustainability. He is the author of over 100 publications, including journal articles, book chapters, and monographs.

Assoc Prof Byron HansonLeadership DevelopmentByron Hanson joined the CGSB in 2010. His areas of passion and expertise are leadership and organisational change and development. Byron began his career working in an HR

leadership role for Canada’s largest brewer, Labatt Breweries, providing facilitation, labor relations and employee development and strategy. He has also held various academic and consultant roles engaged in education and organizational development from an international perspective, including a managing director role in the United States for Duke University’s Corporate Education (the number 1 customized corporate education organization in the world). Byron continues to be a member of the Global Learning Resource Network for Duke University. Byron has

had the privilege of delivering corporate education in over 20 countries in Europe, North America, and Austral-Asia and his current and past clients include; Microsoft, Shell, HP, IBM, Altera, ANZ Bank, Rio Tinto, Transocean Asia Pacific, Woodside Petroleum, BHP, SCG Thailand, PGN Indonesia, New Zealand Telecom and the Government of Western Australia.Byron’s current research interests are the macro perspective of employee development. He has been published in the Wall Street Journal, HR People and Strategy Magazine and the Journal of Business and Management. Byron received his PhD from Curtin, holds a Master degree in Leadership and Training from Royal Roads University, and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Simon Fraser University.Within the CGSB he provides curriculum leadership around Leadership and Human Resource Strategies. He teaches on several units including Organisational Behaviour 550 and Human Resource Strategies 660 on the MBA. On the Master of Business Leadership program he teaches Leadership in a Dynamic and Global Environment (LeDGE) 520 and has also taught Philosophy and Ethics 620.

Dr Aileen HoathSenior Research FellowAileen joined the CGSB in May 2010 as a Post Doctoral Research Fellow with the CSIRO ‘Regions in Transition’ Project. She is conducting one of three comparative case studies examining the

challenges and opportunities of new mining operations in agrarian regions of Australia. Aileen is an anthropologist. Through her doctoral research in Indonesia on local/ global relations in the conservation and utilisation of natural forest resources, and her further work on development induced displacement, she has developed a keen interest in corporate social responsibility and resource governance issues. Aileen has taught in Development Studies and Asian Studies at Curtin and Murdoch Universities. Before entering academia she gained considerable experience in community relations and community development issues associated with natural resource management in rural WA. She is aco-director of the Research Unit for Studies of Societies in Change, RUSSIC, located at SSAL Curtin, which has developed close links with Curtin Sarawak where it will hold its third international conference in Feb 2013.

Mr Bob JohnsonSenior Lecturer, Corporate FinanceBob Johnson is a Senior Lecturer and Teaching Scholar within the CGSB. He is a Certified Practicing Accountant and holds an MBA from Curtin University. He joined the School in 2009

after many years in the corporate sector. His area of expertise is Corporate Finance 660 and, along with Professor Robert Evans, he has developed the curriculum for the corporate finance unit in the MBA program. Bob teaches Corporate Finance 660 and Financial Management 550 on the MBA. Bob’s aim is to provide students with an enjoyable experience in two subjects that have undeserved reputations for being difficult. Face to face classes are interactive seminars where teaching is regularly reinforced with discussions

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and student exercises. In online classes, a high level of interaction is encouraged. Technological advances are utilised where relevant. Discussion topics are contemporary and assessments are designed to provide relevant industry experiences. Additional weekly tutorials are run for students in need of extra maths support. Bob was nominated collectively by eight online students in 2010 for a $20,000 Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence and Innovation. Bob’s research interests include corporate governance and external reporting.

John Karasinski MBA (Oil and Gas) Program Leader Senior Lecturer, Economics and FinanceMr John Karasinski is the MBA (Oil and Gas) major Program Leader. He holds a Senior Lecturer appointment in the CGSB. He joined the CGSB in

2009 after a long and varied career in the corporate sector where headed up various non-bank financial institutions. John holds a Master of Science degree in economics from Florida State University (1982). Within the CGSB he has prime responsibility for curriculum development and teaching on the Oil and Gas Markets 660 unit. He also co-teaches Natural Resource Economics with Professor Daniel Packey (Head of Department of Mineral and Energy Economics). John’s teaching on the MBA program also includes Economics for Managers 551 and Corporate Finance 660. He is an outstanding learning facilitator and regularly achieves 100% satisfaction scores across all items in eVALUate. He has been nominated for several teaching excellence awards and is particularly valued for his contribution to online learning.

Associate Professor Des Klass Program Leader, GCB & GDB Associate Professor Des Klass joined the CGSB in 1993. He is a principal in the Centre for Innovation in Decision Quality. His main areas of research include Complexity Leadership,

Cognitive Leadership and Decision Analysis. Des has developed the “Exemplary Leadership Framework” and the “Decision Team Profiling” instrument used to identify base level decision intelligences inherent in decision groups. The framework and instrument forms part of the Business Decisions 550 unit he conducts on the MBA at the CGSB. As a member of the CGSB academic faculty specialising in leadership and decision making Des has played a pivotal role in helping the CGSB position itself as a School leading on advanced leadership education. He is regular participant in the delivery of consultancy and executive education to industry. Originally from Singapore, Des has consulted widely in South East Asia and in Australia. In South East Asia his clients were in the banking and the communications industry. Within Australia Des has worked with major utilities and with Local Government. More recently he was appointed special advisor to the Browse LNG development project (Woodside). If the Browse LNG development proceeds it is estimated that it will contribute $50bn to Australia’s GDP.

Professor Rick Ladyshewsky Program Leader, MBA Online Managerial EffectivenessProfessor Rick Ladyshewsky provides critical input and leadership into the direction and strategy for online teaching and learning within the CGSB.

Rick’s aim is to create an exciting and interactive experiential learning environment for students so they question what they know and to engage their full senses in discovering what they don’t know. In addition to innovative ways of delivering education and assessment, his broader vision is to apply this teaching and learning philosophy to the ways in which business environments manage their human resource. Rick’s work has been acknowledge with many teaching excellence awards and has recently been awarded an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Teaching Excellence award; he teaches managerial effectiveness online.Ricks research interests include. peer coaching & professional development, managerial effectiveness & leadership development, transfer of training and electronic learning.

Assoc Prof Linley Lord Director of T&L and Program Leader, MBA Part-TimeLinley Lord is Director of Teaching and Learning, Director of the Maureen Bickley Centre for Women in Leadership (MBC) and a senior lecturer in the

Graduate School of Business at Curtin University. She is also Program Manager for the part time MBA students. The MBC was established in March 2008 within the Curtin Graduate School of Business to promote and enable the increased representation of women in leadership roles. Linley is a member of the Chamber of Minerals and Energy (WA) Women in Resources Reference Group. She is a member of the Committee for Perth Steering Committee for Women in Leadership and a member of AMMA’s Australian Women in Resources Alliance Project. In addition she has been a sessional member of the State Administrative Tribunal since its inception in 2005. Linley’s current research interests include women’s experience in leadership roles, new models of leadership, women on boards (corporate and university boards) and women in non-traditional areas of employment. Linley has presented her research at key international conferences in Europe, the UK and the US.Prior to her academic career, Linley gained considerable experience as a change agent through appointments which included Project Officer for Equal Employment Opportunity focusing on Local Government (WA). She was the first Equal Opportunity Coordinator for the West Australian Fire Brigades Board (now FESA) and was the national Equal Opportunity Manager for the Reserve Bank of Australia.


Assoc Professor Verena MarshallLegal Issues and Human ResourcesVerena Marshall has a background in Human Resources management and law. Prior to entering academia she worked for over 25 years in HR management, including heading up HR for a large

public hospital.Verena holds a PhD in Human Resources from UWA and a Juris Doctor of Law degree from Notre Dame University. The latter is a recent achievement. She was also recently admitted as a Solicitor to the Supreme Court of NSW.Within the CGSB Verena has oversight of the curriculum development and teaching in Human Resource Strategies, Legal Issues in Human Resources and Legal Environment. Between 2004 and 2007 Verena was Director of the CGSB Higher Degree by Research Program and between 2008 and 2009 was Acting Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies within CBS.Verena has a wide, but connected, range of research interests. Her research focus and doctoral supervision encompasses Employment and Industrial Law, Occupational Health and Safety, Risk and Performance Management, and Skilled Migration programs. Verena teaches Human Resource Strategies in the MBA and MBL programs, combining the above areas of research and practice, against the theoretical framework of the employment cycle. The cycle is examined from multiple perspectives: the political, social and economic environment, Board and senior management’s cultural impact, business planning at all levels of the organisation, and resultant strategies for the management of performance and inherent risk.

Assoc Prof Bryan MaybeeSenior Lecturer, Mining Finance, DMEEDr. Bryan Maybee holds a dual appointment as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mineral and Energy Economics and Research Associate Professor with the Centre for Exploration

Targeting (CET). Prior to these appointments, Bryan held positions as Financial Officer, Research Associate (Mine Planning) and Project Leader with MIRARCO, a Canadian not-for-profit mining research organisation housed at Laurentian University in Sudbury Ontario. These roles provided experience in the creation of financial accounting information for reporting purposes (public and private sectors) as well as hands-on experience in extracting information from these reports for evaluation and decision-making purposes. As a consultant to the World Bank, this expertise has been utilised as part of a mission to investigate mining tax administration frameworks in West Africa. As Project Leader responsible for projects in Schedule Optimisation and Risk Mitigation for the mining industry, Bryan was a key member of the development team for a commercially available Schedule Optimisation Tool (EPSOT). This tool is designed to meet the challenges of underground mine scheduling, using powerful genetic algorithms to find better solutions in a fraction of the time needed through manual scheduling practices. Dr. Maybee holds a PhD in Natural Resources Engineering from Laurentian University (Canada) and an MBA from Dalhousie University (Canada), specialising in Finance and Accounting.

Prof Fiona Haslam McKenzieProfessorial Research FellowProfessor Fiona Haslam Mckenzie was educated in Western Australia and the United States and has a varied academic background including a PhD in political geography, researching the effects of

demographic and economic change on rural communities in Western Australia. She has extensive experience in population and socio-economic change, regional economic development and analysis of regional and urban social indicators and has published widely and undertaken work for the corporate and small business sectors as well as all three tiers of government, both nationally and in Western Australia. This has included a research project for the Federal Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, reviewing how women in rural, regional and remote regions are statistically represented and how they could be better portrayed through the more accurate capturing of qualitative data to convey their value, and contribution to the vibrancy of Australian life. She has undertaken work investigating the provision of housing in the Pilbara and Western Australian Goldfields, housing affordability in sea change and tree and land use conflicts in agricultural communities. She was one of the authors of the Shaping the future of local government in Western Australia for Western Australian Local Government Association and the author of The Retention and Attraction of Skilled and Professional Staff in Remote Locations of Australia for Desert Knowledge Co-operative Research Centre. Professor Haslam McKenzie is currently a professorial fellow at the Curtin Graduate School of Business and leads the Regional Futures project for the CSIRO Mineral Futures Collaboration Cluster. She has also been appointed Chief Investigator, leading the Regional Economies division of the newly established Remote Economic Participation Co-operative Research Centre. Prior to this, she was the Director of the Housing and Urban Research Institute of Western Australia, and the Acting Executive Director of the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy at Curtin University.

Assoc Prof Marita NaudéOrganisational Change and DevelopmentMarita’s career started as a comprehensive clinical and mental health nurse and midwife and she later became a clinical tutor in the Midwifery section of an academic training

hospital. She independently delivered 203 babies during that period and says it was great to experience the miracle of the birth of a baby as part of her job. She then waved goodbye to the clinical area and moved to teaching at a Nursing College. Between 1991 and 2000, Marita worked as an academic teaching on Leadership and Management issues, Organisational Change and Development to a range (including medical, nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy) students at MEDUNSA (Medical University of Southern Africa) in South Africa.Within the CGSB Marita had significant involvement with the design, tendering, development and delivery of the school’s executive training programs. Since starting here in 2001 she have been closely involved in the development and delivery of

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programs in Australia (AusAid Leadership Program, Department of Premier and Cabinet; WA Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Department of Culture and Arts; Scotch College; Fire and Emergency Services Association, WA Health Department) and outside Australia (Department of Family and Women’s Affairs in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). Marita has been involved in the Australia China Gas Management Development Program and the Asia Development Bank Program at GSB. Prior to 2001, she (in South Africa) developed and presented programs and acted as an industry consultant for Government as well as private organisations.

Prof Margaret NowakProfessor of EconomicsDirector, Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility Research UnitMargaret is a labour market economist whose research has included topics such as segmented

labour markets, labour markets for female professionals and information in labour markets. She is director of the research program of the Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility Research Unit. With a research team from CGSB and WiSER Margaret is also researching aspects of the nursing labour market and career decisions of women with special reference to nursing. Margaret has held a number of Board and Chair positions for organisations such as the WA Health Department and Princess Margaret Hospital for Children. She has also published widely, including in the Journal of Industrial Relations, Australian Bulletin of labour, Economic Analysis as well as Policy, and Equal Opportunity International and Corporate Governance: An International Review.

Mr Ron PettapieceSenior LecturerMr Ron Pettapiece is a Teaching-Scholar and responsible for curriculum development and delivery of the Organisational Change and Development unit on the MBA program. Ron is

presently on a full-time contract although has, for several years, been on a fractional appointment. The balance of his time has been spent in private consulting and working with the private, public and not-for-profit sector. Ron’s consulting and educational background is in organisational change and development, organisational behaviour, managerial effectiveness and leadership. He is a graduate from the Leadership WA. He has considerable industry experience in the health sector, including extensive senior management experience as a hospital and health services administrator. Within the CGSB he has taught across several units including OB, Managerial Effectiveness and Organsational Change and Development. He is also involved in the delivery of Curtin Executive Education programs. He is widely regarded as an outstanding and inspirational teacher and regularly receives outstanding feedback from his students.

Prof Mohammed QuaddusProfessor of Information and Decision SystemsDr Mohammed Quaddus received Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, M.S. from University of Pittsburgh and Asian Institute of Technology. His research interests are in Information & Decision

Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Risk and resiliency in supply chain, RFID in supply chain, and related areas. Dr Quaddus has published over 200 papers in refereed journals, international conferences and chapters in Books. His publications have appeared in European Journal of Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, Supply Chain Management – An International Journal, Rural Sociology, among many others. He has successfully supervised over 30 doctoral students. In 1996 and 2005 he received “researcher of the year ” award in Curtin Business School, Curtin University of Technology, Australia. Currently he is a Professor of Information & Decision Systems with the Graduate School of Business. From Jan 2009 – Dec 2011 he was deputy dean and acting dean of research, Curtin Business School, Curtin University of Technology, Australia.

Prof Al RainnieDirector, Research and DevelopmentAl is Director of Research at the Graduate School of Business at Curtin University. Before joining Curtin Al was Director of Research at the Centre for Labour Market Studies at Leicester University

in the UK, and before that Director of the Monash University Institute for Regional Studies. Al has researched and written extensively in the political economy of work and employment and regional development. He has studied, inter alia, small firms and industrial relations, highly qualified workers, the film industry, creative workers and regional development, trade unions and community unionism. His latest field of research and publication is concerned with spatiality work and employment. Al has held competitive grants form a number of bodies including the ARC, the Victorian Government, Australian Institute for Employment Rights, ESRC (UK), British Council (UK) and Nuffield Foundation (UK).

Dr Anna RoweSenior Lecturer, AccountingAnna is a Certified Practising Accountant by profession with more than 20 years of experience in various industries and includes roles as Senior Lecturer, Management Consultant, Financial

Controller and Director. She earned her PhD from MGSM, Macquarie University in 2007. She developed and conducted the China Study Tour project that exposes MBA students to business field studies in Shanghai and Beijing. As one of the founding members of the CGSB Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility Research Unit, Anna spearheads the embedding of Sustainability for Education in the MBA program. In collaboration with the Australian Research Institute in Education for Sustainability (ARIES) at Macquarie University funded by the Commonwealth DEWHA, she was able to introduce innovative experiential learning for students to conduct action research with corporations.


Anna is Curtin University’s Project Leader for the ‘EU-AU Joint Mobility’ consortium funded by the EU and the Australian DEEWR - approx AUD 600,000 grant. In partnership with five other universities, students will have the opportunity to enhance their international and cultural experiential learning in three EU universities. Project Title - Sustainable Management for Organisations, Business and Government.

Dr Jose Saavedra-RosasSenior Lecturer/Senior Research FellowDept of Mineral and Energy EconomicsJose is a Mathematical Engineer from University of Chile, Santiago, Chile. He holds a MSc in Operations Management from Industrial

Engineering Department, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile and a PhD degree in Natural Resources Engineering from Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Saavedra-Rosas has deeply rooted interests in the modelling and application of novel optimisation methods to mining problems with particular focus on geological uncertainty and solution robustness. Dr Saavedra-Rosas is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Mineral and Energy Economics (DMEE) at Curtin University of Technology and an associate researcher of the Centre for Exploration Targeting (CET), a joint research venture between Curtin University and University of Western Australia.

Prof Allan TrenchDept of Mineral and Energy EconomicsAllan is Professor (Risk & Value) at the Centre for Exploration Targeting, University of Western Australia and Curtin University Graduate School of Business, a Non-Executive Director of several

resources sector companies - and the Perth representative for CRU Strategies, a division of independent metals & mining advisory CRU group.Allan has over 20 years experience within the mining/metals and oil/gas sectors including senior management positions with WMC and Woodside Energy. Allan has held academic positions at Oxford University (Geophysics) and Curtin University of Technology (Mineral Economics) and worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company engaged in both strategy and operations-focused engagements. His current focus is the analysis of corporate and asset-level mineral exploration strategies, value accretion through effective exploration and the analysis of mineral markets. Allan is the author of seven books and 50 journal and technical publications in geology/geophysics and mineral finance/management.

Associate Professor Stephane TywoniakStrategyStephane coordinates the teaching of strategic management within CGSB, he teaches the MBA capstone ‘Strategy and International Business Competitiveness’ and contributes

to ‘Strategic Leadership’ in the MBL as well as executive education. His approach is to facilitate rich and practical student-centred learning experiences, with a strong focus on transfer of knowledge back to the workplace. Stephane’s work in executive education was awarded the 2010 ‘Global Forum Best Symposium’ award for Management Education and Development at the 2010 Academy of Management Conference.Stephane’s research interests focus on strategic management and the interfaces between business and society.

Assoc Prof Dorothy WardaleDirector, Executive EducationDorothy Wardale is the Director of Executive Development at the Curtin Graduate School of Business. She has 20 years experience as a consultant and recently joined the University

as an academic. Her Australian client base has focused on the Mining, Resources, Health and Government sectors. Dorothy specialises in leading and facilitating teams and prior to joining Curtin University she worked as a Leadership and People Development Manager in the Transport sector. Dorothy’s background in the public sector, consulting and academic fields allows her to provide theoretically sound and pragmatically based solutions to working with people.

Prof Alma WhiteleyProfessor of International Human Resources Alma inaugurated the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) program and is interested in such questions as “what should business be?” Alma teaches philosophy and business

management, organisational research and cross cultural management. Alma is interested in the twin subjects of change and extraordinary performance. She has published two books on change and two books on management, one based on human resource strategies in China. She contributes scholarly papers on change and organisational theory as well as consulting in this area.

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