The first ever summer ball for Department of Management postgraduate students was held in the Thistle Hotel, Glasgow, on September 1 on what was the final project submission day. It was well attended by both Department of Management postgraduate students and staff.
Professor Fran Ackermann delivered an invited one and a half day instructional course on mapping and the use of Group Explore to the MITRE organisation in the US recently.
The Mitre Corporation is a not-for-profit organisation based in Bedford, Massachusetts and McLean, Virginia. It manages Federally Funded Research and Development Centres (FFRDCs) supporting the Department of Defense, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Department of Veteran affairs, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Administrative Office of the UK Courts on behalf of the Federal Judiciary.
Professor Tom Baum and Professor Emeritus Richard Butler were invited participants at the biennial meeting of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism, held in Taiwan June 5-11 this year.
Professor Baum was a member of the Academy Education Task Force which reported at the meeting and he presented a paper entitled, "Placing People to the forefront of National Tourism Strategies: The Role of HR in Tourism Planning and Development."
Professor Butler was appointed to the Academy Financial Issues ad hoc committee; presented a paper entitled 'Tourism and War - A Complex Relationship'; and was a discussant at a seminar on Tourism and Humour. The Academy is a body of elected senior international scholars in tourism representing a range of disciplines, which was founded in 1988 and has its executive offices in Hong Kong (www.tourismscholars.org).
Professor Phil Taylor of the Department of Human Resource Management delivered a public lecture on September 8 on the subject of 'Performance Management, Lean and Sickness Absence Management – The Effects on Workers' to an audience that trade unionists from a number of unions and local councillors.
Professor Taylor was invited to speak by the Welsh Valleys Branch of the Communication Workers Union, following his address to the union's annual conference on the subject in May 2011. His presentation stimulated a vigorous discussion from the audience of 70 and facilitated contributions from two barristers specialising in labour law who were also in attendance.
The third edition of Professor Alan Wilson's best-selling market research text : Marketing Research: An Integrated Approach was published by FT Prentice Hall this month (September).
Danielle McShane, who graduated from the Department of Marketing in July, was presented with the IPA (Institute of Practitioners in Advertising) sponsored prize at a lunch in August for her excellent performance in the Marketing Communications and Advances in Marketing Communications classes.
The Department of Marketing has had a long and close link to Young Enterprise Scotland which exists to develop entrepreneurial skills in students in schools across Scotland. Professor Stan Paliwoda is currently Young Enterprise Dunbartonshire Area Board Member. Over the course of one academic year (particularly September to April), students are asked to form a company and then to bring their product or service to market. They have the help of a teacher who may not be a specialist in business studies so volunteer business advisors are being sought. Ideally, each student company should have at least two business advisors but there are currently shortages of business advisors all over Scotland.
The requirements are typically for one hour per fortnight or weekly if time permits with the Young Enterprise company (during or after school). Geographical preferences can be accommodated in matching business advisors with schools but as you will be working with children in their last year of school, it is necessary for a Disclosure check to be made on all Business Advisors. More information can be found on the website or contact Jack Rudram, 07901 515208.
Mik Wisniewski, Management Science, is currently involved in a number of textbook publishing projects. Just off to the publisher is the manuscript for a new text "Mathematical Economics: An Integrated Approach" which is scheduled to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2012.
Commissioned for publication in 2013 is a 6th edition of "Quantitative Methods for Decision Makers," an MBA-level text used in SBS on the MBA and across most of the leading UK MBA programmes. Also commissioned for publication in 2013 by Cengage is the second edition of "An Introduction to Management Science: Quantitative Approaches to Decision Making" by Anderson, Sweeney, Williams and Wisniewski. This is a European version of the best-selling US text.
A team of five staff and students from the Department of Management met to courageously complete the Great Scottish Run Half Marathon on September 4. The team - named TADAH - finished in good time and managed to raise an impressive £1406.32 for Macmillan Cancer Support.
The team members were: Damien Bartlett, Tom Bourkel, Ashley Duncan, Dr David MacKay and Darren McGuire.