The Department of Management Science is undertaking an EPSRC-funded ‘Pathways to Impact’ project in collaboration with ScottishPower Generation and Scottish Water to develop models for performance based maintenance. Two researchers, Dr Euan Barlow and Cenek Jirsak, have joined Dr Matthew Revie, and Professors Lesley Walls, Tim Bedford and John Quigley to undertake this work.
Dr John Ferguson (Accounting & Finance) has been invited to the University of Bergamo in Italy next week, where he will give a paper entitled, 'Opportunity Knocks: Exploring the Ideological Characteristics of Corporate Disclosures on Climate Change'. He was also invited recently to present his paper, 'From Accountability to Justice: A Re-examination of the Radical Reforms of George Goyder' at the Accounting for Society and the Environment Research Workshop at Heriot-Watt University.
He has also recently been invited on the boards of the following journals: Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, and Accounting and Business Research, and had his paper, 'Financialization and Company Law: A Study of the UK Company Law Review' accepted for the journal Critical Perspectives on Accounting.'
Professor Tom Baum from HRM was invited by the India Centre for Migration to participate as a Panellist in the National Consultation Workshop on "Women and international Migration: Opportunities and Challenges", held in New Delhi. The workshop is part of a 'think-tank' process, designed to address wide ranging issues relating to migration between India and the EU. The India Centre for Migration, an NGO that operates under the auspices of the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, is implementing an EU-funded project designed to help formulate bilateral policy on migration.
Professor Baum's contribution addressed 'Opportunities and challenges for women migrants in the low-skills workplace' and built on his two recent reports for the ILO on migration and gender issues in the international tourism sector.
Professor Dennis Nickson, Head of the Department of Human Resource Management has recently completed a second edition of his textbook, Human Resource Management for the Hospitality and Tourism Industries. The second edition is published by Routledge and details can be found here.
Nabeel Qadeer, an MBM graduate (2011/2012), recently returned to Strathclyde to give a talk organised by the Strathclyde Entrepreneur Society (November 19). Nabeel has recently been appointed Program Manager for Punjab Information Technology Board (part of the Pakistani Government).
Nabeel has been involved in several start-ups and influenced a large number of people along the way. Grant Finlay, the Society President, opened with a talk, laying a framework for why failure is useful through the need to learn, grow and experiment. Nabeel then built upon this with examples relating to the ups and downs of his business career. He then went on to discuss the importance of building a strong network around you of people you can trust in times of failure and the dynamic society of constructive failure that was born in Silicon Valley and that he hopes to instill in Pakistan with his latest project Plan9. More details of his project can be found here http://plan9.pitb.gov.pk/
Elaine Collinson, Director of Undergraduate International Programmes, attended the EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development) seminar on Internationalisation Strategy on December 12 in Brussels. This was designed to share best practice across business schools in their approaches to internationalisation and discuss key issues associated with quality control and accreditation.
Bradley MacMaster, researcher at Hunter Centre, was selected as one of 15 participants in the Doctoral Consortium of the 2013 Annual Conference for USASBE (United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship) running in San Francisco, USA, in January 2013. There, he will have an opportunity to network with and receive guidance from elite entrepreneurship researchers in the USA.
His research proposes to expand the investigation of the impact on enterprise performance of team cohesion/conflict within new venture top management teams (TMTnv) and the consequences of conflict within TMTnv on venture capitalist decision-making and their commitment to prospective investments, with some innovations in research design.
A group of 16 Management Development Programme third year students ran a very successful campus day event on leadership with 35 pupils from four Glasgow secondary schools (December 12). The MDP students did not just work on the day; they designed and managed every aspect of it, including the activities and materials used and the evaluation of the programme’s impact. In addition, these MDP 3 students will be assessed on their further work on this project in place of normal second semester assignments.
Representatives from Glasgow City Council who attended the event gave very positive feedback on the event.
The third year events management class from the Department of Management recently organised a series of events including ceilidhs and cinema nights, to raise money for various charities, as a result raising almost £6,000.
Cheques totalling £5,904.27 will be sent to the respective charities, namely: Cystic Fibrosis Trust, CHAS Children Hospice, Yorkhill Foundation, Children 1st , Maurissa's wish, Caledonian Youth, With Kids, Make a Wish and Cancer Research.
The class lecturers, Dr Pratima Sambajee and Dr Konstantinos Tomazos, co-ordinated the event.
SBS Dean, Professor Susan Hart, said, "Congratulations to all students and tutors on the course, a resoundingly good result."
Professor Phil Taylor, Department of Human Resource Management, was an invited speaker at the 25th Anniversary Conference of the journal Work, Employment and Society, which was held at the British Library in London on October 22. 'Work, Employment and Society' is a leading journal, rated 4* in the ABS rankings, and which has been key to initiating debates in the sociology of work and employment relations. Professor Taylor opened the conference with a presentation entitled, 'The New Normal? - Work and Performance Management in an Age of Recession'.
His contribution focused on the impact on employees of a significant and widespread intensification of work that has developed in the context of financial crisis and economic recession, which has been accompanied by tightened performance management. Between 2008 and 2011 Professor Taylor was Editor of Work, Employment and Society (with Chris Warhurst) as part of a team (with Paul Thompson and Dora Scholarios) based in the Department of Human Resource Management.
Professor Phil Taylor of the Department of Human Resource Management gave a keynote presentation at a seminar organised by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the University of Central Lancashire and the Department of Law at the University of Strathclyde.
As part of an ESRC series on the theme of 'Reframing Resolution - Managing Individual Workplace Conflict', the specific focus of the Strathclyde-located seminar was 'Understanding Individual Employment Disputes'. Speakers included Gill Dix, Head of Strategy at the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Services (ACAS) and Charles Irvine, Visiting Professor, University of Strathclyde. Professor Taylor's presentation was on the subject of 'Performance Management, Lean and Sickness Absence Management: the New Workplace Tyranny'.