The International Studying Leadership Conference 2012 — Perth, Western Australia

“Leadership at the Crossroads?”

10th and 11th December 2012, Curtin Graduate School of Business

Program

Speakers

Professor David V. Day

David V. Day is Winthrop Professor and Woodside Chair in Leadership and Management at the University of Western Australia Business School. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), member of the Academy of Management, Asia Academy of Management, Australia-New Zealand Academy of Management, Society of Organizational Behavior, Southern Management Association, and International Association of Applied Psychology.

Dr. Day has published approximately 70 journal articles and book chapters, many pertaining to the core topics of leadership and leadership development. His research has been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management, Leadership Quarterly, among other journals. Dr. Day serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Psychology, The Leadership Quarterly and Human Resource Management Review, and as an Editorial Board member for Human Performance, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Management. Dr. Day is co-editor of the book, Leader Development for Transforming Organizations: Growing Leaders for Tomorrow (Erlbaum, 2004) and author of An Integrative Approach to Leader Development: Connecting Adult Development, Identity and Expertise (Routledge, 2009). He is presently editing The Oxford Handbook of Leadership.

Professor Keith Grint

Keith Grint is Professor of Public Leadership at Warwick University. He has held Chairs at Cranfield University and Lancaster University and was Director of the Lancaster Leadership Centre. He spent twelve years at Oxford University and was Director of Research at the Saïd Business School and Fellow in Organizational Behaviour, Templeton College. He remains an Associate Fellow of the Saïd Business School and of Green Templeton College, Oxford. He is Academician of the British Academy of Social Sciences. He is also a Visiting Research Professor at Lancaster University, a Fellow of the Windsor Leadership Trust, a Fellow of Roffey Park, a Visiting Scholar at Sydney University, a Fellow of the Leadership Trust, a Visiting Professor at University College Suffolk, and a Visiting Professor at the Leiden University Leadership Centre, The Hague, Netherlands

Keith spent 10 years in industry before switching to an academic career and has been variously employed as an agricultural labourer, a factory worker, an industrial cleaner, a removals worker, a freezer operative, a swimming pool attendant, a postman, a clerical worker, and a part-time karate teacher.

He is a founding co-editor of the journal Leadership published by Sage http://lea.sagepub.com/, and founding co-organizer of the International Conference in Researching Leadership. His books include The Sociology of Work 3rd edition (2005); Management: A Sociological Introduction (1995); Leadership (ed.) (1997); Fuzzy Management (1997); The Machine at Work: Technology, Work and Society, (with Steve Woolgar) (1997); The Arts of Leadership (2000); Organizational Leadership (with John Bratton and Debra Nelson); Leadership: Limits and Possibilities (2005); Leadership, Management & Command: Rethinking D-Day (2008); Sage Handbook of Leadership (edited with Alan Bryman, David Collinson, Brad Jackson and Mary Uhl-Bien) (2010); The Public

Leadership Challenge (edited with Stephen Brookes) (2010); and Leadership: A Very Short Introduction (2010). Sage Major Works of Leadership (four volumes) (ed. with David Collinson & Brad Jackson) (2011).

Professor Rajnandini “Raj” Pillai

Ph.D. Rajnandini “Raj” Pillai (Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1994) is a Professor of Management at the College of Business, California State University San Marcos (CSUSM). She is also Executive Director and founding member of the Center for Leadership Innovation and Mentorship Building (CLIMB) at the university. Her areas of research interest are leadership and cross-cultural management. She has published her work on charismatic and transformational leadership, leadership and voting behavior, and cross-cultural differences in organizational justice in The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Management, and the Journal of International Business Studies. She has also presented her work at regional, national and international conferences and serves on the Academy of Management Teaching Themes Committee. She has also co-edited two books, Teaching Leadership: Innovative Approaches for the 21st Century (2003) and Follower Perspectives on Leadership (2007) and is co-author of the 4th and 5th editions of Understanding Global Cultures with Martin J. Gannon. She serves on the editorial board of The Leadership Quarterly. Rajnandini Pillai has held mid level management positions in the banking industry in India, consulted with organizations in the U.S. on leadership effectiveness, and conducted workshops on leadership and global issues for the local business community. She has received awards for excellence in teaching and research including the College of Business Outstanding Professor Award, the Western Academy of Management Ascendant Scholar Award, the CSUSM President’s Award for Scholarship and Creative Activity, and CSUSM’s highest faculty honor, the Harry E. Brakebill Distinguished Professor Award.

Professor Robert E. Wood

Robert Wood is Professor of Management and Director of the Centre for Ethical Leadership at Melbourne Business School. Prior appointments include Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Western Australia and visiting Professor at the Kellogg School, Northwestern University. He completed his PhD in organizational behaviour at the University of Washington (Seattle) followed by post-doctoral studies at Stanford University Psychology Department. He is a former Editor of Applied Psychology and International Review and has served on the editorial board of most leading organisational, psychology and management journals. He was awarded the AGSM Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award (1998) and the inaugural AGSM Award for Excellence in Research (2002). He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences - Australia, the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management; the American Psychological Association and the International Association of Applied Psychologists.

Robert has designed, developed and delivered programs for senior managers and provided advice to many Australian and overseas corporations, including Saudi Aramco, Dow Chemical, Telstra, P&O Ports, Dubai Ports World and the Hong Kong Government. He has delivered programs to managers in the USA, Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, UAE, the Philippines, and Hong Kong.

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REGISTRATION DAY: Sunday 9th December 2012

5.00 pm Registration Desk Opens

6.00pm- 7.00 pm

Welcome Reception held at Curtin Graduate School of Business

DAY ONE: Monday 10th December 2012

8.30am Registration and welcome coffee

9.15am Welcome and Conference opening

9.30am KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Function Room

Professor Keith Grint

“The art of leadership at the crossroads: more like wrestling than dancing?"

10.30am Morning Tea Break

CONCURRENT SESSION ONE

Room 212 213

11.00am Sauer, E., Ropo, A., De Paoli, D. & Salovaara, P

Leadership, Virtual Teamwork and Embodied Experience of Spaces

Mark Edwards, Roberto Biloslavo, and Bernard McKenna

Wisdom and Wise Leadership: A Metatheoretical

Approach 11.30am O’Brien, A.T., Gosling, J., Bolden, R., Moffat, K.,

Crossing Boundaries: Leadership Challenges in Cross-Sector Partnerships

Jim ‘Gus’ GustafsonBringing Socially-Responsible Leadership to Lifeat the Individual, Team & Organizational Level

12.00pm Sirilak Meksang and Alma Whiteley

The Role of Structures in Transforming Organized Learning Into An Organizational Learning Environment: A Thai Study

Shiet Ching Wong, Malissa Maria Mahmud, Fatimah Omar

An Exploratory Study of Spiritual Leadership Values in Malaysia

12.30pm Lunch Break – Foyer

1.30pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Function Room

Professor Raynandini “Raj” Pillai

“Studying and teaching leadership: The roads less travelled by”

2.30pm Afternoon Tea Break

CONCURRENT SESSION TWO

Room 212 213

3.00pm Brigid Carroll

Leadership and Expertise: Leading Technically

Laura Strachan

Sustainable Leadership: The NHS at the Crossroads

3.30pm Kandy Dayaram, Steve McShane, Tony Travaglione, Lucia Fung

Leader Identity: Measuring the Motivation to Lead

Bryan Watters

The Impact of Tempo on Leadership

4.00pm Byron Hanson

Leadership in the Numbers: Is building leadership in finance functions of organisations different?

Janet Sutherland

Do Different Generational Cohorts Perceive Leadership Effectiveness Differently?

CONCURRENT SESSION THREE

4.30pm Keith Grint and Clare HoltCredible Leadership & Cultural Lodestones:The British Police at the cross roads.

Michelle Evans and Amanda SinclairLeadership Identity Work Among Australian Indigenous Arts Leaders: Containing, Contesting, Creating Cultural Identity Spaces

5.00pm Des Klass and Linley LordExemplary Leadership: A New Conceptual Framework for Leadership in Organisations

Jo CaustEveryone is a Leader and Everyone is a Follower:Leadership in Collaborative Art Forms

5.30pm Henry MumbiShared Leadership in the voluntary sector

Brigid Carroll and Helen Nicholson

Resistance in leadership development

6.15pm Transport to RPYC

6.30pm Pre-dinner drinks commence

7.00pm Barbecue on RPYC lawn area commences

09.30pm Transport available to return to Perth CBD

DAY TWO: Tuesday 11th December 2012

8.30am Registration

9.00am KEYNOTE ADDRESS Function Room

Professor David Day

“The Science of Leadership at the Crossroads: Focus on Time and Practice”

10.00am Morning Tea Break

CONCURRENT SESSION FOUR

Room 212 213

10.30am Frank HamiltonLearning By Doing: A Qualitative Study of Students' Leadership Development

Heather Davis and Kay Hempsall

Taking tertiary education leadership personally

11.00am Jon Billsberry

Teaching Leadership at the Crossroads: From Studying Leadership to Developing Leadership

Linda McKellar

Leading Professionals in Australasian Higher Education

11.30am Arran Caza and David M Rosch

An exploration of Students’ Beliefs about Leading

Kittiwan Sinthunava

Leadership and Change: The Case for Thailand and Vietnam

12.00pm Troy Hendrickson and Christine Symons

Honouring the Leadership Learning Experience: Creating Meaningful Learning through the Application of Leadership

Elze du Plessis

Leadership in the Implementation of a Semesteris System

12.30pm Lunch Break – Foyer

1.30pm KEYNOTE ADDRESS Function Room

Professor Bob Wood

“Knowledge Based Leadership and Leadership Development”

2.30pm Afternoon Tea Break

CONCURRENT SESSION FIVE

Room 212 213

3.00pm Aileen Hoath and Fiona McKenzie

‘Filling the [Leadership] Gaps’: Stretched Services, New Needs and Informal Initiatives in a Fifo Source Community

Alison Sheridan, Anne Ross Smith and Linley LordWomen on Corporate Boards in Australia: New pathways or the same old tracks?

3.30pm Tracy TeoWomen’s Careers Crossroads in the Resources Sector of WA

Ali SumnerComplexity Leadership: A New Paradigm in More Ways Than One

CONCURRENT SESSION SIX

4.00pm Md. Maruf Hossan Chowdhury, Mohammed Naim A. Dewan, Mohammed A. Quaddus, Abu Siddique, Marita NaudeAbating gender inequality for sustainable development in Coastal fishing community of Bangladesh

Cherie Wabeke

Maternity Transitions in Management

4.30pm Eijaz Ahmed Khan, Mohammed Quaddus, Anna Lee RowePersonality Traits, Entrepreneurial Orientation, Business Environment, and Micro-Firm Sustainable Performance: A Multidimensional Assessment

Raneem Alselaimi

Enablers and Barriers to female participation in professional roles in Saudi Arabia

5.00pm Eunice Liu and Alma Whiteley

Strategic knowledge leadership enablers in organizational new knowledge creation: Canada and Japan cases.

5.30pm Conference close followed by welcome drinks