Our events

Upcoming events

Due to the escalating COVID-19 situation, and following the advice from the Vice Chancellor, we have made the difficult decision to postpone or cancel the following events. Please visit the online fact sheet for more information on the University’s response to COVID-19.

First AEMI workshop on electricity markets - Postponed

This workshop will tackle the twin problem of adequately pricing the transmission and distribution of electricity over privately-owned networks that must be regulated (network regulation), and of correctly pricing energy transmitted over a potentially congested network (local marginal pricing). If you'd like any updates of this event please email buseco-cgb@monash.edu.

Workshop on Sustainable Development in Prato, Italy 2020 - Cancelled

Each year, CDES, CGB and the Monash Business and Sustainability Network host the Workshop on Sustainable Development at the Monash Prato Centre, Italy.

Past events

Global Value Chains Research Network Visit to Punjab State, India

Conference on Randomised Controlled Trials

Pseudo-transformational leadership and follower trust

12 December 2019

The role of Machiavellian behaviour, perceived trustworthiness, and affect

The effectiveness of transformational leaders is due at least in part to their ability to foster follower trust. However, it is important to distinguish true transformational from manipulative and self-serving pseudo-transformational leaders who can be equally inspirational but lack other transformational qualities (Christie et al., 2011). We extend earlier research by developing a Perceived Machiavellian Leadership Scale (PMLS) to measure these manipulative and self-serving qualities. We then administered the PMLS along with the transformational leadership questionnaire in an experimental scenario study (N = 392) and a field survey study (N = 292). In the experimental study, we demonstrated that Machiavellian behaviours complement those characterizing the four facets of transformational leadership measured by the MLQ in distinguishing true from pseudo-transformational leaders. In both studies, we found that the PMLS contributed uniquely to the prediction of follower trust, and that the relationship was mediated by perceptions of leader trustworthiness and affective reactions to the leader.

Speaker

Amy Wei Tian (PhD Cardiff University) is an Associate Professor in human resource management at the Curtin Business School, Curtin University in Perth, Australia. Her research focuses on how strategic HRM and leadership affect people’s attitudinal and behavioral outcomes such as creativity and innovation. She also examines how multicultural employees, leaders and teams can contribute to team and organisational success. Amy has published journals such as The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology and International Journal of Human Resource Management.

Hosted by the Leadership and Organisational Effectiveness Research Network (LOERN) within the Centre for Global Business (CGB).

Seminar: Hybrid managers / Professional identity influence

22 November 2019

2 UK Health Projects

This seminar included two short research presentations and a discussion led by visitors from Warwick University, UK (Monash University’s partner in the Monash Warwick Alliance).

1. The paradoxes of hybrid middle managers: performing and belonging
How do hybrid managers negotiate the paradoxes inherent in their role? In particular, how do they negotiate the dual paradoxes of belonging (managerial vs professional identity) and performing (managerial vs professional work)? This seminar considers the case of nurse managers, where the complexities of hybrid roles are at the fore.
Charlotte Croft is an Associate Professor at Warwick Business School, UK. Her research focuses on issues of identity, leadership and collaboration in professionalised settings. Her work has been published in a range of world leading journals, such as Organisation Studies, Human Relations, and Public Administration.

2. The Influence of professional identity upon absorptive capacity: the case of healthcare
There is a lack of research about the effects of organisational context in general and that of the professionalised context specifically to absorb new knowledge and improve innovation. Moreover, approaches to ensure new knowledge is used and improve innovation practices haven’t sensitised to the problem of professions, nor has the context of professional organisation, and its underpinning dimensions relating to professional identity. Our study seeks to address this research gaps and provide insight into how the dimensions of professional identity impact upon the development, implementation and scale up of knowledge-based innovation.
Dimitrios Spyridonidis is an Associate Professor of Leadership and Innovation at Warwick Business School, UK. Dimitrios’ core research interests are Leadership and Innovation. Within these, current themes include leadership and leadership development, innovation and strategic change in professionalised organisations. His research has been published in leading academic journal including Organisation Studies, Public Administration, Human Relations and Human Resource Management Journal.

The Discussant: Bernard Crump is a Professor in Medical Leadership at Warwick Medical School. After studying medicine and then years in clinical practice and research, he returned to postgraduate training in public health medicine. He spent a decade as Director of Public Health in Birmingham, and in Leicestershire, where he was also Deputy CEO. He became CEO of Shropshire & Staffordshire Strategic Health Authority, until being appointed the first CEO of the UK National Health Service (NHS) Institute for Innovation and Improvement. The NHS Institute has developed a wide range of programmes supporting the improvement of the NHS, the Productive Ward and the Productive Series, the No Delays Achiever and commissioners. He has written and lectured on a range of topics in healthcare, including aspects of population health, the role of clinicians in management, health and healthcare improvement, the use of metrics in encouraging improvement and the use of health economics in decision-making.

Professor Greg Bamber of Monash Business School’s Department of Management was the seminar host.

South Asia Business and Economics Workshop

Industry-Academia Collaboration on Global Value Chains

Doing Business in Low-income Communities: The South Asian Experience

Governance and Regulation Research Network (GARNET) Workshop

Seminar: Do managerial support perceptions influence employee wellbeing in high performance workplaces?

The Joe Isaac Industrial Relations Symposium

30 October 2019

New Forms of Worker Representation: Substitute for or Complement to Unions and Collective Bargaining.

Amid a rapidly changing workforce being reshaped by forces such as the gig economy, new forms of collective worker representation are emerging.

Outside of unions and formal collective bargaining structures, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become a significant force in U.S. industrial relations. These NGOs include worker rights groups, worker and immigrant rights centers organisations and affinity groups within non-union companies.

What is the influence and staying power of these various forms of increasing collective representation? And are there lessons for the Australian union movement and Australian companies?

Renowned U.S. labour management expert and Cornell University professor Harry C Katz explores these questions in his upcoming keynote address for the annual Joe Isaac Industrial Relations Symposium, to be held at Monash Business School on Wednesday 30 October 2019.

Professor Katz is the Jack Sheinkman Professor and Director of the Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution at the Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) School, Cornell University. He is President-elect of the International Labor and Employment Relations Association and Past-president of the U.S. Labor and Employment Relations Association. Professor Katz is also a member of the U.S. United Auto Workers Union Public Review Board.

Alternately hosted by Monash Business School and the University of Melbourne since 2010, the Joe Isaac Industrial Relations Symposium honours the contribution of Professor Emeritus Joe Isaac AO, one of Australia’s most distinguished scholars and practitioners in the broad field of industrial relations and labour economics.

The Joe Isaac Industrial Relations Symposium is held jointly by Monash Business School’s International Consortium for Research on Employment & Work (iCREW), Centre for Global Business and the Melbourne Human Resource Management Unit (MHRMU), Department of Management and Marketing.

Workshop on digital economy and industrial organisation

Seminar: Political CSR at the coalface

26 September 2019

The roles and contradictions of multinational corporations in developing workplace dialogue

A seminar jointly organised by the Department of Management and GARNET (Governance and Regulation Research Network), Centre for Global Business.

Abstract

Political CSR scholarship has highlighted the role of multinational corporations in the development of global standards to protect stakeholder rights in the absence of government regulation. We examine political CSR and the role of MNCs in dialogue with those most affected– workers in global supply chains. While attention has mainly focused on transnational level processes, we utilise industrial democracy to understand the possibility of worker-centric dialogue at the “coalface” where labour rights violations occur. Drawing on a qualitative study of the introduction of workplace dialogue in parts of the Bangladesh apparel industry, we highlight the roles of MNCs as guarantors, capacity-builders and enforcers in workplace dialogue. We show how these roles become inherently contradictory and require corporations to confront the structural antagonism of the sourcing relationship. Our research has the potential to re-politicize pCSR by explaining how local-level “beneficiaries” can become active participants in deliberative processes, rather than as passive recipients.

Speakers

Juliane Reinecke is Professor of International Management & Sustainability at King’s Business School, King's College London, having joined in 2017. Previously, she was a Professor at Warwick Business School. She is a Research Fellow at Cambridge Judge Business School, where she earned her MPhil and PhD, and Fellow at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, both University of Cambridge. Juliane’s research draws on insights from organization theory, political philosophy and process studies to explore, broadly speaking, how transnational governance institutions emerge and evolve as a result of the interactions of multiple stakeholders to promote a more just and sustainable forms of globalization in global supply chains, but also organizations in general. She is currently an Associate Editor at Business Ethics Quarterly and Organization Theory.

Jimmy Donaghey is Professor of Management, Department of Management, Monash University based at the Caulfield Campus, having joined in April 2019. Prior to joining Monash, Jimmy was Professor of International HRM at the University of Warwick from 2015-2019. He joined Warwick as Associate Professor in 2010, having previously worked as Lecturer in Management at Queen's University Belfast, from where he received his PhD. His research interests focus on the internationalisation of the employment relationship and employee voice with a particular focus on transnational governance. He is currently an Associate Editor for the Human Resource Management Journal and was a member of the ESRC Peer Review College from 2010-2019

Redeeming leadership: An anti-racist feminist intervention

2 September 2019

We are living in an inhospitable world. Countries like the United States, United Kingdom and Australia are hardening their borders while organisations and societies are mounting a backlash against even the most modest advancements towards gender and racial equality. Leadership has served as a vehicle through which domination and oppression are normalised and romanticised. Despite its troubled history, leadership continues to enjoy a sacred status in our cultures and is often upheld as the solution for inclusion. This seminar, based on a forthcoming book with Bristol University Press, aims to identify and challenge the violences of leadership by confronting the hegemony of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist and patriarchal ideologies within leadership theorising and practice. In doing so, the book draws on the complex and distinct traditions of anti-racist feminisms in order to offer redemptive possibilities for ‘leadership’ that may be exercised from the values of justice, solidarity and love.

Speaker

Helena Liu is a Senior Lecturer at UTS Business School in Sydney, Australia. Her research critiques the way power sustains our enduring romance with leadership and imagines the possibilities for organising through solidarity, love and justice. She is currently a co-Chief Investigator on the ARC Discovery project, ‘Leadership diversity through relational intersectionality in Australia’. She serves as Associate Editor at Human Relations, Management Learning and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. In addition to those journals, her work has also appeared in Organization, Journal of Business Ethics, Gender, Work and Organization, Culture and Organization, and Leadership. Her first book, ‘Redeeming Leadership: An Anti-Racist Feminist Intervention’, will be coming out with Bristol University Press in January 2020.

Hosted by the Centre for Global Business's Leadership and Organisational Effectiveness Research Network (LOERN).