 Leading Conversations Event – ‘Workers of the World Untied'
On Thursday 1 May the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship at Swinburne held the first of a series of Leading Conversations' for 2008.
Guest speaker Leon Gettler, for many years business journalist at The Age and award winning author, spoke on a range issues to provoke thinking about the positives of change in the modern workplace and in careers. The title of Leon 's session was a play on a slogan more usually associated with May Day‘: “Workers of the World Untied”. In his talk Leon made a number of propositions such as: The demise of the ‘job for life' is the best thing to have happened for careers.
The Leading Conversations series aims to stimulate thought and conversations on contemporary people/organisation issues and is organized by Dr. Christine Murphy of the Master of Business Administration Program (Tel: 9214 4705, cmurphy@swin.edu.au ).
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FBE Wins a European Commission Grant
The FBE, along with 3 of the European ECIU partners, have been successful in a bid for a 138,800 Euros grant to support student and scholar mobility to Australia . Three members of the ECIU - the University of Strathclyde , Aalborg Universitet and Technische Universitat Hamburg - are currently supported by the European Union to run a joint master level program in Global Innovation Management (GIM). The GIM will have its first intake in September 2008. GIM students will be accepted on an exchange basis, which provides an opportunity for our master level students to study at the partner ECIU institutions as exchange students. The funding will also support up to 4 ECIU scholars per year (for 2 years) to participate in a broad range of teaching and research roles in the FBE or other faculties.
ARC Linkage Success for FBE
(Professor) Philip Taylor, Professor of Employment Policy and Director - Business, Work and Ageing Centre for Research, Associate Professor Libby Brookes and Business, Work and Ageing Centre for Research staff were delighted to be notified last Thursday that they had been awarded an Australian Research Council Linkage scheme grant of $430,000 to undertake the ‘Working Late' research project.
Welcome Dr. Suresh Cuganesan
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Suresh Cuganesan will be assuming the new role of Professor of Accounting. Suresh is coming to Swinburne from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management, where he is currently Associate Dean, Research.
Suresh has worked in the areas of management consulting and institutional banking before recommencing his academic career. He currently occupies a position on CPA Australia's Business Management Centre of Excellence, and is a member of the Asian Board of the American Academy of Financial Management. Suresh's research interests are in the areas of: strategic costing; business performance and intellectual capital measurement and management; and, the design of management control systems. Suresh has published 3 books and over 50 journal articles, conference papers and book chapters. He is also on the editorial boards of a number of leading national and international academic journals.
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