ANBS Ltd is pleased to announce that during 2007 nominations were received from Member Universities for two Fellowships to occur during calendar year 2008.
Professor Ali Dastmalchian
Dean of the Faculty of Business,
University of Victoria, Canada
Lead University: Deakin University (Professor Tanya Castleman)
Collaborating University: University of Wollongong (Professor John Glynn)
About Professor Ali Dastmalchian (from the University of Victoria website):
Dr. Ali Dastmalchian was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Business, effective July 1, 2002. He first joined UVic in 1991 as Director of … MBA programs and Professor of Organizational Analysis. In 1997, he left UVic to become the Dean, and a Professor of Organizational Analysis, of the Faculty of Management at the University of Lethbridge….
Dr. Dastmalchian's main research and teaching interests are in the areas of organizational design and flexibility, organizational climate, management of change, organizational power and politics, executive leadership, and cross-cultural management theory.
Professor Fang Lee Cooke
Professor of HRM and Chinese Studies
Director, Centre for Chinese Business and Management Studies
Manchester Business School, UK
Lead University: Griffith University (Professor Michael Powell)
Collaborating University: The University of Western Australia (Prof Geoff Soutar)
About Professor Fang Lee Cooke (from the Manchester Business School website):
Fang Lee Cooke (…was…) promoted to Professor of HRM and Chinese Studies (August 2005). Prior to coming to the UK, she had four years lecturing experience and five years working experience in diesel engine power stations with Sino-British engineering project teams….
Fang’s research activities are in the areas of human resource management, industrial relations and employment law in the British and Asian Pacific context. Fang’s research interests include issues related to skills and training; career pattern; quality management; knowledge management; the effectiveness of employment law such as TUPE; equal opportunity; technological and organisational change; outsourcing and implications for HRM; organisational learning and competitiveness. In addition to that, Fang has strong interests in researching on the role of the state in human resource development, equal opportunity and the reshaping of employment relations in China in a rapidly changing political, economic and social context.
She also has a strong interest in researching outward Chinese investment and the employment of migrant Chinese in developed countries.
Academic institutions, academic staff and higher education students wishing to make contact with Professors Dastmalchian and Cooke should contact the representative of the Lead University responsible for the Fellowship.
