Australia & New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) 2018 was hosted by Massey University in Auckland last week. UNE Business School had a strong attendance, including Dr Sujana Adapa, Dr Subba Reddy Yarram, Professor Alison Sheridan, and Ms Valerie Dalton. The group were also joined by Communications Officer, Helen Taylor, and CEO at ChildrenFirst/PhD Candidate at UNE, Otto Henfling.
Dr Sujana Adapa
Sujana had an extremely busy Thursday at the conference this year, as well as undertaking other roles for ANZAM 2018.
Associate Professor Tui McKeown, Professor Tim Mazzarol and Dr Sujana Adapa
Thursday 6th December 2018, 1100 -1240
Associate Professor Tui McKeown (Monash University), Professor Tim Mazzarol (University of Western Australia) and Dr Sujana Adapa (University of New England) conducted a workshop at ANZAM 2018 on ‘The Future of Work – Unleashing the Potential of Small Business’. The workshop was well attended and the presenters highlighted the challenges associated with the small business environment within Australia and New Zealand. As the board members of SEAANZ (Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand), the presenters released a report titled ‘Inspiring Future Workplaces – An Australia and NZ Small Business Perspective’. This work produced by the team from SEAANZ under commission from the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and supported by the Department of Jobs and Small Business through the Productivity and Education Training Fund.
Thursday 6th December 2018, 1340 -1520
Dr Sujana Adapa (University of New England), Associate Professor Tui McKeown (Monash University), Professor Mario Fernando (University of Wollongong), Dr Subba Reddy Yarram (University of New England) and Dr Alan McWilliams (Victoria University) conducted a workshopat ANZAM 2018 on ‘Award Winning Teaching and Impactful Management Education Research – How to Attain Success’. The workshop attracted over 40 participants and the presenters shared the innovations implemented in their own teaching that attracted national awards alongside teaching informed research.
Dr Subba Reddy Yarram presenting in the workshop on award winning teaching.
Thursday 6th December 2018, 1550 -1730
Dr Sujana Adapa and Dr Subba Reddy Yarram presented their research titled ‘Agripreneurs and Agriventures in India – Interplay of Contextual Dimensions’ in the Entrepreneurship, Start-Ups and Small Business Stream. The research work presented uncovered the opportunities and barriers for agripreneurs in India and the interplay of historical, institutional, spatial, temporal, social and societal dimensions leading to agriventure setup, process and outcome orientations.
Dr Sujana Adapa also chaired a session on Friday 7th December from 9.00am to 10.40am for Marketing and Communication Stream. Dr Sujana Adapa also served as a Co-Chair for Marketing and Communication Stream for ANZAM 2018.
Professor Alison Sheridan
A long term attendee of ANZAM, this year in Auckland Professor Alison Sheridan co-chaired a professional development workshop with Professor Leisa Sargent from UNSW on ‘Energising senior faculty: Keeping a spring in your step between your last promotion and retirement’. With esteemed panellists, Professor Judith Pringle (AUT), Emeritus Professor Kerr Inkson (University of Auckland) and Professor Neal Ashkanasy (UQ) leading off by reflecting on their own experiences, it was clear each career had its own rhythm, with the panellists’ fascinating stories of the latter stages of their careers shedding different lights on the way each has retained the spring in their step at work (besides the obvious option of a hip replacement). Complementing their reflections, the second stage of the workshop included Professor Kate Kearins (Pro Vice Chancellor and Dean of Business, Economics & Law) and Professor Leisa Sargent (Senior Deputy Dean, UNSW Business School) sharing their insights from the ‘management’ side, as well as their understanding of the research in the field. The various takes on the ‘r’ word, from those navigating it themselves, to those recognising the importance of this stage to those reporting to them, provided a rich environment in which to open the wider conversation around latter stage careers in academia.
In the Entrepreneurship, Start-Ups and Small Business stream, Alison delivered a paper, ‘Gender matters: unleashing the potential of professional agribusiness services’, co-authored with Dr Lucie Newsome. The paper examines the professional agricultural services sector through a gender lens, asking how the ideal agriculture service professional is likely to be socially constructed and identifying the likely enablers and barriers that exist to women’s participation in the growing number of SMEs in the agribusiness services sector. Australia’s capacity to ensure sufficient food and fibre production should not be stymied by our failure to enable all participants to flourish in their work environments.
Dr Theresa Smith-Ruig
Theresa has joined the ANZAM Board as one of two NSW representatives on the Board and attended the board meeting in Auckland – she looks forward to sharing more after the next borad meeting.
Valerie Dalton
Valerie Dalton was delighted to run into a colleague who she first met at the PRME conference in Rio de Janeiro back in 2012. Oliver Laasch was one of the founders of Centre for Responsible Management Education and is a key contributor to PRME. The original connection led to Josie Fisher and Bligh Grant making contributions to a textbook titled Principles of Responsible Management: Global Sustainability, Responsibility, and Ethics that Oliver wrote with Roger Conaway and published in 2015. He is currently working on the second edition and Valerie is considering adopting it as the text for MM200 Managing People and Organisations.
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