Steven L McShane,
UWA Business School Mara Olekalns,
Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne Tony Travaglione,
Curtin Business School
ISBN: 0070140278 Copyright year: 2010
About the Authors
STEVEN L MCSHANE
Steven L. McShane is Winthrop Professor of Management in the Business School at the University of Western Australia (UWA), where he receives high teaching ratings from students in Perth, Singapore, Manila, and other cities where UWA offers its programs. He is also an Honorary Professor at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) in Malaysia and previously taught in the business faculties at Simon Fraser University and Queen’s University in Canada. Steve has conducted executive programs with Nokia, TÜV-SÜD, Wesfarmers Group, Main Roads WA, McGraw-Hill, ALCOA World Alumina Australia, and many other organisations. He is also a popular visiting speaker, having given presentations to faculty and students in almost a dozen countries over the past four years. Steve earned his PhD from Michigan State University in organisational behaviour, human resource management, and labour relations. He also holds a Master of Industrial Relations from the University of Toronto, and an undergraduate degree from Queen’s University in Canada. Steve has served as President of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (the Canadian equivalent of the Academy of Management and ANZAM) and Director of Graduate Programs in the business faculty at Simon Fraser University. Along with co-authoring Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim, Third Edition, Steve is co-author with Mary Ann von Glinow (Florida International University) of Organizational Behavior, Fifth Edition (2010) and Organizational Behavior: Essentials, Second Edition (2009). He is also the co-author with Sandra Steen (University of Regina) of Canadian Organizational Behaviour, Seventh Edition (2009), and with Charles Hill (University of Washington) of Principles of Management, First Edition (2008). Steve is also co-author of editions or translations of his organisational behaviour book in China, India, Quebec, and Taiwan. Steve has published several dozen articles and conference papers on workplace values, training transfer, organisational learning, exit-voice-loyalty, employee socialisation, wrongful dismissal, media bias in business magazines, and other diverse topics. Steve enjoys spending his leisure time swimming, bodyboarding, canoeing, skiing, and travelling with his wife and two daughters. MARA OLEKALNS
Mara Olekalns is a Professor of Management (Negotiations) at the Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne. At Melbourne Business School, she teaches Negotiation Strategy and Processes in the MBA programme. She also teaches negotiations within Executive Development programmes and conducts workshops on negotiation skills for women. Before joining MBS, Mara taught organisational behaviour for the Department of Management at Melbourne University, and for the Department of Psychology at the University of Otago. She is the recipient of Universitas 21 Teaching Fellowship from the University of Melbourne. Mara’s research focuses on the relationships between how individuals think about negotiation, what they do and say during the negotiation, and their outcomes. Her particular interests are in trust and trust-building, deception and how gender shapes the interpretation of and reaction to negotiators’ strategic choices. Mara’s research has been published in leading, international journals. She has served on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Conflict Management and Journal of Organisational Behaviour; she is currently a Division Editor for Group Decision and Negotiation; and from 2010 she will co-edit Negotiation and Conflict Management Research. Mara is a past President of the International Association for Conflict Management. In a previous life, Mara worked for Department of Employment, Education & Training (Staff Training, Equal Opportunity, Organisation Development, Resources); Public Service Board (Project Officer for Regional Director) and National Police Research Unit (research on recruitment, training, stress, domestic violence). Outside of work, her energy is channelled into travelling, cooking, wine tasting and her loved ones—husband Philip and cats, Muddy Waters and Otis Rush. TONY TRAVAGLIONE
Tony Travaglione is Head of the School of Management at Curtin Business School, Curtin University of Technology. Over the course of his career, Tony has held a number of senior leadership roles including Professor and Dean of the Adelaide Graduate School of Business and Professor and Head of the Newcastle Graduate School of Business. He has also held the position of Visiting Professor at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Tony holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Western Australia. He is recognised internationally as an expert in the area of leadership. He has developed numerous leadership development programs for both public and private sector organisations. He is skilled in the delivery and feedback of a number of assessment instruments, ranging from staff attitudes to leadership style inventories. Tony is currently working on an Australian Research Council (ARC) grant in collaboration with Main Roads Western Australia on developing a new approach to values driven leadership. Tony has been active in the area of consulting in Australia and overseas. In Australia, his clients have included the ANZ Bank, QANTAS, Main Roads Western Australia, Westrail, Hunter Area Health and Centrelink. His consultancy work has appeared in prestigious and rigorously refereed international journals including the International Journal of Human Resource Management (UK), Personnel Review (UK), Journal of Managerial Psychology (USA), Journal of Strategic Change (UK) and the Journal of Business and Leadership (USA). Tony has always enjoyed his spare time by the beach and walking. In more recent years he developed a keen interest in cooking traditional Italian and Greek dishes.
2010
McGraw-Hill Australia