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Dear colleagues

It's hard to believe we are on the brink of the Christmas

holiday period already! I have always felt this term is the

most challenging insofar as we have to get used to new

cohorts of students, begin teaching again, juggle the de-

mands of research, teaching and professional practice

activities, as well as attend to the demands made of us by

events such as the QAA. I am really impressed by how

people within LWO have responded to the challenges of

this term and the QAA and the revalidation of our suite

of HRM degree programmes. In regard to the latter, I realise we have moved quick-

ly on this, partly out of necessity, so I want to thank everyone for their input so far. I

have read the latest document and it is clear that a lot of people have contributed

significantly to the content and structure of the programmes. There are some exciting

developments underway in how we are revising the content of these degree pro-

grammes and I am hopeful this process will give these programmes new life. There

are, of course, wider issues affecting us and other universities in regard to the decline

in postgraduate numbers, and long term work needs to be undertaken by the Business

School and University to address this trend, so I am pleased we are taking steps within

the department to feed into this process.

This is the last introduction I will write for the newsletter as Head of Department.

Family commitments have been hugely influential in my decision to find a new sub-

stantive role at the University of Portsmouth as Professor of HRM. However, I remain

at Middlesex University on a tiny fractional contract from February 2016 to continue

supervising my PhD students, working colleagues on co-authoring papers and on the

ESRC seminar series on Inclusive forms of Gender in the Workplace. It's been a pleas-

ure, and sometimes challenging, working with you all over the last few years so I'm

moving on with a measure of sadness and affection.

Finally, enjoy the festive season! I will be back in the office in January 2016 and I

hope to see you then before I start at Portsmouth.

Newsletter Welcome

WELCOME 1

EVENTS 2-3

CONFERENCES 4

GRANTS 5-6

AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

7

PUBLICATIONS & CALLS 8

INTERNAL MEETINGS

9

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL 10

Inside this issue:

4th Quarter 2015 —

D E P A R T M E N T A L N E W S L E T T E R

Leadership, Work and Organisations

Departmental Newsletter 4th Quarter 2015

Volume 3, Issue 4, 15th December 2015

INCLUSIVITY IN PRACTICE LAUNCH

On Tuesday 1st December Ìnclusivity in Practice`, a HR information initiative

including an interactive communication platform and a professional hand-

book, was launched at Middlesex University Business School London.

Inclusivity in Practice includes a diversity awareness professional handbook

with articles on a range of diversity topics written by several Middlesex

scholars: Dr Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya, Dr Elizabeth Cotton, Dr Ian

Roper, Dr Doirean Wilson and thought leaders like Dr Angela Herbert

MBE. Doirean acts as arteficer and Editor in Chief.

Ìnclusivity in Practice` aims to provide corporate leaders and diversity practi-

tioners with professional insights to know `how` to leverage diverse inclusive

HR practices.

The theme for the evening was `Future Workforces` that prompted Barnet

Mayor Councillor Mark Shooter to inform the audience that Barnet is a very

diverse London borough that tries ‘to embrace inclusivity and to breakdown

divisions to ensure everyone is doing their part to build a close knit communi-

ty.’ For more information visit http://inclusivityinpractice.co.uk/

On Thursday 29 October 2015 Dr Doirean Wilson and thirty students en-

rolled on the Èquality, Diversity & Inclusion` final-year undergraduate

module that she leads, attended London Mayor Boris Johnson’s Black History

Month Event at City Hall.

This event marked the 50th anniversary of the UK Race Relations Act and

focused on the issue of equalities and their importance in London.

Events

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EVENTS

Dr Maria Adamson (PI) and her co-investigators have successful host-

ed the first of ESRC Seminar Series Workshops on ‘Gendered Inclu-

sion in Contemporary Organisations’. The seminar took place on the

18th of November 2015 and was attended by practitioners, research stu-

dents and academics from the UK and Europe. It featured presentations

by world-leading researchers on gender and equality, high-profile diver-

sity consultants and a trade-union representative. The next seminar will

take place in March 2016.

The final seminar in the ESRC series Work-life Balance in the Reces-

sion and Beyond, coordinated by Prof Sue Lewis took place at Birk-

beck on 20th November. Speakers included Sylvia Walby (Lancaster

University), Roberta Guerrina ( Surrey), Laura Den Dulk (Rotterdam),

and Ellen Kossek (Purdue University, USA) plus discussants from Work-

ing Families and Timewise. Many thanks to Middlesex colleagues who

attended the seminars and contributed to the debates. A book on the se-

ries will be published by Routledge next year .

Dr Sara Calvo organised a Social Enterprise Day Conference on the 20th November (as part of

the GEW activities) in collaboration with Julie Pal, CEO of Community Barnet, where students,

staff and staff from social enterprises and voluntary and community organisations participated at the

event. The event had a Social Enterprise/Charity market in the Quad and key speakers including

among others Servane Mouazan, founder of Ogunte, Gillan Kelly, Partnership Manager at Green-

wich Leisure Ltd and Annette Krammer, Business Consultant.

The Interdisciplinary Labour Studies research group continues to meet regularly for its seminar se-

ries. On 20th October 2015, Dr Lilian Miles and Mark Houssart delivered their paper entitled

"Improving health and safety in the Bangladeshi garment industry post Rana Plaza: Conversations

with Stakeholders" which was Chaired by Dr Daniel Ozarow. On 8th December 2015 Dr Nick

Clark gave his paper; "Unpaid Wages in Britain: endemic but unremarked. Outline of a new pro-

ject". Forthcoming seminars include:

25 January 2016 – Dr Hannah Danilovich “Labour migration: as career choice: preferences of post

-Soviet youth.”

ESRC Seminars


Conferences

Professor Clive Boddy attended the International Research Symposium

on ‘Sustainable HRM and Employee Well-being’ on November 4th and 5th.

Over 60 delegates from Belgium, the UK, India, New Zealand and various

Australian locations assembled in Sydney for this interesting symposium.

The symposium was organised by Thomas Lange of the Australian Catho-

lic University and Middlesex University. Clive’s paper was called “The

Influence of Corporate Psychopaths on Job Satisfaction and its Determi-

nants” and determined that the presence of a psychopathic manager is the

main determinant of job satisfaction for employees. The paper was subsequently invited for submis-

sion to a special issue of the International Journal of Manpower, subject to the usual journal re-

views.

Professor Clive Morton has been invited to deliver the RW Mann Annual

Public Lecture at Newcastle University on 25th February 2016 on:

“Tackling Uncertainty in Organisations: The future, a threat or opportunity?”

This references research carried out at Middlesex including on the topics of

business sustainability; women in leadership; Inclusivity; NHS teams or tar-

gets; and Mental health in the City of London.

On 6th November 2015 Dr Daniel Ozarow

delivered a paper entitled "Last Tango in

Athens? Recent Lessons on Debt Resistance

in Argentina, Ecuador and Iceland", at the

Business School Latin American Studies Re-

search Group’ Seminars in Latin America

Series. The workshop entitled "The IMF,

Debt and National Sovereignty" was chaired

by Dr Francisco Dominguez and also fea-

tured a paper on public debt in Puerto Rico

by Dr Gibran Cruz-Martinez, a Visiting Fel-

low from the Institute for the Study of the

Americas, University of London.

Daniel was also invited to speak at the Internationalist Summit for a Plan B in Europe in Paris on

14th November 2015. Organised by former Greek and German Finance Ministers, Prof Yanis Va-

roufakis, Oskar Lafontaine and others, he was due to deliver a paper entitled "For a multilateral debt

-suspension framework". However the conference was suspended due to the national state of emer-

gency which was declared following the terrorist attacks in the city the previous evening. Although

Daniel was near to the attacks the evening before, he is safe and well.

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Dr Daniel Ozarow and Dr Anne Daguerre from LWO are among the Co-

Investigators who were awarded a £1.8m grant by the European Commission’s

Horizon 2020-Marie Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)

grant to study global trends in social inequalities in Europe and Latin Ameri-

ca. Led by Dr Leandro Sepulveda from CEEDR, Middlesex is among a consorti-

um of universities to have won the funding which will enable the creation of an

international EU-Latin American Network for Comparative Analysis of Social

Inequalities (INCASI) in order to develop an innovative programme of compara-

tive research on the changing nature of social inequalities in these regions.

Beginning in 2016 and running until 2020, the project will comprise a large-

scale secondment scheme with academics from the network undertaking re-

search visits between universities in Europe and Latin America. Knowledge

transfer involving early-stage researchers and more senior network members

will include a postgraduate-level training scheme on research methods. Other

colleagues who are involved from across the Business School include Professor

Stephen Syrett, Dr Francisco Dominguez and research students Heather Jeffrey

and Valentina Morretta.

Dr Sara Calvo (Middlesex University as leading partner) has successfully se-

cured funding (£18,215) from the British Council Social Enterprise Educational

Programme in partnership with O.P Jindal Global University in India to develop

a Social enterprise Course. For further information see below:

https://www.britishcouncil.org/education/ihe/opportunities/call-proposals-social-enterprise-

education-programme

GRANTS

Anne Daguerre

Francisco Dominguez

Sara Calvo

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Middlesex University Business School (MUBS), Department of Leadership, Work

and Organisations (LWO) and the Centre for Enterprise and Economic Develop-

ment Research (CEEDR) have successfully secured a highly competitive global re-

search project with Youth Business International (YBI) worth £ 65,000.

The research project which involves Dr Julia Haddock-Millar and Chandana

Sanyal from LWO will evaluate how volunteer business mentoring assists young

entrepreneurs, both in terms of their business start-up and development, but also

their personal development and entrepreneurial journey. The study will inform the

YBI global growth strategy as set up in the YBI Strategic Plan 2014-2017. This

longitudinal project will work with YBI’s global network of 46 independent non-

profit initiatives (‘members’) spanning 42 countries, providing integrated support to

under-served young entrepreneurs. The core research team comprises six academic

staff members from LWO and CEEDR. The project will commence in January

2016 and run until at least mid-2017. The team will present at YBI’s global summit

in Brazil towards the end of 2016.

Professor Sue Lewis, Dr Lilian Miles and Dr Bianca Stumbitz won a £45k grant

under the British Council/Newton Researcher Links Scheme to conduct a 5 day

workshop on Maternity Protection and its contribution to economic development

and social well- being at the Universiti Sains Malaysia in March 2016. The work-

shop will bring together up to 40 early career researchers from the UK and Malay-

sia, to forge links and expand research interests on improving maternity protection

in developing countries. This is a much under researched topic, which the appli-

cants identified in a Report for the ILO (Suzan Lewis, Bianca Stumbitz, Lilian

Miles and Julia Rouse, Technical Report: Maternity protection in SMEs: An inter-

national review, 2014 DOI: 10.13140/2.1.4971.7766)".

GRANTS

From top left:

Dr Julie Had-

dock Milar

MUBS(PI),

Robert Baldock

(CEEDR), Da-

vid Deakins

(CEEDR),

Stephem Syrrett

(CEEDR),

Chandana

Sanyal MUBS,

Leandro Sepul-

veda (CEEDR).


Congratulations to:

Dr Maria Adamson has been awarded ERASMUS staff exchange funding and

spent a week in Copenhagen Business School in October 2015 establishing re-

search connections and exchanging experience related to courses and programmes

on Diversity and Equality.

Maria has also been selected among eight participants sponsored by Middlesex

University to participate in the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education’s AU-

RORA Leadership program 2015-16. AURORA is a women-only programme

aimed at developing future leaders for higher education.

Dr Martin Sposato successfully defended his thesis during his PhD Viva, subject

to some minor corrections. Well done Martin!

During the week of 9th-13th November

2015 Dr Daniel Ozarow spent a week

at the National and Kapodistrian Uni-

versity of Athens' Department of Eco-

nomics on an Erasmus Staff Mobility

Exchange Programme. During his vis-

it, he delivered a talk to its academics

and research students entitled "What

Future for Greece's Middle Class?: Lessons from Argentina's 2001 Debt Crisis”

and met with several Professors to discuss potential research collaborations be-

tween our two institutions.

Film Festivals:

Two of the shorts that Dr Sara Calvo has been actively involved as a Social Enter-

prise researcher/co-founder of Living in Minca were screened at two film festivals

in London. “Eco-Maximus: the Dwindler’s Hope” at the Portobello Film Festival in

September 2015 and “Struggling for Recognition: the Waste Pickers of Colombia”

participated at the London Latin American Film Festival in November 2015.

Founding Membership:

The Founder and Honorary Advisory Board of the prestigious `Women’s Executive

Network` (WXN) have invited Dr Doirean Wilson to be a life-long UK founding

member. WXN, inspires smart women to lead.

AWARDS Maria Adamson

Martin Sposato

ACHIEVEMENTS

Waste pickers of Colombia

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PUBLICATIONS

Journal articles:

Harzing, A.W. (2015) ‘Health warning: Might contain multiple personalities. The prob-

lem of homonyms’ in Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicators, Scientometrics,

vol. 105, no. 3, pp. 2259-2270. http://www.harzing.com/papers.htm#esi

On 16th October a paper called “Psychopathic Leadership, A case study of a Corporate

Psychopath CEO” by Professor Clive Boddy, was accepted for publication in the Jour-

nal of Business Ethics.

Book Chapters:

Calvo, S (2015). ‘Connecting Social Enterprise and Higher Education: Universities as

drivers in the support of Social Enterprises in the United Kingdom’; in Carvalho, L,

Handbook Research on Entrepreneurial Success and its Impact on Regional Develop-

ment, IGI Global.

Professor Clive Boddy had a chapter published in October in a book called

Globalization and Corporate Citizenship: The alternative Gaze – A Collection

of Seminal Essays (Greenleaf Publishing). The chapter was based on an update

of a previous paper and was called “Corporate Psychopaths: Uncaring Citizens,

Irresponsible Leaders”.

Other Publications In October 2015 Clive Boddy was invited to contribute to

the Sage Encyclopedia of Educational Research, Measurement & Evaluation .

This will consist of definitions of “Bubble Drawing” and “Collage Technique”.

Call for Papers: Business Ethics Quarterly

Special Issue on Philosophical Approaches to Leadership Ethics

Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2016

Guest Editors: Prof Joanne B. Ciulla, Leadership and Ethics, The Jepson School of

Leadership Studies, University of Richmond, USA, Prof David Knights, Organization

Studies, Lancaster University/ Open University, UK, Professor Chris Mabey, Leader-

ship Studies, Middlesex University London, UK and Dr Leah Tomkins, Leadership and

Organization Studies, The Open University, UK

Overview: Questions about moral agency of the firm and the individual have always

been a part of business ethics (Bowie, 1994). Yet, the heart of many ethical problems in

business is not the corporation per se but the people who run them. This is why it is sur-

prising that that there is still little scholarly work on the ethics of leadership.

Anne-Wil Harzing

Chris Mabey

http://www.harzing.com/papers.htm#esi


Professors Meeting

The Middlesex Professors meeting took place on the 5th October and discussed

student retention, teaching and research. An increased emphasis on teaching was

indicated by Tim Blackman, the new Vice-Chancellor. An on-line discussion on

student retention at Middlesex University then ensued, initiated by Prof Clive Boddy.

Research Issues

A British Academy of Management symposium was held at the International

Leadership Association Conference 2015 on 14 th October in Barcelona,

attended by 25 people. Practitioners, academics and NGO leaders talked about

what it means to be a responsible leader and how responsible leadership can

be measured, taught and developed. Thomas Maak discussed how the study of

irresponsible leaders can inform the study of responsible leadership and Clive

Boddy discussed how irresponsible leadership, in the person of toxic leaders

like corporate psychopaths, can be identified and avoided.

Impact

According to the Australian Technology Network, reporting on ‘SciVal’ statistics, in

the subject area of Public Administration, during the period 2010 to 2014, the top

cited article was “Leaders Without Ethics in Global Business: Corporate

Psychopaths” by Clive Boddy, Rick Ladyshewsky and Peter Galvin.

Research Group Meetings updates:

Leadership & Development:

On 23 October the Leadership & Development research group

met with a group of external colleagues: Prof. Edwina Pio and

Prof. Ken Parry from New Zealand and Australia. The

meeting centred on current leadership issues and emerging

methodologies, among which the “dramatisation” of

leadership in the classroom and the concept of “kenosis” . The

meeting was followed by the book launch “Questions

Business school do not ask”, written by several colleagues at

Middlesex and edited by Prof Chris Mabey.

Internal Meetings

Edwina Pio

Ken Parry


We conclude this newsletter with some joyful personal news:

Aylin Kunter has now joined the visual ethnography of

motherhood! We, at LWO, are proud to introduce baby Livia

Azaduhi Kunter Felix, born on November 10th weighing 8lbs

8oz. Mother and baby and dad are all fine!

Gingerbread house: The LWO DPAs had their fun Christmas party on 14th December

and pleased to report that the Business School DPAs in W161 won the gingerbread

competition with their version of MDX House !

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This Christmas, as an alternative to sending Christmas cards to work colleagues within

your organisation, we would like to encourage you to use our Christmas Card

Campaign to pass on your Christmas wishes and donate the money that you would

have spent on individual cards to “A Way Out”.

http://www.awayout.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Card-Poster-v2.pdf

BEST WISHES

Clive, Dan and Sara

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