Dr John R. Schermerhorn Jr is the Charles G. O'Bleness professor of management emeritus in the College of Business at Ohio University. John earned a PhD in organisational behaviour from Northwestern University, an MBA (with distinction) in management and international business from New York University, and a BS in business administration from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He previously taught at Tulane University, the University of Vermont, and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, where he also served as head of the Department of Management and associate dean of the College of Business Administration.
Dr Paul Davidson is associate professor of management in the Queensland University of Technology Business School. He has 40 years' university teaching experience, and has published more than 100 academic papers and nine books.. He has studied and taught at the University of Queensland, the University of Birmingham, the University of Geneva, the University of Otago, Stanford University and Southern Cross University. He has degrees in science (psychology), theology and business administration. In addition, Paul has consulted and taught nationally and internationally to many public and private sector organisations, including the Sheraton Hotel Group in Australia and Asia, Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands and the United States, and extensively to the Royal Australian Navy, as a reserve officer. He has been a visiting professor in management at Reims Management School and Grenoble Graduate School of Business in France, Jyväskylä Polytechnic in Finland, Euromed Business School at Marseille in France, and at the University of Texas at Austin in the United States.
Associate Professor Peter Woods is a member the Department of Business Strategy and Innovation, Griffith Business School and the Director International of the Griffith Business School. His teaching has been recognised by multiple awards, including the prestigious 2010 Australian Learning and Teaching Council Award for Teaching Excellence (Internationalisation); Griffith University's Excellence in Teaching Award (Business and Law) in 2010; and he was a co-recipient of the Pro-Vice Chancellor's award for innovation in 2011. In 2012, he was awarded ‘Brisbane's Best Lecturer' by the Golden Key International Honour Society. Peter has also served as academic fellow at the Griffith Learning Futures, helping academic staff to improve teaching in the multicultural classroom. He specialises in teaching doing business in the Asia Pacific, introductory management, intercultural management, and strategic management.
Aharon Factor is an experienced MBA facilitator working on Southern Cross University's online MBA program. After extensive academic experience in Australian universities, and working globally in business consulting, Aharon now works closely with Southern Cross MBA students bringing together theory and practice. He has also recently established a sustainability consulting firm, Sustainable SME. Aharon has also completed an Australian Federal government research grant that advised government of the challenges that small and medium-sized businesses face in becoming environmentally sustainable. In addition, he was a member of the Australian Academy of Sciences think-tank on climate change. His education began at Kings College, University of London, and he holds a PhD from the Aarhus Business School, University of Aarhus (Denmark).
Dr Alan Simon is a Principles of Management and Effective Communications lecturer at Taylor's College. Previously he was an associate professor in management in the University of Western Australia's Business School for almost 14 years, and retired in 2017. He has 35 years' university teaching experience and more than 80 publications to his credit, including several books and monographs. He has taught introductory management, managing organisational change, strategic capabilities and organisational success, and business research methods at Monash University and the University of Western Australia. He has won Excellence in Undergraduate and Postgraduate Teaching Awards at UWA, and was awarded the Pearson prize for Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Educator of the Year in 2012. His doctorate was awarded by Rhodes University and in it he developed a new method for conducting research.
Ellen McBarron is a lecturer in management and HR and is based at the Brisbane campus of the Australian Catholic University. Her background includes 30 years in the finance industry, where she left as a national training manager in 1999 to move to academia. She has taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Burma, Thailand, Hong Kong and China. Ellen is an experienced manager and leader, actively researching the organisation management of expatriates, and has experience with international HRM, performance management, social entrepreneurship and refugee employability. She is actively involved in social justice issues within the university community, and has regular consultancy work with the Queensland Government and the mining industry. Ellen won a Carrick Award for the development of a replicable and sustainable model that delivers empowering tertiary education to camp-based refugees.
Dr Fatima Junaid is a lecturer in the School of Management at Massey University's Business School situated in Palmerston North, New Zealand. She previously taught at various business schools in Pakistan for over a decade. She specialises in teaching introductory management and organisational behaviour.
