2011 PROFESSORIAL LECTURE SERIES
7.00pm Refreshments – 7.30pm Lecture Sir Neil Waters Lecture Theatres
Dairy Flat Highway (SH17), Gate 1, Albany Parking available in student car park
The paradox and potential of Human Resource Management.
Biography:
Jim Arrowsmith joined Massey as Professor of Human Resource Management in 2008. His current teaching and research interests include Strategic and International Human Resource Management (HRM), specifically flexible pay, working time arrangements and change management. He has also researched and published widely in areas such as comparative industrial relations, human resource management in small firms, and age and employment equality. Prior to coming to Massey, Professor Arrowsmith was at Warwick Business School in the UK where he was involved in a number of large-scale and international research projects funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, as well as commissioned work for UK and international government departments.Abstract:
Every successful organisation needs to recruit and retain high-quality employees, and to manage and motivate them effectively.Employers increasingly need to harness workers’ skills, commitment and creativity to meet the challenges of intense competition and technological change. They must also compete for staff, addressing emerging employee expectations around challenging and fulfilling work, career development and work-life balance as well as staples such as pay and job security.
The need for strategies and systems around people management has, therefore, never been greater. The paradox for human resource management professionals is that they all too often remain part of a Cinderella function - hard working, unloved by management and labour, and excluded from the corporate ball. In his talk, Professor Arrowsmith explores why this happens and why it matters, emphasizing the positive potential of HRM to improve management and employee performance in the New Zealand context.
Wednesday 1 June Professor
Jim Arrowsmith
Email: Professorial-Lectures@massey.ac.nz Phone: (09) 414 0800 ext 9555
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Halving human poverty by 2015 – Understanding Organisational Psychology
Biography:
Stuart Carr is a Professor of Psychology at the Industrial and Organizational Psychology Programme, Massey University, Albany.He coordinates the Poverty Research Group, an international network focused on interdisciplinary approaches to reducing poverty. He also co-convenes the Global Task Force for Humanitarian Work Psychology, which promotes decent work aligned with local stakeholder needs, and in partnership with global development agencies. He was the lead investigator on Project ADDUP, a multi-country study of pay and remuneration diversity in developing economies. Professor Carr has worked and lived in the UK, Malawˆi, Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, and New Zealand. His books are among the first to examine poverty reduction from the perspective of industrial and organizational, work psychology.
He co-edits the Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, which has a focus on development, and is an Associate Editor with the Journal of Managerial Psychology.
Abstract:
Halving human poverty by 2015 is the major target for the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals. Grand plans require all the perspectives they can muster, and they need to be anchored in everyday realities. Organisations, and the work people in them do, are critical for achieving that grounding. Understanding their organisational psychology is one key to efficiency, effectiveness and motivation.This presentation spans major ‘multi-laterals’ like the UN itself to the smallest of NGOs from lower and higher-income countries; educational institutions; government departments; and for-profit multi-nationals to micro and medium enterprises. What unifies them all is a need for fresh and practical ideas on old issues in poverty reduction - globally and regionally.
Wednesday 2 March Professor
Stuart Carr
These lectures are free and open to members of the public Geometry and the nature of nutrition
Biography:
David Raubenheimer was born and grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. He completed a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science at the University of Cape Town, before moving to Oxford in 1987 to do a PhD in insect nutrition. In 1991 he took up a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Cape Town, and in 1992 returned to Oxford as Lecturer in the Zoology Department and Tutorial Fellow at Magdalen College.In 2003 he moved to New Zealand, where he is currently Professor of Nutritional Ecology at the Institute of Natural Sciences at Massey University, Albany. Professor Raubenheimer is also a Theme Leader in the National Research Centre for Growth and Development. His research focuses on comparative nutritional ecology, with an emphasis on field studies. His work spans marine and terrestrial systems, and a wide range of species including insects, spiders, fish, birds and mammals, including humans and non-human primates.
Abstract:
Nutrition is a complex process of matching multiple and dynamic nutrient needs to variable, changing and sometimes hostile foods. And yet animals have evolved highly effective regulatory strategies for dealing with this complexity. For biologists, however, the challenge remains of how to understand – and, in many cases to manage (e.g.animal husbandry, conservation biology and human nutrition) - these complex processes. Professor Raubenheimer will show how simple geometry can be used for this.
He introduces the basic concepts of a geometric framework for nutrition, with current examples from his research demonstrating how this framework has been applied. Examples span a range of species (from insects to monkeys, gorillas and humans), research contexts (from laboratory studies to free-ranging animals in the wild) and research questions. Among the findings he will present is new evidence that challenges the long-standing belief that restricting energy intake prolongs lifespan, and the results of experiments that provide new insights into the dietary causes of human obesity.
Wednesday 6 April Professor
David Raubenheimer
Counting the elements: earth, fire, water, air and life. The relevance of mathematics in modern life.
Biography:
Graeme Wake has gained four degrees (including two doctorates) in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from Victoria University, Wellington. In 1986 he was appointed Professor of Mathematics at Massey University, Manawatu. He later became Professor of Applied Mathematics and served six years as Head of Department. In 2003 he took up his present position of Professor of Industrial Mathematics in the Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences, Albany. Now, as Director at the Centre for Mathematics in Industry he works with industries to provide specific expertise for new developments and problem solving requiring mathematical knowledge.Professor Wake is internationally renowned for his work in creating a robust criterion to determine the critical conditions for spontaneous ignition of combustible materials, and a generic framework of theory for describing the growth of living cells. He is an investigator with the National Research Centre for Growth and Development working in mathematical models of life history and the physiology of gene expression, and is also involved with Massey’s Manawatu-based Riddet Institute.
Abstract:
An article titled “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics…” was published in 1960; it noted the remarkable success mathematics has in helping humankind in understanding the world (and beyond) in which we live. Fifty years later we stand somewhat vulnerably at a cross-road: there is more and more increasingly-advanced mathematics available, much underpinning almost everything we do, yet less and less of it is accessible to those who depend on what is described.This leads to an important question: Does it matter? The title of this lecture includes the four crucial ingredients of our human experience enunciated by the ancient Greeks; in this talk and using visual material and personal anecdotes, four more detailed areas of personal experience will be described. Informed by mathematical description and analysis, they are: when/where/how materials spontaneously ignite; farm animal and human growth; cancer cell growth; and gene expression.
