The University of Western Australia

Professor Roger Smith

Senior Honorary Research Fellow
Management and Organisations

Contact details

Address

Management and Organisations
The University of Western Australia (M404)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 1441

Fax

6488 1072

Email

roger.smith@uwa.edu.au

Qualifications

BSc DipEd W.Aust., MBA Sask., PhD Bath, CMC, FIMC

Biography

PhD (Bath) MBA (Sask.) BSc DipEd (UWA) FIMC (Aust) CMC FAFBE

Roger’s career has been extensive and has included fifteen years in the chemical and mining industries in Australia and Canada in the areas of production management, systems analysis and training and development. He also spent 5 years in the 1970’s as a university senior lecturer specialising in organisational analysis, design and development, corporate planning and human resource management.

For the period 1982-1996 he worked as a management consultant and is still a Director of Intrain, a Perth based consulting company. As well as consulting to a number of local organisations he worked on many overseas projects in Indonesia, Nepal, Malaysia, Thailand, Fiji and Mauritius either in the private sector or with UNDP, ILO, AusAID or the World Bank (IBRD). He has also jointly owned and operated a private education export business in WA.

Currently he is a Professorial Fellow in the faculty of the Business School. His teaching specialities are International Management, Management and Consulting and Business Strategies for the Asia Pacic Region. In 2005 he taught the strategy and consulting units in a Summer Session at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington State, USA.

His text on management consulting "Mind for Hire" and an earlier book, "Maxims for Managers" followed two co-authored books, "The Jindalee Factor" and "From Black Hole to Blue Sky". He is currently working on a practical guide for managers on "Going Global" and has produced a set of class readings for students called “Management Allsorts”.

Key research

Qualitative research in international management and training and development. Developing concepts and views on management and organisations.

Publications

Career 10 best

Hosie, P.J., Smith, R.C. 2009, "A Future for Organisational Behaviour?", European Business Review (Bingley), 21, 3, pp. 215-232.

Smith, Roger C. (2008) “The Means End Dilemma – When the Strategic Plan Becomes a Straight Jacket.” AFBE Journal. Vol 1. August (Electronic Journal)

Smith, Roger C. (2008) “The Organisation’s Underworld – Unofficial Work Systems as the Real Performance Drivers.” Paper presented at the 2008 AFBE Conference held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 3-4 December

Smith, Roger C. (2007). “Educating the Metamanager: a New Breed of Leader”, Business Strategy Series. Vol 8 No. 4 Pps 240-245

Smith, R.C. 2005, “Buying EQ and SQ - take another look at what you're getting”, Asian Forum on Business Education 2005 Conference, Thailand, CD-ROM, pp. Key note Address (CD- Rom) (see comment below).

Smith, R.C. 2004, “The application dilemma - a sceptic's perspective”, Management Decision, 42, 3/4, pp. 542-551.

Smith, Roger C. (2004). “An Analysis of the Avis Case”. Case Folio. ICFAI Press Hyderabad, India. February 2004. Pps 22-23

Smith, Roger C. (2004). “An Analysis of the Yukos Case”, Case Folio. ICFAI Press Hyderabad, India. June 2004. Pps 26-28

Smith, R.C. 2004, “Organisational Culture as Paradigm - The Structure of Revolutionary Change”, Third Global Conference on Business & Economics, Lynchburg, USA, CD ROM, pp. 159-163.

Hosie, P.J., Smith, R.C., Gunningham, C.J. (2003), “Organisational Behaviour: Back to the Future”, Journal of Doing Business Across Borders, 2, 2, pp. 5-18.

Recent Publications

Journal Articles (Schol Refereed Journal)

Hosie, P.J., Smith, R.C. 2009, "A Future for Organisational Behaviour?", European Business Review (Bingley), 21, 3, pp. 215-232.

Smith, Roger C. (2008) “The Means End Dilemma – When the Strategic Plan Becomes a Straight Jacket.” AFBE Journal. Vol 1. August (Electronic Journal)

Smith, Roger C. (2007). “Educating the Metamanager: a New Breed of Leader”, Business Strategy Series. Vol 8 No. 4 Pps 240-245

Smith, R.C. 2004, “The application dilemma - a sceptic's perspective”, Management Decision, 42, 3/4, pp. 542-551.

Smith, Roger C. (2004). “An Analysis of the Avis Case”. Case Folio. ICFAI Press Hyderabad, India. February 2004. Pps 22-23

Smith, Roger C. (2004). “An Analysis of the Yukos Case”, Case Folio. ICFAI Press Hyderabad, India. June 2004. Pps 26-28

Full Refereed Conference Publications

Smith, Roger C. (2008) “The Organisation’s Underworld – Unofficial Work Systems as the Real Performance Drivers.” Paper presented at the 2008 AFBE Conference held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 3-4 December

Smith, R.C. (2005) “Buying EQ and SQ - take another look at what you're getting”, Asian Forum on Business Education 2005 Conference, Thailand, CD-ROM, pp. Key note Address (CD- Rom) (see comment below).

Smith, R.C. (2004) “Organisational Culture as Paradigm - The Structure of Revolutionary Change”, Third Global Conference on Business & Economics, Lynchburg, USA, CD ROM, pp. 159-163.

Roles, responsibilities and expertise

management consulting and executive mentoring

Languages

Basic Bahasa Indonesia

Memberships

Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants (FIMC) and Certified Management
Consultant (CMC) (Past National Vice President of IMC Australia)
Fellow of the Asian Forum on Business Education (FAFBE)
Past Member of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management

Honours and awards

Recommended for a postgraduate teaching award at the Business School at UWA in 2008.

Previous positions

2007-2008 Senior Research Fellow/Director Jakarta MBA program at the UWA Business School
2005-2006 Visiting Professorial Fellow / Director of the GSM’s MBA programme in Jakarta at the UWA Graduate School of Management
Visiting Professor at Gonzaga University, Washington State, USA
1997-2004 Teaching position at UWA GSM. Appointed as Director of International Programmes at Professorial Fellow level in 2000
1993/1996 External lecturer in UWA GSM MBA programme
1990-2005 Director, Compass International Pty Ltd (management consultants)
1984-Present Owner/Director, Intrain (management consulting and training services).
1984 Acting Director of University of Western Australia Centre for Applied Business Research
1981/1983 Senior Consultant, WAIT-AID Ltd (WAIT's consulting Company)
1976/1981 Senior Lecturer, Department of Management, WAIT (Western Australian Institute of Technology now Curtin University of Technology)

Teaching

Units in International Management, Management and Consulting and Business Strategies for the Asia Pacific Region

Current projects

Industrial Relevance
Teaching workshops on training and development, human resource management and management consulting with the UWA Extension Services

Links with Industry
Linked to industry via membership of the Institute of Management Consultants Australia

Collaborations with Other Institutions
Research links with University of Wollongong in Dubai and Gonzaga University in Spokane, USA

Research profile

Research profile and publications