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Leadership awareness: Developing an engaged workforce

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Executive Education

9.00am - 4.30pm

Curtin 137 St Georges Terrace, Perth

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Cost

$1390 general public and $1290 for Curtin alumni, students and staff
Please note: If this program is rescheduled or cancelled, a full refund or credit note to use at another Executive Education program valued at the same price will be provided

Designed and delivered in partnership with ECU

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The environment we live and work in is fast changing, technologically and geographically distributed, and extremely diverse. The work that people do is becoming increasingly complex, interdependent, and knowledge intensive. Hence, to a greater extent than ever before, getting things done requires an ability to get things done with and through other people, and this requires effective leadership and a high level of employee engagement.

In partnership with ECU, two leading academics have designed this two-day intensive masterclass to set the stage for leadership development, with a focus on the issues and challenges of leading responsibly today. This masterclass takes an interactional approach to leadership and explores how the leader, followers, and the environment jointly influence each other. The increasingly dynamic and complexity of the world we are operating in makes the task of leading responsibly more difficult, uncertain, and complex. Therefore, we especially focus on developing morally decent and responsible leadership skills, that will engage and attract, rather than alienate and disengage employees.

Through interactive class activities, simulations, case studies, team discussions, and exercises, participants will be able to develop key insights into themselves as leaders, how they affect their followers and the environment, leading from the middle, ethical and moral requirements of leaders, and leading diverse teams.  

This masterclass is designed and delivered in partnership with Edith Cowan University

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About the facilitators

Professor Irene de Pater

Professor Irene de Pater is Professor of Business Psychology at Edith Cowan University’s School of Business and Law and senior research fellow at the Centre for Work + Wellbeing. She is a leading academic in the field of organisational behaviour, with a strong focus on – and expertise in – how employees react to and can deal effectively with the challenges they have at work and the consequences these challenges have for both their work and wellbeing. Irene’s research addresses, among others, leadership, interpersonal misbehaviour in the workplace, emotion regulation in interpersonal interactions, and employee voice.

Irene’s research has accumulated into a thorough understanding of leader and employee behaviours that are critical for employees’ work motivation, effective functioning, and wellbeing. It has been published in scholarly journals such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behaviour, and Personnel Psychology. Irene serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Organizational Behaviour and is an active reviewer for numerous scientific journals in business and psychology.

Associate Professor Amy Tian

Associate Professor Amy Tian, works at the School of Management and Marketing, Curtin Business School. Prior to joining Curtin University, she worked at University of Western Australia and Cardiff University (UK). In addition, she has been a visiting scholar at universities in the People’s Republic of China, Germany, UK, and US. Her research is multidisciplinary and her main areas of research include human resource management, knowledge transfer, leadership, and multiculturalism. A key theme throughout her work is how to promote positive employee work-related outcomes and organisational performance. Her work has been published in international top tier academic journals and practitioner-oriented publishing outlets such as Harvard Business Review, where she has been recognised for her expertise in HRM, leadership, and knowledge transfer. Dr Tian has also received multiple scholarly and teaching awards.