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Robert Westwood

Dr Robert WESTWOOD

Contact

Telephone + 61 73365 6667
Facsimile +61 7 3365 6988
Email b.westwood@business.uq.edu.au
Location Room 323, Colin Clark Building (39) St Lucia

Positions Held

Reader in Organisation and Communication
Visiting Professor, Management Centre, University of Leicester

Academic Qualifications

Degree Institution Field Year
PhD University of Bath Organisation
MA University of Sheffield Psychology
BA Dual Hons University of Sheffield Philosophy and Psychology

Memberships

  • 2006- Member, Editorial Board - Critical Perspectives on International Business.
  • 2002- Member, International Advisory Board - Language and Intercultural Communication
  • 2000- Member, Editorial Board - Organisation Studies
  • 2005-8: Co-Editor - Culture and Organisations.
  • 2001-5: Associate Editor - Culture and Organisations
  • 1986-9: Founder and Editor, Southeast Asian Network for Organisation Studies (SEANOS) and SEANOS Bulletin

Major Research Grants

Year Title of Grant Granting Agency Amount
2005 Culture Change for a Sustainable Future: Strategy, Culture and Subculture in Queensland Health. With Neil Paulson, Patty Renfrow, Tom Bramble, Patricia Rowe (UQBS) in partnership with Queensland Health. ARC Linkage Grant 330,000 (over 3 years)
2001-2005 Predictors of Performance: Psychological Testing and Subsequent Performance of NSW Police Service Recruits. With Prof. Robert Wood (AGSM) and Prof. Murray Barrick (Michegan State University). Sir Maurice Byers Research Fellowship Program 65,000
1997-99 Management, Employment Relations and Human Resources. With Paul Sparrow, University of Sheffield & S.M. Leung, School of Business, Hong Kong Baptist University. Hong Kong Management Association
1996-98 Managing Cross-Cultural Business Negotiations: Issues in Causal Relationships in a Chinese Cultural Context. With Shi Xinping and S.M. Leung, School of Business, Hong Kong Baptist University. Hong Kong Baptist U. Faculty Research Grant
1996-97 Measuring Culture in International Management: An International Collaborative Project. With Dr S. Scherling, Dept of International Business, CUHK, and in collaboration with Prof J.J. DiStfano (U. of Western Ontario) and Prof M.L. Maznevski (U. of Virginia). CUHK Direct Research Grant
1994-97 An Inquiry into the Meaning of Work in Hong Kong. With R. Chui, S.M. Leung, School of Business, Hong Kong Baptist University. HK Baptist U. Faculty Research Grant
1992-96 Women in Management in Hong Kong: An Investigation into the Position, Experience and Attendant Problems of Women Managers in Hong Kong. With H.Y. Ngo (Dept. of Mgt., CUHK and S.M. Leung, Faculty of Business HKBU. Hong Kong Research Grants Council Competitive Research Grant (ARC equivalent)
1992-95 Acculturating to the Australian Work Culture: The Employment and Work Experiences of Hong Kong Immigrants in Australia. CUHK Summer Research Grant
1992-94 An Inquiry into the Meaning of Work in the People's Republic of China. CUHK Direct Research Grant
1991-92 Expatriate Female Managers in Hong Kong. With S.M. Leung, Faculty of Business, HKBU. Gender Research Program: Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies Grant
1990-92 Managerial Values and Expectations in Malaysia. Malaysian Institute of Management and Konrad Adenaur Foundation
1990-92 Acculturation of Trainee Chinese Managers in a Sino-US Joint Venture. US Multinational Corporation
1990-91 Sexual Division of Labour at Work in Hong Kong. With H.Y. Ngo and S.M. Leung. Gender Research Program: Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies
1989-91 A Study of Hong Kong Managers' Values and Expectations With a View to International Comparison. CUHK Direct Research Grant and sponsored by the Hong Kong Management Association

Field of Current Research

Title of Research Area Brief Description
Culture Change for a Sustainable Future: Strategy, Culture The research is particularly concerned with the dynamics of change in a large public sector enterprise involved in a major strategic alignment process. It seeks to examine aspects of the change process with a particular focus on the role of organisational subcultures. It also seeks to examine the rhetoric of change - its deployment, reception and response. In part the examination includes a discursive approach to organisational change and involves discourse analysis.
Popular culture representations of management and organization as critical practice. This project concerns the examination of various representations of work, management and organization within popular culture. It takes the view that a sophisticated and nuanced critique of management and organisation is embodied in certain media representations and that a dynamic analytic is engendered by working between these representations and formal theory. The work has given rise to a book - Carl Rhodes & Robert Westwood, Critical Representations of Work and Organisation in Popular Culture, Routledge, 2008 as well as a number of conference and journal papers.
International and comparative management: A postcolonial critique This research provides a postcolonial analysis to international and comparative management studies (ICMS) considered as a discourse. Using notions from postcolonial theory such as orientalism, appropriation, alterity and hybridity to interrogate ICMS, the work seeks to reconfigure the field in terms of its epistemological, methodological, ethical and political commitments. There is a book to be published by Palgrave later in 2008: Westwood, R.I. & Jack, G. International and Cross-Cultural Management Studies: A Postcolonial Reading. The work has also generated journal and conference papers and other book chapters.
Humour in organisations Humour has been a relatively neglected area of research in management and organization studies despite a steady stream of work over the years. Much of the extant work has focused on functional accounts of humour in the workplace. There is a smaller strand of research that examines humour for its resistive potential and for its role in identity formation and identity work. This research is interested in these latter research trajectories. In addition to conference and journal papers the book - Westwood, R.I. & Rhodes, C. (eds.) Humour, Work and Organisation, Routledge, was published in 2007. I have a doctoral student working on these issues.

Publications

Books

Forthcoming/under Contract

  • Westwood, R.I. & Jack, G. International and Cross-Cultural Management Studies: A Postcolonial Reading. Under contract, Basingstoke: Palgrave, due for publication 2008.

Published

  • Rhodes, C. & Westwood, R.I. Critical Representations of Work and Organizations in Popular Culture. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2008.
  • Westwood, R.I. & Rhodes, C. (eds.) Humour, Work and Organisation., Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2007.
  • Westwood, R.I. & Clegg, S. (eds.) Debating Organisation: Point/Counterpoint in Organisation Studies. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003.
  • Westwood, R.I. and Linstead, S. (eds), The Language of Organisation. London: Sage. 2001.
  • Fosh, P., Chow, W., Chan, A.W., Snape, E. and Westwood, R.I. (eds), Hong Kong Management and Labour: Continuity and Change. London/NY: Routledge. 1999.
  • Westwood, R.I., Mehrain, T. and Cheung, F. Gender and Society in Hong Kong: A Statistical Profile. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute for Asia-Pacific Studies, Chinese University, 1995.
  • Westwood, R.I. (ed). Organisational Behaviour: Southeast Asian Perspectives, 1st. Ed. 440 pp. Hong Kong: Longman, 1992.
  • Westwood, R.I. Organisational Behaviour. (250 pages). Suva, Fiji: Extension Services, University of the South Pacific. 1985.

Book Chapters

  • Rhodes, C. & Westwood, R.I. 'Letting Knowledge Go: Ethics and Representation of the Other in International and Cross-Cultural Management', Ch. 5 in C. Carter, S.R. Clegg, M. Kornberger, S. Laske & M. Messner (eds.) Business Ethics as practice: Representation, Reflexivity and Performance. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2007.
  • Westwood, R.I. 'Humour' in S. Clegg & J.R. Bailey (eds) International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2007.
  • Westwood, R.I. 'Postcolonial Theory' in S. Clegg & J.R. Bailey (eds) International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2007.
  • Westwood, R.I. & Rhodes, C. (2007) "Humour and the Study of Organizations", pp. 1-13, in R. I. Westwood & C. Rhodes, C. (eds.) Humour, Work and Organisation., Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
  • Westwood, R.I. (2007) "Theory as Joke: A Hysterical Perturbation", pp, 45-73, in R. I. Westwood & C. Rhodes, C. (eds.) Humour, Work and Organisation., Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
  • Johnston, A., Mumby, D & Westwood, R.I. (2007) "Representing the Unrepresentable: Gender, Humour and Organisation", pp. 139-157, in R. I. Westwood & C. Rhodes, C. (eds.) Humour, Work and Organisation., Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
  • Westwood, R.I. (2007) "The Staging of Humour: Organising and Managing Comedy", pp, 271-298 in R. I. Westwood & C. Rhodes, C. (eds.) Humour, Work and Organisation., Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
  • Westwood, R.I. "Shiny, happy people or Eros rampant: Re-configuring motivation theory?" In D. Boje, J. Brewis, S. Linstead and A. O'Shea (eds.). The Passion of Organising. Copenhagen/Oslo: Copenhagen Business School Press, 2006.
  • Westwood, R.I. "Towards a Post-Colonial Research Paradigm in International Business and Comparative Management". R. Marschan-Piekkari and C. Welch (eds) Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods for International Business, pp. 56-83, Cheltenham, UK and
  • Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2004.
  • Westwood, R.I. and Clegg, S. "The Discourse of Organisation Studies: Dissensus, Politics and Paradigms". In R.I Westwood & S. Clegg, (eds.) Debating Organisation: Point/Counterpoint in Organisation Studies, pp. 1-42. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003
  • Westwood, R.I. 'A 'Sampled' Account of Organization: Being a De-Authored, Reflexive Parody of Organization/Writing.' In Linstead, S. (ed.), Text/Work: Representing Organization and Organizing Representation, London: Routledge, 2003.
  • Kirkbride, P.S. & Westwood, R.I. "Managing Across Cultural Divides: Is It Really a Problem?" In P. Kirkbride and Karen Ward (eds.) Globalisation: the Internal Dynamic. (pp. 79-112). Chichester,/New York: Wiley, 2001.
  • Westwood, R.I. and Linstead, S. "Language/Organisation: Introduction". In Westwood, R.I. and Linstead, S. (eds), The Language of Organisation. (pp. 1-19). London: Sage. 2001
  • Linstead, S. and Westwood, R.I. "Meaning Beyond Language: Monstrous Openings". In Westwood, R.I. and Linstead, S. (eds) The Language of Organisation. (pp. 329-346). London: Sage. 2001.
  • Westwood, R.I. "Appropriating the 'Other' in the Discourses of Comparative Management". In Westwood, R.I. and Linstead, S. (eds) The Language of Organisation. (pp.241-282). London: Sage. 2001.
  • Westwood, R.I. & Kirkbride, P.S. "International Strategies of Corporate Culture Change: Emulation, Consumption and Hybridity" In U. Haley (ed), Strategic Management in the Asia Pacific: Harnessing Regional and Organisational Change for Competitive Advantage, Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann. 2000.
  • Westwood, R.I.& Kirkbride, P.S. "Asian Corporate Symbols in Rapidly Changing Times". In U. Haley (ed), Strategic Management in the Asia Pacific: Harnessing Regional and Organisational Change for Competitive Advantage, Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann. 2000.
  • Shi X. & Westwood, R.I. "International Business Negotiations in the Chinese Context" In J.T. Li, A. Tsui, & E. Weldon (eds) Management and Organisations in Chinese Contexts. (pp.185-221). Basingstoke: Macmillan. 2000.
  • Westwood, R.I. and Leung, S.M. "The Meaning of Work: The Reconfiguration of Work and Working in Hong Kong and Beijing." In P. Fosh, W. Chow, A.W. Chan, E. Snape and R.I. Westwood (eds) Hong Kong Management and Labour: Continuity and Change. (pp. 127-150), London/NY: Routledge. 1999.
  • Westwood, R.I. and Leung, S.M. and Choi, R. "Women in Management: Between Pragmatism and Patriarchy". In P. Fosh, W. Chow, A.W. Chan, E. Snape and R.I. Westwood (eds) Hong Kong Management and Labour: Continuity and Change. (pp. 199-219), London/NY: Routledge. 1999.
  • Fosh, P., Ng, C., Snape, E. & Westwood, R.I. "Labour and Management In Hong Kong At The End Of The Twentieth Century: Management and Labour Trends" In P. Fosh, W. Chow, A.W. Chan, E. Snape and R.I. Westwood (eds) Hong Kong Management and Labour: Continuity and Change. (pp. 3- 24), London/NY: Routledge. 1999.
  • Westwood, R.I. "The Impact of Culture on Business and Management in Asia" In A.E. Safarian & W. Dobson (eds), The People Link: Human Resource Linkages Across the Pacific. (pp: 13-72). Hong Kong Bank of Canada Papers on Asia, Volume 3. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997.
  • Westwood, R.I., Ngo, Hang-Yue, & Leung, Shuk-Mei, "The Politics of Opportunity: Work and Gender in Hong Kong. Part 1: The Gendered Segmentation of the Labour Market". In F.M.C. Cheung (Ed.) Engendering Hong Kong Society: A Gender Perspective of Woman's Status. (pp. 41-99). Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1997.

  • Westwood, R.I. "The Politics of Opportunity: Work and Gender in Hong Kong. Part 2: The Vertical Dimension and Theoretical Accounts of the Sexual Division of Labour at Work". In F.M.C. Cheung (Ed.) Engendering Hong Kong Society: A Gender Perspective of Woman's Status. (pp. 101-156). Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1997.
  • Westwood, R.I. 'Women and Productivity: Hong Kong'. In Women and Productivity. (pp. 149-177). Tokyo: The Asian Productivity Organisation. 1996.
  • Westwood, R.I. "Language, Meaning and Power: A New Paradigm for Organisation Development". In D. Cole, J.C. Preston and J. Finlay (eds.), What's New in Organisational Development. (pp. 139-150). Chesterland, Ohio: The Organisation Development Institute, 1994.
  • Kirkbride, P.S. and Westwood, R.I. "Hong Kong". In R.B. Peterson (ed), Managers and National Culture: A Global Perspective. (pp. 321-347). Westpoint, Connecticut: Greenwood Pub. Co. 1993.
  • Westwood, R.I. "Introducing Organisational Behaviour". In R.I. Westwood (ed), Organisational Behaviour: Southeast Asian Perspectives, (pp. 3-26). Hong Kong: Longman, 1992.
  • Westwood, R.I. "Culture, Cultural Differences and Organisational Behaviour". In R.I. Westwood (ed), Organisational Behaviour: Southeast Asian Perspectives, (pp. 27-62). Hong Kong: Longman, 1992.
  • Westwood, R.I. "Organisational Rationale and Structure". In R.I. Westwood (ed), Organisational Behaviour: Southeast Asian Perspectives, (pp. 93-117). Hong Kong: Longman, 1992.
  • Westwood, R.I. "The Meaning and Experience of Work". In R.I. Westwood (ed), Organisational Behaviour: Southeast Asian Perspectives, (pp. 201-242). Hong Kong: Longman, 1992.
  • Westwood, R.I. "On Motivation and Work". In R.I. Westwood (ed), Organisational Behaviour: Southeast Asian Perspectives, (pp. 285-316). Hong Kong: Longman, 1992.
  • Westwood, R.I. "Convergence, Persistence and Difference". In R.I. Westwood (ed), Organisational Behaviour: Southeast Asian Perspectives, (pp. 407-432). Hong Kong: Longman, 1992.
  • Westwood, R.I. and Chan, A. "Headship and Leadership". In R.I. Westwood (ed), Organisational Behaviour: Southeast Asian Perspectives, (pp. 118-143). Hong Kong: Longman, 1992.
  • Westwood, R.I. and Chua, B.L. "Power, Politics and Influence". In R.I. Westwood (ed), Organisational Behaviour: Southeast Asian Perspectives, (pp. 144-172). Hong Kong: Longman, 1992.
  • Westwood, R.I. "Social Criticism: A Social Critical Practice Applied to a Discourse on Participation". In, I.L. Mangham (ed), Organisation Analysis and Development. London: John Wiley and Sons, 1987.
  • Westwood, R.I. "The Nature, Function and Structure of Organisations and the Place of Persons Within Them". In E.Kikau (ed), Foundation Administration. USP, Suva, Fiji: USP Press. 1985.

Refereed Journal Papers And Conference Proceedings

  • Westwood, R.I. & Jack, G. "Clark Kerr, the CIA and the Cold War, and De-/Re-Colonisation: Conditions for the Emergence of International Business and Management Studies". Accepted for presentation at the Asia-Pacific Researchers in Organization Studies (APROS) Colloquium, New Delhi, India, December 9 - 12, 2007
  • Wong, R. & Westwood, R.I. "Breaching Merton's Code: Public Research Scientists Coping with Commercialisation." Paper presented at the Annual Academy of Management Conference, Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 2-8, 2007.
  • Westwood, R.I. & Jack, G. "Manifesto for a Postcolonial International Business and Management Studies: A Provocation." Critical Perspectives on International Business, 3(3): 246-265, 2007.
  • Westwood, R.I. "International Business and Management Studies as an Orientalist Discourse: A Postcolonial Critique", Critical Perspectives on International Business, 2(2), 2006.
  • Jack, G. & Westwood, R.I "Postcolonialism and the Politics of Qualitative Research in International Business", Management International Review, 46(4): 481. 2006.
  • Rhodes, C. & Westwood, R.I. "Levinasian Ethics and the Representation of the Other in International and Cross-Cultural Management" Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the European Academy of Management, Munich, May, 2005.
  • Lok, P., Westwood, R. & Crawford, J. "The Significance of Organisational Subculture for Organisational Commitment". Applied Psychology: An International Review. 54(4): 490-514. 2005.
  • Westwood, R.I., Chan, A. and Linstead, S. "Rethinking Reciprocity: The Social Ethics of Chinese Employment Relations" The Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 21(3): 365-389, 2004.
  • Westwood, R.I. "Comic Relief: Subversion and Catharsis in Organisational Comedic Theatre." Organisation Studies, 25(5): 775-795, 2004.
  • Bergin, J. & Westwood, R.I. "The Necessities of Violence" Culture and Organisation, 9(4): 211-223, 2003.
  • Westwood, R.I. and Low, D. "The Multicultural Muse: Culture, Creativity and Innovation". International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 3(2): 233-257, 2003.
  • Westwood, R.I. 'Positions of Intelligibility and Spaces of Articulation' Proceedings of the Symposium for the 21st Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism Organizational wellness: mens sana in corporate sano? University of Cambridge, UK, 9th - 12th July, 2003.
  • Westwood, R.I. and Lok, P. "The Meaning of Work in Chinese Contexts: A Comparative Study". International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 3(2): 139-164, 2003.
  • Westwood, R.I. 'Institutional Violence: An Autobiographical Account' Culture and Organisation, 9(4): 2003.
  • Adelstein, J. & Westwood, R.I. 'The Legitimizing Process of Knowledge Work: Formation of the Discourse'. Proceedings of The British Academy of Management Annual Conference, 'Knowledge into Practice', Leeds Business School, Leeds, UK. Sept. 15th - 17th, 2003,
  • Rhodes, C. & Westwood, R.I. "Does McDonald's Really Suck? Comparing Perspectives from Sociology and TV Animation" Proceedings of SCOS XXI Conference, Cambridge, July 2003.
  • Westwood, R.I., Sparrow, P. & Leung, S.M. "Challenges to the Psychological Contract in Hong Kong", International Journal of Human Resources Management, 12(4): 621-651, 2001.
  • Westwood, R.I. and Leung, S.M. "Acculturating to the Australian Work Environment", International Employment Relations Review, 6(1): 61-88, 2000.
  • Westwood, R.I. "A 'Sampled' Account of Organisation: Being a De-Authored, Reflexive Parody of Organisation/Writing". Studies in Cultures, Organisations and Societies, 5: 195-233, 1999.
  • Westwood, R.I. & Kirkbride, P.S. "International Strategies of Corporate Culture Change: Emulation, Consumption and Hybridity" Journal of Organisational Change Management, 11(6): 554-577, 1998.
  • Westwood, R.I. and Leung, S.M. "Between Dogma and Reality: Women and Employment in China" International Employment Relations Review, 4(1). 1998.
  • Westwood, R.I & Leung, S.M "Between Patriarchy and Opportunity: Women and Employment in Hong Kong" International Employment Relations Review, 3(1): 109-128, 1997.
  • Westwood, R.I. "Harmony and Patriarchy: The Cultural Basis for 'Headship' in East Asia", Organisation Studies 18(3):445-480, 1997
  • Westwood, R.I. and Posner, B.Z. "Managerial Values Across Cultures: Australia, Hong Kong and the United States". Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 14(1): 31-66, 1997.
  • Martinsons, M.G. and Westwood, R.I. "Management Information Systems Use in the Chinese Business Culture: An Explanatory Theory" Information and Management, 32(5): 215-228, 1997.
  • Westwood, R.I. and Leung, S.M. 'The Meaning of Work and Motivation in China: Implications for Joint Ventures', Proceedings of the International Management Development Association's Fifth Annual World Business Congress, Bermuda, July, 1996.
  • Westwood, R.I. and Leung, S.M. "Working Under the Reforms: The Experience and Meaning of Work in a Time of Transition". In M. Brosseau, S. Pepper and S.K. Tsang (eds) China Review. (pp. 367-423). Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1996.
  • Westwood, R.I. and Everett, J.E. "Comparative Managerial Values: Malaysia and the West". Journal of Asia-Pacific Business, 1(3): 3-37, 1995.
  • Westwood, R.I. and Chan, A. "The Transferability of Leadership Training in the East Asian Context". Asia Pacific Business Review, 2(1): 68-92, 1995.
  • Westwood, R.I. "Culture, Information and MIS: The U.S. and East Asia Compared", Journal of Management Systems, 7(1): 29-44, 1995.
  • Posner, B.Z. and Westwood, R.I. "An International Perspective on the Impact of Shared Values". International Journal of Value-Based Management, 4(2): 75-98, 1995.
  • Westwood, R.I. and Leung, S.M. "The Female Expatriate Experience: Coping with Gender and Culture". International Studies of Management and Organisation, 24(3): 64-85, 1994.
  • Orhant, M. and Westwood, R.I. (eds.) Women in Management in Asia. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Women in Management in Asia, (256 pages) Hong Kong: Dept. of Management, Faculty of Business Administration/Gender Research Programme, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1993.
  • Westwood, R.I. "Women in Management in Asia: An Introduction and Overview". In M. Orhant and R.I. Westwood (eds) Women in Management in Asia. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Women in Management in Asia, Hong Kong: Dept. of Management, Faculty of Business Administration/Gender Research Programme, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1993.
  • Westwood, R.I. and Leung, S.M. "Embracing mammon: The Acculturation of PRC Trainee Managers to U.S. Business Culture". Proceedings of the 2nd. World Business Congress of the International Management Development Association, (pp.713-726), Turku, Finland, 1993.
  • Westwood, R.I. and Leung, S.M. "Expatriate Female Managers in Hong Kong: A Gweipo, Not a Woman". Proceedings of the First International Conference on Expatriate Management (pp. 157-168). Hong Kong: Hong Kong Baptist College, 1992.
  • Westwood, R.I. "The Myth of the Masculine Manager". Business Asia, 24:42, (12), 1992.
  • Kirkbride, P.S., Tang. S.F.Y. and Westwood, R.I. "Chinese Conflict Style and Negotiating Behaviour: Cultural and Psychological Influences". Organisation Studies, 12:3 (365-386), 1991.
  • Westwood, R.I., Tang, S.F.Y. and Kirkbride, P.S. and. "Chinese Conflict Behaviour: Cultural Antecedents and Behavioural Consequences". Organisation Development Journal, 10:2 (13-20), 1991.
  • Westwood, R.I. "Managerial Values and Practices: Convergent or Divergent Trends". Malaysian Management Review, 26:1 (13-36), 1991.
  • Tang, S.F.Y. and Westwood, R.I. "CHRIS in Hong Kong: Updated Data and Prospects". Human Resources Journal, 6(1): 2 31, 1990.
  • Westwood, R.I. "Models for Chinese Enterprise Management". Proceedings of the 2nd. China Trade Seminar, China Economic Research Centre, University of East Asia, Macau, Feb. 1988.
  • Westwood, R.I. "Management Education in the PRC". International Education Review, 1:2, 16-21, 1988.
  • Westwood, R.I. and Everett, J. "Culture's Consequences: A Methodology for Comparative Management Studies in South East Asia?" Asia-Pacific Journal of Management, 4:3, 1987.
  • Westwood, R.I. "Work as Waste: Speculations on the Cultural Boundedness of Work and Organisation". Pacific Journal of Management, 2:2, 1984.

Conference And Working Papers

  • Westwood, R.I & Ferrier, E. "Tom Peters Live At...: The Surfaces of Management." Presented at the Symposium, Aesthesis and Organizations in the Popular Media, symposium hosted by The School of Management and ICAN Research Centre, University of Technology, Sydney, 19th April, 2007.
  • Westwood, R.I. "The Machine in the (g)Host: At the Limits of Body and Identity in Transhumanism and the Posthuman." Paper presented at the 2nd. Colloquium of the Australasian Caucus of the
  • Standing Conference of Organisational Symbolism, Auckland, December, 2006.
  • McKechnie, M. & Westwood, R.I. Short-Skirt/Long Jacket: The invocation of popular culture in organisational socialisation practices. Paper presented at the Work, Industrial Relations and Popular Culture Conference, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, 25 September, 2006.
  • McManus, J. & Westwood R.I. "A Kleinian Analysis of Organisations - Implications for Competitive Activity." Paper presented at the Annual International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations Symposium, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 2006.
  • Wong, R. & Westwood, R.I. "Breaching Merton's Code: Public Research Scientists Coping with Commercialisation." Paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organisations, Prato, Italy, July, 2006.
  • Johnston, A. & Westwood, R.I. "Comedians at Work: Managing and Organising a Comedic Performance." Paper presented at the Australasian Humour Scholars Network Colloquium, Swinburne University, Melbourne, 18-19 April 2006.
  • Rhodes, C. & Westwood, R.I. "Organizations, Organization Studies and the Mimetic Excess of Popular Culture", paper presented at The Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism XXIII, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 8 - 10 July 2005.
  • Westwood, R.I. & Rhodes, C. "Playing with Ourselves: Spaces for Australian Organisation and Management Studies" paper presented at the inaugural Australasian Caucus of the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism (SCOS) on Boundaries, Bounded, Unbounded: Positions in Organisation Studies, University of Queensland, December 2004
  • Westwood, R.I. & Johnston, A. "From the Rag Trade to AbFab: Women, Work and Class in British Sitcoms." Paper presented at the 2nd. Art of Management and Organisation Conference, Paris, September 2004.
  • Westwood, R.I. and Muirhead, G. "Idols Vs B.U.M.S.: Manufactured and Natural Networks on the Route to Fame." Paper presented at the 20th. EGOS Colloquium Ljubljana University, Slovenia, July 2004.
  • Linstead, S. & Westwood, R.I. 'Violent Language: Monstrous Openings to Organising Beyond Meaning' paper presented at the XIX International SCOS Conference - Organisations, Institutions and Violence, Trinity College, Dublin, 30 June to 4 July, 2001
  • Westwood, R.I. 'Institutional Violence: An Autobiographical Account', paper presented at the XIX International SCOS Conference - Organisations, Institutions and Violence, Trinity College, Dublin, 30 June to 4 July, 2001.
  • Westwood, R.I., 'Pratting About in the Boardroom: Corporate Jesters and the Humour of Challenge, Catharsis and Recuperation', paper presented at the 17th EGOS Colloquium, Lyon, 5-8 July 2001.
  • Westwood, R.I. 'Shiney, Happy People: Or Eros Rampant - The Systematic Promotion of the Positive and Elision of the Negative in Western Motivation Theory', paper presented at the Critical Management Studies Conference, Manchester, 11-13 July 2001.
  • Westwood, R.I & Gudergan, S. "Meaning of Work Pattern Structures in Two Chinese Contexts." The Seventh Cross-Cultural Research Conference, Cancun, Mexico, December 12-15, 1999.
  • Martinsons, M. & Westwood, R.I. "The Nature of Chinese Information Management and Business Communications", Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Academy of Management, Boston, Aug. 10-13, 1997.
  • Shi, X., Leung, S.M. and Westwood, R.I. 'Cross-Cultural Business Negotiation: Review and Research in an Indigenous Cultural Context', Paper presented at the Cross-Cultural Management in China Conference, Hong Kong Baptist University, August, 1997.
  • Westwood, R.I. and Leung, S.M. 'The Meaning of Work and Motivation in China: Implications for Joint Ventures', Paper presented at the International Management Development Association's Fifth Annual World Business Congress, Bermuda, July, 1996.
  • Westwood, R.I. "Reappraising Motivation Theories: Contrastive Conceptualisations from Far Eastern Cultures". Paper presented at the Inaugural Australian Industrial and Occupational Psychology Conference, Sydney, 1995
  • Westwood, R.I. "Women and Productivity: Hong Kong". Paper presented at the APO Study Meeting on Women and Productivity, Manila, Philippines, August 1994.
  • Posner, B.Z. and Westwood, R.I. "Managerial Values Across Cultures: Australia, Hong Kong and the United States". Paper presented at the 3rd. Annual Western Academy of Management International Conference, Brisbane, 1994.
  • Posner, B.Z. and Westwood, R.I. "An International Perspective on Shared Values". Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business, Mauii, Hawaii, Oct. 1993.
  • Westwood, R.I. "Harmony and Patriarchy: The Cultural Basis for 'Headship' in East Asia". Paper Presented at the Special Panel Session on Leadership Across Cultures: Is There A Difference, Annual Meeting of the Academy of International Business, Mauii, Hawaii, Oct. 1993.
  • Westwood, R.I. and Leung, S.M. "Expatriate Female Managers in Hong Kong: A Gweipo, Not a Woman". Paper presented at the First International Conference on Expatriate Management (pp. 157-168). Hong Kong: Hong Kong Baptist College, 1992.
  • Westwood, R.I. "The Politics of Opportunity: The Sexual Division of Labour at Work in Hong Kong". Paper presented to the Conference on Gender and Society: The Pacific Rim Experience. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong, May 1991. 41 pp.
  • Cremer, R.D. and Westwood, R.I. "Subcontracting Relationships and Small-Medium Businesses: Development or Dependency". Working Paper No.2, 27pp., Hong Kong: Faculty of Business Administration, CUHK, 1990.
  • Westwood, R.I. "The Convergence-Divergence Debate and the Implications for Teaching OB in Southeast Asia". Paper presented at the First International Organisational Behaviour Teaching Conference, Singapore, National University of Singapore, Dec. 1990.
  • Kirkbride, P.S. and Westwood, R.I. "The Culturally Disjunctive Representation of a Corporate Culture in Hong Kong". Hong Kong: CUHK, Faculty of Business Administration, Working Paper, No.9, 1990.
  • Westwood, R.I. and Kirkbride, P.S. "Jonathan Livingston Seagull is Alive and Well and Living in Hong Kong: Cultural Disjuncture in the Symbolisation of Corporate Leadership". Paper presented to the Standing Conference on Organisational Symbolism 4th International Conference on Organisational Symbolism and Corporate Culture, INSEAD, Fontainebleu, France, June, 1989.
  • Kirkbride, P.S., Tang, S.F.Y. and Westwood, R.I. "Chinese Bargaining and Negotiating Behaviour: The Cultural Effects". Dept. of Business and Management, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong, Working Paper No. 23, Feb. 1988.
  • Cremer, R.D. and Westwood, R.I. "Dependencies, Subcontracting, 'Employed Entrepreneurs': The Role of the Small Enterprise in Economic Development". China Economic Research Centre, East Asia University, Macau, Discussion Paper Series 88/3, 1988. Originally presented at the APROS/Hong Kong University Conference on Firms, Management, the State and Economic Cultures, Hong Kong, 1988.
  • Kirkbride, P.S., Tang, S.F.Y. and Westwood, R.I. "Chinese Conflict Handling Styles and the Implications for Bargaining and Negotiating". Paper presented to the conference on International Human Resources Management, National University of Singapore, Dec. 1987.
  • Westwood, R.I. and Everett, J.E. "'Culture's Consequences': A Methodology for Comparative Management Studies in Southeast Asia?" Paper presented to the conference on Culture and management Styles in Southeast Asian Countries, National University of Singapore, 1986.
  • Westwood, R.I. "The Text of Participation: Movement, Closure and Rehabilitation". Paper presented to the APROS Colloquium on Language and Organising, Kuring-gae C.A.E., Sydney, Australia, 1984
  • Westwood, R.I. "Tracking Meaning: A Radicalising Spiral" Working Paper #32, Centre for Organisational Change and Development, University of Bath, 1981
  • Westwood, R.I. "On Natural Arguments". Paper presented to the International Workshop on Conflict and Decision Making, University of Bath, 1980.

Others:

  • Westwood, R.I., Wood, R. Crawford, J. & Rawlings, R. "Predictors of Performance: Psychological Testing and Subsequent Performance of NSW Police Service Recruits" Report Produced for the New South Wales Police Force. (34 pages), 2006.
  • Westwood, R.I., Leung, S.M. & Sparrow, P. "The Changing Psychological Contract in Hong Kong Employment Relations" Report for the Hong Kong Management Association, 1998.
  • Westwood, R.I. Review of 'Management and Organisation: Relational Alternatives to Individualism' - by Hosking, D-M, Dachler, H.P. and Gergen, K.J. (eds) Aldershot: Avebury. Management Learning, 1997.
  • Westwood, R.I. Review of 'Effective Organisations and Social Values' - by Kao, H.S.R., Singh, D. and Ng, S.K. (eds) London: Sage. Journal of Management Learning, 267-268, 1996.
  • Westwood, R.I. Review of 'Cross Cultural Management Communication' by Mead, R. - Chichester/New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1990 - Journal of Far Eastern Business, 2(1): 98, 1995.
  • Westwood, R.I. "Aphoristic Fragments of a Study of Female Expatriate Managers in Hong Kong". Gender Studies, No. 6:Dec. (pp. 8-10), 1993.
  • Westwood, R.I. Acculturation Project: The Expectations, Perceptions, Attitudes and Experiences of PRC Trainee Managers. Consultancy Project, Company Report, 50 pages, 1993.
  • Leung, S.M. and Westwood, R.I. "Women in Management Around the World: An Interview with Professor Nancy Adler". Gender Studies, No. 5:11-13, Hong Kong, 1993.
  • Westwood, R.I. Review of Gareth Morgan's 'Riding the Waves of Change'. Organisation Development Journal, 8:4 (91-93), 1990
  • Westwood, R.I. Review of: 'US Joint Ventures in China: A Progress Report', Washington: The National Council for US-China Trade, 1987. Hong Kong Journal of Business Management, 7, 1989.
  • Westwood, R.I. et al Preliminary Report on Fijian People's Attitudes Toward Tourism and the Tourist. Report presented to the Fiji Visitors Bureau, Suva, Fiji, 1985.
  • Westwood, R.I. Contests in Meaning: The Rhetoric of Participation. PhD Thesis, School of Management University of Bath, 1983.
  • Westwood, R.I. The Decision-Band Method of Job Evaluation: A Critique and Field Study. MRC, SAPU, Sheffield University, 1977.

Consulting And Training Programs

  • Clients have included: Hyatt International; Proctor and Gamble Guangzhou; Hong Kong-Shanghai Bank; Mass Transit Railway Corp.; Queensland Health; Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd; Betterfield Int. Co.; Hang Seng Bank; Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation; Hong Kong Productivity Council; Coca Cola Co.; Burson-Marsteller; Hong Kong Management Association; Avon Corp; Geddes-Parker; Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific, University of Sydney; Qingdao Executive Training Program; Malaysian Institute of Management.

Research Interests

  • Organisations Dynamics and Change

Academic Cluster

Organisation and Communication

Absences

On leave Semester 2, 2008.
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