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Position

Visitor

Affiliation

Dr Howard Harris

Howard Harris is on sabbatical from the University of South Australia in Adelaide where he teaches in the School of Management. He main research interest is in the role of courage and other virtues in contemporary management. He will be working with Jim Platts on management philosophy and leadership. He will be here until the end of June 2007.

Background

Howard graduated in chemical engineering and worked for a large Australian multi-national in the Fiji Islands, Sydney and Adelaide, mainly in personnel/HRM and corporate planning roles. After the petroleum unit in which he was working was taken over by Exxon he became a principal in a small consulting practice, working in corporate strategy and corporate finance, mainly with SMEs. He returned to university to underatke a PhD in applied philosophy, studying the role of courage in management decision making.

Recent appointments

• 1999-present, School of Management, University of South Australia, Adelaide
• 2000-2003 director, Smartlink, National Insititute for Manufacturing Management, a joint industry-university-government initiative to enahance the management capability of Australian manufacturing SMEs
• 2003-6 Project leader, Cooperative Reserch Centre (CRC) for Integrated Engineering Asset Management, CIEAM toolbox project
• 2005-present, convenor, Group for research in Integrity & Governance
• 2006-present, President, Australian Association for Professional & Applied Ethics

Howard teaches International Management Ethics & Values in the undergraduate management degree to students in Adelaide, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Research interests

• Role of traditional virtues in contemporary management
• Implementation of new management systems in organisations

Link to publications