The following examples of research by the Gibaran Research Centre associates provide an indication of the orientation of the Centre’s activities and the obvious alignment to work-applied management issues.
Emeritus Professor Selva Abraham
A Management Training and Development Programme for Indigenous Community Leaders: A Case Study
The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of an action research method in the design and implementation of a management training and development programme that addressed the needs of indigenous community leaders.
Dr Alois Daton
Restructuring a Government Department in the Papua New Guinea Public Service Using the Action Research Approach
The Papua New Guinea (PNG) government began facing hardships in the administration of the public service in the early 1990s and by 1995 had embarked on structural reforms to ease these hardships. This research was undertaken to assist the government to restructure public service departments with regard to the issue of transparency, accountability and good governance for effective delivery of goods and services to the people of PNG.
Dr Kevin V. Fernando
A Study on How HRM Strategies Add Value for a Multinational Company in Asia
The effective management of an organization’s human resources through its human resource management (HRM) strategy is widely recognized as a source of competitive advantage. This study was an exploratory study which investigated how HRM strategies add value.
Dr Ron Flavel
Provision of Incubation Services for Small and Medium Enterprises in South Australia: An Exploratory Study
The concept of business incubation assisting fledgling businesses to establish, to develop networks, to manage skills, and to market their products or services is a relatively recent innovation. The research question addressed in this dissertation is ‘What services offered by business incubators either in-house, or accessed by referral, are of benefit to small and medium enterprise (SME) owner-managers?
Dr Darren Ng Sau Foong
Strategic Management of Chinese-Controlled Corporations in Malaysia: An In-Depth Analysis
This research investigated the success of overseas Chinese companies outside of mainland China, in particular Chinese-based business in Malaysia and assessed the management practices of these businesses using Western and Eastern business models.
Dr Diane Kalendra
Developing and Implementing a Market Orientation in a Government Business Enterprise
This research addressed the research problem: how market orientation would be developed and implemented in a Government Business Enterprise (GBE) in Australia. This research conceptualised this research problem within a theoretical framework that integrated the two parent theories of market orientation and strategic management and then operationalized these two parent theories through the mechanism of organizational culture.
Mr Cheng Kai Ming
Retail Investing in Hong Kong Equities Markets
The Hong Kong stock market is one of many stock markets around the world. While it too follows the rules of supply and demand, it also possesses some distinctive features. This thesis identified many of those distinctive features, and provided insights into both the theories and practices of investment in equities to the investors interested in investing into the Hong Kong stock market.
Dr Samsukri Glanville bin Mohamed
How Professional Security Investors in Malaysia Process their Investment Decisions – a Reflective Practice Study
At the core of successful asset management firms is a competent fund manager who makes investment decisions. However, the training and education of a fund manager goes beyond what is taught in the finance departments of business schools at universities. This research is about how reflective practice was used by a fund manager over a 29-month period, from August 2005 to January 2008, to build an understanding of his investment decision making process.
Dr Carlo D’Ortenzio
Employees’ Perception of Change and Change Management within a Public Sector – an Action Research Case Study
This paper investigates employees’ perception of change and change management within a public sector agency. It seeks to understand and represent their views regarding what influences effective change processes. The research study provides Federal and State governments, public sector agencies and public sector employees with evidence based insights about the complexity of change and change management from a public sector employee perspective.
Dr Christopher John Riley
A Case Study Analysis of the Rationale for Incorporating Action Learning into Australian MBA Programmes
An inquiry into the nature of action learning drove research described in this thesis; what is ‘action learning’ and how is it being used in Australian MBA programmes to develop managers? The intent of the research was to reveal the essence of what the method entails and how action learning is being used for the education and development of managers.
Mr. Arch Stevenson
Indigenous Staff Development Using Action Learning in a Large Government Business Enterprise
In the mid 1980s the then Federal Government made a commitment through its Aboriginal Employment Development Policy to develop recruitment strategies to ensure a minimum of one to two percent of the Commonwealth workforce was Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander. The aim of this study was to investigate the implementation of a staff development programme for indigenous staff using action research and action learning in a large Government Business Enterprise (GBE).
Dr Joseph Morelli
How to Market the Services of Funeral Homes in Australia
The research problem investigated here was: How to market the services of funeral homes in Australia? The research focused on ways to create, develop and maintain effective marketing strategies for funeral homes in Australia.
Dr Halim Basari
Managing Healthcare Supply Chains in an Armed Forces Environment
An investigation into healthcare supply chain management in an armed forces environment in a developing country showed that this area was under-researched. Thus this report investigated the research problem: How can a healthcare supply chain be managed, with particular reference to an armed forces healthcare supply chain in Malaysia?
Dr. Lindsey McPherson
How do cultural traditions affect employment of Muslim women in Qatar?
The research was designed to find out why there is high unemployment amongst Muslim women, with particular reference to the influence of cultural traditions in the Middle Eastern Gulf state of Qatar. With the help of a series of interviews, three main barriers to the employment of Muslim women in Qatar were identified. One is that women themselves are often not willing to work with men; a second reason is that it is the males in a household who make the main decisions; and the third is that employers in Qatar are often reluctant to employ Muslim women but do so to meet quotas.
Emeritus Professor Dennis Hardy
Factors leading to the development of a new garden town in Greater Adelaide
The research is based on experience gained from a participatory role in the design and approval of plans for a new town. It examines the process of decision-making and the unique system of governance that was put in place to achieve a fair and informed outcome.
