Publications
Below are links to a sample of papers that IMIA has presented or is preparing for publication. We welcome comments on these papers -- to make a comment about any of these publications, please contact IMIA.
Future of Work 2020
Addressing work/life balance issues requires an understanding of the
fundamental desire people have to engage collaboratively and the
important role community infrastructure plays in facilitating informed
and meaningful collaboration. We need to consider how best to
raise the average skill level of the workforce whilst simultaneously
building the quality of life.
(Dr Ramzi Fayed & Gervase Pearce, 2008)
Occasional Address, CSU Graduation Ceremony, May 2007
As leaders adjust to the emerging organisational environment they will need to evolve a new leadership paradigm. Parts of this new paradigm have already become apparent and relate to engagement of followers, continuous questioning and dealing innovatively with fundamental trade-offs that leaders need to facilitate.
(Dr Ramzi Fayed, 2007)
Repositioning the Marketing Discipline
The convergence of marketing and leadership practice provides a basis for understanding the concept of "Stakeholder Network Leadership" as the embodiment of a living systems view of leadership.
(Dr Ramzi Fayed, 2005).
Seeing the Future in Weak Signals
The strategy of waiting for strong signals from the environment to tell us that change is necessary will not serve us well as a way of preparing for the future – we need to prepare for possible futures that we can see in faint outline, defined by weak and possibly conflicting signals from the world around us.
(Dr Peter Saul, 2005)
A Systemic Concept of Leadership
A systemic model of leadership is developed that distinguishes operational, managerial, strategic and visionary facets of leadership, which is conceived as a process of influence over an organisation’s directions and activities.
(Dr Ramzi Fayed & Dr Don Porritt, 2005)
Reputation for Leadership and Management: Beyond the Bottom Line
Leadership and management are widely argued in the management literature to be quite different, although this literature tends to see both as primarily serving the interests of shareholders. Some recent approaches that argue for a more even balance between the interests of multiple stakeholders are outlined. This shift in academic thinking brings it into better alignment with the views of the general public and of small business managers.
(Dr Don Porrit, 2005)
The Bottom Line Backlash:
How Bottom Line Reputation can Reduce Emotional Appeal
The "bottom line backlash" can result in hostility to companies that are seen as making large profits at the expense of other stakeholders, especially where these other stakeholders are seen as having limited choice of supplier. The evidence for the bottom line backlash is summarized, and the processes by which a reputation for high financial performance can damage overall reputation are explored.
(Dr Don Porritt, 2005)
Seeking Insight Beyond Packaged Analysis
Most market research analysis is limited to exploring relationships between pairs of variables, and sometimes looks further at the joint impact of two or three variables on an outcome measure. When more sophisticated multivariate techniques are used, these are mostly limited to models that assume linear relationships, or test for simple multiplicative interactions. Additional insights can often be achieved using quite simple cross-tabulation methods, but applying them in unusual ways guided by an emerging theory about what is behind the data. Two examples are presented demonstrating the additional insight that can be achieved by thinking beyond the analyses provided by standard cross-tabulation and statistical packages – one from analysis of data on perceptions of company reputations, the other from analysis of customer satisfaction with the experience of buying a new car.
(Dr Don Porritt, 2006)
