The Ottawa Network for Education named Professor Rob Riordan as a recipient of a 2012 Capital Educators’ Award,  which recognizes outstanding educators in the Ottawa region. Professor Riordan teaches  information systems and business case analysis. He is also the faculty advisor for several Sprott business competition teams, including the 40-member team for JDC Central for which he was named Faculty Advisor of the Year at this year’s competition.

Carleton’s Educational Development Centre presented Professor Isaac Otchere with the Provost’s Fellowship in Teaching Award. This award recognizes sustained teaching excellence, scholarship of teaching and the continual development of teaching. Professor Otchere is a member of the finance faculty and teaches at both the undergraduate and MBA levels.

“Peter’s accomplishment is quite amazing and we extend to him our warmest congratulations,” says Nicolas Papadopoulos, Chancellor’s Professor of Marketing and International Business in the Sprott School of Business. “His award also says a lot about international business as a discipline. Just twenty or thirty years ago, those of us working in this area had to fight tooth and nail to get it recognized as a field of study – and now, one of its pioneers has been awarded Britain’s highest honour for his work in it. As Peter put it in a recent email to me, ‘IB seems to have arrived.’ It’s been quite a ride, and it’s good to be part of a school that is as internationalized as Sprott.”

Dr. Buckley’s relationship with the Sprott School goes back to the early 1980s through acquaintances with faculty members in international business including Dr. Papadopoulos and Dr. David Cray. He first visited Carleton in 1989 as an invited speaker of the International Business Study Group. That visit led to the school’s first international exchange partnership with the University of Bradford where Dr. Buckley was at the time. He visited again in 2007 as a keynote speaker for the Fourth Annual Sprott Doctoral Symposium.

Dr.  Buckley is recognized as a world authority on international business. He is the author of 22 books and 175 refereed articles. In addition, he has served as President of the Academy of International Business. Among many other distinctions, in 2010 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Uppsala in Sweden and the prestigious Cheung Kong Scholar Chair Professorship at the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) in China.

For more on this story, visit the Leeds University Business School website.

Sarah Nichols shown here in Guatemala during Carleton's Alternative Spring Break program.

As part of the fellowship, Nichols has been invited to join other award winners at the annual Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) conference in Montreal this summer. She will also have the opportunity to develop a collaborative project that can enhance teaching and learning at the post-secondary level.

Nichols strongly encourages students to take on leadership roles, particularly outside of the classroom. These experiences help students to develop time management social and academic skills, as well as cultural awareness, for a holistic education, she says.

“By being involved outside of the classroom, students are able to build support networks of students like them to help them through a stressful four or five years,” says Nichols. “In my first year of university, I was not involved in anything. All of my attention was focused on school and I really felt by the end that I was missing out on something. By involving myself in more things throughout my second and third year, I actually saw an increase in my CGPA and I attribute this to be being forced to learn how to time manage, and being able to look for support in the groups that I had been involved with.”

Nichols has taken on a variety of student leadership roles at Carleton, including working as a Summer Orientation Leader, Orientation Coordinator, teaching assistant and giving back to the community through numerous volunteer activities. She has also served for the past two years as a mentor for First in Family, a government program to help incoming students who are the first in their family to attend university.

• BUSI 1004 – Financial Accounting
• BUSI 1005 – Managerial Accounting
• BUSI 2001 – Intermediate Accounting I
• BUSI 2002 – Intermediate Accounting II
• BUSI 3001 – Accounting for Business Combinations
• BUSI 3008 – Intermediate Management Accounting and Control
• BUSI 4009 – Auditing II
• BUSI 4900 – Auditing III

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All undergraduate Business course descriptions can be found in the Carleton University Calendar.

For non-Carleton students wishing to register, please visit the Carleton University Registrar’s office page on how to register. Registration opens May 2, 2012.

For current Sprott Students, please visit our registration page to make sure you’re ready to register for summer courses. Registration opens May 1, 2012.

The presenters are part of an elite group of the Carleton Entrepreneurs program, a campus-wide initiative that increases innovation and fosters an entrepreneurial spirit among students and recent graduates. Their business opportunities have been endorsed by review boards comprised of serial entrepreneurs, economic development officers, company managers, service providers, consultants and academics. Read more…

Nominated by Associate Dean Mike Hine, “Mama Sprott” (as she is warmly referred to by students) is most deserving of the honour. A number of supportive seconds were collected to support the nomination. A sampling of the words used to describe Caldwell include:

• caring
• sincere
• positive
• professional
• involved
• energetic
• enthusiastic
• dedicated
• advocate

She defines the student success office as comprising of everything that doesn’t fit anywhere else.

“Everybody has a different vision of what success is,” says Caldwell. “My job is to help each student create their own vision of success and help them create a plan to achieve it. Whether it be to make sure they know about the programs we have, where and when to get academic advice and making sure they know who to speak too.”

As Sprott’s Student Success Officer, Caldwell  says her job is to make others shine and she’ll do everything she can to make that happen. You’ll see her out at events, supporting students in competition, working after hours to make things come together and sending the occasional late night/early morning email. She is often caught checking emails on vacation too!

With everything she has going on, we wanted to know: What’s the best part of her job?

“The students. If it wasn’t for the students, I wouldn’t want to come to work everyday,” she says. “I know what it was like to struggle and flounder and I don’t want our students to have same experience that I had. Whatever we can do to help them succeed, that gets me excited to come to work everyday! The environment here is supportive to trying new things and innovative solutions for students. It’s not cookie cutter. We have the freedom to explore to find the best solution for everyone.”

The next best thing would have to be the small victories she gets to experience with her students everyday. She was also recognized by the students this year at the Sprott Business Students’ Society end-of-year gala. She received a “Mama Sprott” t-shirt signed by many Sprott students that included messages that speak to the influence and impacts she has had on  students.  “Things like that really mean a lot,” she says.

Bachelor of Commerce student Yuliya Riabko had the pleasure of working with Julie this year in the student success office.

“I have known Julie since my first year in university,” says Riabko, who won this year’s National Capital Leadership Challenge and named Student Entrepreneur – Ontario Champion by ACE . “She was always encouraging me to get engaged outside of classroom environment. If I had challenges she was always there to help me and to mentor me on how to succeed. I believe that I am not the only student who became successful because of Julie’s passion of helping students to succeed. No wonder she is ‘Student Success Officer’!”

Rumour also has it Caldwell never says “no” when it comes to helping students. In fact, when she was asked to identify her “worst” quality during her interview for the position, she responded with, “I have a very hard time saying no. I believe in trying things at least once.” However, she adds that she is “working on it”!

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• Key Findings
• Key Differences Associated with Rank and Gender
• Full Report

Policing culture expects work to take priority over family, says the report, the first national survey on work-life balance of police. As well, police officers have little predictability about work demands, little control over their work hours and they often have working spouses with their own high-powered careers. Some officers decide against having children in order to accommodate their jobs.

Police officers also face unique demands like attending court hearings, sometimes on their days off, as well as understaffing, emotionally draining work and multiple competing tasks that are always changing.

The study is based on a survey of 4,500 police officers on 25 forces across Canada, including constables, sergeants, staff sergeants and command positions. It found that only nine per cent earned less than $80,000 a year. But the typical officer works 53.5 hours a week. One in five is in poorer physical health, a surprising proportion of a sample which is largely younger men. And the high use of long, ever-changing shift arrangements were linked to physical and mental health problems, exhaustion, challenges for work-life balance and problems at home.

Two-thirds of police officers miss some 14 days of work a year – a high level of absenteeism. Half the officers surveyed reported high levels of stress and another 46 per cent reported moderate levels. Only four per cent reported low levels of stress.

The study, which analyzed differences associated with rank and gender, also found that male officers earn higher incomes than their female counterparts in each rank category, even though the women are more highly educated.

“The results from this study offer a wake-up call to police forces across Canada that are concerned with issues such as recruitment, retention, succession planning and the cost of benefits,’’ said Duxbury, a professor in Carleton’s Sprott School of Business and a noted pioneer in the field of organizational health.

“What we’re seeing is the need for a major change in how we manage our police forces. People can’t work in an environment that values 24/7 availability and offers them little control without paying a price. ’’

The report will be used by police forces to examine managerial practices, said Carol Allison-Burra, president of the Canadian Association of Police Boards and director of the Kingston Police Services Board.

“The CAPB has long been focused on the sustainability of public police,’’ she said. “The great work undertaken by Professors Duxbury and Higgins demonstrates that sustainability is not just about funds and funding sources, but in finding innovative ways and means to support our most valuable resource, our people.”

Among other findings of the survey:

• Women at all ranks are more likely than men to be single or divorced.

• Twelve per cent of men had stay-at-home partners. One per cent of women had a partner at home full-time.

• It’s likely that police forces across Canada couldn’t get their work done and meet mandates if officers didn’t donate a substantial amount of their personal time each week.

• Twenty-five per cent of police officers perceived their immediate managers care more about their own career than the well-being of staff.

• Twenty-two per cent reported that work-life challenges have caused them to reduce their work productivity.

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For more information:

Linda Duxbury

Carleton University

(613) 520-2385

Linda_Duxbury@carleton.ca

Carol Allison-Burra,

President, Canadian Association of Police Boards

Contact Jennifer Lanzon, Executive Director

613 235 2272 or email jlanzon@capb.ca

Christopher Cline

Carleton Media Relations

613-520-2600, ext. 1391

Christopher_Cline@carleton.ca

2012 Carleton Research Achievement Award recipients. Dr. Uma Kumar is shown in the front row centre.

Dr. Uma Kumar
Professor, Management Science and Technology Management
2012 Research Achievement Award Recipient

The Research Achievement Awards recognize 10 faculty members who are selected each year by a committee of previous recipients and chaired by the Vice-President (Research and International).

Research Summary:

Impact of Innovative, Entrepreneurial, and Environmental Protection Orientations on Manufacturing Strategy and Firm Performance

As developing and emerging countries attempt to catch up with developed countries, the manufacturing firms from developed countries will find it difficult to compete in both domestic and international markets. Canadian manufacturing firms must understand the process of developing manufacturing strategy to build a sustainable, yet adaptable, competitive advantage that will positively affect their performance. None of the currently published studies consider the impact of IEE orientations on manufacturing strategy. The proposed research addresses this gap in the literature and will determine how manufacturing firms in Canada develop manufacturing strategy to create a sustainable competitive advantage. It will examine the factors that influence firms to develop manufacturing strategy which, in turn, affects the firm’s financial and non-financial performance.

From left to right: Dr. Kim Matheson, VP Research & International, Professor Garth Sheriff, Professor Tom Duxbury, and Dr. Peter Ricketts, Provost.

Garth Sheriff
Instructor, Accounting
2012 Professional Achievement Award Recipient

The Professional Achievement Awards recognize outstanding scholarly achievement of faculty and are awarded by a peer evaluation committee.

Garth Sheriff’s teaching philosophy parallels Carleton’s slogan of “Anything but textbook”. He incorporates current business and economic events into the classroom to engage students and demonstrate the relevance of the course material. In the three business courses he teaches (first and third-year undergraduate, as well as MBA level), Research in Motion (RIM) has been iteratively examined to demonstrate classroom theory, and then observed through its current and timely coverage in the media. He has also written original case studies to further emphasize the importance of applying knowledge and classroom theory to real-life challenges. As a result, the classroom is frequently engaged in lively discussion about the content application to current events.

Tom Duxbury
Contract Instructor, Entrepreneurship
Teaching Achievement Award (Contract Instructor)

The Contract Instructor Awards are awarded on the basis of outstanding performance in meeting his/her responsibilities.

Tom Duxbury strives to impart students with a passion for creativity, innovation, and making the leap of starting new businesses. Entrepreneurship can be considered both an art and a science, and getting outside of the classroom is key to experiential learning. Students work directly with entrepreneurs to reinforce course material through a variety of non-traditional means: from production of video cases, to personal mentorship and blogging. As part of a new concentration in the Bachelor of Commerce program, as well as a minor, the entrepreneurship course has drawn enthusiastic students from all faculties at Carleton.

“I see review work as very important,” says Dr. Papadopoulos. “It’s a great way both to keep up to date with the literature and give back to the profession. I have been reviewing for JIBS ad hoc for some time, and it was nice to be invited to join the board.”

In addition to JIBS, Dr. Papadopoulos also serves on the editorial boards of seven academic journals, including the top-rated Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science and International Marketing Review. His honours for his editorial work include two Top Ten Reviewers awards (2008 and 20011) from International Marketing Review, Outstanding Service Award (2009) from the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and Best Reviewer Award (2007) in International Business by the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada.

Dr. Papadopoulos is a leading researcher in the areas of international market selection, place images and nation branding. He has authored, co-authored, or edited over 270 publications, including 15 books and 66 refereed journal articles and book chapters. He has given more than 100 workshops, seminars, keynote addresses, and other invited talks in numerous countries around the world.

A number of faculty members at the Sprott School of Business serve on editorial boards of major academic journals, in addition to many others who participate in ad-hoc reviewing . The process of peer-review lies at the core of academic research and knowledge sharing.  How one reviews, and the passion one brings to their reviews, directly links to the quality of the final research.

The Sprott School of Business recently graduated the sixth class of its MBA program in China. Dean Jerry Tomberlin, along with Ruth McKay, Director of International Programs and Courtney Beauregard, International Programs Offier, attended the program’s convocation which took place in Shanghai at Dongua University.

Since 2005, the Sprott School has been delivering its  Master of Business Administration (MBA) program in China, in collaboration with the Glorious Sun School of Business and Management at Donghua University in Shanghai.

This partnership allows international students to complete their MBA degree from an internationally recognized Canadian business school.

Faculty from the Sprott School of Business travel to Shanghai to teach courses in a compressed timeframe, allowing students to maintain their jobs and regular daily life with minimal disruption.

In addition to the convocation celebration,  orientation was held for the seventh class of the Sprott MBA China program.  Recruitment for the next class will begin this fall, with the expected program start date falling in May of next year.