Professor Brad Jackson
Fletcher Building Education Trust Chair in Leadership
Department:
Management and International Business
Address: Owen G Glenn Building
12 Grafton Road
Auckland
Faculty: Business & Economics
Phone: +64 9 373 7599 Ext. 83267
Email: b.jackson@auckland.ac.nz

Professor Jackson is responsible for leading the academic development and integration of research and educational programmes in leadership. Within the Business School he works most closely with the New Zealand Leadership Institute, the Department of Management and International Business and the Graduate School of Enterprise.

Prior to joining the University of Auckland in 2006 Brad was the Director of the Centre for the Study of Leadership and Head of School of the Management School at Victoria University of Wellington. He has been a Visiting Professor with the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark, Doshisa University in Japan, Peking University in China, The University of Pretoria in South Africa, Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the United States and an Associate Professor of Continuing Education at the University of Calgary in Canada.

Jackson has spoken to academic and business audiences throughout the world and has published five books—Management Gurus and Management Fashions, The Hero Manager, Organisational Behaviour in New Zealand, A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying Leadership and Demystifying Business Celebrity. He is a co-editor of the Sage Handbook of Leadership and the Sage Major Works in Leadership.

He is a board member of the International Leadership Association, a Fellow of The Leadership Trust and a Research Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management.
Qualifications:
1999 Doctor of Philosophy Lancaster University, U.K.
1984 Master of Arts University of British Columbia, Canada
1981 Bachelor of Science, Honours (Social Science) University of Bristol, U.K.
Special Interests:
Strategic Leadership and Corporate Governance
The Geography of Leadership
The Leadership Development Industry
The Social Construction of Leadership
Positions Held:
FromToInstitutionPosition Held
2005 2006 Centre for the Study of Leadership, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, NZ Director
2003 2005 Victoria Management School, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, NZ Head of School
2002 2003 Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Visiting Associate Professor
1999 2002 Victoria Management School, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellingon, NZ Senior Lecturer
1998 1999 TransAlta Corporation, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Senior Corporate Communications Specialist
1996 1998 Faculty of Continuing Education, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Director, Special Sessions
1991 1995 Faculty of Continuing Education, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Director, Management Seminars
1989 1991 The Banff Centre for Management, Banff, Alberta, Canada Program Manager
Service:
Editorial Board Member, Leadership Quarterly
Editorial Board Member, Management Communication Quarterly
Editorial Board Member, Management Learning
Editorial Board Member, Scandinavian Journal of Management
Editorial Review Board, Leadership
Member, International Leadership Association
Research Fellow, Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management
Teaching:
2009 BUSADMIN 781 Leadership & Ethics
2009 BUSINESS 705 Qualitative Research Methods
2008 BUSADMIN 771 Managing Organisations & People
2008 BUSADMIN 781 Leadership & Ethics
2008 BUSINESS 705 Qulitatiive Research Methods
2008 MGMT 724 Leadership
2007 BUSADMIN 781 Leadership & Ethics
2007 MGMT 724 Leadership
2007 MGMT 724 Special Topic: Leadership
2006 BUSADMIN 771 Managing Organisations & People
Selected Publications:
Refereed Journal Articles
2008 JACKSON, B.,  TOURISH, D.,  ‘Communication and leadership: An open inviation to engage‘, Leadership 4, 3, 219-225.
2008 HOLMES, J.,  MARRA, M.,  VINE, B.,  PFEIFER, D.,  JACKSON, B.,  ‘Exploring co-leadership talk through interactional sociolinguistics‘, Leadership 4, 3, 339-360.
2006 SINHA, P.,  JACKSON, B.,  ‘A Burkean inquiry into leader-follower identification motives‘, Culture and Organization 12, 3, 233-247.
2006 FERNANDO, M.,  JACKSON, B.,  ‘The influence of religion-based workplace spirituality on leaders’ decision-making: An inter-faith study.‘, Journal of Management and Organization 12, 1, 23-39.
2005 GUTHEY, E.,  JACKSON, B.,  ‘CEO portraits and the authenticity paradox‘, Journal of Management Studies, 5, 1057-1082.
2005 JACKSON, B.,  ‘The enduring romance of leadership studies‘, Journal of Management Studies 42, 6, 1311-1324.
Books
2010 BRYMAN, A.,  COLLINSON, D.,  GRINT, K.,  JACKSON, B.,  UHL-BIEN, M.,  ‘Handbook of leadership‘, Sage: London
2009 GUTHEY, E.,  CLARK, T.,  JACKSON, B.,  ‘Demystifying business celebrity‘, London: Routledge
2008 JACKSON, B.,  PARRY, K.,  ‘A very short, fairly interesting and reasonably cheap book about studying leadership.‘, London: Sage
2004 ELKIN, G.,  JACKSON, B.,  INKSON, K.,  ‘Organisational behaviour in New Zealand.‘, Auckland: Pearson
2001 JACKSON, B.,  ‘Management gurus and management fashions‘, London: Routledge
2001 JACKSON, B.,  PARRY, K.,  ‘The hero manager: Learning from New Zealand’s top chief executives‘, Auckland: Penguin NZ
Sections in Books
2008 GUTHEY, E.,  JACKSON, B.,  ‘Revisualising images in leadership and organization studies‘ In: Barry, D. & Hansen, H. (ed.), The Sage handbook of new and emerging approaches to management and organization studies, London: Sage
2007 PFEIFER, D.,  JACKSON, B.,  ‘Cross-cultural leadership‘ In: Marturano, A. & Gosling, J. (ed.), Leadership: The Key Concepts, London: Routledge.
2007 JACKSON, B.,  ‘Getting respect at the Dowse ‘ In: Zrnd, T & Page, D (ed.), Communication and Organsations: Case Studies in New Zealand and Australia, Sydney: Pearson, 171-177.
2006 GUTHEY, E.,  JACKSON, B.,  ‘Putting the visual into the social construction of leadership‘ In: Shamir, Pillai, Bligh & Uhl-Bien (ed.), Follower-centred perspectives on leadership: A tribute to James R. Meindl, Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing



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