Dr Elliot Wood is a registered psychologist with management development experience in Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Fiji and Sri Lanka. He has been trained to deliver management education by the Harvard Business School and his conceptual work has been presented at forums, workshops and conferences in Australia, the US, Europe, South America and Asia.
Dr Wood is currently an Assistant Professor at The University of Western Australia’s School of Psychology. He has over 10 years experience in an academic environment, previously at Curtin University’s Graduate School of Business where he worked as a full-time lecturer on Curtin’s MBA, Master of Leadership and Management (MLM), and Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) programs, and at Curtin’s School of Psychology on Curtin’s Master of Organisational Psychology program.
His current role at the UWA School of Psychology involves coordination and teaching on the Master of Industrial/Organisational Psychology program, supervision of Masters and PhD research, and coordination of workplace placements for the program. He regularly consults to industry and conducts research in a number of areas of organisational psychology.
Research:
Elliot's research interests are in the general area of industrial and organisational psychology, more specifically in areas related to corporate citizenship, and to industrial design. Some specific research areas include:
The role of social norms in Green Office behaviour change
Employee volunteering and perceptions of work
The effects of lighting on psychological wellbeing in the workplace
Elliot is on the Board of Country Directors for the International Management Development
Association, the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Transnational Management
Development and the Journal of Universal Science and Technology of Learning and is a
Track Chair on Global Business in Australia and New Zealand for the 16th Annual World
Business Congress, 2007, Maastricht, The Netherlands. He is also a Reviewer for the
Leadership and Organization Development Journal and for the International Association
for Business and Society Conference.
Research Grants:
Department of Education Services Planning and Infrastructure
Employee Wellness and Development Survey
Department of Planning and Infrastructure
Quantitative Evaluation of the Living Smart Program (with Dr Nic Fay)
UWA Research Development Award
Using Blue Enriched White Light to Improve Alertness, Performance & Sleep Quality of Shift Workers (with Dr Katharine Parkes, Oxford University)
2007 Department of Environment and Conservation TravelSmart Research Grant
TITLE: Barriers and enablers of sustainable transport use in Western Australian organisations
2006 Lotterywest Assisting Rural Communities Demonstration Project (evaluation work
carried out as part of grant through Volunteering WA)
2006 Research Centre for Applied Psychology Grant
TITLE: How relationships survive the impact of fly-in and fly-out working schedules
2003 AORE Tier 1 Research Project
TITLE: Understanding the context of the community group
2003 AORE Tier 1 Research Project
TITLE: Investigation of career anchor preferences across generational and cultural groups
2001 MBA Outcomes Mini-Projects Grant
TITLE: Integration of Internal and External MBA Study through a Virtual Team Project
2000 ARC Small Grant
TITLE: Investigating a key driver of ISO 14000 implementation: Commitment versus
compliance
1999 Curtin Business School Internal Grant
TITLE: An initial investigation into environmental management strategy implementation
Publications (Journals):
Wood, E. (2006). Generational diversity - why it is important and what you can do about
it, Aged & Community Services WA News, 68, Spring, pp. 10-13.
Wood, E. (2005). A 10-step path to professional development enlightenment, Business
Strategy Australasia, 3, pp. 137-143.
Link to article
Jallat, F., & Wood, E. (2005). Exploring `Deep' and `Wide' Stakeholder Relations in
Service Activity, European Journal of Marketing, 39, 9/10, 1013-1024.
Link to article
Wood, E. (2004). Managing the Managers, Business Strategy Australasia, 1, pp. 65-70.
Wood, E. (2003). Book Review: Terence Jackson's International Human Resource
Management: A Cross-Cultural Approach, Journal of Industrial Relations, 45, 2, pp. 254-
256.
Wood, E., and Sevastos, P. (2002). A Western Australian Test of Invariant Factorial
Structure in the Work Autonomy Scale between Managerial and Non-Managerial
Employee Classifications. Journal of Transnational Management Development, 7, 1, pp.
10-20.
Wood, E., Whiteley, A., and Zhang, S. (2002). The Cross-Model of Guanxi Usage in
Chinese Leadership. Journal of Management Development, 21, 4, 263-271.
Link to article
Zhang, S., Wood, E., and Whiteley, A. (2001). The challenge of teaching human resource
management in China: Enabling effective management education in the context of
economic reform. Journal of Teaching in International Business, 12, 2, pp 77-89.
Publications (Book):
Wood, E. (2007). "What about me?" - The importance of understanding the
perspective of non-managerial employees in research on corporate citizenship. In F.
Hond, F. de Bakker, & P. Neergaard, Managing Corporate Social Responsibility in Action,
Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.
Wood, E. (2002). A dilemma beyond discussion: increasing student interaction in external
study modes. In A. Bunker, & G. Swan (eds.), Focusing on the Student, Perth: Edith
Cowan University
Wood, E. (2001). How to change an MBA in one weekend: Balance and competitiveness
in post-graduate business education. In M. Kulski & A. Hermann (eds.), New Horizons in
Teaching and Learning. Perth: Curtin University of Technology
Publications (Other):
ABC Health and Wellbeing - The Pulse - Your health in the economic downturn (Interview comments within article) http://www.abc.net.au/health/thepulse/stories/2009/01/29/2476200.htm
Australian Financial Review (18 October, 2004). Academics wary of booming e-learning.
(Interview comments within article)
Australian Financial Review (27 September, 2004). Distance no bar to learning.
(Interview comments within article)
Wood, E. & Blyth, D. (2003). Using Group Support Systems technology to develop
comprehensive risk profiles on major resource projects: A case study and process
template. Working Paper Series 03/01, Curtin Graduate School of Business, Perth,
Australia.
Whiteley, A. & Wood, E. (2000). Decision-making and Decision-taking: GSS and complex
adaptive systems theory. Working Paper Series 00/03, Curtin Graduate School of
Business, Perth, Australia.
Conference Presentations:
Elliot was awarded the Best Paper Award at the 9th Annual World Business Congress, in
San Jose, Costa Rica. His work has also been presented at the following conferences:
Fisher, M., & Wood, E. (2009). Empirical evidence for the efficacy of coaching: A field test using a Solomon four-group design. Paper accepted for presentation at the 8th Industrial & Organisational Psychology Conference, Sydney, Australia, June, 2009.
Seneviratne, A., Wood, E., & Sevastos, P. (2009). Investigating the relationship between personality and intelligence: A rigorous test using canonical correlation analysis. Paper accepted for presentation at the 8th Industrial & Organisational Psychology Conference, Sydney, Australia, June, 2009.
Ting, D., Wood, E., & Sevastos, P. (2009). Using the theory of planned behaviour to explain work-life balance program utilization. Paper accepted for presentation at the 8th Industrial & Organisational Psychology Conference, Sydney, Australia, June, 2009..
Ziemer, K., and Wood, E. (2007). Testing the Importance of Flexible Working Arrangements and Barriers to Their Use. Paper accepted for presentation at the 16th Annual World Business Congress, Maastricht, The Netherlands, July, 2007.
Ziemer, K., and Wood, E. (2007). Clarifying the barriers to flexible work: A revision of the
Flexible Work Options Questionnaire. Poster Presentation to be presented at the 7th
Industrial & Organisational Psychology Conference (IOP) / 1st Asia Pacific Congress on
Work & Organisational Psychology (APCWOP), Adelaide, Australia, June-July 2007.
Jallat, F., & Wood, E. (2006). Executive decision-making and cultural preferences: A
study across four countries. Paper presented at the 15th Annual World Business
Congress, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, June, 2006.
Wood, E. (2005). Corporate social responsibility implementation: Researching non-
managerial employees' experiences in Australia. Paper presented at the 14th Annual
World Business Congress, Granada, Spain, July, 2005.
Wood, E. (2005). Making connections, joining the dots...How do we bridge the gap
between research and practice? Group and Panel discussion conducted at Community
Compass: WA Conference on Volunteering. Fremantle, WA, March 2005.
Wood, E. & Whiteley, A. (2005). How do we create successful relationships and
partnerships in the area of volunteering? Workshop conducted at Community Compass:
WA Conference on Volunteering. Fremantle, WA, March 2005.
Wood, E. (2004). The Australian experience of corporate volunteering - a case of role
conflict? Paper presented at the 13th Annual World Business Congress, Maastricht, The
Netherlands, July, 2004
Wood, E. (2004). "What does this mean for me?" - Has anyone thought how corporate
citizenship impacts on the corporate citizen? Paper presented at the 20th EGOS
Colloquium, Ljubljana, Slovenia, July, 2004
Bonner, D., Marshall, V., & Wood, E. (2004) Multicultural career management: Careers
without borders. Workshop at the ASTD International Conference & Exposition,
Washington D.C., USA, May, 2004
`Cultural diversity and you (or how THEY do things isn't how WE do things!)' - Keynote
address for East Java Regional Revenue Office Training Conference, Perth, Australia, May
2003.
Wood, E. (2002). How do the Corporate Activities associated with Social Responsibility
change Managers' and Employees' perception of their Work and Non-Work Roles? Paper
presented at the Work-In-Progress Conference, Curtin Graduate School of Business,
Perth, Australia, November 2002.
Wood, E. & Blyth, D. (2002). Use of GSS to develop comprehensive risk profiles on major
resource projects: A case study and process template. Paper presented at the 6th World
Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Infomatics, Orlando, USA, July 2002.
Wood, E. (2002). A dilemma beyond discussion - increasing student interaction in
external study modes. Paper presented at the 11th Teaching and Learning Forum, Edith
Cowan University, Perth, Australia, February 2002.
Ladyshewsky R, Wood E, Moynihan C, & Wood J. (2002) Flexible Learning at the
Graduate School of Business. Paper presented at the 11th Teaching and Learning Forum,
Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia, February 2002.
Ladyshewsky R, Nowak M, Wood E, Moynihan C, & Wood J. (2002). The Transition to On-
line Education: E-learning and post graduate business education. Paper presented at the
Higher Education and Research Development Society of Australasia Conference, Perth,
July 2002.
Wood, E., Whiteley, A., & Zhang, S. (2002). Head of the Chicken or Tail of the Cow:
Chinese and Australian Chinese Perceptions of Leadership. Paper presented at the 11th
Annual World Business Congress, Antalya, Turkey, July, 2002
Wood, E. (2001). How to change an MBA in one weekend: Balance and Competitiveness
in post-graduate business education. Paper presented at the 10th Teaching and Learning
Forum, Curtin University, Perth, Australia, February 2001.
Whiteley, A. and Wood, E. (2000). Use of GSS to Demonstrate Adaptive Agent Activities
in Decision-Making. Paper presented at SDSS Research Symposium, Curtin Graduate
School of Business, Perth, Australia, February 2000.
Wood, E., and Sevastos, P. (2000). A Test of Invariant Factorial Structure in the Work
Autonomy Scale between Managerial and Non-Managerial Employee Classifications. Paper
presented at the 9th Annual World Business Congress, San Jose, Costa Rica, December
2000.
Wood, E., Whiteley, A., and Zhang, S. (1999). Guanxi in Chinese Leadership: Initial
perceptions of State-owned and Foreign-invested Enterprise leaders. Paper presented at
the Academy of International Business South-East Asian Region Conference, Melbourne,
Australia, July 1999.
Whiteley, A., and Wood, E. (1999). Environmental Management Strategy
Implementation, Values, and GSS technology. Paper presented at the 8th Annual World
Business Congress, Monterey, California, USA, June 1999.
Supervision:
Elliot has supervised students enrolled in the following programmes:
Bachelor of Psychology
Master of Arts (Futures)
Master of Psychology
Master of Science
Doctor of Business Administration
Doctor of Philosophy
Teaching:
Elliot was one of the Graduate School of Business faculty awarded the 2002 Curtin
University of Technology Team Award for Innovative Teaching Practice and the 2004
Owen Watts Teaching Award for Schools. In 2004 he was also sponsored by the Curtin
Business School to attend Harvard University's Participant-Centred Learning Programme.
He has taught postgraduate management courses in Perth, Hong Kong, Singapore,
Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Fiji. He is currently coordinating Masters-level units on the
Psychology of Training, and on Organisational Development and Work Design and has
previously co-ordinated and/or taught in the following units:
Advanced Theory in Business 700
Australian Business Environment 510
Business Strategy and International Business 660
Counselling Assessment 662
Graduate School of Business Critical and Creative Thinking and Business Leaders Series
Human Resource Strategies 660
Leading Human Resource Strategies 610
Leading in a Global Dynamic Environment 510
Managerial Effectiveness 571
MBA Retreat and Presentation Workshops
MBA Seminar 660
Organisational Behaviour 550
Professional Practice 115
Professional Practice 116
Consulting Services:
Elliot's consulting in organisational psychology-related areas includes work undertaken
for:
Aha Consulting
Agriculture WA
Barrick Gold
BHPBilliton
Bioss International
Chandler & MacLeod Consultants
City of Gosnells
Curtin University (Australia and Malaysia)
Department of Environment and Conservation
Department of Family & Children's Services
Department of Land Administration
Department of Premier and Cabinet
Fremantle Education Centre
The Futures Group
Health Department of Western Australia
Hopedown Management Services
Indigenous Psychological Services
Main Roads WA
Office of Public Sector Standards
Sealcorp
Uniting Church Homes
University of the South Pacific
UWA Business School
Volunteering Western Australia
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