Professor Robert Chia has a world wide reputation as a leading critical thinker in the field of management, with interests in a broad range of areas of research that overlap with the research interests of academic members of USGSB.
Now a Visiting Professor at USGSB, Professor Chia has wide experience of teaching and conducting management training at senior levels and has presented at both the Academy of Management and the British Academy of Management conferences, published in leading journals and holds several editorial appointments.
Professor Chia has previously worked with Professor Haridimos Tsoukas of USGSB and has recently joined Dr Nic Beech and Dr George Cairns of the School as founder members of the Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management on Philosophy and Management
Research interests include University Education and the Role of Business Schools, Information, Technology and Globalisation, Critical Cultural Studies, and Tacit Knowledge and Knowledge-Creation. Teaching lies in the fields of International Management, Human Resource Management, Strategic Thinking & Management and Organisation Change amongst other areas.
He is the author of 'Organizational Analysis as Deconstructive Practice' and has edited 'In the Realm of Organization' and 'Organized Worlds: Explorations in Technology and Organization.'
Consultancy experience has included work with Bass Group, British Aerospace and Cathay Pacific Airlines.
Professor Chia also has commercial experience, from 1979 to 1988 being Group Human Resource Manager with Metal Box Group in Singapore and was awarded recognition by the National Productivity Board for Outstanding Employee Development Efforts. He was also Training Manager with the company and developed and In-Company Management Development Programme. Previous to this, he worked with Singapore Airlines and Singapore Polytechnic.
Professor Chia is also Professor of Strategy and Organisation at the School of Business and Economics with the University of Essex.
