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Dr.
Nick ForsterProfessor of Business and Management
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Nick joined the College of Business at Al Faisal University in September
2011. He is a Professor of Business and Management. Before this, he worked
at Zayed University in Dubai from August 2007, where he was a Professor of
Business Leadership. He is the author of four books, has published more than
120 academic and professional articles, book chapters, conference papers and
has written several research and consulting reports for business
organizations in the UK, Australia and Singapore. The second edition of his
MBA textbook Maximum Performance: A Practical Guide to Leading and Managing
People at Work, was published in July 2010 (now available from Amazon’s
Kindle Library). Since 2008, he has been involved in several new research
projects looking at the emergence and development of women professionals and
business leaders in the UAE, research that he hopes to continue in the KSA.
Before moving to Dubai, he worked at the Graduate School of Management, the
University of Western Australia from March 1997 to May 2007. He taught
Organizational Behaviour, Organizational Change and Transformation and
Social, Ethical and Environmental Issues in Business on the GSM’s MBA and
Executive MBA programs. He received ten MBA-nominated commendations and
awards for teaching, and was also chosen twice by the Business Faculty as a
nominee for National Australian University Awards for University Teaching in
2000 and 2005. He has also received two teaching commendations from the CBS
Graduating Classes of 2008 and 2009.
Nick has collaborated in research, management development and consulting
projects with more than fifty companies in the UK, Singapore and Australia,
and was also a facilitator in the Australian Institute of Management’s
Action Learning Programs with local companies, run in collaboration with the
Harvard Business School. He was involved in the delivery of leadership and
management development workshops to many of WA’s largest companies and
public sector organizations, including the Office of the Premier and Cabinet
and the City of Perth Executive.
He was a member of the national judging panel for the annual Australian
Human Resource Management Awards for three years, and helped to write the
criteria for two new awards in 2004, ‘Corporate Citizenship’ and ‘Employer
of Choice’. He was featured in several ABC radio interviews and on the
Qantas in-flight Business Program, and also contributed several articles to
practitioner publications such as West Australian Business News, The
Australian, Leadership Quarterly and Business Review Weekly.
While working in the UK from 1987-1997, several articles based on his
research were published in The Financial Times, The Sunday Times, The
Guardian, The Independent, The Independent on Sunday and The Yorkshire Post,
and he was featured in interviews on Radio 2, Radio Sheffield and Radio
Scotland. Several references to his research also appeared in other
professional journals such as Management Today, CBI/ERC Relocation News and
Investment International. He also is the co-founder, with Mr. Steve Pretzel,
of the West Coast Snowpark project (www.snowpark.com.au).
Nick graduated with a BA (Honours) in Sociology from Leeds University
(1979), a M.Sc. in Industrial Sociology (with Distinction) from Bradford
University (1984) and a Ph.D. from Sheffield University (1987).
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Faculty & Staff
Dr. William Lathen
Dean, College of Business
Dr. Nick Forster
Professor of Business and Management
Dr. Matti J. Haverila
Associate professor of Marketing
Dr. Hassan Said
Associate professor of Accounting
Dr. Bruce Budd
Associate Professor of Finance & Economics
Dr. Hazbo Skoko
Assist. Professor of Economics and Finance
Dr. Ricardo Santa
Assist. Prof. in Production & Operations Management
Dr. Mohammed Kafaji
Assist. Professor of MIS and Project Management
Dr. Declan McCrohan
Assist. Professor in Finance
Dr. Mario A. F. Vasquez
Assist. Professor of Operations Management
Mahmood Kazzal
Instructor
Talal Al Samman
Marketing & Research Specialist
Wafa Al Debasi
Program Specialist