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Dexter Dunphy is a behavioural scientist, educator, management consultant and author.Dunphy is Distinguished Professor, University of Technology, Sydney, a position he took up on 1 January, 2000. Dexter’s main research and consulting interests are in corporate sustainability, the management of organisational change and human resource management. He also has a special interest in comparative management, particularly in East Asia where he has travelled widely.
His research is published in over 70 articles and 18 books, including the Australian best sellers (with Doug Stace) Under New Management: Australian Organizations in Transition (1990), Beyond the Boundaries: Leading and Re-creating the Successful Enterprise (with Doug Stace), 1994 – the substantially revised edition 2001, The Sustainable Corporation: Organisational Renewal in Australia (co-authored with Andrew Griffiths), 1998 and Sustainability: The Corporate Challenge of the 21st Century (co-edited with others), 2000, and Organizational Change for Corporate Sustainability (with A. Griffiths and S. Benn), 2003.
Dexter has consulted to over 150 private and public sector organisations in Australia and abroad. His consulting includes advising on major organisational transformations and transitions, design of human resource strategies and systems, “trouble shooting” and conflict resolution. He also has thirty years experience working with senior executives, managers and other professionals in enhancing their managerial skills through executive workshops, consulting and counselling. Dexter holds the degrees of BA(hons) M Ed(hons) and Dip Ed from Sydney University and PhD in Sociology from Harvard University.
After receiving his PhD from Harvard University, he held the position of Assistant Professor there, teaching in both the Graduate School of Business and the Department of Social Relations. He returned to the University of New South Wales where he held successive positions as Senior Lecturer in Sociology (1967- 1969) and Professor of Business Administration and Head, Department of Organisation Behaviour in the Faculty of Commerce (1970-1982). He then took up an appointment as Professor of Management at the Australian Graduate School of Management (1982-2000).
He has also held visiting professorships at Harvard University USA, Keio University Japan, Shanghai First Medical College, PRC, the National University of Singapore and the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland. He has been a recipient of a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, the University of New South Wales’ Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence and, on leaving the University of NSW in 2000, was appointed Professor Emeritus.
In 1998 he was awarded the Australian Human Resources Institute’s Mike Pontifex Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Human Resources Profession and The Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management’s Distinguished Member Award for contributions to management research, scholarship, education and leadership. In 2001 he was elected a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. From 1990 to 1997 he was Director of the Centre for Corporate Change at the AGSM, one of twenty Special Research Centres funded by the Australian government. At UTS Dexter is now directing a research project on Corporate Sustainability and supporting sustainability initiatives across the University.
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