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What motivates people to volunteer and how do you manage them?

What motivates people to volunteer and how do you manage them?

Across Australia, volunteers contribute more than 700 million hours of labour to a diverse range of organisations every year. What drives them?

Herman Tse

Department of Management

How unconscious bias shapes your thinking (and what you can do about it)

How unconscious bias shapes your thinking (and what you can do about it)

Most Australians believe in values such as fairness and equality - but these can be harder to act on than you would think.

Martijn Van der Kamp

Leadership and Executive Education

The ‘ordinary’ bravery of resisting tyranny from within

The ‘ordinary’ bravery of resisting tyranny from within

A new book paints a fresh picture of the Germans who sought to resist - and mostly, failed to thwart - Hitler's brutal Nazi regime.

Gary Magee

Wayne Geerling

The leadership concept that wants your boss to check their ego

The leadership concept that wants your boss to check their ego

In Australia, business success is mostly measured by power. Can a concept that places employee satisfaction at its centre – servant leadership – work here?

Sen Sendjaya

Department of Management

Why Australian businesses need to become servant leaders

Why Australian businesses need to become servant leaders

The concept of servant leadership isn’t well known in Australian business circles. Associate Professor Sen Sendjaya from the Department of Management argues that it should be.

Sen Sendjaya

Department of Management

Why wicked problems are great opportunities for innovation

Why wicked problems are great opportunities for innovation

What are wicked problems? How do businesses stay ahead of the curve? Professor Richard Hall, Deputy Dean Leadership and Executive Education, talks innovation, next-generation problems and the future of business.

Richard Hall

Senior Leadership team

How Indonesia and India navigated the 2013 Taper Tantrum

How Indonesia and India navigated the 2013 Taper Tantrum

In May 2013, a global over-reaction over misinterpreted comments from the US Federal Reserve on the future of controversial monetary policy of quantitative easing triggered the "Taper Tantrum" – a horror sell-down of the currencies of emerging economies.

Sisira Jayasuriya

Why we do what we do: Storytelling and the art of leadership

Why we do what we do: Storytelling and the art of leadership

Storytelling might actually be one of the most powerful skills a leader can possess and one worth working hard to develop.

Richard Hall

Senior Leadership team

Are women never the ‘right age’ to work?

Are women never the ‘right age’ to work?

Pay inequality over the course of a woman’s life results in significant financial disparities in later life. But to begin to challenge the pay gap that exists between men and women, we need to understand how the concept of "gendered ageism" manifests for women across their careers, and how it can be addressed through organisational practices and public policy.

Kathleen Riach

Department of Management

Leaders Panel: Trump, Brexit and the EU – Whither Australia?

Leaders Panel: Trump, Brexit and the EU – Whither Australia?

Graeme Samuel, Don Argus and Steve Bracks discuss next steps for Australia.

Graeme Samuel

Don Argus AC

Alumnus Nick Stone on building a New York coffee empire

Alumnus Nick Stone on building a New York coffee empire

Nick Stone, founder and CEO of Bluestone Lane and Monash Business School alumnus, talks about making it work in New York – the world's toughest coffee market.

Department of Economics

Prescott Family Foundation lecture series: What does a modern worker look like?

Prescott Family Foundation lecture series: What does a modern worker look like?

The way we work is in constant flux, turbo-charged by demographic, technological and social changes. What does the present world of work for the modern worker look like? What can younger people today expect from their career? What expectations do they have of their leaders?

Department of Management