Faculty of Economics and Commerce Department of Management and Marketing

Associate Professor Leisa Sargent

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Associate Professor Leisa Sargent was awarded her Ph.D. from the Rotman School of Management, The University of Toronto. She has lectured at Cornell University and Queensland University of Technology. Her undergraduate and masters degrees in Psychology were completed at The University of Queensland. She is a research leader in the Sloan Work and Family research network in the U.S.

Leisa has been an expert witness in the Industrial Relations Commission focusing on the detrimental effects of job changes in the Australian aged care sector and has most recently co-authored a submission to the Senate inquiry on Aged Care. Her organizational research includes career and job transitions, managing work-life boundaries and team effectiveness. Her work is published in several internationally recognised journals as well as in edited books. She has consulted to large complex organizations both in Australia and North America. She is currently collaborating on two Australian Research Council linkage grants relating to work organisation changes in Australian Aged Care and an evidence based approach to developing leadership capabilities and retaining managerial talent in Australian business.

Visiting Positions

2002 Visiting Assistant Professor, Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, U.S.
2006 Visiting Scholar, University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management, Canada.
2006 Visiting Scholar, Instituto de Empresa Business School, Madrid, Spain.
2009 Visiting Scholar, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Competitive Grants

Australian Research Council Linkage Grants

Aged care in crisis? The effects of work organization on nurse, resident and organizational outcomes, (with Harley); Partner organisation- Australian Nursing Federation.

An evidence-based approach to developing human and social capital in organizations, (with Kraimer & Seibert); Partner organisation- Deloitte.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Re-invention of retirement: A study of baby boomer professionals in two nations, 2008-2011, (with Lee & Vough, McGill University; Martin, Flinders University; Zikic, York University).
The Australian Learning and Teaching Council

The antecedents and consequences of student team virtuality, (2008-2010),with Kavanaugh (USQ) and Caspersz (UWA).

Awards

2008 University of Melbourne, Faculty of Economics and Commerce Dean's Teaching Award for Innovation.

2008, 2007, 2006, 2003 University of Melbourne, Faculty of Economics and Commerce Dean’s Certificate for Excellence in Teaching.

2005 Career Development International Journal, highly commended award for paper titled “Career development for going beyond the call of duty”.

2003 University of Melbourne, Faculty of Economics and Commerce Individual Award for Excellence in Teaching.

2003 Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing. Category -- Tertiary Education (adaptation) Teaching and Learning Package Category. Contributed two chapters to “Management: An Australian Perspective (2nd Ed)”.

2001 Queensland University of Technology, Faculty of Business, Teaching Excellence Award.

Scholarships

University of Toronto Open Fellowship Award.

University of Toronto International Student Fee Waiver Scholarship.

University Academic Committees

Member of the University of Melbourne Arts and Education Human Ethics sub-committee (2004-2008)

Chair of the Staff Equity and Diversity Committee, Faculty of Economics and Commerce (2007)

Editorial, Referee and Review

Editorial board membership

Human Relations

Ad hoc reviewer for -
- Anxiety, Stress and Coping
- Applied Psychology: An International Review
- Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources
- Australian Journal of Psychology
- Australian Journal of Management
- Career Development International
- Group and Organization Management
- Industrial and Labor Relations Review
- Journal of Human Resource Management
- Management Science
- Swiss Journal of Psychology

Professional Association Leadership

Academy of Management
Professional Development Workshop Chair, Careers Division, Academy of Management, New Orleans, 2004.

Executive committee member, Careers Division, Academy of Management (2002-2006).
European Group for Organization Studies
Conference Stream Co-convenor “Identity work and organisations”, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2008.

Conference Stream Co-convenor “Dis/organizing Identities”, Bergen, Norway, 2006.

Professional Memberships

Academy of Management
American Psychological Association and Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology
Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management

Research

Research Publications


Refereed Journals

Thomas, R., Sargent, L. D. & Hardy, C. (forthcoming). Managing organisational change: Negotiating meaning and power-resistance relations. Organization Science.

Sargent, L. D., Allen, B.C., Frahm, J. A., & Morris, G. (2009). Enhancing the experience of student teams in large classes: Training teaching assistants to be coaches. Journal of Management Education, 33, 526-552.

Sargent, L. D. & Domberger, S. R. (2007). Understanding the development of a protean career orientation: Values and image violations.Career Development International, 12,545-564.

Harley, B., Allen, B. C., & Sargent, L. D. (2007). High performance work systems and employee experience of work in the service sector: The case of aged care. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 45, 3, 608-634.

Bish, A. J., Bradley, L. M., & Sargent, L. D. (2004) Career development for going beyond the call of duty: Is it perceived as fair? Career Development International, 9, 4, 391-405.

Desrochers, S., & Sargent, L. D. (2004) Boundary/border theory and work-family integration. Organization Management Journal, 1, 40-48.

Sargent, L. D., & Waters, L. (2004). Careers and academic research collaborations: An inductive framework for understanding successful collaborations. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 64, 308-319.

Allen, B. C., Sargent, L. D., & Bradley, L. M. (2003). Differential effects of reward and task interdependence on helping behavior, effort and performance. Small Group Research, 34, 716-740.

Sargent, L. D. (2003). Effects of a downward status transition on perceptions of career succes, role performance and job identification. Australian Journal of Psychology, 55, 2,114-120.

Brown, T. C., Li, S., Sargent, L. D., & Tasa, K. G. (2003). What went wrong at University hospital? An exercise assessing training effectiveness. Journal of Management Education, 27, 4, 485-497.

Sargent, L. D., & Sue-Chan, C. (2001). Does diversity affect group efficacy? The intervening role of cohesion and task interdependence. Small Group Research, 32, 426-451.

Sargent, L. D., & Terry, D. J. (2000). The moderating role of social support in Karasek’s job strain model. Work and Stress, 14, 245-261.

Sargent, L. D., & Terry, D. J. (1998). The effects of work control and job demands on employee adjustment and performance. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 71, 219-236.

Sargent, L. D., & Groves, M. A. (1995). A psychological perspective on “Telework and vocational contact”. Journal of Technology Studies, 2, 139-142.

Book Chapters

Sargent, L. D. (2003). Basic elements of individual behaviour in organisations. In P. Davidson & Ricky W. Griffin (Eds). Management: An Australian perspective(2nd Ed.). Brisbane: John Wiley & Sons.

Sargent, L. D. (2003). Managing group and team processes. In P. Davidson & Ricky W. Griffin (Eds). Management: An Australian perspective(2nd Ed.). Brisbane: John Wiley & Sons.

Whyte, G., & Sargent, L. D. (2002). High collective efficacy may result in poor decision making practices and organizational crisis: Lessons for the Canadian Prime Minister. In Auer-Rizzi, Werner, Szabo, Erna, & Innreiter-Moser, Caecilia (Eds.) Management in a world of the globalization and diversity. European and North American aspects. Stuttgart: Schaeffer-Poeschel Verlag.

Sargent, L. D. (1995). Public sector change: Organisational stressors and strategic interventions. In P. Cotton (Ed.). Psychological health in the workplace: Understanding and managing occupational stress, pp. 159-170. Melbourne: APS.

Knowledge Transfer

Competitive Industry & Business Grants
Australian Maritime Safety Authority Research Grant, 1995, $150 000 (co-investigator)

Telecom: Social and Policy Issues Telecommunications Grant, 1994, $35 000 (co-investigator)

Edited Book
1996 Sargent, L.D., & Groves, M.A. (Eds.). The Australian Telecommuting guide: A practitioner’s reference to understanding and designing work options. Sydney: Telstra. ISBN: 0 642 23426 4

Edited Book Chapter
1996 Sargent, L. D. HR strategy and practice. In L. D. Sargent & M. A. Groves (Eds.). The Australian Telecommuting guide: A practitioner’s reference to understanding and designing work options. Sydney: Telstra.

Selected Invited Presentations
2007 Australian Nursing Federation Aged Care Nurses Conference, “Preliminary findings: Staffing, hostile work environment and resident outcomes”, Melbourne, November.

2006 Deloitte Consulting, “Managing careers, managing retention”, Melbourne, October.

2004 University of Melbourne alumni, “Developing an Intelligent Career”, Singapore, September.

2002 Queensland Chamber of Commerce, “Paid maternity leave”, Brisbane, August.

2002 Queensland Nurses’ Union State Conference, “The consequences of changes to aged care nurses’ status and workload: Evidence from Queensland and the United States,” Brisbane.

2001 The Australian Association of Practice Managers, National Conference, “A Passion for Practice Management”, October.

2000 The Australian Association of Practice Managers, Queensland State Conference, “Taking the Torch to Tough Issues”, September.

1996 Performance coach for middle and senior managers, Domtar management development program, The University of Toronto, April and September.

1995 Stress management training program for the Australian Catholic University.

1995 Australian Institute of Safety, “Stress management interventions: One size doesn’t fit all”, April.

Selected Reports

2008 Sargent, L.D., Harley, B. & Allen, B.C. Quality of working life in Victorian Aged Care. A report to the Australian Nursing Federation, Victorian Branch.

2006 Sargent, L.D., Harley, B. & Allen, B.C. Working in Aged Care Study. A report to the Australian Nursing Federation, Victorian Branch.

2005 Sargent, L.D. The validity of supplemental selection procedures for student selection into University teacher education courses. A report for the Victorian Institute of Teaching.

2005 The quality of work in Victorian Aged-Care a

Submission to Senate Inquiry on Aged-Care

1997 Parker, A.W., Hubinger, L., Green, S., Sargent, L.D. & Boyd, R. A. Survey of the Health, Stress and Fatigue of Australian Seafarers. Australian Maritime Safety Authority, Canberra.

Working Papers


Power and participation in the production of boundary objects (With Robyn Thomas & Cynthia Hardy)

The Role of Cost-Cutting in Exacerbating the Effects of Workplace Aggression in Nursing Homes (with Belinda Allen & Bill Harley)

High performance work systems, employees and performance in services: the role of job quality in aged care (with Belinda Allen & Bill Harley)

Crossover stress and dual earners (with Stephan Desrochers)

The role of contracting on ‘knowing’ career competencies and career outcomes (with Sally Mangan)

Teaching

Interesting classroom activites


Desrochers, S., & Sargent, L. D. Strategies for work-family integration: Suggested work and family class activity. Sloan Work and Family Encyclopedia. Available: http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/activities_entry.php?id=513&area=academics

Desrochers, S., & Sargent, L. D. Understanding and measuring work-family integration: Suggested work and family class activity. Sloan Work and Family Encyclopedia. Available: http://wfnetwork.bc.edu/activities_entry.php?id=514&area=academics

Invited and Refereed Conference Presentations

Sargent, L. D., Allen, B.C., Frahm, J. A., & Morris, G. (December, 2007). Tutor as team coach: An experiential intervention to build intellectual capital. Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management, Sydney.

Sargent, L. D. (March, 2006). Developing collaborative learning in Organisational Behaviour. In P. Mc Phee (Chair), Defining and Developing Global Graduate Attributes. Seminar conducted at the University of Melbourne.

Chang, A. & Sargent, L. D., (December, 2004). Developing team-based reflexivity and learning in University students. Paper presented at the Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Sargent, L.D. (September, 2004). Teaching effectiveness in a Mass Education context. Faculty of Economics and Commerce, Teaching and Learning Unit, University of Melbourne.

Sargent, L.D. (December, 2000).Undergraduate teaching innovations, Invited presentation to the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management pre-conference workshop, Sydney.

Other teaching resources


Sloan Work and Family Research Network - resources for teaching and training

Organisational Behaviour Teaching Society

Organizational Behaviour tutor training resources for team coaching and case-based teaching

Teaching Responsibilities 2009

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