Reynold James

Reynold earned a PhD in Management from Swinburne University Australia, where he lectured mainly Master students, since transitioning into academia in 2007. A specialist in Lean management, Organizational Design and Business Transformation & Change, he extensively taught courses including SHRM, Entrepreneurship and HRM, SHRD, Organization Development, OB, Organizational Analysis, Global Strategy and Leadership, Business Ethics and Business Transformation & Change.

With an MBA [HRM & Strategic Management], and qualifications in Occupational Testing from the British Psychological Society [UK], Reynold has had significant experience as an independent management consultant and trainer [General management / HRM /OD / Strategy]; senior manager [OD/ HRM/ SCM] within reputed global MNCs in the UAE, India, and Australia; and is an expert in micro-credentialing, on which he has presented at the university level.

Reynold’s research adopts a critical management slant and has been published in leading [ ABDC / ERA A and A * ] international journals. His research has been presented at reputed global conferences and several articles authored by him, carried in the UAE’s popular press. His current research interests include Emiratization; Ethnic entrepreneurship; Institutional transplantation of management models across nations, and HRM in non-Japanese Lean environs.

Education

• PhD (Management) Swinburne University, Australia 2012
• MBA (Strategy / HRM) Xavier’s School of business- XLRI, India 2004

Research Areas

Institutional transplantation; Ethnic entrepreneurship; Emiratization

Teaching Areas

HRM, Strategy and Management

Academic Experience

• Assistant Professor at Zayed University Abu Dhabi, UAE (2014-current)
• Sessional lecturer at Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia (2007-2013)
• Academic Associate Monash University, Gippsland Campus (April 2012 –April 2013)
• At Zayed University:
  • Course coordinator / subject leader for the HRM 366 (HRIS); HRM 452 (L&D) and BUS 457 (OD) courses, and lead member for the development of new Course Learning Outcomes.
  • Lead role in the development of the HRM 640 course of the new MBA (2021), and for the incorporation of ‘Workflow Analytics’ into the Business Analytics course to be introduced shortly.
  • Rehashing fully the HRM 366 (Human Resource Information Systems) and incorporating HR Analytics into the same.

Professional Experience

• Slovenian Tourist Board
  • 2004-2009 Professional Researcher of Tourism
  • 2009-2012 Marketing Manager
  • 2013-2014 Head of Marketing and Foreign PR
• Golf club Barje, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • 2009 – 2014 Assistant to the president

Honors and Awards

• Received ‘Best Paper Award’ for the following paper: James, R. & ElMassa, S. (2016). Identification of Factors Contributing to Success of Expatriate Entrepreneurs in the Gulf Cooperation Council [GCC] Region: An Exploratory Study. International Journal of Management and Applied Science (IJMAS), 2 (3).
• Nominated for ‘Teaching Award’ 2019 [Management Group, College of Business, Zayed University]
• Nominated by Swinburne University’s (Research) as the university’s only entry for the President’s Award, awarded by the Asian Studies Association of Australia for the best PhD thesis about Asia written at an Australian university during 2012.

Graduate Courses Taught at Zayed University

• HRM663 Organizational Behavior and Leadershi
• MGT669 Cross Cultural Management
• ELA633 Human Performance & Resource Management (for Z.U. C.o.E. / Outside of core teaching area)
• HRM640 Human Resource Management

Publications

• Elmassah, S., Mostafa Bacheer, S. and James, R. (2020), "What shapes students' perceptions of group work: personality or past experience?", International Journal of Educational Management.
• Scott Martin; Reynold James (2019). ‘Expatriate Assignments: The "Same" Job May Be Different Depending on the Country’. Journal of Asia Business Studies.
• James, R; ElMassah, S; Michael, I; & Gimphu, I (2019). ‘An Assessment of the Influence of Personal Branding on Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures’. Heliyon.
• James, R. (2019) The Toyota Way or the unions’ way?: Examining the nexus between lean and unions in Toyota Australia, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2018.1513413.
• Michael, N., James, R., & Michael, I (2018) "Australia’s cognitive, affective and conative destination image: an Emirati tourist perspective", Journal of Islamic Marketing. https://doi.org/10.1108/JIMA-06-2016-0056 [ABDC ‘C’; Scopus indexed journal].
• James, R. & ElMassa, S. (2016). Identification of Factors Contributing to Success of Expatriate Entrepreneurs in the Gulf Cooperation Council [GCC] Region: An Exploratory Study. International Journal of Management and Applied Science (IJMAS), 2 (3). [Received ‘Best Paper Award’]
• Pillay, S. & James, R. (2015). Examining Inter-cultural Competency through Social Exchange Theory. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education., 27 (3), 320-329. [ERA B journal*].
• James, R. & Jones, R. (2014). Transferring the Toyota Lean Cultural Paradigm into India: Implications for Human Resource Management. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 25 (15). [ABDC ‘A’; Scopus indexed journal]
• Pillay Soma, James Reynold, (2014) "The pains and gains of blended learning – social constructivist perspectives", Education + Training, Vol. 56 Issue: 4, pp.254-270, https://doi.org/10.1108/ET-11-2012-0118 [SCIMAGO Q1; ERA A*; Scopus indexed].
• Pillay, S. & James, R. (2013). Gaming across Cultures- experimenting with alternate pedagogies. Education + Training, 55 (1). https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/00400911311294924 [SCIMAGO Q1; ERA A*; Scopus indexed journal]