Certification Program in Responsible Leadership and Followership in a Digital Era
Grenoble Ecole de Management
October 28, 2022
Part One: Workshop on Critical Thinking:
1: Defining Critical thinking/ Reasoning
2: Evidence
3: Alternative Explanation
4: Serious game/ Debrief of workshop
Part Two: Aikido sessions with case study work:
1- Embodiment: Self-management: How to align your body in such a way that facilitates a
the mindset which combined with the body-setting results in:
- Inner strength
- Integrity
- Self-confidence
2- Procedure: learning a simple 1, 2, 3 method to align your Body and the connecting mindset
How to maintain this body alignment of your body and mind at the right distance
towards another in an ongoing communication/relation
Procedure: experiencing what is the right distance with your partner to maintain the integrity
3- How to maintain this in the role of leader of follower. In both roles, you learn and
experience to be able to maintain your Identity and integrity.
Procedure: using Aikido to understand the martial role-play between Leader and Follower,
while maintaining integrity for both (without falling into the trap of victim or attacker).
4- Which style of leadership and followership are grounded in your embodied system and
fits you and is the most effective for you and in a generation a natural team result
Procedure: which styles of leadership and followership suits your personality and gives you
natural power/charisma, without falling into the master/slave trap as opposed to be a leader
or a follower in the Aikido way.
5- Create insight into which kind of decision in being a leader of the followers are grounded in
your embodied system = your personality.
Procedure: according to several case studies investigates and experiment with this by self-awareness.
Part Three: Course module on Critical Perspectives on contemporary Leadership and Followership
1- Introduction and foundational concepts in Leadership
2- Contemporary Leadership: The good, the bad and the ugly
3- Leadership and power
4- Leadership in the digital era
5- Followership and Role theory approach
6- Contemporary Followership
7- Followership in the digital era
8- Frameworks of leadership and followership
9- Ongoing Discussions and sum up
Final Submission: Reflexive Report
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Leadership for Master Degree students 2019
Heriot Watt University
September 11, 2020
Leadership is a popular research and general interest subject that generates lots of discussion and debate amongst academics, practitioners and the public. There are many leadership theories that attempt to describe how it works and why. Unfortunately, all of them are only useful for describing leadership in particular or narrow situations, none provide a universal formula for understanding how leadership works. Therefore, it is important to have a wide understanding of the different theories available. This course provides that broad overview of leadership and its contributing theories.
Many research studies have discovered a positive relationship between effective leadership and improved performance across a number of critical organisational activities like competitiveness, innovation, new product development etc. Relating practice to leadership approaches to understand, which theories are relevant and how they improve performance are examined in the course as well. Moreover, leaderships impact on four important contemporary organisational themes will be explored in the course. These important themes are gender, culture, teams and ethics. Finally, guest speakers are used to help bring to life the leadership approaches and issues discussed in the course.
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Masters Degree Dissertation Supervision on Sustainable Knowledge Sharing
Heriot-Watt University
May 01, 2020
This research was conducted on retail industry by proposing the sustainable knowledge sharing using Salih's (2020) Model of dynamic cultural intelligence to assist retail managers and firms improving their knowledge sharing culture and overcome cultural obstacles, towards improvement and innovation.
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Masters Degree Dissertation Supervision on adaptive leadership impacts employee wellbeing and happiness
Heriot-Watt University
September 13, 2019
This research talks about the effect of adaptive leadership on employee wellbeing and happiness in the organization and its subsequent impact on performance. The research is conducted in Dubai.
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Masters Degree Dissertation supervision on Disruptive Innovation in coaching industry
Heriot-Watt University
August 31, 2019
This research is about how disruptive innovation has become key to understanding the increased number of new companies overtaking the market. The work explored the use of technology such as Artificial Intelligence in the coaching industry and showed how poor is the use of technology in this domain....
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Masters Degree Dissertation Supervision on project management of events
Heriot-Watt University
August 18, 2019
This work explores the challenges faced by project managers in the events industry in the UAE whilst adopting Salih's (2018) Model of Adaptive Leadership in the event industry, within the UAE. Salih's model consists of effective leadership effectiveness and ineffectiveness, the meta-cognitive dimension of Cultural Intelligence (CQ) combined with the autonomous culture of the Douglasian Cultural Framework (DCF).
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Masters Degree Dissertation Supervision on the influence Aikido and Cultural Intelligence (CQ)’s Mindfulness on leader-follower relationships
Heriot-Watt University
July 20, 2019
This research sheds light on the dynamics of leader-follower relationships. The Adaptive Leadership Model of Salih (2018) has been employed to interpret followership to this end, in order to bridge the gap between leadership and followership literature. As CQ’s metacognition is related to mindfulness and Aikido practitioners are known to possess mindfulness, the study has been conducted on Aikido practitioners.
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Masters Degree Dissertation Supervision on the application of Adaptive leadership in sustainable project management
Heriot-Watt University
April 23, 2019
This piece of work explores the effect of Salih's (2018) Model of Adaptive Leadership on the project management sector in Nigeria. The aim is to achieve a sustainable project management practice in the country.
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Entering into the Mind of the Entrepreneur: The Hermit’s Metacognition as an Entrepreneurial Driver
Routledge
April 15, 2022
In this chapter, a novel approach toward understanding how entrepreneurs act to draw new business horizons when faced with new opportunities or challenges is introduced. In the current decade, there has been much emphasis on strengthening individuals’ capabilities to move them into the space or mindset of entrepreneurs. The work in this chapter builds on previous attempts where the metacognitive dimension of Cultural Intelligence (CQ) is employed to help entrepreneurs plot the right strategies toward achieving their self-gains. Furthermore, the work adds another building block to previous achievements and draws a new horizon by explaining how a change can happen in individuals’ mindsets to transform themselves into adopting a competitive or entrepreneurial culture. This chapter calls for a paradigm shift in approaching, understanding, explaining, and boosting entrepreneurship among individuals by deploying Douglasian Cultural Framework-based Cultural Intelligence. Moreover, it lays out a set of behaviours and a process individuals could follow to achieve their sought-after transformation to become entrepreneurs and follow opportunities globally.
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The Role of Aikido and Cultural Intelligence in Harmonising Leader-Follower Relationships
Routledge
April 15, 2022
Aikido is a modern Japanese martial art founded by Morihei Ueshiba in the 1920s and
internationally promoted in the 1950s. It differs from other marital arts: Aikidokas (Aikido
practitioners) not only practise mindfulness but also live within a culture of social and spiritual
harmony, discipline, focus, and direction. On the mat, Aikidokas free their minds from any
prejudicial thoughts and indulge in a no-mind state during the training. In this chapter, Aikido is
linked with Cultural Intelligence’s metacognition and Douglasian Cultural Framework’s
egalitarian culture. By so doing, it highlights that an egalitarian culture can help employees blend
in a healthier work environment and increase their productivity. Additionally, in this chapter, the
concept of flexecution, which links flexibility to execution, is discussed, and how this concept,
which has its roots in Aikido, can help in improving the decision-making process in the business
environment is shown
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Taking Stock of the Present and Looking Toward the Future: Cultural Evolution in a Knowledge-Intensive and Digital Era
Routledge
April 15, 2022
In this concluding chapter, we attempt to summarise the overall value of the book by focusing on the significant concepts of each chapter from the knowledge management and intelligence lenses. Furthermore, the chapter lays out some genuine trends that cultural studies would encounter in the near future. Such trends range from conceptual, methodological to pragmatic. First, the way culture is approached needs to change to become more comprehensive. This implies that studying culture needs to be done using aspects from different knowledge domains and also by deploying multiple paradigms. This is because culture is a multi-faceted and complex construct, and cannot be looked at studied using one paradigm. Second, future cultural studies may witness change in the way culture used in the workplace to harmonise the relationship between managers and employees, to name a few. Finally, we recommend in this chapter that cultural studies need to take a proactive stance in dealing with new areas of practice such as culture in a digitalised/platforms world, culture and the organisation as a system, and culture and the intelligent/knowledgeable organisation
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Adaptive and Sustainable Leadership for Event Management
Goodfellow
June 01, 2021
Event Management, as a field of study, is relatively nascent. Attempts have been made by some scholars to define a workable framework that includes collaboration from different knowledge disciplines or industry services (Getz, 2000). However, as with many other fields of study, research reacts to the phenomena happening in the outside world, and attempts to find the right solution to standardize individuals’ and organisations’ practice. While we understand the gap between academia and practice, where the latter is always advancing due to actual needs on the ground, we also believe that adopting a proactive approach in research to provide the right solutions and run proper training programs, can help to bridge this gap and provide real value to practice.
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Adaptive and Sustainable Leadership for Event Management
GoodFellowPublishers
February 01, 2021
Due to the fast-changing economy globally, and technology impact on business and individuals, the events industry became much more complex especially with governments involvement and increased regulation (Bowdin et. al, 2006). By nature, events are ephemeral, and even if they do repeat, they are a separate project every time. Therefore, events can be considered as fast-track projects with many activities and stakeholders engaged for a short period. One important aspect that impact the delivery of successful events is leadership. In this chapter, hence, we shed some light on the main challenges faced when implementing events in Dubai. Given the multi-cultural nature of working in the events industry in Dubai and the different types of events conducted every year, our study attempts to understand how project leaders within the events industry use adaptive leadership across cultures to produce successful outcomes and/or meet project deliverables. Event management as a field of study emerged in response to the growing events industry, and is yet to be mature (Getz, 2002). Moreover, attempts were made to examine the effect of cognitive, social and environmental psychology, sociology and anthropology knowledge disciplines to understand the differences between the field’s subdivisions (see Getz, 2007 and 2012). For this purpose, we focus on the behavioural aspect of event management, I.e. events leadership, and propose a novel approach to the challenges faced by both academics and practitioners. We emphasise on the adaptive leadership aspect of managing events following Salih’s (2017; 2020) Model for Sustainable and Adaptive Leadership as the mechanism to be used by individuals and organizations, and by so doing, we attempt to synch theory and practice. The Model comprises three main components: Hamlin’s (2004) model for leadership effectiveness and ineffectiveness, the meta-cognitive dimension of Cultural Intelligence (CQ), and the autonomous culture (hermit) of the Douglasian Cultural Framework (DCF). There has been much research done on culture, project management and adaptive leadership however, there is a paucity of literature on events management in Dubai.
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Sustainable Leadership in Multi-Cultural Teams
Goodfellow
August 22, 2020
Description
The current shift towards digital transformation that guides the building blocks of the digital economy, has made it imperative to review some of the current theories, frameworks and paradigms. This applies to the different contexts of business management, where effective leadership is crucail, including project management and more so, sustainable project management. The authors’ current work, which is directed at both academics and practitioners, calls for a new paradigm in approaching Sustainable Leadership Effectiveness, that brings aspects from three knowledge domains (Anthropology, Sociology and Psychology) which are important for understanding human behaviors (in response to Murdock, 1971). The new paradigm and approach take leadership effectiveness practice, training and development into new dimensions, and embed them within an intelligent process with the Douglasian Cultural Framework (DCF)-based Cultural Intelligence at the center. Leaders focus should harness past and present experience to make a better future (Senge, 2008 cited in Tideman et al., 2013). This implies that for leadership to be considered sustainable, it must be formed around two important factors: adaptability and intelligence (Tideman, 2013). Accordingly, the journey that readers will be guided through in this chapter, is about novelty in thinking and practicing leadership which is different from the mainstream of leadership and Cultural Intelligence discourse and practice. The aim is to have managers and leaders not only understanding how to be effective, but how to behave intelligently in a challenging global context. In the introduction, the chapter presents the debate about leadership from the globalization lens, illustrating the obstacles that leadership research is facing. The chapter then provides the reader with a general review about Cultural Intelligence showing the dilemmas that the construct is facing, leading to the main theme of this chapter where the leadership adaptability framework is presented.
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SAP Finance Business Process leader
Khatib and Alami
August 26, 2022
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SAP business leader for CPM/PS
Khatib and Alami
July 26, 2022
leading the CPM/PS business process and solving, with the team involved, the challenges that face project managers, department heads and the operational excellence team when delivering projects.
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SAP Business Leader for C4C module
Khatib and Alami
July 26, 2022
Leading the Cloud 4 Customer module of SAP within Khatib and Alami.
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Advisor to Guidepoint's clients
Guidepoint Advisory
March 02, 2022
Provide advisory services on Knowledge Management
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International Aikido Federation membership
International Aikido Federation
January 01, 2022
Part of the AfriMENA Workgroup within the International Aikido Federation (IAF), I am responsible to encourage nations in the region to enroll under the AIKIKAI and IAF umbrella after having them establishing their national Aikido identity.
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Design of Enterprise Content Management System
Khatib and Alami
July 11, 2021
Lead a team from IT, project managers, quality assurance, document controllers, design and construction supervision team to design and implement an enterprise and content management system based on Microsoft SharePoint. The system included four main verticals; proposals, projects, Knowledge repositories and Business Management System.
The system is now in th implementation phase.
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Establishing digital academy
Khatib and Alami
April 01, 2021
Link Learning Management system to digital courses delivery. The Digital academy proposal was designed to employees performance appraisal designed and career path planning at K&A.
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Establishment of Knowledge Lab
Khatib and Alami
January 21, 2020
The following are the aims of the Knowledge Lab:
1. Project management and control – understanding when the system should be updated, when critical items e.g. contract value, start/end dates, invoicing schedule changes etc. are permitted to be changed
2. Change and VO management – management of changes in contract from PMs (letters of extension when the project is delayed, changing scope when contract value is adjusted etc.)
3. Stakeholder management –understanding of how to influence clients and who we should be escalating issues to
4. Financial management – capability and knowledge of finance and its importance for project management
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Projects Budgeting for a $400M value
Khatib and Alami
November 01, 2019
Lead a team from finance, project management and project controls to prepare a bottom up budgets for all running projects of the company.
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Three Years Growth Plan
Khatib and Alami
August 09, 2019
A three years growth plan was developed to set the guidance to align geographies and engineering sectors with the overall market and company targets.
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Talent Development System
Khatib and Alami
May 29, 2019
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Head of PMO for Organizational Design
Khatib and Alami
December 01, 2018
Lead the organizational design with the CEO of the company and Mckinsey to drive organizational redesign, operational efficiency, sales process design and grading system redesign.
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Head of Digital Transformation office
Khatib and Alami
September 07, 2018
Head the Digital transformation Initiative and the transformation office in general.
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Career path development
Khatib and Alami
March 01, 2018
For 3500 employees, I have established a career path development program based on employees' strengths, challenges and potential. The program included the creation of digital learning spaces which can be linked to HR system.
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Certified Chief Innovation Officer (CCInO)
Global Innovation Institute GInI
March 17, 2017
GInI Certified Chief Innovation Officer (CCInO) is GInI’s recognition of senior business leaders who have demonstrated an advanced understanding of key topics relating to enterprise innovation, innovation strategy, innovation groups, innovation spaces, management and workplace innovation, and other leading innovation practices.
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Proposals development workshop
Khatib and Alami
April 09, 2016
In this workshop, proposals managers from across K&A business units were introduced to the new Way of Work of the Winning Proposal Procedure. The new operating model (modus operandi) of the proposals units was demonstrated and discussed.
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Wrench Solution Implementation
Khatib and Alami
July 01, 2009
Led a team from IT and project management to implement Wrench solution for project management, knowledge management, document management and collaboration management system. The process included conducting many customizations to the system to adapt it to the working environment of the company. Workflows were set within Wrench to enforce quality control.
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Project Management Office establishment
Khatib and Alami
March 01, 2006
In 2006, I established a PMO within K&A to manage all design projects. Projects types manages range from small to large scale and include residential, retail, hospitality, healthcare, mixed-use, educational, infrastructure and urban planning projects.
The PMO unit grew and accommodated more than 8 project managers and many planning engineers. Establishing the PMO introduced a major change in projects operations and lead to better project delivery.
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Training Officer
Khatib and Alami
January 01, 2002
As a rotating training officer, I was responsible for leading the process of collecting all training requirements from all design and corporate departments, collaborating with them to assign the right resources and coordinating with external parties to conduct the required course.
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Leadership Fall Semester 2022 - Course Leader
Heriot-Watt University
September 12, 2022
This course is offered on a range of programmes within Edinburgh Business School. Regardless of study
discipline or career choices, leadership is an area of research that crosses time zones and business sectors. A
significantly debated and extensively studied area, this course covers both traditional and contemporary
theories and models and explores additional themes around gender, followership and ethics in leadership.
The course also provides a great deal of practical activities and discussion intended to support the
application of the theories and models in business as well as personal reflection on areas of strength and
development in a leadership context.
Leadership and its development is a very personal journey for all of us and this course uses established and
new theories and models to support your development and your self awareness of your own approaches and
preferences to leadership and how you might develop these in your career. The most important aspects of
this course is self reflection and honesty with yourself and a willingness to get involved and fully participate
in the course so that we can all learn and develop together.
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Digital Business Strategy: Platforms and Ecosystems MSc in-person course - Fall 2022
Heriot-Watt University
September 12, 2022
This course is part of the digital leadership program and it targets individuals sitting the drives seats in their organisations whether C-suite leaders or Board members who participate in drawing the overall strategy for their organizations. The content used represent an effective mix of highly recognised books, papers, research and media interviews with worldwide known leaders in the digital transformation, platforms and ecosystems fields, such as Dr Marshall Van Alstyne, DR Alex Fenton, Dr Nicholas D Evans, Dr Nabila Altunisi, Mr Simone Cicero, Mr Haider Ogaili and Dr Najib Khatib among many other names.
Furthermore, the content includes resources from leading industry digital providers such as Gartner, Microsoft and AutoDesk spread throughout the modules as need and as applicable to add the practical dimension to the course.
Another aspect we were keen to avail is providing real life example and case studies from leading firms who were successful in their digital journey and startups who embed new technologies such AI and machine learning in their daily routine while developing their apps.
Finally, the course showcases two centers from Heriot-Watt University, namely the Centre of Excellence in Smart Construction (CESC) and the Centre for Networks and Enterprise Excellence (CNEE). These two centers represent, although considered as part of Heriot-Watt University overall digital program, reflect a shining image on the collaboration between research, practice and networking between academia and both public and private sectors to develop, serve and teach digital solutions not only to students, but to industry institutions.
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Course Leader and Coordinator: C11DG-Digital Business Strategy; Platforms and Ecosystems (online) -Semester1
Heriot-Watt University
September 05, 2022
My role is to fully manage the course Canvas, interaction with students, putting exams questions and markings.
This course is part of the digital leadership program and it targets individuals sitting the drives seats in their organisations whether C-suite leaders or Board members who participate in drawing the overall strategy for their organizations. The content used represent an effective mix of highly recognised books, papers, research and media interviews with worldwide known leaders in the digital transformation, platforms and ecosystems fields, such as Dr Marshall Van Alstyne, DR Alex Fenton, Dr Nicholas D Evans, Dr Nabila Altunisi, Mr Simone Cicero, Mr Haider Ogaili and Dr Najib Khatib among many other names.
Furthermore, the content includes resources from leading industry digital providers such as Gartner, Microsoft and AutoDesk spread throughout the modules as need and as applicable to add the practical dimension to the course.
Another aspect we were keen to avail is providing real life example and case studies from leading firms who were successful in their digital journey and startups who embed new technologies such AI and machine learning in their daily routine while developing their apps.
Finally, the course showcases two centers from Heriot-Watt University, namely the Centre of Excellence in Smart Construction (CESC) and the Centre for Networks and Enterprise Excellence (CNEE). These two centers represent, although considered as part of Heriot-Watt University overall digital program, reflect a shining image on the collaboration between research, practice and networking between academia and both public and private sectors to develop, serve and teach digital solutions not only to students, but to industry institutions.
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Course Leader and Coordinator: C11DL-Digital Leadership (online) -Semester1
Heriot-Watt University
September 05, 2022
My role is to fully manage the course Canvas, interaction with students, putting exams questions and markings.
The course examines what it is that defines leadership in general and digital leadership in particular, the difference between leadership and management, and it explores how digital leadership can be applied to develop organisations both strategically and operationally to create an impact on organisational development.
The course itself is considered unique and disruptive in the way we used to understand leadership or to the way we look at the effect of technology on people. The concept of disruption is becoming essential to absorb and adopt so that we can achieve the right change at the right time. The disruption process, however, is dynamic and based on an intelligent framework as will see during our journey throughout the course. It touches basis on the way we think about leadership and followership in general and on digital leadership in particular.
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Examiner of Digital Business Strategy: Platforms and Ecosystems MSc online course-Aug 2022
Heriot-Watt University
August 18, 2022
As an examiner, I am responsible for designing the questions, marking rubric and marking for master's degree students. The process also includes using Heriot-Watt University VLE, Turnitin and marking reporting on the system.
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Examiner of Digital Leadership MSc online course - Aug 2022
Heriot-Watt University
August 18, 2022
As an examiner, I am responsible for designing the questions, marking rubric and marking for master's degree students. The process also includes using Heriot-Watt University VLE, Turnitin and marking reporting on the system.
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Dissertation Supervision: Creating an Advanced Circular Economy for Construction & Demolition Waste
Heriot-Watt University
August 16, 2022
In this research, the students critically discuss the growth of the world’s economic demands and the population that has led to an increase in the construction activities worldwide. Such increases have led to protruding concerns which are the wastes generated by such activities, also known as Construction and Demolition waste (C&D).
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Dissertation Supervision: Overcoming performance barriers, by bridging CQ and Adaptive Leadership within the UAE hospitality sector
Heriot-Watt University
August 16, 2022
In this research work, I worked with the student to apply a proven theory of adaptive leadership in the context of the United Arab Emirates. The Adaptive Leadership applied is based on Salih's (2020) work which includes leadership effectiveness and Cultural Intelligence (CQ).
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Dissertation Supervision: Advantages and dis-advantages of Digital Leadership
Heriot-Watt University
August 16, 2022
The main aim of the research paper is to analyse the manner in which digital leadership allowed effective management of employees rather than adopting traditional leadership tactics.
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Paper Review: A Cross-National Study of Youth Entrepreneurship: The Effect of Family Support
The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
July 31, 2022
Still under review
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Prize for pedagogic innovation - GEM - 2022
Grenoble Ecole de Management
June 28, 2022
On 28th June 2022, I won, along side with professor Taran Patel and Mr Wilko Vriesman (Chairman of the Internal Aikido Federation) the pedagogic innovation award at Grenoble Ecole de Management for the for the Certificate of Responsible Leadership and Followership. The award has been given due to the associated reflection of the proposal submitted, as well as the very positive energy presented by the team for teaching and skills development of GEM’s students. The award is a natural outcome for the successful program which has been running for the second year now. The Responsible Leadership and Followership certificate program was a winner of the pedagogic innovation competition held at GEM in 2019
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Jury member for Doctorate Degree student defense - External Examiner for Cultural Ignorance in Leadership
Grenoble Ecole de Management
June 20, 2022
The work of this DBA student discusses the ineffective behaviors of leaders in the workplace, with a focus on culture impact on such behaviours.
As a jury member and external examiner, my role was to evaluate the doctoral work and submit a report to the doctoral school.
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Developing and Executing Strategy - June 2022 intake
Heriot-Watt University
June 05, 2022
Developing and Executing Strategy is the capstone course in the MBA programme. The course is designed to help you think and operate at the strategic level in a range of organisational settings, through integration of ideas across core business disciplines you have studied in other parts of the MBA. We achieve this by using strategy as a ‘lens’ through which a variety of business and management issues can be viewed.
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Leadership Theory and Practice 2020
Heriot-Watt University MBA 2020
June 05, 2022
The Leadership Theory and Practice course aims to develop in students a critical appreciation of leadership theory and the role of leadership in practice in a range of organisational, social and cultural contexts.
The course critically examines the concept of leadership in organisations, explores major theoretical developments in how leadership is understood and provides opportunities for managers to reflect on real-life leadership issues.
The course is divided into eight modules. Having explored what we mean by ‘leadership’ in the first module, the course then considers key developments in leadership theories and how they apply to modern organisations. Leadership is enacted differently depending on the context, and the course hones in on some example settings for practice, including creative industries and projects, to explore alternative approaches to leading. The role of leadership in setting and shaping organisational strategy is also explored, and contemporary issues of gender, culture and ethics are discussed. The course ends by considering how leaders and leadership can be developed and provides insights into current trends and future directions.
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Leadership Theory and Practice - Jan 2022 intake
Heriot-Watt University MBA 2022
June 05, 2022
The Leadership Theory and Practice course aims to develop in students a critical appreciation of leadership theory and the role of leadership in practice in a range of organisational, social and cultural contexts.
The course critically examines the concept of leadership in organisations, explores major theoretical developments in how leadership is understood and provides opportunities for managers to reflect on real-life leadership issues.
The course is divided into eight modules. Having explored what we mean by ‘leadership’ in the first module, the course then considers key developments in leadership theories and how they apply to modern organisations. Leadership is enacted differently depending on the context, and the course hones in on some example settings for practice, including creative industries and projects, to explore alternative approaches to leading. The role of leadership in setting and shaping organisational strategy is also explored, and contemporary issues of gender, culture and ethics are discussed. The course ends by considering how leaders and leadership can be developed and provides insights into current trends and future directions.
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Examiner of Digital Leadership MSc online course - Dec 2022
Heriot Watt University
June 03, 2022
As an examiner, I am responsible for design the questions, marking rubric and marking for master degree students. The process also includes using Heriot Watt University VLE, Turnitin and marking reporting on the system.
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Examiner of Digital Business Strategy: Platforms and Ecosystems MSc online course - Dec 2022
Heriot Watt University
June 02, 2022
As an examiner, I am responsible for design the questions, marking rubric and marking for master degree students. The process also includes using Heriot Watt University VLE, Turnitin and marking reporting on the system.
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Examiner of Digital Leadership MSc online course - Dec 2021
Heriot Watt University
December 31, 2021
As an examiner, I am responsible for design the questions, marking rubric and marking for master degree students. The process also includes using Heriot Watt University VLE, Turnitin and marking reporting on the system.
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Examiner of Digital Business Strategy: Platforms and Ecosystems MSc online course - Dec 2021
Heriot Watt University
December 31, 2021
As an examiner, I am responsible for design the questions, marking rubric and marking for master degree students. The process also includes using Heriot Watt University VLE, Turnitin and marking reporting on the system.
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Examiner of Digital Business Strategy: Platforms and Ecosystems MSc online course - Aug 2021
Heriot Watt University
December 31, 2021
As an examiner, I am responsible for design the questions, marking rubric and marking for master degree students. The process also includes using Heriot Watt University VLE, Turnitin and marking reporting on the system.
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Masters Degree Dissertation Supervision on Digital Leadership in a public sector organization
Heriot-Watt University
November 19, 2021
This qualitative study examined the digital leadership methods that leaders in a public sector organization in Dubai. In order to build a relationship between the two issues of digital leadership and transformation, and to add significance to the existing area of knowledge, such as knowledge enhancement, innovation advancement, motivation enhancement, growth strategy alignment, leadership assistance, and development through collaboration and coalition are all factors that contribute to achieving these components
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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Leadership
Masters Degree Dissertation Supervision on Organizational Culture on Employee Motivation and Engagement after mergers and acquisitions
Heriot-Watt University
November 16, 2021
This piece of work explores the effect of Organizational Culture on Employee Motivation and Engagement after mergers and acquisitions in the Elevator and Escalator industry in India.
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Tags: Change Management, Culture, Mergers and Acquisitions
Masters Degree Dissertation Supervision on Leadership & Digital Transformation
Heriot-Watt University
November 01, 2021
This research is conducted on Leadership & Digital Transformation in primary level education. It includes a systematic literature review on challenges and influence of leadership while implementing digital transformation at primary level education
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Tags: COVID19, Digital Transformation, Leadership
Leadership Theory and Practice - Oct 2021 intake
Heriot Watt University
October 01, 2021
The Leadership Theory and Practice course aims to develop in students a critical appreciation of leadership theory and the role of leadership in practice in a range of organisational, social and cultural contexts.
The course critically examines the concept of leadership in organisations, explores major theoretical developments in how leadership is understood and provides opportunities for managers to reflect on real-life leadership issues.
The course is divided into eight modules. Having explored what we mean by ‘leadership’ in the first module, the course then considers key developments in leadership theories and how they apply to modern organisations. Leadership is enacted differently depending on the context, and the course hones in on some example settings for practice, including creative industries and projects, to explore alternative approaches to leading. The role of leadership in setting and shaping organisational strategy is also explored, and contemporary issues of gender, culture and ethics are discussed. The course ends by considering how leaders and leadership can be developed and provides insights into current trends and future directions.
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Tags: Change Management, Culture, Leadership
Examiner of Digital Leadership MSc online course - Aug 2021
Heriot Watt University
August 31, 2021
As an examiner, I am responsible for design the questions, marking rubric and marking for master degree students. The process also includes using Heriot Watt University VLE, Turnitin and marking reporting on the system.
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Tags: Digital Transformation, ERP, Leadership
Masters Degree Dissertation Supervision on Digital Dexterity
Heriot-Watt University
August 29, 2021
The focus on this research is about the investigation of Digital Dexterity Challenges in Organizations and the Role of Leadership in addressing these Issues: A Case Study of a Professional Service Firm in the UAE.
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Tags: Business Strategy, Digital Transformation, Leadership
Masters Degree Dissertation Supervision on application of sentiment analysis on online customer reviews
Heriot-Watt University
July 30, 2021
Application of sentiment analysis on online customer reviews for hotel resorts in the UAE in assessing guest satisfaction levels. Customer reviews were analyzed effectively to make data driven business decisions. The study aims to evaluate the application of sentiment analysis in assessing customer satisfaction levels based on online customer reviews on booking.com for selected hotel resorts in the UAE.
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Tags: Big Data, Customer Experience, Customer Loyalty
Masters Degree Dissertation Supervision on Role of Cultural Intelligence in the Digital Transformation of a Rwandan Hospital
Heriot-Watt University
July 30, 2021
The aim of this research was to develop a training framework for cultural transformation in Rwandan healthcare. The subject environment for the study was a hospital in Rwanda. The study utilized Douglasian Cultural Framework (DCF) to study the role of Salih's (2020 Dynamic Cultural Intelligence (CQ) to understand the cultural mindset of the employees at the hospital and their motivation for adaptability.
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Tags: Culture, Digital Transformation, HealthTech
Masters Degree Dissertation Supervision on Cultural Intelligence on effect on Communication effectiveness
Heriot-Watt University
July 01, 2021
The thesis studies the application of the concepts of cultural intelligence, communication and cross-functional team success is widely available and critiqued. However, the literature focusing how communication relates to Salih's (2020) Model of Cultural Intelligence (CQ) within the cross-functional team (CFT) environment .
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Tags: Change Management, Culture, Leadership
ISMO paper review: A Framework for Cultural Diverse Teams and the Importance of Agility -Findings from a Qualitative Study
International Studies of Management & Organization
May 01, 2021
A a reviewer, I find this paper touches some interesting and yet important area of research. It investigates the conditions for successful collaboration in culturally diverse teams from a Positive Organizational Scholarship perspective.
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Tags: Change Management, Culture, Leadership
Leadership for M.Sc students 2018
Heriot-Watt University
April 17, 2021
Leadership is a popular research and general interest subject that generates lots of discussion and debate amongst academics, practitioners and the public. There are many leadership theories that attempt to describe how it works and why. Unfortunately, all of them are only useful for describing leadership in particular or narrow situations, none provide a universal formula for understanding how leadership works. Therefore, it is important to have a wide understanding of the different theories available. This course provides that broad overview of leadership and its contributing theories.
Many research studies have discovered a positive relationship between effective leadership and improved performance across a number of critical organisational activities like competitiveness, innovation, new product development etc. Relating practice to leadership approaches to understand, which theories are relevant and how they improve performance are examined in the course as well. Moreover, leaderships impact on four important contemporary organisational themes will be explored in the course. These important themes are gender, culture, teams and ethics. Finally, guest speakers are used to help bring to life the leadership approaches and issues discussed in the course.
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Tags: Change Management, Culture, Leadership
Developing and Executing Strategy 2021
Heriot-Watt University MBA 2021
April 01, 2021
Developing and Executing Strategy is the capstone course in the MBA programme. The course is designed to help you think and operate at the strategic level in a range of organisational settings, through integration of ideas across core business disciplines you have studied in other parts of the MBA. We achieve this by using strategy as a ‘lens’ through which a variety of business and management issues can be viewed.
The course begins by reviewing the evolution of strategy and strategic management theory over the past 50 years and examines the role of strategy in the management of different types of organisations. The course then works through the various different aspects of strategy, such as strategic intent, issue diagnosis, analysis, strategic options and execution. At each stage the links with other management disciplines, such as leadership, organisational behaviour, economics, marketing and finance are considered. At the end of the course students will have developed a critical and integrative framework for strategic decision-making.
The ‘way of thinking’ you develop in this course provides a holistic approach to solving complex business and management problems and is the final outcome of the Edinburgh Business School MBA Programme.
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Tags: Business Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Leadership
Masters Degree Dissertation Supervision on the practice of Adaptive Leadership in the Organization
Heriot-Watt University
February 24, 2021
The focus of this research is to reflect upon the practice of adaptive leadership in a private organization in the UK that harnesses the tactics and tools for bringing organisational change.
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Tags: Change Management, Culture, Leadership
Leadership Theory and Practice - Sept 2019 intake
Heriot Watt University - Jan 2021 intake
January 01, 2021
The Leadership Theory and Practice course aims to develop in students a critical appreciation of leadership theory and the role of leadership in practice in a range of organisational, social and cultural contexts.
The course critically examines the concept of leadership in organisations, explores major theoretical developments in how leadership is understood and provides opportunities for managers to reflect on real-life leadership issues.
The course is divided into eight modules. Having explored what we mean by ‘leadership’ in the first module, the course then considers key developments in leadership theories and how they apply to modern organisations. Leadership is enacted differently depending on the context, and the course hones in on some example settings for practice, including creative industries and projects, to explore alternative approaches to leading. The role of leadership in setting and shaping organisational strategy is also explored, and contemporary issues of gender, culture and ethics are discussed. The course ends by considering how leaders and leadership can be developed and provides insights into current trends and future directions.
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Tags: Business Strategy, Culture, Leadership
ISMO paper review: A Hierarchical Model of Personality and Cultural Intelligence
International Studies of Management & Organization
May 01, 2020
This paper studies cultural intelligence (CQ) is composed of four related yet unique dimensions: metacognitive CQ, motivational CQ, behavioral CQ, and cognitive CQ, and employs a meta-theoretic model of motivation and personality (known as the 3M model of motivation and personality),
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Tags: Change Management, Culture, Leadership
ISMO journal paper review: Insights into Key Determinants of Personal Initiative among Palestinian Professionals
International Studies of Management & Organization Journal
March 01, 2019
As a reviewer, I had to go through many iterations to review this paper. ~The paper on the key determinants of employee personal initiative is applicable in the context of a developing country - particularly in the Middle East. The researchers have collected survey data from 144 employees of four large Palestinian organisations to examine the relationship between personal initiative and a list of its theoretical determinants, namely: self-efficacy, need for achievement, perceived supervisor support and cultural orientation toward individualism.
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Tags: Change Management, Culture, Leadership
Paper Review: SEMI-AUTOMATIC SHREDDED BEEF MACHINE
The International Journal of Applied Business &International Management
June 22, 2018
The purpose of this study is to provide solutions to existing problems in SMEs Abon Beef Surabaya. The production process still conventional and tools used are still relatively simple. The method used is by utilizing Gear Box technology as the mechanism of power distributor from Electric Motors to the meat counter. This machine also equipped with Electric Motor so that shredded beef process can run automatically. The expected result is to increase 1.5 times the productivity of the Abon Beef Cow's SMEs, so that from 40 Kg / day can produce up to 60 Kg / day.
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Tags: Change Management, Procurement, Supply Chain
Paper Review: Assessment Of Supply Chain Management Perfomance On Distribution And Transportation Management Process – Case Study At Baja Mas Malang
The International Journal of Applied Business &International Management
June 21, 2018
This research analyzes the Supply Chain Performance Management Appraisal on transportation distribution and management process at Baja Mas. The objectives of this research were (1) Assess the supply chain structure of products of building tools in UD Baja Mas (2) Conduct performance measurement of supply chain management (SCM) for product of building tools in UD Baja Mas. (3) how effective the performance of supply chain management in the distribution and transportation management processes. how to collect data that is with the use of several methods that is with literatu study to compare existing theory and previous research and survey and questionnaire
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Tags: Leadership, Project Management, Supply Chain