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Australian School of Business > Schools
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Bernard KC
Gan
PhD, University of New South Wales, Australia
MEc, University of Western Australia, Australia
BEc (Hons), University of Western Australia, Australia
DipER, Ong Teng Cheong Institute of Labour Studies and Singapore Institute of Management, Singapore
Bernard Gan taught extensively across a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in organisation, management and International Business. For his commitment and excellence in teaching, he was awarded two prestigious teaching awards in 2007 (at the faculty level) and in 2009 (at the university level). In 2011, he was voted Lecturer of the Year at the University of New South Wales in the Australian university jobs web portal - Unijobs.
Bernard Gan has extensive international corporate experience. He worked for the Port of Singapore, PSA Corporation as an operations manager for 10 years. In 1998, he was posted to Northeast China, as head of operations and business development, managing 400 staff at the Dalian Container Terminal. In 2000, he joined the union movement and was co-opted as an executive member the Port Officers' Union. From 2001 to 2005, he served as the Vice Chair of the Port Officers' Union. At the Singaporean national level, he was the National Trade Union Congress Council Member for Jobs and Productivity Committee, and alternate member of Skills Development Committee and International Relations Committee. As Vice Chair of Port Officers’ Union, he was actively involved in the negotiation of the Singapore Port's first major retrenchment exercise and also, its major wage restructuring exercise.
Publications
Chapters in books
- 2010 G. J. Bamber, P. Sheldon and B. Gan (2010), 'Collective Bargaining in an era of Financial Crisis', ch. 20 in R, Blanpain (ed.), Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Industrialized Market Economies, 10th edn, Kluwer Law International, The Hague
- 2010 Peter Sheldon, David Morgan and Bernard Gan (2010), 'Governance through Governments: Singapore's transfer of public sector management 'software' to China through joint ventures', in Y. Wang and P. Ramburuth (eds), Thirty Years of China's Economic Reform: Institutions, Management, Organizations and Foreign Investment, Nova Science Publishers, Hauppauge NY
Published conference proceeding
- 2012 Bernard Gan, Liu, C-H., Zhang, Y.C And Chou, S-F., ‘Direct and Moderating Effects of Experience and Leadership on Occupying Critical Network Position’. Refereed conference paper, Academy of Management (AOM), Boston, August 2012.
- 2012 Chou, S-F., Liu, C-H., And Gan, B., ‘The importance of the food quality in determining customer satisfaction: Investigating a mediated model with evidence from mystery shoppers’ evaluation’. Refereed conference paper, APac-CHRIE, Manila, June 2012.
- 2011 Liu, C-H., Gan, B., And Zhang, Y.C., ‘A Cross-Country Analysis of Knowledge Collaborations’. Refereed conference paper, Academy of International Business Southeast Asia Regional Conference (AIBSEAR), Taipei, December 2011.
- 2010 Gan, B., Morgan, D. And Sheldon, P., 'For whose sake? The Formation of the SNEF (Singapore National Employers' Federation)'. Refereed conference paper, Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ), Sydney, February 2010
Research interests
- Singaporean economic development and employment relations
- Comparative East Asian management and employment relations
- Employers' associations
- Organisation studies with a particular focus on East and Southeast Asia
Research grants
- 2012-2015: Member of the Project team to undertake research on “Corporate Social Responsibility on Employee Attitudes and Behaviour”. Led by Chief Investigator, Professor ZuCheng Zhou, JiaoTiong University, Shanghai, China
- 2005: Undertook a consultancy project for the Industrial Relations Research Centre. The project produced an evaluation report on the Communications Electrical Plumbing Union (NSW Telecom and Service Branch)'s OH&S Awareness Project
Awards
- 2011 Voted Lecturer of the Year at the University of New South Wales in the Unijobs web portal
- 2009 Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship
- 2009 Vice Chancellors Award for Teaching Excellence
- 2007 Australian School of Business Teaching Excellence Award in Tutoring
Professional activities
- Associate, Industrial Relations Research Centre, UNSW
- Member, Academy of Management
- Member, Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management
- Member, Academy of International Business
- Associate Member, Asia Academy of Management
- 2011-2012 Member, School of Management Learning and Teaching committee
- 2011 Visiting Scholar, La Trobe University, Melbourne Australia
- 2010 Visiting Scholar, Tianjin University of Commerce, Tianjin China
- 2010 Visiting Scholar, Nankai University, Tianjin China
- 2008 Visiting Lecturer, Thammasat University, Bangkok Thailand
- 2004-2005 Adjunct Lecturer, Ong Teng Cheong Institute of Labour Studies, Singapore
- 2001-2005 Adjunct Lecturer, PSA Training Institute, Singapore
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- MGMT1001 Managing Organisations and People
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| - MGMT5601 Global Business and Multinational Enterprise
| - MGMT5604 Asia-Pacific Business and Management
| - MGMT5608 Corporate Strategies in East Asia
| - MGMT5609 Global Business Operations and Management
| - MGMT5700 Management, Work and Organisation
| - MGMT5712 Negotiation Skills
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