Faculty of Business Administration at Lakehead University
955 Oliver Rd P7E 4B1 Thunder Bay, ON, Canada

The Faculty of Business Administration at Lakehead University invites you to join our Brown Bag Research Presentations on Friday, October 30, 2020 from 12:10 - 1:00pm. Roberto Felipe Loayza (MSc Graduate, Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University) will be giving a Zoom presentation on the "Practice of Coaching and the Leader Self-Development of the Manager". Katriina Tiilikainen (MSc Graduate and Sessional Instructor, Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehea...d University) will be giving a Zoom presentation on "Beauty Beyond Sensuality". Please see the attached posters for details.

A Q&A Opportunity: Charting a Path to Your Career Success at RBC Friday, October 30th from 12-1pm Zoom link: https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/j/97887620200 A great opportunity to explore how to start your career with RBC, this virtual panel discussion will allow you to ask RBC leaders about charting your path to career success.

To address the uncertainties faced by students returning to school in the fall, our Enactus Canada chapter at Lakehead University has partnered with Enactus University of Toronto on improving the mental health of students through technology. #mentalhealth #covid Lakehead University Alumni https://www.nationalobserver.com//university-students-buil

Congratulations to Dr. Kathy Sanderson and her research team on being awarded $83,093 from the Ontario Human Capital Research and Innovation Fund! Welcoming Immigrants in Northwestern Ontario: Creating Inclusive Communities and Organizations Attention Employers and Community Leaders!... Do you have experience working with or recruiting new immigrants in Northwestern Ontario? Dr. Kathy Sanderson and her research team want to hear from you! They have been investigating how community and organizational welcoming affects the retention and recruitment of new immigrants. The team is seeking participants to get involved and share their experience in this area. To find out more about their exciting project, how you can participate or to get in touch with the team, please visit welcomeNWO.ca. This Project is funded in part by the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario. The Government of Ontario and its agencies are in no way bound by any recommendations contained in this document.

Our first Online External Guest Speaker Series on July 9, 2020 with Dr. Sophie Michel of EM Strasbourg Business School was a success. Dr. Michel's talk, "Uberization and the Futures of Industries" was a fascinating and insightful look at a new trend in economic disruption. We had an excellent turnout with 78 attendees. Thank you to Dr. Michel and all of our attendees!

Visit the link below to learn about the Faculty of Business Administration's response to COVID-19 and how the Fall 2020 Term will look: https://www.lakeheadu.ca//student/our-response-to-covid-19

From our faculty and staff, to all of our students, alumni, and friends, #HappyCanadaDay!

The Faculty of Business Administration at Lakehead University invites you to join our upcoming Online External Guest Speaker Series on July 9, 2020 from 11:00am to 12:00noon. Dr. Sophie Michel (Associate Professor, EM Strasbourg Business School, University of Strasbourg, France) will be giving a Zoom presentation on "Uberization and the Future of Industries". Advance registration by July 8, 2020 is required. Please register using the following link: https://lakeheadu.zoom.us...//tJYrceqrrzMuGtO6_z5bWMf-cDMcNnd Please contact Allison Buchanan at [email protected] if you have any questions about registration. For other questions related to the event, please contact Dr. Will Zhao at [email protected]. We hope to see you online on July 9, 2020!

Congratulations to our graduating students! On June 3rd the Faculty of Business Administration celebrated its graduating students with a virtual celebration. For more details visit this link: https://lnkd.in/epp8SC2

Dr. Shoeb Mohammad, Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at Lakehead University's Faculty of Business Administration, presented at the Brown Bag Research Presentation on February 28th, 2020. Thank you to everyone who attended and participated in the discussions. Title: The Effect of Skilled Labour Scarcity on Law-abiding Organizational Climates in Emerging Markets: The Moderating Role of Managerial Ties in Mexico... Abstract: Scarcity of skilled labour in the emerging market context is considered a severe challenge facing organizations since it limits the quality and depth of their labour force. Despite the prevalence of the issue, the relationship between skilled labour scarcity at the organizational-level and unlawful organizational conduct, a problematic behaviour that plagues emerging markets, has not been examined. In this paper, we investigate this relationship, hypothesizing that skilled labour scarcity negatively affects law-abiding organizational climate, a measure of an organization's adherence to the rule of law, by reducing an organization's ability to adapt to its environment. Furthermore, we explain the impact that managerial ties have on this relationship, hypothesizing how ties with industry firms and ties with government differently impact the relationship between skilled labour scarcity and law-abiding climate. Hypotheses were tested with survey data collected from 144 Mexican companies.

The Finding a Mentor for Career Success session is now a webinar, taking place on Tuesday, April 7th at 12 noon. See below for details! Free Interactive Webinar presented by Work-Integrated Learning at Lakehead and Lakehead University Student Success.... Finding a Mentor for Career Success: How to Find Your Dream Job Event Details: Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Zoom link: https://lnkd.in/g9u8aGT We hope you can join us!

Research & Innovation Week 2020 was a success for Faculty of Business students. Three of our MSc in Management students participated in the Graduate Poster Presentation. The Faculty of Business Administration was represented by graduate students Kiana Farrokhi, Roberto Felipe Loayza and Liam Nugent. Well done!

Foundational Skills Co-Curricular Workshop Series: Finding a Mentor for Career Success. On Friday, March 13th join Sarah Lewis, Director of Student Success at Lakehead University, to learn about how to develop a mentee/mentor relationship to support your career goals. Date: Friday, March 13, 2020 Time: 11:30 am - 2:30 pm Location: ATAC Building, Room 3006, Lakehead Thunder Bay... Please Register: https://lnkd.in/gvE9pdw Also available online in real-time at https://lnkd.in/gF9k8fq Light lunch/refreshments provided. We look forward to seeing you there!

Congratulations to the Faculty of Business Administration Undergraduate Poster Presentation Winners! Tatjana Lisi, Jessica Macauley, Sarah Miniaci and Amy Osmulski presented their research project from Human Resources Planning at Research and Innovation Week (Feb. 26 - Mar. 5, 2020), The group completed a survey with Resolute Forest Products employees in Atikokan to help the company determine methods of increasing retention. As the winners they have been invited to a luncheon the with President of Lakehead University, Moira MacPherson!

The Research and Professional Development (R&PD) Committee in the Faculty of Business Administration invites you to join our upcoming External Guest Speaker Series on March 25, 2020. Dr. Klaus Meyer (Professor, Ivey Business School, Western University) will be giving a presentation targeting general audiences entitled "Chinese Multinational Enterprises: Opportunity or Threat?". The event will begin with the presentation from 4:00pm to 5:30pm in the Faculty Lounge at the Thund...er Bay campus, followed by a networking session from 5:30pm to 6:30pm. The event will also be available in OA 2005 at the Orillia campus through videoconferencing. The event will be open to all members of the University, as well as community members. For those of you who will be attending the event at the Thunder Bay campus, please register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/faculty-of-business-administra. For those of you who will be attending the event at the Orillia campus, please RSVP by emailing Allison at [email protected].

Business and Reconciliation: Educate, Reflect, Act - A Panel Discussion The Office of Aboriginal Initiatives, Faculty of Business Administration and Work-Integrated Learning at Lakehead University invite you to join us for a panel discussion: Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2020 ... Time: 12:00 noon - 2:00 pm Location: Faculty Lounge, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay Campus Lunch will be served. Please see the attached poster for details. Please RSVP by clicking on the link below. https://lnkd.in/gdnxkUU We look forward to seeing you there!

We were busy during Winter Reading Week promoting the Faculty of Business Administration to local high school students for Grade 11 Day on February 20th in the Agora. Dr. Wing Him Yeung and Dr. Kathy Sanderson spoke to many vibrant future Lakehead students!

Join Dr. Kathy Sanderson on Friday, February 28th to learn how to manage difficult conversations - a vital skill in today's world! This hands-on workshop will help you develop skills to improve the outcomes of uncomfortable and unpopular discussions. Join us in person by registering at:... https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/work-integrated-learning-at-lak Or online in real time at: https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/j/336792152 Light lunch and refreshments will be provided. We look forward to seeing you there!

Work Integrated Learning at Lakehead Presents a FREE All Day Session GOOGLE SUITE BOOTCAMP: Everything You Didn’t Know About All Things Google Docs/Keep/Sheets/Slides/Forms/Photos and More... Saturday February 8th, 2020 9:30 am - 4:00 pm ATAC 3006 Lakehead Thunder Bay or online through Zoom Join us in person (light lunch/refreshments provided) by registering at: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/google-suite-bootcamp-tickets-9 or Join us on line by Zoom Meeting at: https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/j/336792152

Claudio Pousa, Associate Professor of Marketing at Lakehead University's Faculty of Business Administration, presented at the first Brown Bag Research Presentation of the year on January 31st, 2020. Thank you to everyone who attended and participated in the discussions. Title: Unleashing the Power of Implementation Intentions through Coaching Abstract: Goal-setting theory (Locke and Latham, 1990) establishes that, when people are committed to difficult goals, they exert more... effort on goal-related tasks, persist longer in the face of adversity and direct their actions by selecting task-relevant knowledge and strategies that allow them to achieve the goals. Sometimes, however, the automated mechanisms are not always sufficient to solve problematic situations with customers and achieve the goals. The complexity of today’s markets and interactions with savvy customers call salespeople to engage in deliberate planning to develop new knowledge in the form of new task-related strategies in order to tackle the new challenges. The development of new task-related strategies presents an alternative way to providing more effort, especially suited for complex tasks, like the ones a salesperson can find in today’s markets. Sales managers can greatly help salespeople develop new task-related strategies if they incorporate it in their coaching sessions. During the coaching session, the manager helps the salesperson diagnose problematic situations, find the right solutions, and commit to specific actions that he can implement in future interactions with the customers. After the coaching session, the salesperson knows what he needs to do when the problematic situation arrives, and he is more prepared to implement these new task-related strategies when the situation arrives. He has developed what is known as implementation intentions (Gollwitzer, 1999).

The Faculty of Business' Dr. Farshid Shams presented his Brown Bag Research topic: Coping with academic capitalism in Canadian universities: Reconstructing contradictory institutional logics through identity work, as our last Brown Bag of 2019. Academic capitalism refers to an ideological reform in the higher education sector which has brought about a culture of audit and surveillance that gives precedence to corporate values and thus undermines traditional principles of acad...emic work. To better understand the dynamics of resolution between these co-existing yet contradictory logics, Dr. Shams studied the everyday practices of academics in ten Canadian universities. Four mitigation strategies of delegitimisation, defining/elaborating, selective identification and appropriation of realised publicness are identified. A subject that will have further research and investigation, we look forward to hearing more about this from Dr. Shams.

As 2019 comes to a close, and we prepare for 2020, we reflect on the year we've had. Firstly, we would like to again congratulate all of our 2019 graduates and wish you success in your chosen careers. Again we also congratulate Dr. Dadgostar on his newest adventure. After 24 years as our Dean and CEO (Chief Education Officer ) he has now moved on to spending time with life's most precious gifts, his grandchildren.... With our changing of the guard, Dr. Richards, our new Dean, has been doing an excellent job of heading our Faculty, and in my opinion, is one of the best bosses I've ever had. We have said goodbye to some of our colleagues as they have moved on to other institutions, and have welcomed others who have joined us. Please make sure to say "hi" to Dr.s Kabir, Mohammad, and Zhang next time you visit. We hope that everyone had an amazing break, and we look forward to seeing our returning and new students next week when the winter term starts. Wishing you a Happy and Prosperous New Year, Sincerely, the Faculty and Staff of the Faculty of Business

It was an eventful day for the Faculty of Business' MBA students December 2, 2019. We welcomed a variety of guest speakers to engage our Project Management students on different ideas with respect to the subject. Ms. Emily Shandruk, Director of Events & Community Involvement, Destination and Member Relations Coordinator, Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce, has also been teaching the MBA students this past Fall 2019, discussed Planning for the unexpected, a topic which grabbed ev...eryone's attention. Our second speaker, Mr. Youlian Peng, Founder of Peng You Taiji Quan Association and Councillor, City of Thunder Bay, discussed Tai-chi Perspective, Culture and Approach in Project Communications. A riveting topic, Mr. Peng has been very passionate to advocate Tai-chi culture and philosophy at both local communities and international events. To name a few, the International Wushu Federation has awarded the 2024 World Taijiquan (Tai Chi) Championships to the City of Thunder Bay, and the city will also host next year's International Wushu Festival and National Championships at the Lakehead University. He shared his personal experiences in the city election and the initiatives and planning of those events. He applied Taiji philosophy and approach to leverage various resources and to enhance the communications and collaborations in succeeding those projects and events. Mr. Jeff Palmer, Community Planner, Urban Systems Ltd. and Director, Canadian Institute of Planners, gave our students some insights into the Victoriaville Centre Options, and some ideas that the City of Thunder Bay has and what their plans are for the shopping centre. We would like to thank each of our speakers for taking time out of their busy schedules to speak with our students, and look forward to future collaborations with these, and other speakers to come.

Congratulations to Dr. Irfan Butt, the Faculty of Business Administrations 2018 Researcher of the Year Award recipient. The Researcher of the Year Award is given to one tenured or tenure-track faculty member each year by the Faculty of Business Administration at Lakehead University to recognize outstanding research and scholarly activities, accomplishments, and outputs. Feel free to congratulate Dr. Butt when you see him. ... #researcheroftheyear #FOBA