OTHER INFORMATION

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External Presence

Academy of Management (AoM)

Chair (Boston), Management Education and Development (MED) division, Academy of Management, 2011-2012.

Chair-Elect (San Antonio), Management Education and Development (MED) division, Academy of Management, 2010-2011.

Program Chair (Montréal), Management Education and Development (MED) division, Academy of Management, 2009-2010.

Program-Elect Chair (aka PDW Chair; Chicago), Management Education and Development (MED) division, Academy of Management, 2008-2009.

Webmaster of the Management Education and Development (MED) division of the Academy of Management, 2008-2010.

Secretary of the Management Education and Development (MED) division of the Academy of Management, 2006-2008.

Representative at Large, Management Education and Development (MED) division of the Academy of Management, 2005-2006.

Executive Committee member of the Management Education and Development (MED) division of the Academy of Management, since 2005.

Member of the 2009 committee to choose the Best Paper in Management Development (sponsored by Journal of Management Development/Emerald) for the Management Education and Development (MED) division of the Academy of Management.

Member of the 2008 Best Paper Committee for the Organizational Behavior (OB) division of the Academy of Management.

British Academy of Management (BAM)

Deputy Chair, Publications Sub Committee of Council, 2009-2011.

Council Member, elected 2008. Term: 2009-2011.

Founding Convenor of the British Academy of Management's Organisational Psychology Special Interest Group, 2006-2010.

Chair of the British Academy of Management's Organisational Psychology track, 2005-2010.

Organizational Behavior Teaching Society (OBTS)

Executive Board Member, 2012-2015.

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Management Education, 1st July 2012 onwards.

Associate Editor, Journal of Management Education, 1st June 2010 - 30th June 2012.

Journals

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Management Education, 1st July 2012 onwards.

Associate Editor, Journal of Management Education, 1st June 2010 - 30th June 2012.

Co-editor, Organization Management Journal, 2007-2010.

Editorial board member, Academy of Management Learning & Education (AMLE): http://journals.aomonline.org/amle

  • Chair of AMLE's 2010 Outstanding Article of the Year (OAY) Committee.
  • Member of AMLE's 2009 Outstanding Article of the Year (OAY) Committee.
  • Member of AMLE's 2008 Outstanding Article of the Year (OAY) Committee.

Editorial board member, International Journal of Management Reviews (IJMR): http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=1460-8545&site=1

Editorial board member, Organization Management Journal (OMJ): http://www.palgrave-journals.com/omj/index.html

Adjunct/Visiting Positions

Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Open University Business School, The Open University, 2009-2011.

Guest lecturer, MSc Strategic Marketing and Consulting, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, 2010-2011. 

Visiting lecturer, Executive Doctoral programme (DBA), School of Management, Cranfield University, 2004-2009.

Guest lecturer, MSc Occupational Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London, 2001.

Associate lecturer (i.e. course tutor), The Open University Business School, 1994-2009:

  • B204 Making It Happen! Leadership, Influence and Change (BA Management and Leadership), one presentation, 2009
  • U800 Dissertation in Research Methods (MSc in Research Methods), two presentations, 2004-2006
  • B824 Managing Human Resources (MBA), two presentations, 2003-2004
  • B654 The Effective Manager (Professional Certificate in Management), one presentation, 1996
  • B600 The Capable Manager (Professional Certificate in Management), four presentations, 1994-2000

Conferences

Chair of the organising committee for the 4th Global e-Conference on Fit, December 2010.

Chair of the organising committee for the 3rd Global e-Conference on Fit, November 2009.

Chair of the organising committee for the 2nd Global e-Conference on Fit, November 2008.

Organiser of the 1st Global e-Conference on Fit, 19-21 November 2007: www.fitconference.com

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Awards

2011 Honoured by the British Academy of Management: 'The British Academy of Management wishes to recognize the outstanding and dedicated service of Jon Billsberry, Deakin University, in serving as a Council Member from 2009-2011. The Academy is grateful for all [his] efforts in advancing the aims of the Academy and professionalising its activities.'

2011 Vice-Chancellor's Commendation for Excellence in Teaching certificate, Deakin University.

2011 Outstanding Reviewer Award, Organizational Behavior (OB) division of the Academy of Management.

2011 Outstanding Reviewer Award, Management Education and Development (MED) division of the Academy of Management.

2011 Honoured by the Management Education and Development division (MED) of the Academy of Management 'For Outstanding Service to Management Education and Development as 2010-2011 Division Vice Chair'.

2011 Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Postponed.

2010 Honoured by the Academy of Management 'In Recognition of Truly Outstanding Leadership and Service to the Academy of Management, 2008-2010'.

2010 Honoured by the Management Education and Development division (MED) of the Academy of Management 'For Outstanding Service to Management Education and Development as 2010 Division Program Chair'.

2009 Nominated for the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society's (OBTS) New Educator Award.

2009 Honoured by the Management Education and Development (MED) division of the Academy of Management 'For Outstanding Service to Management Education and Development as 2009 Division PDW Chair'. 

2009 Outstanding Reviewer Award, Management Education and Development (MED) division of the Academy of Management.

2008 Best Paper Award, 2nd Global e-Conference on Fit for Billsberry, J. (2008) Broad sketches on misfit as a psychopathology. (This award was judged by a vote of all conference goers.) PDF

2008 Best Paper in Organisational Psychology at the 2008 British Academy of Management annual conference for Billsberry, J., Ambrosini, V., Edwards, J.A., Moss-Jones, J., Marsh, P.J.G., van Meurs, N. and Coldwell, D.A.L. (2008) Three empirical studies exploring multidimensional fit. (Note: This award was judged by an independent jury and our paper was the joint winner alongside one other.)

2008 Outstanding Paper Award, Journal of Managerial Psychology for Billsberry, J. (2007) Attracting for values: An empirical study of ASA's attraction proposition, Journal of Managerial Psychology, 22 (2), 132-149 (i.e. Award for the best paper published in Journal of Managerial Psychology in 2007 as judged by the editorial team).

2008 Outstanding Reviewer Award, Management Education and Development (MED) division of the Academy of Management.

2007 Outstanding Reviewer Award, Organizational Behavior (OB) division of the Academy of Management.

2007 Outstanding Reviewer Award, Management Education and Development (MED) division of the Academy of Management.

2006 Best Paper in Graduate Management Education (Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC)) Award, Management Education and Development division of the Academy of Management (with L.H. Gilbert) for Teaching recruitment and selection with Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: An example of the provocative use of fable and fantasy in management education. In K.M. Weaver (Ed.) Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

2006 Outstanding Reviewer Award, Management Education and Development (MED) division of the Academy of Management.

2006 Nominated for the Open University's Tutor of the Year Award.

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Sundry Contributions

Symposium and Workshop Development (External)

Organised a symposium entitled 'New directions in organizational fit' at the Academy of Management, San Antonio, TX, August 2011 (with Kristof-Brown, A.L.).

Organised a professional development workshop (PDW) entitled 'A practical guide to causal mapping' at the Academy of Management, San Antonio, TX, August 2011 (with Talbot, D.).

Organised a symposium entitled 'Dare to care about employment relationships: Individual and organizational perspectives on misfit' at the Academy of Management, Montreal, Canada, August 2010 (with Talbot, D.).

Organised a one-day seminar entitled 'If we taught managers like we teach doctors...' as part of the British Academy of Management's Organisational Psychology Special Interest Group's (SIG) Seminar Series, Warwick Medical School, June 2009 (with Williams, S.).

Organised a caucus entitled 'Fit happens: An international collaboration on future research and practice on person-environment fit and misfit' at the Academy of Management, Chicago, IL., August 2009 (with Kristof-Brown, A.L.).

Organised a professional development workshop (PDW) entitled 'Current controversies recruitment and selection' at the Academy of Management, Chicago, IL., August 2009 (with Searle, R.H.).

Organised a professional development workshop (PDW) entitled 'If we taught managers like we teach doctors...' at the Academy of Management, Chicago, IL., August 2009 (with Williams, S.).

Organised a symposium entitled 'If we taught managers like we teach doctors...' at the British Academy of Management, Harrogate, September 2008 (with Williams, S.).

Organised a symposium entitled 'Current controversies recruitment and selection' at the British Academy of Management, Harrogate, September 2008 (with Searle, R.H.).

Organised a professional development workshop (PDW) called 'Developing a Hippocratic Oath for the Management Profession' at the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, PA., August 2007 (with Birnik, A.).

Organised a professional development workshop (nine hours: subject to competitive process) called 'Moving Images: Cinema in the Classroom' for the annual meeting of the Academy of Management in Hawaii, HO., 2005 (with Champoux, J.E.).

Organised and delivered a professional development workshop (PDW) called 'Using film and television representations of working life in teaching' for the annual meeting of the Academy of Management in New Orleans, LA., 2004.

Organised a professional development workshop (PDW) called ‘The leadership of radical change in a Higher Education setting: Lessons from the experience of internal HR consultants’ for the annual meeting of the Academy of Management in New Orleans, LA., 2004 (with Marsh, P.J.G. and Lobley, K.E.).

Organised and scripted a professional development workshop (PDW) on the pedagogic and research use of cinema in management for the annual meeting of the Academy of Management in Denver, CO., 2002 (with Champoux, J.E.).

Organised and chaired caucus 'Person-organisation fit: A synonym for cloning?' at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management in San Diego, CA., 1998.

Symposium and Workshop Development (Internal)

Designed and ran the following workshop at the ELATE conference at Coventry University: Replicating face-to-face conferences online: Using Second Life to add the social and informal elements. ELATE 2009: Developing Learning Communities conference, Coventry, 2009. PPT

Organised and delivered a seminar series at Coventry University called Jon's Light Lunches (May-November, 2009) which looked at how to get started in management research. Click here for more details.

  • What is Management Research?
  • PhD: Why? Me? How?
  • The Rankings Game: What Research Outputs Should I Be Trying to Get?
  • Should I Go to Conferences?
  • Is it Worth Engaging with the Wider Academic Community?
  • Should I Review for Journals and Conferences?
  • What Should a Management Academic’s CV Look Like?
  • How Can I Kick Start My Research?
  • Constructing Your First Research Project
  • Writing Your First Paper

Organised the quarterly Fit Project Away Days, Milton Keynes and Coventry, 2005-2011.

Organised and delivered a workshop on the use and construction of multiple–choice questions in management course examinations at the Open University, Milton Keynes, 2002.

Conference Session Management

Facilitator at the JME/MED Writers Workshop (PDW) at the Academy of Management, San Antonio, TX, August, 2011.

Member of the Editors' Panel for the workshop, 'Authoring a Journal of Management Education workshop: Developing Your reviewing skills', 37th OBTC: Teaching Conference for Management Educators, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June, 2011.

Member of the Editors' Panel for the workshop, 'Authoring for publication: A workshop with the editors of the Journal of Management Education', 37th OBTC: Teaching Conference for Management Educators, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June, 2011.

Session Chair/Facilitator of a developmental paper session for the Organisational Psychology track at the British Academy of Management, Sheffield, September, 2010. 

Session Chair/Facilitator for two developmental paper sessions in the Organisational Psychology track at the British Academy of Management, Brighton, September, 2009.

Facilitator at the OMJ/JME MED Writers Workshop (PDW) at the Academy of Management, Chicago, IL., August, 2009.

Member of the Editors' Panel at the 36th Annual OBTC: Teaching Conference for Management Educators, Charleston, SC., June, 2009.

Expert panel member at the Person-Environment Fit Incubator professional development workshop (PDW) at the Academy of Management, Anaheim, CA., August, 2008.

Facilitator of the interactive paper session called 'Topics and Practices in Management Education' at the Academy of Management, Anaheim, CA., August, 2008.

Facilitator at the MED Writers professional development workshop (PDW) at the Academy of Management, Anaheim, CA., August, 2008.

Presenter at the 'Making Large Global Collaborations Succeed' professional development workshop (PDW) at the Academy of Management, Anaheim, CA., August, 2008.

Session Chair for the paper session What's New in Management Education?: A Look at Four New Approaches for Teaching and Learning' at the Academy of Management, Anaheim, CA., August, 2008.

Chair for the 'Using film as a teaching resource' session at the 2nd Open Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) Conference, Open University, Milton Keynes, October 2007.

Session chair for the paper session 'Studies in person-organisation fit' in the Organisational Psychology stream at the British Academy of Management conference, Warwick, September 2007.

Session chair for the developmental paper session 'Motivation studies' in the Organisational Psychology stream at the British Academy of Management conference, Warwick, September 2007.

Discussant for the paper session 'Teaching Strategy: Different Options' at the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, PA., August 2007.

Moderator of the oral paper session 'Penalty Shootouts' at the 6th World Congress on Science and Football, Antalya, Turkey, January 2007 (with Williams, A.M.).

Session Chair for the paper session 'Advances in person-organisation fit' in the Organisational Psychology stream at the British Academy of Management conference, Belfast, September 2006.

Session Chair for the paper session 'Support, safety and trust' in the Organisational Psychology stream at the British Academy of Management conference, Oxford, September 2005.

Session Chair for the paper session 'Lighten Up! Understanding the influence of humour and positive mood in work settings' at the Academy of Management, Hawaii, HI., August 2005.

Session Chair for the recruitment and selection papers at the 1st HRM-The Inside Story conference, Milton Keynes, April 1996.

Other Conference Involvement

Attended the Doctoral Consortium of the Organizational Behavior/Organization and Management Theory/Organization Development and Change divisions of the Academy of Management held at the annual meeting in Cincinnati, OH., 1996.

Teaching Initiatives

Developed the B654 tutor support CD-ROM. Wrote and presented the video 'Better Selection Interviews' for B654 The Effective Manager (35 minutes).

Lead academic on B784 The Effective Manager live interactive satellite broadcast number 4 'Motivation and Job Design': 90 minutes.

Lead academic on B784 The Effective Manager live interactive satellite broadcast number 5 'Recruitment and Selection': 90 minutes.

Other

Featured expert 'top football boffin' in Bradley, T. (2008) Penalty shoot-outs: The secret, The Sun, 24th June 2008: Click here

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Research Funds

NZ$[to follow] from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand to fund an Erskine Fellowship, 2011.

€3,500 from the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP) to support a Small Group Meeting (SGM) in Athens in 2011 on Selection and Assessment in Europe: Recent Trends and Challenges/Advances (with Nikoleau, I. and 12 others).

£1,500 from Coventry University's EDGAR fund to support the work of The Fit Project in 2010.

£300 from the British Academy of Management Organisational Psychology Special Interest Group to fund a workshop entitled 'If we caught managers like we teach doctors' held at Warwick Medical School, June 2009 (with Williams, S.).

£49,312 (£37,512 (Grant) and £11,800 (Fees)) from Coventry University's Faculty of Business, Environment and Society for a full-time PhD studentship to research the influence of teleworking and homeworking on organisational fit, 2010-2012.

Funding (approximately £250,000) from The Open University Business School to fund four full-time PhD studentships: 2005-2011.

Ongoing funding (approximately £150,000 p.a.) from The Open University to support the research and evaluation work of the Fit Project: 2005-2010. 

£100,000 from The Open University Human Resource Department’s HEFCE strategy funding for the development of an online instrument for the measurement of employees’ fit.

£40,000 matched funding from The Open University Business School’s Research Committee and The Open University’s Personnel Division to research the effects of high levels of person–organisation fit in the Open University.

£14,000 from The Open University’s Human Resource Division to fund an MSc Research Methods studentship looking at the nature of misfit.

£10,000 from The Open University’s Human Resource Division to fund a study into the situational influences on distributed leadership.

£3,000 from The Open University Business School Research Committee for my Ph.D. studies.

£500 from The Open University Business School to fund a collaborative writer on the cinematic portrayal of recruitment and selection project.

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Research Students

PhD Completions

  • Dannie Talbot (2006-2010), The Open University, UK: Organisational Fit and Misfit: An Exploratory Study of Similarities and Differences (Winner of the Association of Open University Graduates (AOUG) Vice-Chancellor Professor Brenda Gourlay Award for the most outstanding final year doctoral student at The Open University in 2010)
  • Linda Wilks (2005-2009), The Open University, UK: Initiations, interactions, cognoscenti: Social and cultural capital in the music festival experience
  • Elena Papavero (2005-2009), Northcentral University, USA: Assessing the relationships between person-organization fit, moral philosophy, and the motivation to lead

PhD In Progress

  • Patrick Nelson (2007-current), The Open University, UK: Fit and Organisational Performance
  • Steve Godrich (2009-current), Coventry University, UK: The Geography of Fit
  • Brenda Hollyoak (2009-current), Coventry University, UK: A Narrative Study of Misfit
  • Suki Manak (2009-current), Coventry University, UK: Fit and Creativity
  • Gary Connor (2010-current), Coventry University, UK: Fit and Absence
  • Ruby Ma (2011-current), Deakin University, Australia: Managing Across Borders

Masters in Research Methods

  • Linda Wilks (2004-2005; distinction)
  • Dannie Talbot (2005-2006; merit)

PhD Panel Member

  • Mervwyn Williamson (2005-current), University of Kwa-Zulu/Natal, South Africa

MSc/MBA Projects

  • Surajit Choudhury (2005), Cranfield University, UK (in-company sponsor)
  • Jitse Van Ameijde (2006), Utrecht University, The Netherlands (in-company sponsor)
  • Patrick Nelson (2006), Utrecht University, The Netherlands (in-company sponsor)

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Editorial Boards

  • Organization Management Journal (OMJ), 2010-current
  • International Journal of Management Reviews (IJMR), 2010-current
  • Academy of Management Learning & Education (AMLE), 2009-current
  • International Journal of Call Centre Management, 2000-2003

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Ad Hoc Reviewer

Funding Bodies

  • Economic and Social Research Council
  • National Research Foundation (South Africa)

Journals

  • Academy of Management Learning & Education
  • British Journal of Management
  • British Journal of Psychology
  • Higher Education
  • Human Relations
  • Human Resource Management Journal
  • International Journal of Selection and Assessment
  • Journal of Applied Social Psychology
  • Journal of Business Ethics
  • Journal of Management Education
  • Journal of Managerial Psychology
  • Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
  • Journal of Sports Sciences
  • Organization Management Journal
  • Personnel Review

Publishers

  • Prentice-Hall Ltd.
  • Routledge
  • Sage Publications Ltd.
  • Wiley-Blackwells

Conferences

  • Academy of Management (Management Education and Development; Organizational Behavior)
  • British Academy of Management (Organizational Psychology)
  • British Psychological Society, Division of Occupational Psychology Annual Conference
  • Global e-Conference on Fit
  • Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference (OBTC)

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External Examiner

  • Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London.
  • Westminster Business School, University of Westminster.
  • Newcastle Business School, University of Northumbria at Newcastle.
  • KYRA programme, Coventry University.

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External Assessor

  • Masters in European Business, Cass Business School, City University, 2008 (Periodic Programme Review, External Panel Expert).
  • BSc Business Studies, Cass Business School, City University, 2008 (Periodic Programme Review, External Panel Expert).
  • BSc Management, Cass Business School, City University, 2008 (Periodic Programme Review, External Panel Expert).
  • BSc Business Administration, Undergraduate distance-learning programme, School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2003.

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Consultancy

Founder and Director of OrgSolutions Ltd, a consultancy offering services in leadership development, management skills training, executive coaching, and executive search assistance. Most work involves the design, development and delivery of tailor-made practical leadership and management skills courses for organisations in a wide-range of industries and sectors. The focus of the consultancy is on developing bespoke solutions for HR Directors. You can find out more about OrgSolutions at www.orgsolutions.co.uk (under construction).