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    Developing Leaders in Business Schools: A Case Report on First Year Student Leaders
    OLSEN, J ; Butar, I ; Gahan, P ; Harbridge, R ; Van Woonroy, B (Centre for Workplace Leadership, The University of Melbourne, 2016)
    Developing leadership capabilities in young people comes with the territory of being in a business school. The Faculty of Business and Economics at The University of Melbourne offers a First Year Leaders Forum on a voluntary basis to all students. Centre for Workplace Leadership researchers surveyed two groups of first year students – those who took part in the Forum, and those that chose not to. The survey was administered immediately before the Forum and repeated six months later. Testing for four leadership competencies and two leadership attributes, they established that the intervention in the form of the Forum, improved first year students motivation to lead. Further they found that those who joined student groups or associations, volunteered or had served internships demonstrated higher levels of motivation to lead. The study showed that even small interventions can develop leadership attributes and as a result increase the levels of motivation to lead.
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    Workplace Leadership: A Review of Prior Research
    Orazi, D ; Good, L ; Robin, M ; Van Wanrooy, B ; OLSEN, J ; Gahan, P (Centre for Workplace Leadership, 2014-07-01)
    Almost twenty years ago, the last major review of management capability in Australian organisations, the Karpin Report, was released. Titled, Enterprising Nation, it focused on the question of whether Australian management could meet the challenges of the Asian Century. The report demonstrated the case for renewal—new skills and capabilities that would enable Australian industry to make the most of Asia's growth.