Leadership research award for PhD graduate

UQ Business School PhD graduate Herman Tse has won the 2006 Kenneth E. Clark Award for student research in leadership.

The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), based in the USA, sponsors the award to stimulate outstanding field research and its creative application to the practice of leadership. The award recognises outstanding unpublished papers.

Without knowing the author name or affiliation, the seven CCL faculty members awarded the prize to Dr Tse’s paper entitled “Understanding leader-follower and team-member exchange relationships in teams: A multilevel investigation”.

The award-winning paper was based on Dr Tse’s PhD studies and is a chapter in his thesis. A paper based on this work will be published later this year in the Leadership Quarterly, a top tier journal.

UQ`s Professor Neal Ashkanasy, who was Dr Tse’s principal advisor, is pleased for his former student.

“The award is highly competitive, with applicants from around the world," Professor Ashkanasy said.

“Remarkably, Herman is the third UQ Business School PhD student to win this award.

“No other institution has won the award twice, let alone three times.”

Previous UQ recipients were Stuart Weierter (1997) and Marie Dasborough (2003).

“These successes place the UQ Business School firmly in the spotlight as one of the world’s leading centres for research in leadership,” Professor Ashkanasy said.

In 2005, Herman won the Best Doctoral Paper, Best Paper in Leadership Stream and Overall Best Paper Awards at the annual meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) in Canberra.

Dr Herman Tse was recently appointed to an academic position at the University of Newcastle. Herman’s advisory team also included associate advisors’ Marie Dasborough (Oklahoma State University) and John Gardner (UQ Business School).

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