Biography

Associate Professor Graydon Davison has been an academic since early 2000 and graduated his PhD in 2005, following careers in public and private sector management and in management consulting. His PhD topic was 'Innovative Practice in the Process of Patient Management in Palliative Care'. His thesis is an explanation of how palliative care organisations manage multidisciplinary teams to produce necessary spontaneous innovation, knowledge creation and knowledge sharing when membership of the teams is dynamic and professionals can be members of multiple teams simultaneously. Issues of trust, respect, credibility and the active management of ambivalence within the teams are prominent, as are those of organisational consciousness of environmental contingencies, attention to appropriate organisational configuration and an accommodation of high levels of informal communication across discipline boundaries.

Associate Professor Davison spent the period July 2006 to April 2010 as Head of the School of Management at the University of Western Sydney. For two years prior to this he was Associate Head of School and Head of the Organisation Studies discipline group at the same school.

Between 2002 and 2006 Associate Professor Davison published 3 book chapters (B1) and 13 refereed journal articles (C1) in the areas of palliative care, healthcare management, innovation management, knowledge management and the psychological contract. In 2008/9 he was a qualitative analyst/investigator on a Local Palliative Care Grant from the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, 'Case Conferencing and Care Planning: an exploratory study', managed through Southern Adelaide Palliative Services and Flinders University to the value of $250,000.

Qualifications

• PhD (Commerce), University of Western Sydney, 2005
• Master of Technology Management, University of Western Sydney, 1998

Research

Research keywords

• Anthropocentric knowledge management and innovation management
• Dynamic knowledge management in teams that have situational membership
• Managing teams that have situational membership
• Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams
• Organisational configuration for innovation and for learning
• Spontaneous knowledge creation and management
• The social potential of organisations

Research expertise

Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams

Dynamic knowledge management in teams that have situational membership

Managing teams that have situational membership

Spontaneous knowledge creation and management

Organisational configuration for innovation and for learning

Anthropocentric knowledge management and innovation management

The social potential of organisations

Collaboration

In October 2010 Associate Professor Davison joined the University of Newcastle as an academic of the Newcastle Business School. Under the heading of Sustainable Care for the Dying he collaborates with members of the Newcastle University, Flinders University, University of Queensland and Sydney University as well as healthcare practitioners from a variety of domains, locally and nationally.

Languages

• Tok Pisin

Fields of Research

Administrative

Administrative expertise

Head of School

Associate/Deputy Head of School

Head of Program/Discipline

Teaching

Teaching keywords

• Managing Service Operations
• Operations Management
• Organisational Analysis and Design
• Organisational Behaviour
• Strategic Management
• Strategic Technology Management

Teaching expertise

Organisational Behaviour

Managing Service Operations

Strategic Technology Management

Strategic Management

Organisational Analysis and Design

Operations Management

Work Integrated Learning

Teaching interests

• Organisational Behaviour
• Managing Service Operations
• Strategic Technology Management
• Strategic Management
• Organisational Analysis and Design
• Operations Management

Courses

• IRHR1001 - Managing the Organisation
• MNGT3002 - Knowledge Management
• MNGT3004 - Organisational Structures and Design