Invited Speaker Presentation:

Leadership and Management for Corporate Sustainability

Suparak Suriyankietkaew, Mahidol University

Paper Presentations:

Design Thinking For Learning to Management Practice of Higher Education

Palin Poocharoon, NIDA Business School

The recent global financial and economic crisis, which one considered a “crisis of management”, may lead us to rethinking business learning platform. Today business schools are facing intense pressure of answering whether those evidences results from the management education. However, most MBA programs still have placed emphasis on the “maximizing the profit” that focus on adding economic value rather than social value. This might raise more critical question of the future outcomes that would probably remain unsolved. This paper demand highly concerns about relevance to practice call for new approach to management education based on a reconceptualization of management praxis on new design. The article proposed new design thinking for our young manager through a new learning platform. Shifting from the economic value oriented to social constructive value is a main objective to ensure the sustainable growth. This new management learning platform focuses on the dynamic optimum of current business benefits on social constructive ways providing students a broader perspective of what business can, and should accomplish for oneself and society.

Bringing Service Innovation Through Servant Leadership, and Innovation Climate: A Multilevel Mediation Model

Neeraj Kumar Jaiswal, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

Rajib Lochan Dhar, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

A multilevel mediation model is proposed that service innovative behavior is predicted by servant leadership and mediating role of innovation climate therein. Based on previous literature, we proposed that servant leaders set the favorable conditions and facilitates necessary resources which builds the positive perception about the supportive innovation climate which in turn promote service innovative behavior amongst the service employees. We highlighted the value of differentiating between group level and individual level variables in order to understand the effects of servant leadership (subordinate rated), innovation climate (subordinate rated) on supervisors’ assessments of their employees innovative behavior. The study contributed to the existing literature by multilevel integration of servant leadership as predictor of service innovative behavior.