Job Title

Associate Professor of International Business

Qualifications

• PhD in International Management

Areas of Research Expertise

• Leadership Across Cultures
• Race, Gender, and Nationality Issues in Leadership
• Management of the International Enterprise
• Management Across Cultures
• International Human Resource Management

Biography

After a career of 30 years in international business with IBM, Xerox, Unisys, InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, and managing his own IT trading company, including general management, human resource management, and marketing, with tours of duty in the USA, Mexico, the Caribbean Islands, England, Belgium, and China, he completed a PhD in International Management in 1999. Since that time he has taught in Switzerland, Germany, and New Zealand. We has conducted or is conducting research projects in New Zealand, China, Korea, India, Japanea, Sub-Saharan Africa, Turkey, Mexico, Romania, Germany, and England.

Expertise in Degree and Postgraduate Teaching

• International Management
• International Business
• Marketing
• Leadership
• Cross Cultural Issues in Management

Interests in Research Supervision

International management, leadership, and HR management issues involving doing business in multiple countries. Generally open to work in any geographic area. Romie is also a member of the Gender and Diversity Research Interest Group.

Current Research

How the following topics relate to successfully managing international businesses:

• Preferred leader behaviour across cultures
• Values across cultures and their relationship to managerial and leader behaviour
• Leadership and value differences as a function of race, gender, and nationality
•  Intra-country eadership and value differences as a function of race, gender, and geographic regions
  
• Human Resource Management in various countries and in international businesses

Selected Publications

Copies and working papers can be accessed at www.romielittrellpubs.homestead.com/

Invited Book Chapters:

1. East Asia: Littrell, Romie F. (2006). “Learning Styles of Students in and from Confucian Cultures”. In Ong Siow Heng, Gerhard Apfelthaler, Katrin Hansen, Nirundon Tapachai, eds. Intercultural Communication Competencies in Higher Education and Management, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Academic. http://www.selectbooks.com.sg/getTitle.cfm?SBNum=39354
2. East Asia: Littrell, Romie F. (2005). “Teaching Tertiary Students from Confucian Cultures”, In Alon, Ilan and John R. McIntyre, Eds. (2005), Business and Management Education in China: Transition, Pedagogy And Training, Hackensack, NJ, USA: World Scientific Publishing.
3. Africa: Littrell, Romie F. & Baguma, Peter. (2005). With Peter Baguma, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, “Ch. 20. Education, Management, and the World’s Work: Leadership Traits of Educators in Undeveloped and Developing Countries Focusing on Uganda in Sub-Saharan Africa”. In Alon, Ilan and John R. McIntyre, Eds. (2005), Business and Management Education in Transitioning and Developing Countries: A Handbook, Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe.
   

Refereed Journals:

1. China: Littrell, Romie F. (2007). Influences on Employee Preferences for Empowerment Practices by the “Ideal Manager” in China, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 87-110.
2. Pedagogy, Teaching IB: Balasubramanian, N.; Ethiraj, Sendil K.; Littrell, Romie; Morris, Sebastian; Seshadri, DVR; Varma, Jayanth R. and Zaheer, Srilata; S Manikutty (Coordinator). (2006). Colloquium: Corporation and its Shareholders: What Should B-Schools Teach? Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 99-130. Published by the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad, http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/~manikuti/April-June-2006.pdf.
3. Europe: Littrell, Romie F. and Valentin, Lapadus Nicolae (2005) Preferred Leadership Behaviours: Exploratory Results from Romania, Germany, and the UK, 2005, The Journal of Management Development, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 421-442.
4.  Africa: Littrell, Romie F. and Nkomo, Stella (2005) Gender and Race Differences in Leader Behaviour Preferences in South Africa, Women in Management Review, vol. 20, no. 8, pp. 562-580.
5. Europe: Schneider, Judith and Littrell, Romie F. (2003) Ideal Leader Perceptions in German and English Managers, 2003, The Journal of Management Development, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 130 – 148.
6. China, Seminal Work: monograph published as a special issue of the journal: Littrell, Romie F. (2002) Desirable Leadership Behaviours of Multi-Cultural Managers in China, The Journal of Management Development, vol. 21 no. 1, pp. 5 - 74. (Selected as Best Paper of 2002 by The JMD. “Top 200” downloaded articles from Emerald Library.)

Published as a book:

1. Desirable Leadership Behaviours of Multi-Cultural Managers in China, ISBN:086176661X, Emerald Group Publishing, ©2002.

Books:

1. Africa: Littrell, Romie F. & Ramburuth, Prem. (2007). Leadership & Management Studies in Sub-Sahara Africa Volume I. San Diego, CA, USA: University Readers.

Contributions to Published Conference Proceedings, Refereed:

1. Mexico: SVS Individual and Cultural Value Dimensions of Business People in Mexico [Guadalajara], IV Latin American Regional Congress of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2007, Mexico City.
2. Mexico: Organizer and Chair, Symposium: Latin America and Leadership: from the General to the Specific, presenter: An Explicit Measure Of Preferred Leader Behavior In Mexico [Guadalajara], IV Latin American Regional Congress of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2007, Mexico City.

Contact

Email: Romie.Littrell@aut.ac.nz / romielittrell@yahoo.com
Phone:+64 9 921 9999 ext: 5805
Fax:    +64 9 921 9629