Mark Addleson

ACADEMIC CAREER

Associate Professor, Program on Social & Organizational Learning, School of Public Policy, George Mason University, fall 1994 – present. Director Organizational Learning Masters program 1996-2005

Associate Professor and Head, General Management, Graduate School of Business, University of the Witwatersrand 1992-1994

Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Business, 1980-1992

Junior Lecturer and Lecturer, Departments of Economics and Business Economics, University of the Witwatersrand, 1974-1979

EDUCATION

PhD in the Faculty of Management, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

M.A. in Economics, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa (cum laude)

B.A. (Hons) Economics, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa (with distinction)

B.A. (Majors in Economics and Psychology), Rhodes University

Cambridge “A” Levels in Economics and English, St. Andrews College, Grahamstown, South Africa

AWARDS

2005 Dean’s Award for Service

2003-08 Membership IBM Scholar’s Program– use of collaborative technologies in teaching and learning

1987 Teaching Award, Graduate School of Business Administration, University of the Witwatersrand.

1984-5 Richard Ward Endowment Fund Grant, University of the Witwatersrand. Jointly awarded for research in the field of Industrial Decentralisation and Regional Development Policy in South Africa.

1985 J.J.I. Middleton Prize. Awarded by the South African Journal of Economics for the best first article by a South African. Awarded for S.A.J.E. article on Competition published in 1984.

BOOKS

2011
Beyond Management: Taking Charge at Work, Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN978–0–230– 30816–9

1995
Equilibrium versus Understanding: Towards the Restoration of Economics as Social Theory, Published in the series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy, London and New York, Routledge. ISBN 0-415-12814-5 October 1995.

1989
Industrial Trends and Prospects in Natal-KwaZulu Region E. Natal Town and Regional Planning Report No. 72, Natal Town and Regional Planning Commission, Pietermaritzburg. with F. Pretorius and R. Tomlinson.

1987
Regional Restructuring Under Apartheid: Urban and Regional Policies in Contemporary South Africa, (Johannesburg, Ravan Press) edited with R. Tomlinson. ISBN 0 86975 327 4

SELECTION OF PUBLISHED, REFEREED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

2014
‘A Knowledge Management (KM) Primer’ ,Journal of Cyber Security and Information Systems, 1, 2. 2-12

2012
‘Will the Real Story of Collaboration Please Stand Up So We Can See It Properly?’ Knowledge Management Research & Practice. December 2012

2012 ‘New Work, New Knowledge, New Management.’ The WITS Business School Journal,

2008. Addleson, M., and J. G. Berger. “Putting ‘Zing’ Back into Organizational Consulting.” Journal of Professional Consulting 3, no. 1 (2008): 7-18.

2006
Addleson, Mark “Learning Organizations: the emergency of a relational-interpretive view of organization” in Hosking, D.M and McNamee, S. The Social Construction of Organization, Oslo, Liber, Chapter10, 196-207 (Series: Advances in Organization Studies).

2005
Addleson, M., S. Brumburgh and R. Chawla. “From Fragmentation to Aligning: Organizational Coaching and Ten Conversations for Organizing Knowledge Work.” Reflections, society for Organizational Learning: 6, 5-6, 25-39.

2001
‘Stories about Firms: Boundaries, Structures, Strategies, and Processes’, Managerial and Decision Economics, 22, 4 & 5, (June – Aug.), special issue on ‘Strategy and the Market Process’ edited by Richard Langlois, 169-82.

2000 (a)
‘What is Good Organization?: Learning Organizations, Community, and the Rhetoric of the ‘Bottom Line’, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 9, 2, June, special issue on ‘Organisational Learning: Relational-Constructionist Approaches’, edited by Rene Bouwen and Dian-Marie Hosking, 233-252.

2000 (b)
‘Organizing to Know, Organizing to Learn: Reflections on Knowledge and Knowledge Management’, in Srikantaiah, K. and Koenig, M. (eds), Knowledge Management for the Information Professional, Medford, NJ; Information Today, Inc.

1998 (a)
‘Languages of Possession and Participation: Traps, Tropes, and Trapezes of Organizational Discourse’, Conference proceedings, 3rd International Conference on Organizational Discourse, “Pretexts, Subtexts, and Contexts”, University College, London, England.

1996
‘Resolving the spirit and substance of organizational learning’, Journal of Organizational Change Management, special issue ‘Organizational learning: past, present and future’, 9, 1, pp. 32-41.

1994a
`Competition’, in Boettke, P.J. (ed.) The Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics, Aldershot, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp.96-102.

1994b
`An Overview of the Growth of Manufacturing in Natal’, in Guest, B and Sellars ,J (eds.) Receded Tides of Empire: Aspects of the Economic and Social History of Natal and Zululand Since 1910, Durban: South Africa, University of Natal Press, pp.137-155.

1992
‘Monetary Policy in the 1970s and 1980s’,in Jones, S (ed.), Financial Enterprise in South Africa since 1950, London, The Macmillan Press, pp.33-61.

1990
‘Decentralisation Incentives, Industrialists’ Plans and the Location of Manufacturing Activity’, South African Journal of Economics, Special Issue ‘Regional Policy in South Africa’, 58, 2, June, pp.173-86.

TEACHING (SELECTED COURSES)

George Mason University, 1994-present, Graduate courses

• Culture, Organizations and Technology (Masters in Public Policy)
• International Commerce and Culture (Masters Program in International Commerce and Policy)
• Macroeconomics and Investment (Masters in Public Policy, International Transactions)
• Managerial Economics (Masters in Business Administration)
• Organizations, Management, and Work: Theory and Practice (Organizational Learning Masters degree)
• Organizations and Management (Masters In Secure Information Systems)
• Technology in the New Professions: Organizational Informatics (Master of Public Policy)
• Policy and Organizational Analysis(Masters in Public Policy)
• Strategic Knowledge Management (Organizational Learning Masters degree)
• The Learning Organization (Organizational Learning Masters degree)

Professional Courses

Coaching and Organizational Learning (9 month certificate program) – devised and organized the GMU component of this joint venture with Newfield Network

University of the Witwatersrand, Graduate School of Business

MBA courses

Numerous other graduate level and executive programs courses, from the flagship Executive Development Program, to the Mining Management Program, Advancement in Management Program, and Post-graduate Diploma in Management.

SELECTED TALKS, PRESENTATIONS AND WEBINARS

2014
June. ‘If innovation and creativity are required, why aren’t people delivering?’ Talk to National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. Fort Belvoir, VA.

April. ‘Wanted: Organization Development without the Organization’, Faculty Brown Bag, School of Public Policy.

March. ‘”It’s All Change”: Mason’s ODKM program’. Talk at 14^th Quarterly Federal KM Community Meeting, Pentagon, Arlington VA

2013
June. ‘The Ins and Outs of Communities of Practice’. Webinar. Under the auspices of the Cybersecurity and Information Systems Information Analysis Center. Moderated by Tom McGibbon.

April. ‘New Management Practices: Why we need them and what you can do’, Talk at the City Club of Washington, D.C.

October. ‘‘Rewriting the HR Rule Book for Knowledge-Work’. Talk to Delegation attending MITRE’s ACP 2012 CAAC Human Resource Training Program, George Mason University Arlington Campus.

2012
September. ‘Beyond Management’. Talk to Deputy Assistant Secretary and Regional Directors , Economic Development Administration, Department of Commerce at the USA Trade Center, Washington D.C.

August. “Change the picture, change the story”. Keynote address to ‘2012 Risk Management and Finance Conference’ organized by the Non-Profit Risk Management Center. Chicago, Ill.

2011
August. ‘Change and Knowledge Management: Rewriting the HR Rule Book for Knowledge Workers’, Keynote address to Veteran Affairs Administration, 2011 HR Professionals Training Conference, Orlando, Fla.

May. ‘‘Talk and Tools: The Terrible Twins of Knowledge Work and Knowledge Management’. Talk for Portal Solutions, Microsoft, Rockville MD,

February. ‘If Knowledge Work is All Touchy-Feely, Where Does This Leave KM?’ Talk to the Knowledge Management (KM) Institute, DC Chapter, Arlington Virginia

2010
October. ‘Changing Nature of Work, Organizations, and Management’. Presentation to Chongwen Leadership Training Delegation, The Mason Enterprise Center, Fairfax VA.

October. ‘“What is the problem? Where is the work? Getting to the bottom of social action”. Presentation at Military Operations Research Society Symposium ‘Social Sciences Underpinnings of Complex Operations’. Arlington VA.

June. ‘Sharing Knowledge: what, why, and how? Talk to Federal Highway Administration, , Knowledge Application Team, Arlington VA.

April . ‘The Stories We Work By’. Presentation at the Golden Fleece Storytelling Conference, ‘You, Me & We: Connecting Through Story’. GMU Campus, Arlington VA.

2005
May Swiss E-Learning Group Symposium at FDIC’s Seideman Center. ‘Collaborative learning and collaborative tools in GMU School of Public Policy ODKM program’. A symposium with Swiss academics from medical schools and U.S. academics and consultants.

2003
Nov NASA’s COP (communities of practice) III workshop for process based mission assurance in the Office of Safety and Mission Assurance. ‘Organizational Change: the Path from Knowledge Work to Communities of Practice.

Sept. Lead speaker at panel discussion on Change Management and Knowledge Management, Topic ‘Perspectives on Organizational Change: Knowledge MANAGEMENT or KNOWLEDGE Management?’ May Co-organized and co-hosted a one day workshop dialogue on ‘Cross Boundary Leadership’ at the National Science Foundation, Arlington.

2002
Chesapeake Bay Organizational Development Network, Tysons Corner SIG Panel discussion. Topic: ‘Defining Knowledge Management and its Emerging Role in Organizational Life’.

The Communications Network’s annual conference, “The Strategic Value of Communications”. Topic: ‘Managing Knowledge: Theory and Practice’.

2001
Presentation on ‘The Future of Knowledge Management’, Knowledge Management Roundtable, Arlington, Virginia.

2000
Talk on “Knowledge Management” to American Psychological Association, Management Roundtable, Washington, D.C.

2000
July Paper titled ‘Inviting Participation, Becoming Conversant: Narratives of Work and Organization’, delivered at 4th International Conference on Organizational Discourse, ”Word-views, Work-views and World-views”, University College, London, England.

1998
July Paper titled ‘Languages of Possession and Participation: Traps, Tropes, and Trapezes of Organizational Discourse’ delivered at the 3rd International Conference on Organizational Discourse, “Pretexts, Subtexts, and Contexts”, University College, London, England.

CONSULTING

Longer term industry, government, and non-profit consulting experience includes:

2003-present
Consultant to various business, government, and non-profit organizations on organizational change and leadership.

2000-1
Consultant on the TAMAR project, being undertaken at the University of Maryland. A State/County/University/Foundation team implementing and evaluating a trauma treatment and education program for adult women in detention centers.

1989-94 
Econometrix (Pty) Ltd Director and Consultant. Econometrix is the largest independent private firm of economic consultants in South Africa. Worked with over 20 client companies.

Public Sector

ESCOM (Electricity Supply Commission of South Africa).Worked with senior management on strategy formulation, organizational change concerning privatization/commercialization.

Development Bank of Southern Africa. Projects on regional development and industrial Decentralization Policy

Private Sector

First National Bank – Management development and Change

Hartlief Continental Meat Products Nambia – Feasibility study, location and decentralization

Shell SA (Pty) Ltd Oil Division– Management development and Change 

Woolworths retail chain – Management Development and Change