Goh, Swee

Biography

Swee Goh is Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management and Emeritus Professor at the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa and also has a cross-appointment with the Faculty of Education. Prior to joining the University of Ottawa, he taught at Dalhousie University, McMaster University and the University of Toronto.

He is currently on the Editorial Board of SAM-Advanced Management Journal, the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation and Research and Practice in Human Resource Management. He is also a member of the Academy of Management, the Administrative Science Association of Canada, the Society for the Advancement of Management and the American and Canadian Evaluation Societies.

Research Interests and Scholarly Activities

Professor Goh’s primary research interests focus on organizational learning, the building of learning capacity in organizations and its link to organizational performance. Other areas of research include public sector performance management, evaluation capacity building, knowledge transfer and managing organizational change. Professor Goh publishes his research in both applied and academic journals in management. His current research is on scale development in the measuring of organizational learning capability and understanding effective public sector performance management.

Publications during the last 7 years

Chapters in Books

Goh, S.C. FTCA-Regional and Headquarters Relations. In McShane, S.L.. Canadian Organizational Behaviour. McGraw-Hill, 2006.

Papers in Refereed Journals

Goh, S.C. and Ryan, P. 2008. The organizational performance of learning companies: A longitudinal and competitor analysis using market and accounting financial data. The Learning Organization: An International Journal, 15(3): 225-293.

Goh, S.C., Quon, T.K.S. and Cousins, J.B. 2007. The Organizational Learning Survey: A Re-Evaluation of Unidimensionality. Psychological Reports, 101: 707-721.

Taylor, M., Widfield, C. and Goh, S. 2007. Fostering Partnership Development in Workplace Literacy: A Case Study of the Canadian National Literacy Secretariat business and Labour Partnership Program. The New York Journal of Adult Learning, 2(2): 5-18.

Goh, S.C., Cousins, B.J. and Elliott, C. 2006. Organizational learning capacity, evaluative inquiry and readiness for change in schools: Views and perceptions of educators. Journal of Educational Change, 7(4): 289-318.

Cousins, B.J., Goh, S.C. and Clark, S. 2006. Data use leads to data valuing: Evaluative Inquiry for School Decision Making. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 5(2): 155-176.

Funded Research during the last 7 years

*Purpose = C: Contract (R and D), E: Equipment Grant, R: Research Grant, S: Support Award, P: Pedagogical Grant, O: Other, U: Unknown

**Type= C: Granting Councils, G: Government, F: Foundations, I: UO Internal Funding, O: Other, U: Unknown

Role: PI = Principal Investigator, Co-I = Co-Investigator, Co-PI = Co-Principal Investigator

Scholarly and Professional Academic Activities during the last 7 years

Most significant research contributions during career

Goh, S.C. 2002. Managing Effective Knowledge Transfer: An Integrative Framework and Some Practice Implications. Journal of Knowledge Management, 6(1): 23-30.

Goh. S.C. 1998. Towards a Learning Organization: The Strategic Building Blocks. SAM-Advanced Management Journal, 63(2): 15-22.

Goh, S.C. and Richards, G. 1997. Benchmarking the Learning Capability of Organization. European Management Journal, 15(5): 575-583.

Nicholson, P.J. and Goh, S.C. 1983. The Relationship of Organization Structure and Interpersonal Attitudes to Role Conflict and Ambiguity in Different Work Environments. Academy of Management Journal, 26(1): 148-155.

Goh, S.C. 2001. The Learning Organization: An Empirical Test of a Normative Perspective. International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior, 4(3/4): 329-355.