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Associate Professor Pavel Castka

Position

Associate Professor Pavel Castka
Associate Professor in Operations Management
Research Director, College of Business and Economics
Q21 Research Group

Distinctions/Honours

• Emerging Researcher of the Year, College of Business and Economics, 2007
• Editorial Board, Human Systems Management, Operations and Supply Chain Management - An International Journal
• Nominated Expert on Social Responsibility, International Organization for Standardization, (ISO/TMB/WG SR (ISO 26000)
• Member, ISO/TC 176/SC1 (ISO 9000)
• Keynote speaker: 51st European Organisation for Quality Annual Congress, Czech Republic, 2007
• Keynote speaker: The 5th International Conference of Quality & Reliability, Thailand 2007
• Keynote speaker: The System Thinking Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility, Indonesia, 2007
• Invited speaker: Competitiveness and Sustainable Development - Two Sides of the Same Coin? 11th annual International Management Conference, Riga, Latvia
• Invited keynote panellist: OSCM 2005
• International advisory committee - ICQR 2007, ICQME 2007, IWCTQM 2009, OSCM 2009
• Best paper awards: 8th, 11th, 12th, 13th International Conference on ISO 9000 and TQM

• Guest editor (with Alan Singer): CSR and Human Systems Management

Qualifications

• MSc(Eng) Dipl.Ing. (Brno University of Technology)
• PhD (Brno University of Technology)
• PGCertTertT (University of Canterbury)

Contact Details

Phone +64 3 364 2987 ext 8617
pavel.castka@canterbury.ac.nz

Room 404, Law Building

Postal Address
Department of Management
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch
New Zealand

Background

Pavel Castka is an Associate Professor in Operations Management at the Department of Management at the University of Canterbury, advising PhD and MBA students as well as teaching MBA and undergraduate courses in operations and quality management; he previously taught at the University of Salford - UK before coming to UC.

Associate Professor Castka's research interests in quality management and corporate social responsibility focus on management frameworks and aspects of standardization. His work has received numerous international awards and has been published in more than a dozen of refereed journals. Pavel's research on implementation of corporate social responsibility and corporate governance has been published by the British Standards Institution (BSi), with a newly updated version published by SAI Global Ltd. His current overseas research projects include on-line certification against ISO 9000:2000 with the HPO Group Ltd and investigation of the impact of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) on operations and supply chains. Pavel is a director of Q21 Research Group.

As a consultant, Pavel works closely with businesses to improve their management systems; he serves as one of four New Zealand nominated experts on Social Responsibility for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ISO/TMB/WG SR is responsible for the development of ISO 26000 - international guidance standard on social responsibility and consists of more than 300 nominated experts from 52 countries. Pavel also shares his field expertise with Standards New Zealand (SNZ) and the Canterbury Branch of the New Zealand Quality Organisation (NZQO).

Undergraduate Courses

• MGMT 230 Business, Society and the Environment
• MSCI 320 Strategic Operations & Supply Chain Management

Postgraduate Courses

• MSCI 603 Management Science Applications
• MBAD 651 Quality Management

PhD Supervision Opportunities

Industry seminars and professional meetings (recent):

• International Organization for Standardization, 5th Plenary Meeting of ISO/TMB/WG SR, Vienna, Austria, 4-9 September 2007.
• Invited speaker, The ISO Users Club Indonesia, "Toward ISO 9001:2008 and beyond - getting the most of quality management systems standards", March 13th, 2007, Jakarta, Indonesia
• Invited speaker, Canterbury Quality Day, "From Quality to Social Responsibility - Using ISO 26000 and On-line tools to Drive and Sustain Your Success", June 20th 2006, Christchurch, New Zealand.
• International Organization for Standardization, 3rd Plenary Meeting of ISO/TMB/WG SR, Lisbon, Portugal, 15-19 June 2006.
• Invited speaker, Annual General Meeting, New Zealand Organisation of Quality, Canterbury Branch, "A snapshot of nearly everything!", April 26th 2006, Christchurch, New Zealand.
• International Organization for Standardization, 2nd Plenary Meeting of ISO/TMB/WG SR, Bangkok, Thailand, 26-30 September 2005.
• Invited speaker, The Real World Process Management Group, "Developing Competitive Businesses for 21st century through effective CSR", September 2004, Stock-on-Trent, UK.
• ISO International Conference on Social Responsibility, 21-22 June 2004, Stockholm, Sweden.

Current Research Projects

• The impact of the Emissions Trading Scheme on operations and supply chains
• ISO 9000/14000 Research Project: Diffusion patterns of decentralised institutions - the case of management systems standards in New Zealand (funded by New Zealand Organisation for Quality and UC College of Business and Economics).
• Development of ISO 26000 through a multistakeholder dialogue.
• Strategic use of ISO 26000 social responsibility standard in global supply chains.

Supervision

Jye Ying Lu - Determinants of CSR Practices in Malaysia (PhD)

Clare Ryan - Idea and Opportunity Generation by End-Users and Non-Professional Developers in New Product Development (MCom)

Barbora Gabzdylova - Corporate Social Responsibility: Environmental Concerns in NZ wine industry (MCom)

Research Interests

Research and Publications

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