Robert Isaac

Human Resources & Organizational Dynamics

Rob received his Doctor of Philosophy in Human Resource Management at the Strathclyde Business School, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland and his MBA and BSc. at the University of Calgary.  Rob also has a Certificate in Management (CIM) designation from the Canadian Institute of Management.  He has sat on numerous committees for the business school including the Merit Committee, Academic Appointment Review Committee, Academic Standing Committee, Appeals Committee and Undergraduate Review Committee.  Rob has also served as the business school representative on the Senate for the University of Calgary.  Prior to returning to school, Rob worked as a manager for ten years at the Calgary District Hospital Group in Human Resource Management.

Rob teaches senior undergraduate courses for the Human Resources and Organizational Dynamics Area, as well as graduate courses abroad for the business school (Ecuador, Poland and other countries).  Rob’s research areas of interest include intellectual capital development and organizational culture.  

Rob has combined his research fields and now studies organizational culture and climate and their impact upon the development of intellectual capital.  His work has been published in the Journal of Business Ethics and other notable journals.      

Rob has received several awards for both teaching and research.  He received the Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award in 1999 and the Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence (Combined Programs) in 2002.  He received both the Outstanding Research Award and Best in Session Award in 2006 at the Global Conference on Business Finance in Costa Rica.

Rob has a variety of interests including wood carving, composing music, and astrophysics.

Rob’s journal articles, book chapters and proceedings publications are listed below:   


Journal Articles (Refereed) and Book Chapters

Isaac, R.G. & Herremans, I.M.  (Forthcoming).  Intellectual Capital Management:  Pathways to Wealth Creation.  Journal of Intellectual Capital (Special Edition).

Nazari, J.A., Herremans, I.M., Isaac, R.G., Manassian, A., & Kline, T.J.  (Forthcoming).  Organizational Characteristics Fostering Intellectual Capital in Different Contexts.  Journal of Intellectual Capital (Special Edition).

Herremans, I., R. Isaac, & A. Bays.  (2008).  Tracing Intellectual Capital Against Cash Flows.  Research Executive Summary Series (on-line), Chartered Institute of Managerial Accountants (UK).

Herremans, I. & R. Isaac (2007) Relationships Among Intellectual Capital, Uncertainty of Knowledge, and Culture.  Global Journal of Business Research, 1(1), 24-35.

Herremans, I.M., & R. Isaac.  (2005)  Management Planning and Control:  Supporting Knowledge-Intensive Organizations.  The Learning Organization: An International Journal, 12(4), 313-329. 

Isaac, R., Wilson, K., & D. Pitt.  (2004). Value Congruence Awareness:  DNA Testing Sheds Light on Functionalism, Part One, Journal of Business Ethics, 54, 191-201.

Isaac, R., Wilson, K., & D. Pitt.  (2004).  Value Congruence Awareness:  DNA Testing Sheds Light on Functionalism, Part Two, Journal of Business Ethics, 54, 303-315.

Herremans, I.& R. Isaac.  (2004). The Intellectual Capital Realization Process:  An Application of the Resource-Based View of the Firm.  Journal of Managerial Issues, 16 (2), 217-231.
 
Herremans, I. & R. Isaac.  (2004). Leading the Strategic Development of Intellectual Capital.  The Leadership and Organization Development Journal, 25 (2), 142-160

Isaac, R., Zerbe, W., & D. Pitt. (2001). Leadership and Motivation: The effective application of expectancy theory. Journal of Managerial Issues, 13 (2), 212-226.

Isaac, R.G. and D.C. Pitt. (2001) Organizational Culture: It’s Alive!  It’s Alive!  But There’s No Fixed Address! Handbook of Organizational Behavior. (R. T. Golembiewski, Editor), Marcel Dekker Inc., New York, 113-144.

Isaac, R., Levine, N. & D. Pitt (1997). Organizations for the new millennium: Facilities management and the new organizational environment. International Journal of Facilities Management 1 (1), 11-20.

Isaac, R., Levine, N. & D. Pitt. (1997) New organisations for the millennium. CFM Best Practice 97, (K. Alexander, Editor), Quadrant Strathclyde Limited, 41-48.


Isaac, R., Cahoon, A.. & W. Zerbe. (1994). Values in Corporations - who is in charge?  Reprinted in Trends and Challenges in Human Resource Management. (H.C. Jain and P.C. Wright, Editors), Nelson Canada, Scarborough, Ontario, 251-261.

Isaac, R., Cahoon, A., & W. Zerbe. (1992). Values in Corporations - Who is in charge? International Journal of Value-Based Management, 5(2) 93-104.

Isaac, R.G. (1993). Organizational culture - Some new perspectives. Handbook of Organization Behavior. (R. T. Golembiewski, Editor), Marcel Dekker Inc., New York, 91-110.

Isaac, R., & G,L Rowland. (1974). Conditions for Sand Digging in Laboratory Rats.
Learning and Motivation, 5, 128-133.


Practitioner Journals (Non-Refereed)

Herremans, I., Isaac R., & A. Bays.  (2007).  Making Intellectual Capital Tangible.  Financial Management, June, 30-32.

Proceedings (Refereed)

Herremans, I. & R. Isaac (2006).  Relationships Among Intellectual Capital, Uncertain Knowledge, and Culture.  The Institute for Business and Finance Research, Global Conference on Business and Finance, San Jose, Costa Rica, 17-20.

Herremans, I. & R. Isaac (2004).  The Intellectual Capital Realization Process:  Moving From Impressionism to Realism.  Appears in electronic proceedings, Alberta HR Conference, Calgary, Alberta.

Isaac, R., Levine, N., & D. Pitt. (2000). “The end of the bureaucratic century?  The emergence of post bureaucratic future prospects and problematics.” European Facilities Management Association and International Facilities Management Association, Glasgow, Scotland.

Pitt, D., Levine, N, & R. Isaac (1997). Teamwork: The obstacle to a manager's success. International Association of Management and Association of Management (15th Annual International Conference, Montreal, Quebec) 15 (1), 221-225.

Pitt, D, & R. Isaac (1996). Life in the organisation: macro concerns from micro perspectives (nominalist aspects of cultural information processing). Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management (10th Anniversary Conference, Wollongong, Australia), 121.

Isaac, R. & D. Pitt (1996). A self-regulatory model of cultural information processing. Eastern Academy of Management (33rd Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.), 208-311.