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Professional and Teaching Experience
Dr James Warn teaches in the areas of organisational behaviour, leadership and human resource management. He is committed to the value of lifelong learning and instils this ethos into his teaching practices. James' teaching performance has been recognised with a UNSW@ADFA Teaching Excellence Award.
Dr Warn's current research, involving international collaboration, is investigating the long term value of higher education with a particular emphasis on military officers. He is also investigating road safety culture in the community with another team of researchers and in another a further research project. In another research project he is examining the meaning and function of strategic leadership.
Dr Warn combines a practical approach with extensive organisational psychology experience. In conducting his research and consultancy, he utilises his extensive academic background to develop a strategic orientation while maintaining a practical focus.
Dr Warn is a registered psychologist, a Member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS) and former Chair of the ACT Section of the APS College of Organisational Psychologists. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and a Visiting fellow at the Centre for Defence Leadership ( Australian Defence College ).
Awards
Emerald Highly Commended Paper by Literati Network Awards for Excellence
UNSW@ADFA Teaching Excellence Award
High Commendation for Public Sector Evaluation from the Australasian Evaluation Society
Publications
Warn, J. (2007) Strategic leadership in an era of complexity and uncertainty. In J. Stouffer & A. MacIntyre (eds) Strategic Leadership Development: International Perspectives. Kingston, Ontario. Canadian Defence Academy Press.
Warn, J. R., Bowman, W. R. & Peterson, J. B. (2007) Putting fluid intelligence into the selection pot with crystallized intelligence and personality measures. Published proceedings of the 42nd APS Annual Conference 2007, Brisbane, Australia, pp 406-410.
Warn, J. (2006) Plagiarism Software: No magic bullet! Higher Education Research & Development Vol. 25, No. 2, pp 195–208.
Barber, E. and Warn, J. (2005) Leadership in project management: from fire fighter to fire lighter, Management Decision . Volume 43 Number 7 2005, pp 1032-1039.
Warn, J. R. (2005) Intangibles in commercialisation: the case of air navigation services in the South Pacific. Journal of Intellectual Capital, Vol 6, No. 1, pp 72-88.
Warn, J. R., Tranter, P. J. and Kingham, S. (2004) Fast and Furious 3: Illegal street racing, sensation seeking and risky driving behaviours in New Zealand . 27th Australasian Transport Research Forum , Adelaide , 29 September – 1 October 2004.
Daniels, S., Barber, E. and Warn (2003) Performance Indicators. Maritime Studies , No. 133, pp 14-20.
Stevenson, E. and Warn, J. R. (2003) Quantifying changing understanding: level 3 evaluation of leadership development interventions. Evaluation Journal of Australia , Vol 3(1), pp 56-60.
Tranter, P., & Warn, J. (2003). Education for flexibility in a changing world: a case study of competency development in university graduates. In C. Bond & P. Bright, (Eds), L earning for an Unknown Future, Research and Development in Higher Education , Vol 26, pp 538-546. Sydney : Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia.
Fairbrother, K. and Warn, J. (2003) Workplace dimensions, stress and job satisfaction. Journal of Managerial Psychology , Vol 18 (1), pp 8-21.
Warn, J. R. and Knell, S. (2002) Transferring Expertise from the Public Sector. ANZAM/IFSAM VIth World Congress , Gold Coast, July 2002.
Warn, J. R. and Tranter, P. (2001) Measuring Quality in Higher Education: A Competency Approach. Quality in Higher Education, Vol 7(3), pp 191-198.
Warn, J. R. (2001) Overcoming Learned Helplessness. Australian Defence Journal , Vol 150, pp 57-61.
Stevenson, E. & Warn, J. R. (2000) Yet to Leap Ahead: Training Managers to Lead in the New Millennium. Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference Proceedings , December, Sydney.
Warn, J. R. & Barber, E. (1999) From work simplification to work integration: some implications for organisational psychology. Australian Journal of Psychology , Vol 51, p 76.
Warn, J. R., Tranter, P. and Fulford, G. (1997) Graduate Evaluation of Tertiary Education and Military Training at the Australian Defence Force Academy . University College , ADFA.
Warn, J. R. (1997) Participation of the Gres Officer in the Civilian Workforce . 1 st Psychological Research Unit, Canberra.
Warn, J. R. (1997) Leadership Development. Interface , Issue 19, p 2.
Warn, J. R. (1996) Leadership development at the Australian Defence Force Academy . Australian Journal of Psychology , Vol 48, p 149.
Warn, J. R., Gilks, D. and Buckley, R. E. (1995) Measuring Time Use and Activity Patterns: A Data Matrix Approach . In W. Vialle (ed) Why Psychology? Selected Papers from the 29th Annual Conference Wollongong , 1994. Australian Psychological Society, Melbourne .