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Michael Sider

Assistant Professor, Management Communications

Education

  • BA, Toronto
  • MA, McMaster
  • PhD, UWO

Contact Information

Profile

Dr. Sider teaches Management Communication at the Richard Ivey School of Business. He teaches in Ivey's Executive MBA, MBA, and HBA programs, and is heavily involved in Ivey's executive development programs.

Dr. Sider has led communications workshops for managers from many organizations, including Ford, GM, 3M, TELUS, McCormick, Comcare, Convergence Corporation, Maple Leaf Foods, J.D. Irving, Agnico-Eagle, the Canadian Investor Relations Institute, the City of London, the City of Stratford, Syngenta, CIBC, The Weather Network, ATCO, the First Nations Tribal Councils, and the Canadian Association of Independent Schools. He has delivered specialized communications and writing workshops for lawyers, engineers, economists and political scientists, and has created and delivered a wide range of teaching workshops to help professors improve their teaching. In 1998 and 1999, he delivered communication workshops in the public sector for the London Board of Education and Human Resources Development Canada. Many of his workshops have been delivered for multi-cultural audiences from China and Mexico, including administrators and professors from Mexico's ITESM, China's Tsinghua University, and Korea's Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. He has also provided public relations advice for several non-profit organizations, including Distressed Children International and WOTCH.

Dr. Sider received a Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada post-doctoral fellowship in 1994, which he took at the University of Pennsylvania. He was creator and director of the University of Western Ontario's writing program for six years before coming to the Richard Ivey School of Business. His business case, "PETA's Kentucky Fried Cruelty Campaign," was used in the Dalhousie Business Ethics Case Competition. Dr. Sider's ongoing research into generational attitudes toward emerging communication technologies was featured in the Financial Edge section of the National Post in November, 2003. In 2004, he was cited in Canadian Business as one of the top business teachers in Canada.

Teaching

  • HBA Management Communications
  • MBA Management Communications
  • EMBA Management Communications

Selected Publications

Books

  • The Dialogic Keats: Time and History in the Major Poems. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1998.

Refereed Chapters and Articles

  • "Dialogic Approaches." In A Companion to Romanticism. Ed. Duncan Wu. Oxford:
    Blackwell Publishers, 1998. 431-441.
  • "Isabella and the Dialogism of Romance." Nineteenth-Century Contexts. 22 (2000): 329-356.

Magazines Articles

  • "Handling Conflict in the Workplace." PharmaFocus. Winter 2008.
  • "In Not So Many Words." Up & Coming Business Journal. Issue 1: Spring 2004. 7.

Research/Course Development

  • Intercultural communication
  • Rhetorical analysis, symbolic convergence theory and organizational narrative
  • Business writing
  • Writing theory and pedagogy

Experience

  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Western Ontario
  • Coordinator, Effective Writing Program, University of Western Ontario
  • Instructor, Writing and Society, Johns Hopkins University Center for the Advancement of Academically Talented Youth

Expertise

  • Business Writing
  • Corporate Writing Services
  • Corporate Education and Training
  • Intercultural Communication
 

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