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Thompson CSF,Lyons, France. 3 months summer vacation. Work on the washing machine assembly line, and in the personnel departmentMade 3-week study tour of factories in Japan and Korea in July 1987Teaching ExperienceEngineering departments:Supervision/ tutoring of final year engineering undergraduates in Cambridge University;Small group teaching in undergraduate and graduate workshops in the Manufacturing Engineering (ME) department, Cambridge UniversityProject Supervision of ME students on long (8 week) and short (2 week) industrial projectsLecturing on affiliate basis in the Engineering department: Michaelmas term 1992, taught a joint course entitled: "Work, Technology and Society"; Michaelmas terms 1993 and 1994, repeated this course. Large Group activities, as part of the lecture course, including games, manufacturing systems design problems and case study analysis, based on the lecture topics.Visiting Professor, teaching in both the Graduate Manufacturing Program and the Theology Department, University of St Thomas (UST), St Paul, Minnesota, Jan-Sept 1994. Course taught in the Graduate Manufacturing Program on the design of workplace systems in manufacturing; course taught in the Theology department entitled, "Christian Ethics of Economic Issues". Visiting Professor Summer 1998: course taught entitled: "Christian Faith and the Management of Wealth" during the second summer session (July -August)(October 1994 -October 1996, in novitiate with the Dominicans)Faculty of Social Sciences, Angelicum a. Career progression:Professore Invitato Oct 1996 –Oct 1998: Professore Incaricato Oct 1998 –Oct 1999Professore Aggregato Oct 1999 –June 2006Professore StraordinarioJune 2006–Sept 2009Professore Ordinario, Sept 2009 onwardsElected Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences in May2001, re-elected for second,third and fourth terms in May 2004,2007, 2010respectively.b. Courses taught have included:Lo Sviluppo della Tecnologia(History and Development of Technology)Occupazione e Disoccupazione(Employment and Unemployment)Sviluppo umano e tecnologia intermedia, (Human development and intermediate technology)Topics in the Politics and Economics of Europewith Special Reference to the Catholic Church (in English), two courses dealing with the role of Catholics in politics in Europe and the rise of the Christian Democratic movement
Storia del pensiero sociale cristiano II (periodo moderno)(History of Christian Social Thought –Modern Period)Gestione e organizzazione nel settore non.profit(Management and Organisation of Non-Profits)Etica Economica (Economic Ethics)c. Seminars taught have included:L'Organizzazione Aziendale(Business Organisation)L’etica finanziaria(Finance Ethics)Strategia Aziendale(Business Strategy)(with an International relations expert), The International Action of the Holy See(with an International relations expert), The international agricultural systemNew Programme DevelopmentIn October 1998, with the Center for Catholic Studies, University of St Thomas, St Paul, Minnesota, I set up the “Catholic Studies Rome Program”, in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Angelicum, and of which I have been Director since then. About 50 students per year participate in the programme..In 2002-2003, I set up a Master’s programme in “Management and Corporate Social Responsibility” with the LUMSA (a university in Rome), which I have co-directed since then with a professor from the LUMSA.In 2007-2008, two special projects were launched by the social sciences faculty, directed by myself. The first, “Bridge Builder”, is aimed at young people from Central and Eastern Europe, to help them develop the intercultural and leadership skills needed by theChurch and the society at large in these post-communist societies. It involves both specific academic content and the offer of scholarships in collaboration with an international foundation. The programme includes up to 10 students on full scholarships, as may include more with partial funding.The second is “Studio Realtà”, aimed at potential students from the various immigrant communities here in Rome, offering them a scholarship that covers academic fees and also a programme of study that helps them deal with the intercultural problems that they face as immigrants into Italy. The programme should include 15 scholarships when it is at its full development.(in preparation) the “Ethical Leadership in Business and Politics” one-year study-abroad programme aimed at students from the US in undergraduate programmes of business and political science in Catholic universities.(in preparation) the “Al liqa” project, similar to the “Bridge Builder” project, but aimed at young people from the Middle East, especiallyChristians, so as to help support the fragile Christian communities in these areas.(to launch in October 2012) a double degree with the “Universtià degli Studi ‘Guglielmo Marconi’” at the level of the second cycle in “Political Sciences and InternationalRelations”.University Strategic Planning and Quality AssuranceFrom Oct 2004, with the Rector, I set up the first strategic planning process at the PUST. From Jan 2005, I lead the process, with the support of the Rector. The plan was finally approved bythe University by June 2006. From Nov 2006 until Sept 2009 I was
appointed the Rector’s Delegate for Strategic Planning and from Jan 2007, I set up the Strategic Planning Office, with two staff members and a student assistant. Apart from working on implementation of the strategic plan, I also assisted the four faculties in producing their plans. From Sept 2009, I was appointed Director for Quality and have been leading the self-evaluation process of the offices of the University since then.External Expert of ACQUA (African Catholic Universities Quality Agency) since November 2010Research/Project ExperienceIndustrial projects: on aspects of component manufacture, continuous processing (including microprocessor control programming), marketing and systems design as part of the ME course (6 companies, each with different technologies)ESPRIT project : as a PhD student, I worked with a project team under the auspices of the European Strategic Programme of Research into Information Technology (ESPRIT) for nine months. This involved close project work on the scheduling system of a human-centred turning cell with the team at one of the participating companies, BICC technologies at Hemel Hempstead.Detailed Case studies of small engineering firms using ComputerNumerically Controlled (CNC) technology, supported by Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) as part of the PhD, over a period of 6 monthsResearch Assistant, University of Cambridge: Oct 1990 -June 1991, sponsored by BAe Prestwick, to work on their cellular manufacturing (CM) project. I provided research reports on areas of the projects such as: the human resource aspects of CM, the problems of integrating cells, the logistical issues in the project. This involved extensive contact with the firms over the period of the assistantship and subsequently.Post-Doctoral project: on the management of subcontract manufacturing (via lateral linkages) by small high tech firms (14 case studies), with funding from Barclays Bank and in collaboration with Dr E. Garnsey. The report was completed Dec 1993.History of Dominican religious: during my novitiate in the Dominicans, I used secondary and primary sources to write an account of why particular congregations split from each other in the US and South Africa. The result was an article in New Blackfriars, Oct 1996, (see below). In 2001, with Francesco Compagnoni, I launched the Preaching Justiceproject, which produced the book Preaching Justice: Dominican Contributions to Social Ethics in the Twentieth Century,Dublin, Dominican Publications, 2007, and we are now working on a follow-up project, Preaching Justice II, on the sisters and women of the Order.Ethics in Finance: I have been part of a project sponsored by the Office for Pastoral Care of Workers of the Bishop’s Conference of Italy on ethics in financial systems. The group produced its first report Etica e finanza in the academic year 1999 –2000, and a second, Finanza internazionale e agire socialecame out in February 2004, while a third one on tax systems is planned for this year.Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility: a project involving a first, theoretical phase (finished in Oct 2007, with a book to be published by Città Nuova under the title Fondare la responsabilità sociale d’ìimpresa: contributi dalle scienze umane e dal pensiero
sociale cristiano), followed by a current phase in four international locations, producing case studies (US, Italy, Ukraine, Philippines). I am the Director of the overall project. The third phase, not yet started, isto work on an inter-religious basis for CSR.PublicationsBooks and Contributions to BooksHelen Alford, “The Influence of Thomism in Contemporary Business Ethics” in Christopher Lueztge (ed) Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics,Spinger, forthcomingHelen Alford, “Catholic Social Thought” in Luigino Bruni and Stefano Zamagni (eds), Handbook on the Economics of Philanthropy, Reciprocity and Social Enterprise”, Edward Elgar, forthcomingH. Alford, “Responsabilità sociale e bene commune: perché essere socialmente responsabile?”, in Pietro Scardillo (a cura di), CSR e lavoratori/lavoratrici: quale ruolo per la formazione nel settore bancario-assicurativo, Atti del Workshop, Milano 14 giugno 2011Helen Alford, “Ethical Foundations of Corporate Social Responsibility. The Contribution of Christian Social Thought”, in Gianfranco Zanda (ed), Corporate Management in a Knowledge-Based Economy, Macmillan, forthcoming 2011, pp. 189 –211.H. Alford “Le Nuove Esigenze per l’Impresa nel Contesto Internazionale”, in Caritas in Veritate: agenda per uno sviluppo integrale, Bologna, Istitutio Veritatis Splendor, 99-118, 2011.H. Alford, “Reflections on Modernity”, in Crisis in A Global Economy: Replanning the Journey, Proceedings of the 16th Plenary Session of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, 2011.Charles Clark and Helen Alford, Rich and Poor, CTS Publication, London, 2010. Helen Alford e Yuliya Shcherbinina, “Corporate Social Responsibility and the Common Good”, in Henri-Claude de Bettignies and François Lépineux (eds), Business, Globalization and the Common Good, Frontiers of Business Ethics 6, Bern, Peter Lang, 2009, pp. 63 –82. Helen Alford and Yuliya Shcherbinina, “Beyond the Spiritual: the Common Good Model of CSR”, in Imagine Europe: the search for European Identity and Spirituality, edited by Luk Bouckaert and Jochanan Eynikel, number 3 in the series “European SPES Cahiers”, Antwerp, Garant, 2009, pp. 103 –112.Helen Alford and Francesco Compagnoni (eds) Fondare la Responsabilità Sociale d’Impresa: contributi dalle scienze umane e dal pensiero sociale cristiano, Rome, Città Nuova, 2008.
Helen Alford, “Impostazione del Lavoro nella prospettiva della Laborem Exercens”, in Etica ed Economia: il rapporto possibile, a cura di Francesco Totaro e Benedetta Giovanola, collana “Fede e cultura, Padova, Edizioni Messaggero, 2008, pp. 93 –130. Helen Alford and Yuliya Shcherbinina, “Corporate Social Responsibility and the Common Good”, in Responsabilità Sociale d’Impresa e Nuovo Umanesimo, a cura di Emilio Bettini e Flaviano Moscarini, Genova, San Giorgio Editrice, 2008, pp. 14 –30.Helen Alford, “Persona e Personalismo, fondamento della libertà”, in Atti del Congresso Eucaristico Diocesano 2007, pp. 45 –52.Francesco Compagnoni OP and Helen Alford OP (eds), Preaching Justice: Dominican Contributions to Social Ethics in the Twentieth Century, Dublin, Dominican Publications, 2007.Helen Alford “Justice and Peace in Religious Formation” in Vita Consacrata e Dottrina Sociale della Chiesa: Percorsi di Formazione, a cura della Congregazione per gli Istituti di Vita Consacrata e le Società di Vita Apostolica, il Pontificio Consiglio “Gisutizia e Pace” e I Religiosi e le Religiose Promotori di Giustizia, Pace, Integrità del Creato, Bologna, Editirce Missionaria Italiana, 2007, pp. 362 –368.Helen Alford, Charles M. A. Clark, Michael J. Naughton and Steve Cortright (eds), Rethinking Wealth Creation and Distribution: Interdisciplinary Essays within the Catholic Social Tradition, University of Notre Dame Press, 2006.Helen Alford, “Equitable Global Wealth Distribution: A Global Public Good and a Building Block for the Global Common Good” in Helen Alford, Charles M. A. Clark, Michael J. Naughton and Steve Cortright (eds), Rethinking Wealth Creation and Distribution: Interdisciplinary Essays within the Catholic Social Tradition, University of Notre Dame Press, 2006, pp. 236 -259.Helen Alford, “L’Equa distribuzione delle ricchezza globale: bene pubblico globale e base per il bene commune globale”, in Francesco Compagnoni e Alberto Lo Presti (edd), Etica e globalizzazione, Roma, Città Nuova, 2006, pp. 137 –162. Helen Alford, Intervento 4 sotto il titolo generale di “Ripensare l’economia sociale: prospettive economiche, etiche e giuridiche”, in Ripensare l’economia sociale per le sfide del XXI secolo, Attidel Seminario di Alta Formazione Summer School 2005, no. 1 nella collana “Quaderni della Fondazione”, Fondazione Ispirazione, 2006, pp. 131 –142.Helen Alford and Alberto Lo Presti (eds), Il Carcere degli esclusi: le condizioni civili degli stranieri nelle carceri italiane, Milano, Edizioni San Paolo, 2005.Helen Alford, “Stakeholder e gestione strategica (storia del concetto di stakeholder nel management)” and “La Responsabilità socialed’impresa nella dottrina sociale cattolica e nel pensiero cristiano europeo” in Guida Critica alla Responsabilità Sociale d’Impresa:
Linguaggio, Teorie e Strumenti, Associazione Bancaria Italiana (ABI), Roma, 2005, pp 169 –177, 311 –318.H. Alford “La progettazione dei posti di lavoro: proposte dalla “Laborem Exercens” e dalla tecnologia incentrata sull’uomo”, Notiziario dell Ufficio Nazionale per i Problemi Sociali e il Lavoro, anno VIII, n.4, dicembre 2004, pp. 27 –46.Helen Alford and Michael Naughton “The Common Good and the Purpose of Business: A Critique of the Financial Theory of the Firm” in Steve Cortright and Michael J. Naughton, Rethinking the Purpose of Business: Interdisciplinary Essays in the Catholic Social Tradition, University of NotreDame Press, 2002Helen Alford, “Job Design in the Perspective of Laborem Excercens”, in Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Work as Key to the Social Question: The Great Social and Economic Transformations and the Subjective Dimension of Work, Conference held September 12 –15, 2001, Rome and Vatican City, Vatican City, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2002, pp. 215 –233. Helen J. Alford and Michael J. Naughton, Managing As If Faith Mattered: Christian Social Principles in the Modern Organization, University of Notre Dame Press, 2001 (Spanish translation: Colonia Tepeyac Insurgentes (Mexico), 2002: Russian translation: Kairos, Kyiv, 2003; Hungarian translation: Kairosz, Budapest, 2004; Chinese translation, Taipei, 2007). E. Garnsey and H. Alford,, “Innovative interaction: a study of supplier relations among NTBF’s”, in Ray Oakey (ed), New Technology-Based Firms in the 1990’s, volume II, Paul Chapman, London, 1996, pp. 130 -140.Papers (Presented and/or Published)F. Compagnoni e H. Alford, “La Laborem Exercens nella storia della riflessione sul lavoro all’interno della chiesa”, Rivista di Teologia Morale, n. 171, agosto 2011H. Alford, “The Practical Wisdom of Personalism”, Journal of Management Development, Vol 29, n. 7/8, pp. 697 –705, July/August 2010.Helen Alford, “Hope in God strengthens our hope in people”, Religious Life Review, vol. 48, n. 258, Sept/Oct 2009, pp. 281 –293. Helen Alford, “Le Responsabilità dell’Imprenditore Oltre la Crisi”, Bollettino di Dottrina Sociale della Chiesa,Osservatorio Cardinale Van Thuan sulla Dottrina Sociale della Chiesa, Verona, annoV (aprile –giugno 2009), n. 2, pp. 56 –59 (A revised version under the same title was also published in the Rivista di teologia morale, vol. 163, n. 2, luglio-settembre 2009, pp. 387 –392).
Helen Alford, “Crisis and Incentive Systems”, Cultura Económica: la crisis global(Centro de Estudios en Economía y Cultura, Universidad Católica Argentina), anno xxvi / xxvii, n.73 / 74, diciembre 2008 –mayo 2009, pp. 22 –27 (anchein spagnolo). Helen Alford, “Does Corporate Social Responsibility need Christian Social Thought?”, Notes et documents, mai/août 2007, pp. 8 –16. Helen Alford, “CSR with Teeth: Beyond Reputation to Real Ethics”, Annual Las Casas Lecture at Blackfriars Oxford, Nov 2006.Helen Alford, “Stakeholder Theory”, plenary session paper presented to the Sixth International Conference on Catholic Social Thought and Management, under the title The Good Company: Catholic Social Thought and Corporate Social Responsibility in Dialogue, Rome, Oct 2006, published in OIKONOMIA: rivista di etica e scienze sociali, ott 2007, pp. Available at www.oikonomia.it(also translated into Russian: Helen Alford OP Chelovecheskoe razvitie i kliuchevaja rol obshchego blaga (translated by S.Lukin). PROBLEMS OF MODERN ECONOMY. EURASIAN INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC-ANALYTICAL EDITION#1(29),2009. www.m-economy.ru)Helen Alford and Yuliya Shcherbinina, “CSR and the Common Good”, paper presented to theFourth Meeting of the European University Professors, entitled “The Business and the Creation of a New Humanism”, Rome, June 2006.Helen Alford and Yuliya Shcherbinina, “Towards a Thomistic Personalist Foundation for CSR”, paper presented to the EuropeanBusiness Ethics Network Research Conference entitled “The Normative Foundations of CSR”, Saint Petersburg, June 2006.Barbara Sena and Helen Alford, “Giving a New (or Recovering an Old) Ethical Foundation for CSR: the Idea of the Common Good”, paper presented to the conference: “Ethical Aspects of Management: Theory and Practice” (EAMTP), Berlin, May 2006.Helen Alford, Barbara Sena and Yuliya Shcherbinina, “Strengthening the Ethical Basis of CSR: A Personalist Input from Catholic Social Thought”, paper presented to the European Academy of Business in Society Annual Conference, Warsaw, Dec 2005.H. Alford, “Catholic Social Thought and Poverty: Some Reflections for the Conference ‘Access, Enterprise and Catholic Social Traditions’”, Occasional Paper of the Erasmus Institute of the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, 2005.H. Alford, “Developments in Islamic Banking”, OIKONOMIA, February 2003, pp. 38 –40.H. Alford, “Blocking International Terrorism. A summary of recent initiatives by various international financial bodies”, OIKONOMIA, October 2002, pp. 33 –39.H. Alford, “Globalising Human Development. The Key Role of the Common Good”, OIKONOMIA, June 2002, pp. 13 –23 (also translated into Russian: Helen Alford OP
Globalizatsiya chelovecheskogo razvitia: kliuchevaya rol obshchego blaga (translated by S.Lukin). Biznes i obshchestvo Materialy V Mezdunarodnoy nauchnoy konferentsii 20-22. 01. 2009. St.Petersburg, 2009. P. 123-140.).H. Alford, “Can Management Research Help?” in Priests and People (theme: Leadership in the Church), November 2001, pp. 410 –413.H. Alford, “Job Design in the Perspective of Laborem Exercens”, OIKONOMIA, October 2001, pp. 21 –34H. Alford, “Paesi poveri,. debito estero e commercio internazionale. A che punto siamo?” Fai Proposte, n. 10, Ottobre 2001, pp. 13 –16.H. Alford, “The Common Good as a Practical Goal in Investing”, Finance and Common Good, n. 6/7, Spring/Summer 2001, pp. 97 –99.Articles on the Tobin Tax and Debt Forgiveness in Etica e Finanza, Supplemento al n.19 del agosto 2000, anno IV, di Quaderni della Segreteria CEI.H. Alford, “Troppe barriere al commercio con i paesi poveri”, Fai proposte, n. 1, Marzo 2000, pp. 8 –11.H. Alford, “La tecnologia incentratasull’uomo: Parte I: Lo sfondo e la teoria”, OIKONOMIA, February 2000, pp. 17 –25.H. Alford, “The Responsibilities of Theology to Business (or the Responsibilities of the Butcher, the Baker and the Imagemaker”, in the Proceedings of the Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain Conference, 1999, New Blackfriars, vol 81, no. 947, pp. 27 –35.H. Alford, "Bridging the Gap",in Priests and People, May 1998, pp. 20-25H. Alford, "L'Organizzazione nel Terzo Settore: Differenze e Novità", in La Società, Ottobre -Dicembre 1997, n. 4, pp. 953 -966.H. Alford, "Work and Unemployment: Is More Leisure the Answer?", in The Allen Review, n. 16, Michaelmas 1996, pp. 4-8.H. Alford, "Reflections on the Centenary of the Bushey Congregation of Dominican sisters", New Blackfriars, vol 28, n. 4, Oct. 1996,pp 1-34.M.J. Naughton, H. Alford and B. Brady, "The Common Good and the Purpose of the Firm: A Critique of the Shareholder and Stakeholder Models from the Catholic Social Tradition," Journal of Human Values, vol. 1, n. 2, pp. 1995, 221 -237.H. Alford, "Our Lady the Worker," Priests and People, May 1995, pp. 15-20.
H. Alford, "Design of a Cellular Manufacturing System: Applying Catholic Social Thought," The Journal of Applied Manufacturing Systems, University of St Thomas, Fall 1994. pp. 33 -46.H. Alford, "Cellular Manufacturing: the development of an idea and its application", New Technology, Work and Employment, Spring 1994, pp. 3 -18.E. Garnsey, H. Alford, J. Roberts, "Acquisition as Long-Term Venture: Cases from High Technology Industry," Journal of General Management, vol. 18, No. 1, Autumn 1992, pp. 15 -34.Editorials(available at www.oikonomia.it)H. Alford, “CSR in Italy”, OIKONOMIA, October 2011, pp. 2-3.H. Alford, “The Social Teaching of JohnPaul II”, OIKONOMIA, June 2010, pp. 2-3.H. Alford, “The Holy See and the Post-Communist States”, OIKONOMIA, February 2010, pp. 2-3.H. Alford, “Christian Social Thought and the Weak Ethical Roots of CSR”, OIKONOMIA, February 2009, pp. 2-3.H. Alford and F. Compagnoni, “Preaching Justice”, OIKONOMIA, October 2007, pp.2-6.H. Alford, “Sul 750° anniversario del Liber Paradisus”, OIKONOMIA, June2007, pp. 2-3.H. Alford, “A Tale of Two Corporations”, OIKONOMIA, February 2007, pp. 2-4.H. Alford, “The Good Company”, OIKONOMIA, June 2006, pp. 2-3.H. Alford, “The Prospects for Poverty ”, OIKONOMIA, October 2005, pp. 2 –3.H. Alford, “Making Life More Human”, OIKONOMIA, June 2005, pp. 2-3.H. Alford, “The Church has no models to present. . . ”, OIKONOMIA, October 2004, pp. 2 –3.H. Alford, “From Good to Great–or is that the case?”, OIKONOMIA, February 2004, pp. 2-3.H. Alford, “Corporate Social Responsibility or a Philosophy of Buisness?”, OIKONOMIA, June 2003, pp. 2-3.H. Alford, “Openness and Exclusion”, OIKONOMIA, February 2001, pp. 2 –3.
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