Obituary
It is sad to report that Rod Davies has died in Kuala Lumpur. He was the founder, and first editor, of Career Development International at MCB University Press, as the organization was then known. I introduced him to the organization, and he made a fine job of getting the career development journal started.
Rod was a psychologist by training. He had a particular interest in psychometrics applied to work-based issues. I asked him to join our group at the University of Queensland, Brisbane in 1983. In that role, he did leading research on work preferences. This work he published in various journals and it became the statistical base for the Team Management Questionnaire and Profile.
He was later the director of the Institute of Team Management Studies, and worked closely with Dr Dick McCann, Nikki Mead and myself in the work of that organization.
Rod was an Australian, although he worked for many years in Malaysia, where he established his own organization. He was a skilled consultant in organizational change and market research.
In his student days he was a very good pianist, and played professionally with some of the leading entertainers in Australia. He had an easy-going helpful manner, and always took on difficult jobs in a fair-minded and hard-working way
Rod, as we say in Australia, was a good mate and will be long remembered by all who knew him.
Charles Margerison
