The banality of bad leadership and followership (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). The banality of bad leadership and followership. Society and Business Review, 12 - 23. https://doi.org/10.1108/SBR-09-2015-0049

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the loss of moral capital incurred by an organization from indifferent or deferential followers of bad leaders. Despite the proliferation of codes of conduct and ethics and compliance programs throughout the... Read More about The banality of bad leadership and followership.

What is wrong with NHS leadership development? (2014)
Journal Article
(2014). What is wrong with NHS leadership development?. British Journal of Healthcare Management, https://doi.org/10.12968/bjhc.2013.19.11.531

2014 will see the advent of a new fast-track leadership development scheme (costing some £10 million) for the NHS in England which aims to combine development for senior NHS clinicians with advancement for managers from outside the NHS. Following com... Read More about What is wrong with NHS leadership development?.

Agents for change: a resource for management (1991)
Journal Article
(1991). Agents for change: a resource for management

The Internal Change Consultant Development Programme is designed to equip senior NHS managers in Scotland with the appropriate skills, knowledge and attitudes to enable them to support organisational initiatives in pursuit of the new agenda for the S... Read More about Agents for change: a resource for management.

Developing managers' training potential (1988)
Journal Article
(1988). Developing managers' training potential. Health Manpower Management, 10 - 11

If you're not the woodcutter, what are you doing with that axe?: problems of managing the NHS (1986)
Journal Article
(1986). If you're not the woodcutter, what are you doing with that axe?: problems of managing the NHS

Training for tomorrow's NHS (1985)
Journal Article
(1985). Training for tomorrow's NHS

The values problem in OD (1985)
Journal Article
(1985). The values problem in OD. Leadership and Organization Development Journal, 7-10. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb053571

For the organisation development practitioner the problem of value is to do with modes of conduct or desired end-states and the movement towards these. The alternatives appear to be for the OD practitioner to make the value base as explicit as possib... Read More about The values problem in OD.

Enterprise unleashed? Exercising power through isomorphism in the passive fire protection industry
Thesis
(2011). Enterprise unleashed? Exercising power through isomorphism in the passive fire protection industry

This thesis focuses on the passive fire protection industry which is a sector of construction that has previously been neglected by researchers. I use insights from ethnographic research to present the challenges and daily struggles individuals exper... Read More about Enterprise unleashed? Exercising power through isomorphism in the passive fire protection industry.

Public service reform, the labour process and changes in labour management in the voluntary sector
Thesis
(2013). Public service reform, the labour process and changes in labour management in the voluntary sector

This thesis analyses the New Labour government’s extension of public service reform and modernisation to the voluntary sector. It explores the changes that have taken place in the labour process and management practices in the voluntary sector and it... Read More about Public service reform, the labour process and changes in labour management in the voluntary sector.

Managerialism in international schools: a critical enquiry into the professional identity work of head teachers
Thesis
Machin, D. (2016). Managerialism in international schools: a critical enquiry into the professional identity work of head teachers

With prior research suggesting that educational leaders in Western contexts are discomforted by managerialism, this thesis considers why, despite benign market forces and regulatory freedoms, international school Heads might find appeal in managerial... Read More about Managerialism in international schools: a critical enquiry into the professional identity work of head teachers.