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Reflecting on a Period of Change in a Governmental Development Agency: Understanding Management as the Patterning of Interaction and Politics
(2012-09-07)
Management was once described as the art of getting things done through the efforts of oneself and other people (Follett, 1941) and is functionalised through acts of planning, organising, leading and controlling tasks and ...
Leadership Development as Reflexive Practice
(2012-09-06)
This thesis examines Leadership Development in both a corporate setting and an expedition-based setting. The assumptions that are the foundations of current Leadership Development originate, and are informed by, aspects ...
Making Sense of Leadership Development: Reflections on my Role as a Leader of Leadership Development Interventions
(University of Hertfordshire, 2011-12-09)
This thesis examines my experience of leading leadership development. During the last three years I have been researching my role as Head of Leadership and Organisational Development at the University of Hertfordshire (UH), ...
The Experience of Policymaking in Healthcare: The Interaction of Policy Formulation and Frontline Staff Practice
(2010-09-15)
My research focuses on the experience of policy development and implementation. It draws on my involvement in a government policy taskforce, the development of an organisation’s strategy to the taskforce’s recommendations ...
Listening to Voices of Children and Learning with Them: Action Research in a Primary School
(2010-02-08)
This dissertation presents an action research project carried out in a primary school to address the issue of ‘pupil voice’. Consulting with stakeholders has risen in prominence in the political context of schools. A number ...
Practice as Role Enactment: Managing Purposive Sophisticated Cooperation
(2009-06-17)
This doctoral dissertation proposes a fuller, more inclusive account of practice than that which dominates current discourse on organizations, which typically turns upon occupations, professions and jobs as manifestations ...