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Nottingham Business School's HRM Division and the International Centre for Public Services Management (ICPSM) Joint Seminar
Whistle-blowing and employee silence: two sides of the same coin?
Dr John Blenkinsopp
Reader in Management and Head of Strategy, HR and Leadership at Teesside Business School
Thursday 10th April 2008
Bass Management Centre Room 329
4 - 6pm
In this talk, John will draw on his recent research in the field of organisational psychology, behaviour and management. The growth of research on whistle-blowing has produced some compelling insights into this important organisational phenomenon, but a number of areas remain under-explored, in particular the role of emotion and our understanding of the far more common response to wrongdoing, namely inaction.
John will seek to problematize current conceptualisations of whistle-blowing and wrongdoing, as a basis for examining employee silence in the face of wrongdoing. He will propose a new concept of 'cues for inaction' which offers insights into the way quiescent silence arises and persists.
About the Speaker
John Blenkinsopp's professional background was as an HR professional, mainly in the NHS. His academic field is organisational psychology, and he moved into academia in 1999, initially at Northumbria University, then for five years at Newcastle University Business School, where he was Director of Postgraduate Programmes. He joined Teesside Business School in August 2007, and is Head of the Strategy, HR & Leadership group.
He is presently working with Dr Amanda Hay from Nottingham Trent University looking at the role of emotion in management learning and a jointly authored paper, "Questioning Emotion: Unexplored Possibilities for Management Education", has just been accepted for the 2008 Academy of Management meeting.
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