Faculty profiles
Lynda Gratton
BA PhD (Liverpool)
Professor of Management Practice; Advanced Institute of Management Research; Director, Centre for Women in Business
- Subject area:
- Organisational Behaviour
- Research activity:
- Centre for Women in Business
Expertise
Issues of human resources, social capital and innovation. In 'Hot Spots' - published in early 2007 - she examines how innovative energy is created and maintained. Consultant to a number of major multi-national companies on their human resource strategy.
Publications
Bridging Faultlines in Diverse Teams, Sloan Management Review (2007); Eight ways to build collaborative teams, Harvard Business Review (2007); Hot Spots (Berritt-Koehler, 2007); The Exceptional Manager (with R Delbridge and G Johnson) Oxford University Press (2006); Beyond Best Practice, Sloan Management Review (2006); The Democratic Enterprise (FT, Prentice Hall, 2003); Integrating the Enterprise, Sloan Management Review (2003); Living Strategy: Putting People at the Heart of Corporate Purpose (FT, Prentice Hall, 2000); Human Resource Strategy; Organizational Rhetoric and Individual Reality (with V Hope-Hailey, P Stiles and C Truss, Oxford University Press, 1999).
Research interest
Person-job interaction, corporate culture, human resource management strategy, organisational change, strategic management, organisational learning, innovation.
Other activities
Board Member, American Human Resource Planning Society, Advisory Board member, Concours Group and Exult: Academic Board member, America Organizational Development Network.
Formerly
Chief Psychologist, British Airways; Director, Human Resources Division, PA Consulting Group
