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Extreme work in organizations: mapping the field and a future research agenda

Journal Article

Garavan, T., Grant, K., Holland, P., Bartram, T., & Mackenzie, C. (in press)

Extreme work in organizations: mapping the field and a future research agenda. International Journal of Human Resource Management, https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2024.2329399

Despite the growing interest in the phenomenon of extreme work amongst academics, policy makers and the media, the area is characterized by different constructs, terminology, ...

Entrepreneurship Education and Training Programmes: A Lifespan Development Perspective

Book Chapter

Garavan, T., O’Brien, F., Power, C., Matthews-Smith, G., & Buckley, J. (2022)

Entrepreneurship Education and Training Programmes: A Lifespan Development Perspective. In P. Holland, T. Bartram, T. Garavan, & K. Grant (Eds.), The Emerald Handbook of Work, Workplaces and Disruptive Issues in HRM (335-365). Bingley: Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80071-779-420221033

In this chapter, we propose that EETPs should be understood as a lifelong dynamic process and highlight how entrepreneur knowledge, skills and abilities develop across the lif...

Coaction Interrupted: Logic Contestations in the Implementation of Inter‐organisational Collaboration around Talent Management in the Public Sector in Scotland

Journal Article

Grant, K., Garavan, T., & Mackie, R. (2020)

Coaction Interrupted: Logic Contestations in the Implementation of Inter‐organisational Collaboration around Talent Management in the Public Sector in Scotland. European Management Review, 17(4), 915-930. https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12404

Our study explores how Human Resources (HR) actors from 24 public sector organisations in Scotland interpret and address multiple and competing institutional logics in the con...

Editorial: Re-conceptualising management development

Journal Article

Howieson, B., & Grant, K. (2020)

Editorial: Re-conceptualising management development. Journal of Management Development, 39(1), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMD-01-2020-0018

Howieson, B. and Grant, K. (2020), "Re-conceptualising management development", Journal of Management Development, Vol. 39 No. 1, pp. 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMD-01-2020-...

Leadership in the public sector: A renewed call to action

Report

Grant, K., & Williams, R. (2019)

Leadership in the public sector: A renewed call to action. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Napier University

The UK public sector is facing unprecedented challenges, with a growing demand for leaders and leadership to improve the delivery of sustainable public services. This Reflecti...

L&D professionals in organisations: much ambition, unfilled promise

Journal Article

Garavan, T., Heneghan, S., O'Brien, F., Gubbins, C., Lai, Y., Carbery, R., …Grant, K. (2020)

L&D professionals in organisations: much ambition, unfilled promise. European Journal of Training and Development, 44(1), 1-86. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJTD-09-2019-0166

This monograph reports a study investigating the roles of learning and development (L&D) professionals in Irish, UK European and US organisations. The study investigates the c...

Room for improvement? A briefing report on leadership and management in the public sector. Findings from the 2018 Workforce Development Survey

Report

Parry, J., Grant, K., & Sheehan, M. (2019)

Room for improvement? A briefing report on leadership and management in the public sector. Findings from the 2018 Workforce Development Survey. The Workforce Development Trust

The research which underpins this briefing report was driven by a primary, quantitative Workforce Survey which focused on understanding the views of employers across the publi...

Commercial airline pilots’ declining professional standing and increasing precarious employment

Journal Article

Maxwell, G. A., & Grant, K. (2021)

Commercial airline pilots’ declining professional standing and increasing precarious employment. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 32(7), 1486-1508. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2018.1528473

With the advent of low cost employment systems for pilots in commercial airlines, we address two questions: What are experienced UK-based, commercial airline pilots’ perspecti...

Developing high performance working through case study evidence

Journal Article

Grant, K., & Maxwell, G. A. (2018)

Developing high performance working through case study evidence. Development and Learning in Organizations, 32(2), 5-8. https://doi.org/10.1108/dlo-03-2017-0028

Purpose The article theoretically proffers and empirically evidences five inter-related high performance working (HPW) groupings of value to practitioners interested in develo...

Strategic talent management: A macro and micro analysis of current issues in hospitality and tourism

Journal Article

Sheehan, M., Grant, K., & Garavan, T. (2018)

Strategic talent management: A macro and micro analysis of current issues in hospitality and tourism. Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes, 10(1), 28-41. https://doi.org/10.1108/whatt-10-2017-0062

Purpose This article provides an academic viewpoint on contemporary factors associated with talent management (TM) in the hospitality and tourism sector. Design/Methodology A ...