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T
he ‘Leadership in a Liquid Modern
World’ workshop was delivered by
Professor Mihaela Kelemen, Director of
CASIC (Community Animation and Social
Innovation Centre). The workshop explored
how SME owners could work with their
teams to create an imaginative vision for
their organisation using the CASIC method
of using playful, experiential exercises to
create connections between participants,
allowing them to step outside their day job
as SME leaders.
D
r Matthew Brannan, Senior Lecturer
in Management recently wrote in
The Conversation about retail banks.
Matthew explained – “In my research
into the finance industry, I found that
mis-selling can become entrenched
and an accepted feature of sales practice.
This is despite the existence of compliance
departments that are tasked with ensuring
fair sales practice, training and emphasis
on treating customers fairly and active
line management and monitoring of
sales activity.
Read the full article at
theconversation.com
G
eoff Heath, Honorary Fellow in
Accounting, recently attended
the launch of the Routledge Guide to
Performance Management and Control,
the latest volume in the prestigious
Routledge Guide series.
Geoff’s chapter, co-authored with
Dr. James Radcliffe and Professor
Paresh Wankhade, is entitled
Performance Management in the
Public Sector: The case of the
English Ambulance Service’.
K
MS and CASIC PhD student, Yiwen
Lin presented a research paper at the
16th International Symposium on New
Technologies for Urban Safety of Mega
Cities in Asia (USMCA2017). The event
was organised under the auspices of the
World Bosai Forum/International Disaster
and Risk Conference and was held in
November in Sendai, Japan. Yiwen’s paper,
sponsored by a Sasawaka Foundation
grant, reported on fieldwork carried out
in 2016 in Minami Sanriku, where Yiwen
worked for three months as a volunteer
and researched the communities affected
by the 2011 Tsunami. Minami Sanriku
was rebuilt from within through community
based interventions and Yiwen was
welcomed back to the area by the Mayor.
Details of Yiwen’s research paper can be
found below:
Lin Y, Kelemen ML, Kiyomiya T. 2017.
The role of community leadership in
disaster recovery projects: Tsunami lessons
from Japan. International Journal of Project
Management, vol. 35(5), 913-924
Gary Crowe
T
he inaugural lecture – 10 years on from
the financial meltdown – rediscovering
the leadership compass’, a practitioners
reflection’ introduced Gary Crowe in
his new role of Professor of Practice
leading the Mercia Centre for Innovation
Leadership in Keele Management School.
In his lecture, Gary drew on his
professional experience in the financial
services industry during the financial
meltdown of 2007. He explained how
the lessons learnt during this time and
his observations as a senior banker are
relevant to his new role.
K
MS Represented at the 16th
International Symposium on
New Technologies for Urban Safety
of Mega Cities in Asia.