Professor Gerry McGivern
Professor of Organisational Analysis
Research Interests
Medical professionals, knowledge, practice, identity, regulation, organization
Teaching in 2017-2018
Executive MBA
- IB7000: Organisational Behaviour
Executive MBA (London)
- IB700L: Organisational Behaviour
Human Resource Management & Employment Relations
- IB96N0: Researching Human Resource Management and Employment Relations
MSc Business
- IB92AB: People and Organisations
Postgraduate Research Business and Management
- IB9EI0: Theories of Organisations and Work
Undergraduate
- IB2390: Changing Organisations
- IB2380: Organisational Analysis
Innovation, Knowledge & Organisational Networks Research Unit, Organisation & HRM, Organising Healthcare Research Network
Email: Gerry.McGivern@wbs.ac.uk / Tel: 024 765 24582 / Room: 2.129
Biography
Gerry is Professor of Organisational Analysis in the Organisation and Human Resource Management (OHRM) Group at Warwick Business School.
Gerry's research focuses on understanding professionals' knowledge, practice, identity, leadership and how they are affected by systems of regulation and organisation, primarily within health care systems. He has led Economic and Social Research Council, General Medical Council, National Institute for Health Research and General Osteopathic Council funded research projects, published in leading international social science and management journals, and recently co-authored 'Making Wicked Problems Governable: The Case of Managed Networks in Health Care' (Oxford University Press, 2013).
Gerry previously worked for Price Waterhouse, Ovum, in HR consultancy, and in academic roles at Royal Holloway, University of London, and King?s College London. He holds a MA in Organizational Analysis and Behaviour from Lancaster University Management School and a PhD in Organizational Behaviour from Imperial College Business School.
Gerry is on the Editorial Board of Human Relations and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Health, with a developing interest in health care organisation, leadership and systems in resource-poor countries.
Many of Gerry's publications are available at: https://warwick.academia.edu/GerryMcGivern
Publications
Journal Articles
- McGivern, G., Nzinga, J. and English, M. (2017) "'Pastoral practices’ for quality improvement in a Kenyan clinical network", Social Science & Medicine, 195, 115-122
- McGivern, G., Dopson, S., Ferlie, E., Fischer, M., Fitzgerald, L., Ledger, J. and Bennett, C. (2017) "The silent politics of temporal work : a case study of a management consultancy project to redesign public health care", Organization Studies
- Nzinga, J., McGivern, G. and English, M. (2017) "Examining clinical leadership in Kenyan 1 public hospitals through the distributed leadership lens", Health Policy and Planning
- Fischer, M., Dopson, S., Fitzgerald, L., Bennett, C., Ferlie, E., Ledger, J. and McGivern, G. (2016) "Knowledge leadership : mobilising management research by becoming the knowledge object", Human Relations, 69, 7, 1563-1585
- Ferlie, E., Ledger, J., Dopson, S., Fischer, M. D., Fitzgerald, L., McGivern, G. and Bennett, C. P. (2016) "The political economy of management knowledge : management texts in English healthcare organizations", Public Administration, 94, 1, 185-203
- Hollingsworth, T. D., Langley, I., Nokes, D. J., Macpherson, E. E., McGivern, G., Adams, E. R., Bockarie, M. J., Mortimer, K., Reimer, L. J., Squire, B., Torr, S. J. and Medley, G. (2015) "Infectious disease and health systems modelling for local decision making to control neglected tropical diseases", BMC Proceedings, 9, Suppl 10, S6
- McGivern, G., Currie, G., Ferlie, E., Fitzgerald, L. and Waring, J. (2015) "Hybrid manager-professionals' identity work : the maintenance and hybridization of medical professionalism in managerial contexts", Public administration, 93, 2, 412-432
- Ferlie, E. and McGivern, G. (2014) "Bringing Anglo-governmentality into public management scholarship : the case of evidence-based medicine in UK health care", Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Volume 24, Number 1, 59-83
- Gerry McGivern (2013) "Dealing with disease and dying", Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, Volume 18, Number 1, 55-56
- Fitzgerald, L., Ferlie, E., McGivern, G. and Buchanan, D. (2013) "Distributed leadership patterns and service improvement : Evidence and argument from English healthcare", The Leadership Quarterly, Volume 24, Number 1, 227-239
- McGivern, G. and Fischer, M. D. (2012) "Reactivity and reactions to regulatory transparency in medicine, psychotherapy and counselling", Social Science & Medicine, Vol.74, No.3, 289-296
- Ferlie, E., McGivern, G. and Fitzgerald, L. (2012) "A new mode of organizing in health care? Governmentality and managed networks in cancer services in England", Social Science & Medicine, Vol.74, No.3, 340-347
- Ferlie, E., Fitzgerald, L., McGivern, G., Dopson, S. and Bennett, C. P. (2011) "'Public policy networks and 'wicked problems': a nascent solution?", Public Administration, Vol.89, No.2, 307-324
- McGivern, G. and Fischer, M. (2010) "Medical regulation, spectacular transparency and the blame business", Journal of Health Organization and Management, Vol.24, No.6, 597-610
- McGivern, G. and Dopson, S. (2010) "Inter-epistemic power and transforming knowledge objects in a biomedical network", Organization Studies, Vol.31, No.12, 1667-1686
- Ferlie, E., McGivern, G. and De Moraes, A. (2010) "Developing a public interest school of management", British Journal of Management, Vol.21, No.1, s60-s70
- Gillard, S., Turner, K., Lovell, K., Norton, K., Clarke, T., Addicott, R., McGivern, G. and Ferlie, E. (2010) "“Staying native”: coproduction in mental health services research", International Journal of Public Sector Management, Vol.23, No.6, 567-577
- McGivern, G., Lambrianoub, A., Ferliec, E. and Cowie, M. (2009) "Enacting evidence into clinical practice : the case of coronary heart disease", Public Money & Management, Vol.29, No.5, 307-312
- Baeza, J. I., Fitzgerald, L. and McGivern, G. (2008) "Change capacity: the route to service improvement in primary care", Quality in Primary Care, Vol.16, No.6, 401-407
- McGivern, G. and Ferlie, E. (2007) "Playing tick-box games : interrelating defences in professional appraisal", Human Relations, Vol.60, No.9, 1361-1385
- Addicott, R., McGivern, G. and Ferlie, E. (2007) "The Distortion of a Managerial Technique? The Case of Clinical Networks in UK Health Care", British Journal of Management, Vol. 18, No. 1, 93-105
Book Items
- McGivern, G., Dopson, S., Ferlie, E., Bennett, C., Fischer, M., Fitzgerald, L. and Ledger, J. (2016) "Epistemic fit and the mobilisation of management knowledge in health care", Oxford University Press, Oxford ; New York
- Fischer, M. and McGivern, G. (2016) "Affective overflows in clinical riskwork", Oxford University Press, Oxford
- Fitzgerald, L., Ferlie, E., McGivern, G. and Buchanan, D. (2012) "Respond and deliver? Change leadership in complex organizations", Routledge, London
Reports
- Dopson, S., Ferlie, E., McGivern, G., Fischer, M. D., Ledger, J., Behrens, S. and Wilson, S. (2016) "The impact of leadership and leadership development in higher education : a review of the literature and evidence"
- McGivern, G., Fischer, M., Palaima, T., Spendlove, Z., Thomson, O. and Waring, J. (2016) "Exploring and explaining the dynamics of osteopathic regulation, professionalism and compliance with standards in practice "
