Professor Gerry McGivern
Professor of Organisational Analysis
Research Interests
Health professionals, health care, knowledge, identity, regulation, organization, leadership
Teaching in 2021-2022
Business with Consulting
- IB9LD0: Leading and Managing Change
Executive MBA (London)
- IB9FLL: Improving Health Systems
Undergraduate
- IB1380: Management, Organisation and Society
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 McGivern is Professor of Organisational Analysis and Head of the Organisation and Human Resource Management (OHRM) Group at Warwick Business School. His research focuses on understanding professionals' knowledge, practices, identities, leadership and how they are affected by systems of regulation, management and organisation, primarily within health care systems in high, middle and low income countries.
He has published more than 30 academic articles, the majority in leading international social science and management journals, and two books with Oxford University Press: 'Making Wicked Problems Governable: The Case of Managed Networks in Health Care' (2013) and 'The Politics of Management Knowledge in Times of Austerity' (2018).
Gerry has been Principal and Co-Investigator on research projects worth over £1 million, including those funded by the Medical Research Council Health Systems Initiative, Economic and Social Research Council, General Medical Council, National Institute for Health Research, Wellcome Trust and General Osteopathic Council. His research has impacted the development of policy relating to professional regulation in health care.
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. He is on the Editorial Board of Human Relations.
Publications
Journal Articles
- Croft, C., McGivern, G., Currie, G., Lockett, A. and Spyridonidis, D. (2021) "Unified divergence and the development of collective leadership", Journal of Management Studies
- Chen, Y., Currie, G. and McGivern, G. (2021) "The role of professional identity in HRM implementation : evidence from a case study of job redesign", Human Resource Management Journal
- Till, A. and McGivern, G. (2020) "Routes to the top : the developmental journeys of medical, clinical and managerial NHS Chief Executives", BMJ Leader, 4, 2, 64-68
- Gill, M., McGivern, G., Study, A., Pereira, S., Gill, D. and Dopson, S. (2020) "Negotiating imitation : examining the interactions of consultants and clients to understand institutionalization as translation", British Journal of Management, 31, 3, 470-486
- Wiedner, R., Croft, C. and McGivern, G. (2020) "Improvisation during a crisis : hidden innovation in healthcare systems", BMJ Leader, 4, 4, 185-188
- Nzinga, J., McGivern, G. and English, M. (2019) "Hybrid clinical-managers in Kenyan Hospitals : navigating between professional, official and practical norms", Journal of Health Organization and Management, 33, 2, 173-187
- Enoch, A. J., English, M., McGivern, G. and Sheppard, S. (2019) "Variability in the use of pulse oximeters with children in Kenyan hospitals : a mixed methods analysis", PLoS Medicine, 16, 12, e1002987.
- Dopson, S., Ferlie, E., McGivern, G., Fischer, M. D., Mitra, M., Ledger, J. and Behrens, S. (2019) "Leadership development in higher education : a literature review and implications for programme redesign", Higher Education Quarterly, 73, 2, 218-234
- Nzinga, J., McGivern, G. and English, M. (2018) "Examining clinical leadership in Kenyan public hospitals through the distributed leadership lens", Health Policy and Planning, 33, Supplement 2, ii27-ii34
- McGivern, G., Dopson, S., Ferlie, E., Fischer, M., Fitzgerald, L., Ledger, J. and Bennett, C. (2018) "The Silent Politics of Temporal Work: A Case Study of a Management Consultancy Project to Redesign Public Health Care", Organization Studies, 39, 8, 1007-1030
- McGivern, G., Dopson, S., Ferlie, E., Fischer, M., Fitzgerald, L., Ledger, J. and Bennett, C. (2018) "The silent politics of temporal work : a case study of a management consultancy project to redesign public health care", Organization Studies, 39, 8, 1007-1030
- McGivern, G., Nzinga, J. and English, M. (2017) "'Pastoral practices’ for quality improvement in a Kenyan clinical network", Social Science & Medicine, 195, 115-122
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Gerry McGivern (2013) "Dealing with disease and dying", Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, Volume 18, Number 1, 55-56
- 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., Nzinga, J., Boussebaa, J. and English, M. (2020) "Professional pastoral work in a Kenyan clinical network : transposing transnational evidence-based governmentality", 239-266, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland
- 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
- 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 "
- 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"
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