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Organisational Change Publications: Selective List

  • Organizational change theory and change agency
  • Critical examination of the meaning, scope and limitations of ‘agency’ and ‘leadership’ in organizational theory
  • Practice theories of agency and change

2012 "Reclaiming Agency, Recovering Change: An Exploration of the Practice Theory of Theodore Schatzki", Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, (forthcoming)

2012 "Systems Thinking, Organizational Change and Agency: A Practice Theory Critique of Senge's Leaning Organization", Journal of Change Management, (forthcoming). (Click here for PDF of the author’s version).

2012 "Leadership and Learning; A Critical Re-examination of Senge’s Learning Organization", Systemic Practice and Action Research, Vol 25,No.1:39-55. Available online (Click here for PDF of the author’s version).

2011 ‘HR Directors in UK Boardrooms: In Search of Strategic Influence or Symbolic Capital’? Employee Relations, Vol.33, No.1: 40-63. (Click here for PDF of the author’s version)

2010 "Are HR Business Partner Competency Models Effective"? Applied HRM Research, Vol.12 No.1: 40:58.(Click here for PDF of the author’s version).

2009 “Change From the Middle: Exploring Strategic and Sensemaking Agency in Organizations”, in Rune Todnem By and Calum Macleod (editors), Managing Change in Public Services, (London: Routledge). (Click here for PDF of the draft)

2008 “HR Business Partner Competency Models: Recontextualising Effectiveness” Human Resource Management Journal, Vol.18, No.3:275-294. (Click here for PDF)

2007 “Agency and Change: Re-evaluating Foucault’s Legacy”, Organization, Interdisciplinary Journal of Organization, Theory and Society, Vol.14, No.6: 769-791.
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2007 “Leadership Transmission: A Muddled Metaphor?” Journal of Health Organization and Management, Vol.21.No.3: 246-258. (co-authors David Buchanan,  Julienne Meyer, John Storey and Charles Wainwright).

2006 Agency and Change: Rethinking Change Agency in Organizations. (London: Routledge). E-book viewing access at Agency and change: rethinking change ... - Google Books E-book preview, Introduction to the book as PDF proof)

2005 “Things Fall Apart? Discourses on Agency and Change in Organizations”, Human Relations, Vol.58, No.1: 83-114.  (Click here for PDF of proof)

2003. “Models of Change Agency: A Fourfold Classification”, British Journal of Management, Vol.13, No.1: 131-142. Available here

2003 “Leading and Managing Change: Different or Complementary?”  Journal of Leadership and Organizational Development, Vol. 24, No 5:285-293.

Human Resource Management Publications: Selective List

  • Changing nature of the HR function
  • New HR roles and issues of professional identity
  • HR strategic and leadership roles in the boardroom

2011 ‘HR Directors in UK Boardrooms: In Search of Strategic Influence or Symbolic Capital’? Employee Relations Vol.33, No1: 40-63 (click here to view  article online).

2008 “HR Business Partner Competency Models: Re-contextualising Effectiveness”, Human Resource Management Journal, Vol.18, No.3: 275-294.

2007 “The HR Function: Integration or Fragmentation?” (co-author John Storey) Chapter 2 in John Storey (ed) Human Resource Management: A Critical Text. (3rd Edition) ISBN-10: 1844806154. Information on book available at  Human Resource Management: A ... - Google Books  (Click here for PDF of Chapter 2 proof)

2004 Business Partnering: A New Direction for HR. Brown, D., Caldwell, R., White, K., Atkinson, K., Goodge, P. and Emmott, M. (London: CIPD Publications). Available at http://www.cipd.co.uk/guides

2004 “Rhetoric, Facts and Self-fulfilling Prophecies: Exploring Practitioners’ Perceptions of Progress in Implementing HRM”. Industrial Relations Journal, Vol.35, No.3: 196-215. (Click here for PDF of proof)

2003 “The Changing Roles of Personnel Managers: Old Ambiguities, New Uncertainties”, Journal of Management Studies, Vol.40, No.4: 983-1004. Available at Birkbeck e-prints http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/52/1/caldwell2003.pdf.

2002 “A Change of Name or A Change of Identity? Do Job Titles Influence People Management Professionals’ Perceptions of their Role in Managing Change?” Personnel Review, Vol.31, No.6: 693-709.

2001 “Champions, Adapters, Consultants and Synergists: New Change Agents in HRM?” Human Resource Management Journal, Vol.11, No.3: 39-53. Special Issue.

Editorial Board Membership

Member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Change Management, published by Taylor & Francis Group. Member of the Editorial Board of The Open Management Journal, an on-line, open-access, peer reviewed journal by Bentham Science Journals (USA), which publishes 79 on-line academic journals, mainly in the natural sciences.

Grants and awards

CIPD, Royal Bank of Scotland and Kingfisher plc.

Programme Development

Over the last decade Raymond has created a wide range of successful new management awards at Birkbeck. He is currently Programme Director for the MSc in Management Consultancy and Organisational Change.

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