Introduction to Management and Organisation

Remember the submersible that imploded in June 2023? The US Coast Guard just released its report and finds that the loss of lives was preventable. Importantly for students interested in learning from this case, there are significant organisational failures www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releas...

First-year business management students @newcastleuni.bsky.social business school learn about managing identity and culture in the third lecture of my module. Amongst other things, last year they read @toddbridgman.bsky.social’s exceptionally good @sagepub.com case study on NZ rugby

Meta’s high-spending hunt for AI talent From football to stock analysis, too many stars make it hard to run a team

‘…it can be dangerous to stack a team with stars and expect them automatically to make magic together’ - the @financialtimes.com editorial board gets it on.ft.com/40Ln6Qk

I do the Gen Z stare - soon you will stop using facial expressions too There’s a certain power in facial unbotheredness that I adore

Potential undergrad dissertation topic. The media is going gaga about the ‘gen Z stare’. One plausible explanation for what it does rather than where it came from starts with an analysis of how and why young people are withholding emotional labour as an act of resistance inews.co.uk/opinion/gen-...

The first company ‘org chart’ was a design classic Devised in the 1850s, it was nothing like the pyramid hierarchy we’re familiar with today

Students interested in organisation design and the role of organisational charts, read this on.ft.com/4j9ziRB and the comment by Monteiro & Vikkelsø in the FT. See also chapter 5 in Davidson’s PhD thesis pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...