Dr Marian Iszatt-White
PhD Management: Lancaster University Management School (2006). Thesis Topic: Leadership in Further Education
MSc Organisational Behaviour: Birkbeck College, University of London (2002). Dissertation Topic: What makes employees feel valued at work?
MA (Oxon) PPE: St Hilda's College, Oxford (1983)
Teaching Fellow
Department
Management Development Division
Research Interests
Research interests include extending the emotional labour construct into the field of leadership by exploring whether the PhD finding of congruence between leaders’ values and beliefs and the emotional work they were required to perform is unique to public service contexts. A related interest is to explore the discourses which surround people’s expectations of feeling valued at work, the role of leadership in promoting this feeling, and its consequences for contextual performance and discretionary effort. A third area of interest is in relation to the manner in which putative leaders can exploit the organizational agenda, for example around health and safety, as a means of differentiating themselves and their leadership to achieve personal progression.
Profile
After a successful career in financial risk management, latterly as Group Treasurer of Top 100 plc Enterprise Oil, Marian gained a CIPD certificate in training practice and built a business as a freelance training consultant. On moving to Cumbria, she worked as a training consultant for an educational trust, where she specialized in the development of leadership skills, particularly in the public sector. At the same time, she completed an MSc in Organizational Behaviour at Birkbeck, including a dissertation on ‘what makes employees feel valued at work’.
She undertook her PhD research at Lancaster University, within the Centre for Excellence in Leadership, conducting an ethnomethodologically-informed ethnography of leadership in the learning and skills sector. Within this thesis, special areas of interest included leadership as ‘emotional labour’ and the idea of strategy as a ‘perennially unfinished project’. On completion of her PhD, she took up a research post within the Lancaster University Management School, where she investigated rule violation in relation to health and safety issues in the road maintenance and construction sector. She is now a Teaching Fellow in the School’s Management Development Division, specializing in leadership, personal development and change.
Book (2)
Conference contribution (17)
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Publications
- Iszatt-White M and Kempster Steve, 2011, 'Coaching or Co-constructing?: exploring the opportunities of integrating coaching and co-constructed autoethnography in leadership learning.'
View details - Iszatt-White M, 2011, 'Perceived impact of 'business transfer' elements in executive education'
View details - Iszatt-White M, 2011, 'Methodological Crises and Contextual Solutions: an ethnomethodologically-informed approach to understanding leadership', Leadership, vol 7, no. 2, pp. 121-137.
View details | View PDF - Iszatt-White M, Rouncefield Mark, Conner Graham and Randall David, 2010, Leadership in Post-Compulsory Education, Continuum Books
View details - Iszatt-White M, 2009, 'Leadership as Emotional Labour: the effortful accomplishment of valuing practices', Leadership, vol 5, no. 4, pp. 447-467.
View details - Iszatt-White M, 2009, 'Methodological Crises and Contextual Solutions: An ethnomethodologically-informed approach to understanding leadership'
View details - Iszatt-White M, 2009, Tough at the Top: A study of leadership in the learning and skills sector, VDM Verlag
View details - Iszatt-White M, 2008, 'Valuing employees: Management rhetoric, employee experiences and the implications for leadership', 26th International Labour Process Conference (Dublin) -2008
View details - Iszatt-White M, 2007, 'Catching them at it? An ethnography of rule violation', Ethnography, vol 8, no. 4, pp. 445-465.
View details - Ball L J, Alford D, Iszatt-White M, Kinder Katharina and Busby J S, 2006, 'The acceptability of deontic health and safety rules: Evidence for the conditional expected utility hypothesis', 23rd Annual British Psychological Society Cognitive Section Conference (Lancaster) - 2006
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