Dr Karen Dale

Lecturer

Department

Organisation Work and Technology

Contact

Room: B24
Tel: +44 1524 5 10970
Fax: + 44 (0)1524 594060
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Professional Role

Director of the MA in Human Resource and Knowledge Managment

A member of the University Equality and Diversity Committee

 

Current Teaching

Undergraduate:

OWT.228 The Changing Role and Context of Management
OWT.250 Research@Work: Placement and Dissertation Preparation

Postgraduate:

OWT.550 Human Resource Management I: Contexts, Controversies and Critiques

Research Interests

The history of management; difference and diversity in organisations, including gender, ethnicity and disability; and organisations and embodiment. Current research includes issues of space and architecture in organisations.

Chapter (10)
Journal article (8)
Book (6)
Conference contribution (10)
Special issue (1)

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Publications

  • Dale Karen and Burrell Gibson, forthcoming, 'Being occupied: a twisted history of organisational unwellness', Organization
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  • Dale Karen, 2012, 'Emotion and aesthetics: organizational space, embodiment and materiality'
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  • Dale Karen, 2012, 'The employee as 'Dish of the Day': human resource management and the ethics of consumption', Journal of Business Ethics
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  • Dale Karen and Burrell G, 2011, 'Disturbing structure : reading the ruins', Culture and Organization, vol 17, no. 2, pp. 107-121.
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  • Dale Karen and Burrell Gibson, 2011, 'All together, altogether better : the ideal of 'community' in the spatial reorganisation of the workplace.', in Organizational spaces, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 14-19, ISBN: 9781848446502
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  • Dale Karen, 2010, 'Seeking spatial imaginaries: gendering spaces, evoking emotions, re-working identities', Gender, Work and Organisation Conference (Keele University) - 2010
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  • Dale Karen, 2009, 'Ideal homes? Management and the domestic dream', in The Management of Everyday Life, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 127-146, ISBN: 9780230524798
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  • Dale Karen, 2009, 'Ideal Homes? Management and the Domestic Dream.', in The Management of Everyday Life, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, ISBN: 9780230524798
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  • Dale Karen and Burrell G, 2008, 'Disturbing structures: oscillations in time and place', EIASM Workshop on Architecture and Social Architecture: Disturbing Notions of Structure in Organisations (Brussels) - 2008
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  • Dale Karen, 2008, 'Beyond the frame? The visual and lived experience of organisational redesign of workspaces', ESRC Funded International Network for Visual Studies in Organisation (inVisio) (Royal Holloway, University of London) - 2008
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Books by Dr Karen Dale

The spaces of organization and the organisation of space : power, identity and materiality at work.

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