Dr Frank Worthington
Senior Lecturer in Management and Programme Leader in MSc Human Resource Management

Profile

Biography

Dr Frank Worthington was appointed to the School for Business and Society in June 2019. Prior to this Frank held senior academic, administrative and leadership roles at Newcastle University Business School and The University of Liverpool Management School. Frank has 25 years experience of teaching and conducting research in behaviour in organizations, human resource management, leadership, employee relations and conflict management, and qualitative research methods at four leading UK Universities. He has a keen interest in ethnographic research and the lived-experience of work and organisations from a qualitative standpoint informed by labour process and critical management theories of people management methods and practice, human resourcing strategies and the employment relationship.

His current research interests include professional clinical team building for patient safety in the UK National Health Service, performance management policies in higher education and their impact on staff motivation, morale and professional working practices, leadership for change and people management and professional development planning in higher education, and Government-driven human resource management change initiatives designed to support ethno-national conflict resolution strategies in public and private sector organisations in Northern Ireland. Frank also played the central role with colleagues at The University of Liverpool Management School in leading, developing and chairing the Annual ULMS / Keele University International Symposium, ‘Current Trends in Ethnographic Research in the Social and Management Sciences’, and the launch of the symposium’s house-journal: The Journal of Organizational Ethnography.

Departmental roles

Chair of Board of Studies