Ann Parkinson

Dr Ann Parkinson is a Senior Visiting Fellow at Henley Business School.

Her business interests include people management and personal development in widest sense, working with organisations and individuals to develop their full potential through people and coaching at the individual level.

Ann currently works with the Henley Forum and has been the senior tutor for post experience, postgraduate programmes and taught people and organisational behaviour elements on postgraduate programmes, particularly the MBA. Her academic interests come from practitioner experience working in change management and HR strategy in a large plc, her own research in this area and employee engagement. Much of her consultancy experience has been spent in Central Europe in the massive changes during the 1990s.

She has been associated with Henley Business School for more than twenty five years, after a corporate and consulting career. This has involved teaching, supervising, coaching and mentoring MBA and DBA programme members. Ann has also been a Director of a small pottery company for many years since working and teaching ceramics in her early career.

Specialisms

• Impact of Context on the Role of HR
• Psychological Contracts
• Employer Relationships
• Employee Engagement
• Workplace Relationships

White Papers:

Parkinson, A, McBain R. and Holley, N, (2011) HR after the Recession, Research report for HR Centre of Excellence Parkinson,

Alison Doyle, Nick Holley, Richard McBain and Ann Parkinson (2009) HR and the Recession research, research report for HR Centre of Excellence

Holley, N., McBain, R. and Parkinson, A. (2008) Employee engagement phase 2 - report for HR Centre of Excellence Research

Higgs,M, McBain R, Parkinson A. and Hender J. (2008) Managing the 21st Century Workforce, Research Project Report by Henley Management College for Rialto Consultancy Ltd.

Books:

Parkinson, A. and McBain, R. (2013)  Putting the emotion back: exploring the role of emotion in disengagement.  In: Zerbe, W.J., Ashkanasy, N.M. and Hartel, C.E.J. (eds.) Individual Sources, Dynamics, and Expressions of Emotion.  Research on Emotion in Organisations, 9. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp. 69-85

Parkinson A, 2011, Change and the Individual: expectations and triggers, in Managing Change: The theory and practice of strategic change; making sense of how to make effective change. Colin Carnall (ed.): Henry Stewart Talks

Parkinson, A. (2004) Whose life is it anyway: managing the psychological contract, in Coglan D., Dromgoole, T., Joynt P., and Sorensen, P., (eds), Managers Learning in Action, Routledge

Cox, P. and Parkinson, A. (2002) Values and their Impact on the Changing Employment Relationship, in Employee Relations, (2nd edition) Hollinshead, G., Nicholls, P., and Tailby, S., Financial Times Management

Parkinson, A. (1999) Sustaining Constructive Relationships, in The Global HR Manager, Joynt, P. and Morton, R., (eds), IPD Books