Diana Winstanley

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Diana Winstanley (* 1960 ; † July 5, 2006 in Guildford ) was a British economist .

Life

Winstanley initially taught at Tanaka Business School at Imperial College London , and in 2005 she moved to Kingston Business School at Kingston University in London .

Diana Winstanley killed herself on July 5, 2006. In her memory, the university donated four scholarships for foreign students.

Teaching

Winstanley worked in areas where theory and practice intersect. She contributed to various disciplines including management development, learning in management, human resource management, ethics and stakeholder management.

In the latter, it is best known for the division of power relationships in a two-dimensional model :

Stakeholder power according to D. Winstanley Influence on the
evaluation criteria
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Low High
Influence
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operative
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High Power on arm length
Arms Length Power
Comprehensive Power.
Comprehensive Power
Low disempowered
disempowered
Operational power
operations power

In addition to this research, Winstanley linked the emotionality of people with the effects on organizations. Examples of this are studies of women who return to the organization after giving birth, postpartum mood crises or learning shocks of international students in additional training courses in Great Britain . Another field of research for her was marginalized groups in the work environment. She increasingly used narrative elements and storytelling to convey her research results.

Another topic was her personal concern that she was always measured by her father Michael Winstanley's fame . This gave rise to her research on identity development in working life, but also on the fragmentation of identity under the pressure of different roles. Your research forms a new approach to management research.

Publications

  • Case Studies in Personnel. 1992
  • Managing in the NHS: A Study of Senior Executives. 1996
  • Management Development: Strategy and Practice. 1998
  • Ethical Issues in Contemporary Human Resource Management. 2000
  • Personal Effectiveness - A Guide to Action. 2005

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Christine Edwards (2006) Obituary of Professor Diana Winstanley ; Obituary for Diana Winstanley on the website of Kingston Business School, Kingstone University, London.
  2. a b c d e f g h James Ward: Diana Winstanley: teacher, researcher and friend . In: International Journal Work Organization and Emotion . tape 1 , no. 4 . InderSciences Publishers, 2006, pp. 303-304 .
  3. John Kew, John Stredwick, (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development) (2005) Business Environment: Managing in a Strategic Context ; CIPD Publishing; ISBN 9781843980797 ; Page 268.
  4. Tony Tysome (2006) Suicide don under 'huge stress' in job ; The Times Higher Education, September 15, 2006.
  5. a b Pressure of work leads lecturer to kill herself ; in The Times on August 31, 2005.