Simon Procter
Biographic Data
| ID | 114044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Procter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Procter |
| SIGNATURE | PROCTER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7408-3721 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Governing the factory: Microhistories of the present
Microhistory is an established form of cultural history but marginal to management and organization history. Methodologically, microhistory searches out moments and practices that are meaningful to participants but deeply strange to us. Such peculiar moments are subjected to intense scrutiny to understand how they were meaningful to participants. Understanding the extraordinary becomes the portal to the cultural commonplace. Michel Foucault’s gen…
Reconfigured professional purpose in times of crisis: Experiences of frontline healthcare professionals during the Covid-19 pandemic
Theorising worker–client relations in front‐line service work: Understanding the experience of non‐professionally affiliated workers in UK mental health services
This paper contributes to a deeper understanding of front‐line service workers’ experience of the worker–client relationship. It is based on a series of in‐depth interviews with non‐professionally affiliated workers in new front‐line roles in UK mental health services. The findings cover three main areas: worker motivation and orientation; the nature of the worker–client relationship; and the role played in the relationship by the structure of wo…
Exploring equity in health and poverty impacts of control measures for Sars-CoV-2 in six countries
BACKGROUND: Policy makers need to be rapidly informed about the potential equity consequences of different COVID-19 strategies, alongside their broader health and economic impacts. While there are complex models to inform both potential health and macro-economic impact, there are few tools available to rapidly assess potential equity impacts of interventions. METHODS: We created an economic model to simulate the impact of lockdown measures in Pak…
Kris Kristofferson/John Holt-'Help Me Make It Through The Night
As with all the contributors here, my chosen song comes from fieldwork. I spent time in an urban UK mental health community setting, a place which nobody has to attend (it is not part of the statutory psychiatric system), but where people choose to spend time to gain various kinds of support - formal and informal - whilst in other respects living independently despite (in most cases) having a psychiatric diagnosis. Most service users with whom I …
Paul Atkinson, For Ethnography
Understanding employee attitudes to change in longitudinal perspective: A study in UK public services 1996-2007
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is twofold: to understand how and why employee attitudes to change might change over time; and to demonstrate what type of research might best capture this change. Design/methodology/approach – The paper brings together three studies of the same organization, conducted at different times by the same researchers. Findings – Employee attitudes to change in the three episodes are portrayed in terms of the assumpti…
Reparative musicing: Thinking on the Usefulness of Social Capital Theory Within Music Therapy
Whilst music therapy is sometimes presented as a primarily paramedical technology, it is also possible to conceive of its value in more social terms: social capital theory offers a means of doing so. Key conceptions of social capital are outlined. The specific contribution of music therapy to the generation of social capital is considered, as is the relevance of social capital generation to music therapy clients. Vignettes of music therapy practi…
Social Remembering and Organizational Memory
Organizational Memory Studies (OMS) is limited by its managerialist, presentist preoccupation with the utility of memory for knowledge management. The dominant model of memory in OMS is that of a storage bin. But this model has been rejected by psychologists because it overlooks the distinctly human subjective experience of remembering, i.e. episodic memory. OMS also fails to take account of the specific social and historical contexts of organiza…
From “This F***ing life” to “that's better” … in four minutes: An interdisciplinary study of music therapy's “present moments” and their potential for affect modulation
This article presents the findings of a preliminary interdisciplinary research project instigated by a group of three music therapists, a music psychologist and a psychiatrist. The group shared a professional and academic interest in music therapy's seeming ability to help patients experiencing severe affect dysregulation as a result of psychotic states to effectively modulate affect in a creative way within a surprisingly short time-span.The stu…
Scenarios and counterfactuals as modal narratives
Accounting for the dark side of corporate history: Organizational culture perspectives and the Bertelsmann case
Target-based team working: Groups, work and interdependence in the UK civil service
In terms of its implications for work and production, studies of teamworking have generally relied on concepts of autonomy and flexibility. An in-depth, qualitative case study of the UK Inland Revenue reveals a form of teamworking in which both autonomy and flexibility play little part. It is argued that teamworking in this case is best conceptualized by giving greater weight to interdependence. In particular, teamworking in the Inland Revenue wo…
Impact of MIS/IT upon middle managers: Some evidence from the NHS
The paper meets a need for more context specific empirical research in this area. Subject to medical group power, the three cases studied suggest that MIS/IT enhances the role of middle managers since it is they who are best placed to ‘synthesise’ information from MIS/IT for executive management
Teamworking in its Context(s): Antecedents, Nature and Dimensions
This introductory chapter looks at the antecedents, the nature and the various dimensions of'teamworking'. Teamworking is drawing on a variety of traditions, which has resulted in a number of different types and designs of teams. It is necessary to keep all dimensions in mind in order to reach a historically informed judgement of the current forms of teamworking and their shortcomings. Variants of teams need to be analysed by employing a multidim…
Flexibility, Politics & Strategy: In Defence of the Model of the Flexible Firm
This paper offers a defence of Atkinson's model of the flexible firm. It takes issue with two arguments against it: that the model needs to be understood at a political level, as part of a wider `post-industrial' vision; and that the observed increase in flexibility offers the model no support because of its `non-strategic' nature. On the first of these it is argued that flexibility operates on a different level from flexible specialisation and o…
Scenarios and counterfactuals as modal narratives
Teamworking in its Context(s): Antecedents, Nature and Dimensions
This introductory chapter looks at the antecedents, the nature and the various dimensions of'teamworking'. Teamworking is drawing on a variety of traditions, which has resulted in a number of different types and designs of teams. It is necessary to keep all dimensions in mind in order to reach a historically informed judgement of the current forms of teamworking and their shortcomings. Variants of teams need to be analysed by employing a multidim…
Reparative musicing: Thinking on the Usefulness of Social Capital Theory Within Music Therapy
Whilst music therapy is sometimes presented as a primarily paramedical technology, it is also possible to conceive of its value in more social terms: social capital theory offers a means of doing so. Key conceptions of social capital are outlined. The specific contribution of music therapy to the generation of social capital is considered, as is the relevance of social capital generation to music therapy clients. Vignettes of music therapy practi…
Flexibility, Politics & Strategy: In Defence of the Model of the Flexible Firm
This paper offers a defence of Atkinson's model of the flexible firm. It takes issue with two arguments against it: that the model needs to be understood at a political level, as part of a wider `post-industrial' vision; and that the observed increase in flexibility offers the model no support because of its `non-strategic' nature. On the first of these it is argued that flexibility operates on a different level from flexible specialisation and o…
Target-based team working: Groups, work and interdependence in the UK civil service
In terms of its implications for work and production, studies of teamworking have generally relied on concepts of autonomy and flexibility. An in-depth, qualitative case study of the UK Inland Revenue reveals a form of teamworking in which both autonomy and flexibility play little part. It is argued that teamworking in this case is best conceptualized by giving greater weight to interdependence. In particular, teamworking in the Inland Revenue wo…
Governing the factory: Microhistories of the present
Microhistory is an established form of cultural history but marginal to management and organization history. Methodologically, microhistory searches out moments and practices that are meaningful to participants but deeply strange to us. Such peculiar moments are subjected to intense scrutiny to understand how they were meaningful to participants. Understanding the extraordinary becomes the portal to the cultural commonplace. Michel Foucault’s gen…
Reconfigured professional purpose in times of crisis: Experiences of frontline healthcare professionals during the Covid-19 pandemic
Flexibility, Politics & Strategy: In Defence of the Model of the Flexible Firm
This paper offers a defence of Atkinson's model of the flexible firm. It takes issue with two arguments against it: that the model needs to be understood at a political level, as part of a wider `post-industrial' vision; and that the observed increase in flexibility offers the model no support because of its `non-strategic' nature. On the first of these it is argued that flexibility operates on a different level from flexible specialisation and o…
Teamworking in its Context(s): Antecedents, Nature and Dimensions
This introductory chapter looks at the antecedents, the nature and the various dimensions of'teamworking'. Teamworking is drawing on a variety of traditions, which has resulted in a number of different types and designs of teams. It is necessary to keep all dimensions in mind in order to reach a historically informed judgement of the current forms of teamworking and their shortcomings. Variants of teams need to be analysed by employing a multidim…
Impact of MIS/IT upon middle managers: Some evidence from the NHS
The paper meets a need for more context specific empirical research in this area. Subject to medical group power, the three cases studied suggest that MIS/IT enhances the role of middle managers since it is they who are best placed to ‘synthesise’ information from MIS/IT for executive management
Target-based team working: Groups, work and interdependence in the UK civil service
In terms of its implications for work and production, studies of teamworking have generally relied on concepts of autonomy and flexibility. An in-depth, qualitative case study of the UK Inland Revenue reveals a form of teamworking in which both autonomy and flexibility play little part. It is argued that teamworking in this case is best conceptualized by giving greater weight to interdependence. In particular, teamworking in the Inland Revenue wo…
Accounting for the dark side of corporate history: Organizational culture perspectives and the Bertelsmann case
Scenarios and counterfactuals as modal narratives
Social Remembering and Organizational Memory
Organizational Memory Studies (OMS) is limited by its managerialist, presentist preoccupation with the utility of memory for knowledge management. The dominant model of memory in OMS is that of a storage bin. But this model has been rejected by psychologists because it overlooks the distinctly human subjective experience of remembering, i.e. episodic memory. OMS also fails to take account of the specific social and historical contexts of organiza…
From “This F***ing life” to “that's better” … in four minutes: An interdisciplinary study of music therapy's “present moments” and their potential for affect modulation
This article presents the findings of a preliminary interdisciplinary research project instigated by a group of three music therapists, a music psychologist and a psychiatrist. The group shared a professional and academic interest in music therapy's seeming ability to help patients experiencing severe affect dysregulation as a result of psychotic states to effectively modulate affect in a creative way within a surprisingly short time-span.The stu…
Reparative musicing: Thinking on the Usefulness of Social Capital Theory Within Music Therapy
Whilst music therapy is sometimes presented as a primarily paramedical technology, it is also possible to conceive of its value in more social terms: social capital theory offers a means of doing so. Key conceptions of social capital are outlined. The specific contribution of music therapy to the generation of social capital is considered, as is the relevance of social capital generation to music therapy clients. Vignettes of music therapy practi…
Understanding employee attitudes to change in longitudinal perspective: A study in UK public services 1996-2007
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is twofold: to understand how and why employee attitudes to change might change over time; and to demonstrate what type of research might best capture this change. Design/methodology/approach – The paper brings together three studies of the same organization, conducted at different times by the same researchers. Findings – Employee attitudes to change in the three episodes are portrayed in terms of the assumpti…
Paul Atkinson, For Ethnography
Kris Kristofferson/John Holt-'Help Me Make It Through The Night
As with all the contributors here, my chosen song comes from fieldwork. I spent time in an urban UK mental health community setting, a place which nobody has to attend (it is not part of the statutory psychiatric system), but where people choose to spend time to gain various kinds of support - formal and informal - whilst in other respects living independently despite (in most cases) having a psychiatric diagnosis. Most service users with whom I …
Exploring equity in health and poverty impacts of control measures for Sars-CoV-2 in six countries
BACKGROUND: Policy makers need to be rapidly informed about the potential equity consequences of different COVID-19 strategies, alongside their broader health and economic impacts. While there are complex models to inform both potential health and macro-economic impact, there are few tools available to rapidly assess potential equity impacts of interventions. METHODS: We created an economic model to simulate the impact of lockdown measures in Pak…
Theorising worker–client relations in front‐line service work: Understanding the experience of non‐professionally affiliated workers in UK mental health services
This paper contributes to a deeper understanding of front‐line service workers’ experience of the worker–client relationship. It is based on a series of in‐depth interviews with non‐professionally affiliated workers in new front‐line roles in UK mental health services. The findings cover three main areas: worker motivation and orientation; the nature of the worker–client relationship; and the role played in the relationship by the structure of wo…
Reconfigured professional purpose in times of crisis: Experiences of frontline healthcare professionals during the Covid-19 pandemic
Governing the factory: Microhistories of the present
Microhistory is an established form of cultural history but marginal to management and organization history. Methodologically, microhistory searches out moments and practices that are meaningful to participants but deeply strange to us. Such peculiar moments are subjected to intense scrutiny to understand how they were meaningful to participants. Understanding the extraordinary becomes the portal to the cultural commonplace. Michel Foucault’s gen…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Business (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (5 works) · Economics (4 works)