Stephen Gibb
Biographic Data
| ID | 5790436 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Gibb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Gibb |
| SIGNATURE | GIBB S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stephen Gibb is Professor in Human Resource and Organization Development at the University of the West of Scotland. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How to Make a Country Care – Performance Measurement Frameworks as Drivers of Care Policy Change
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the longstanding social care crisis across the United Kingdom. The need for thorough and sustained change in the entire policy domain of care – defined as paid care workers, including childcare workers, and unpaid carers and those experiencing care – is clear. To achieve such change, the prominence of care as a key policy issue needs to increase. This could be achieved through care becoming anchored in outcomes-b…
Organizational Values
The espousal of organizational values with an expectation of primarily positive consequences in leadership, employee performance and organizational change has often been recognized as overly simplistic, but giving a more complete and critical account of the interrelations between values and behaviour has proven challenging. This article describes a balanced and integrated positive, ambivalent and negative (PAN) approach. The use of this PAN appro…
Soft skills assessment
Soft skills have become a subject of increasing interest in lifelong learning. Soft skills development is intended to enable and enhance personal development, participation in learning and success in employment. The assessment of soft skill is therefore widely practised, but there is little in the way of research or evidence on how well this assessment is done. Critically reviewing soft skills assessment requires both theory development and estab…
The Usefulness of Theory
The establishment, extension and development of formal mentoring schemes in workplaces have been accompanied by an extensive analysis of the preconditions for successful implementation. These have tended to explore the "mechanics" of formal mentoring schemes; namely policy development, scheme design, mentor competence, and mentor training. These studies tend to be normative and prescriptive. Substantive theoretical analysis of formal mentoring ha…
The evolution of management in UK local government
This article presents evidence from a case study of the implementation of a new management development system in a major local authority. The adoption of a competence‐based management system is described, illustrating that there was great scope for adopting an explicitly ‘generic’ and managerialist model of management. It is clear that such a managerialist framework was not adopted. The explanation for the retention of a distinctive public manage…
The Usefulness of Theory
The establishment, extension and development of formal mentoring schemes in workplaces have been accompanied by an extensive analysis of the preconditions for successful implementation. These have tended to explore the "mechanics" of formal mentoring schemes; namely policy development, scheme design, mentor competence, and mentor training. These studies tend to be normative and prescriptive. Substantive theoretical analysis of formal mentoring ha…
Soft skills assessment
Soft skills have become a subject of increasing interest in lifelong learning. Soft skills development is intended to enable and enhance personal development, participation in learning and success in employment. The assessment of soft skill is therefore widely practised, but there is little in the way of research or evidence on how well this assessment is done. Critically reviewing soft skills assessment requires both theory development and estab…
The evolution of management in UK local government
This article presents evidence from a case study of the implementation of a new management development system in a major local authority. The adoption of a competence‐based management system is described, illustrating that there was great scope for adopting an explicitly ‘generic’ and managerialist model of management. It is clear that such a managerialist framework was not adopted. The explanation for the retention of a distinctive public manage…
The Usefulness of Theory
The establishment, extension and development of formal mentoring schemes in workplaces have been accompanied by an extensive analysis of the preconditions for successful implementation. These have tended to explore the "mechanics" of formal mentoring schemes; namely policy development, scheme design, mentor competence, and mentor training. These studies tend to be normative and prescriptive. Substantive theoretical analysis of formal mentoring ha…
Soft skills assessment
Soft skills have become a subject of increasing interest in lifelong learning. Soft skills development is intended to enable and enhance personal development, participation in learning and success in employment. The assessment of soft skill is therefore widely practised, but there is little in the way of research or evidence on how well this assessment is done. Critically reviewing soft skills assessment requires both theory development and estab…
Organizational Values
The espousal of organizational values with an expectation of primarily positive consequences in leadership, employee performance and organizational change has often been recognized as overly simplistic, but giving a more complete and critical account of the interrelations between values and behaviour has proven challenging. This article describes a balanced and integrated positive, ambivalent and negative (PAN) approach. The use of this PAN appro…
How to Make a Country Care – Performance Measurement Frameworks as Drivers of Care Policy Change
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the longstanding social care crisis across the United Kingdom. The need for thorough and sustained change in the entire policy domain of care – defined as paid care workers, including childcare workers, and unpaid carers and those experiencing care – is clear. To achieve such change, the prominence of care as a key policy issue needs to increase. This could be achieved through care becoming anchored in outcomes-b…
Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Competence (human resources (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Public relations (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Accounting and Organizational Management (1 works) · Ambivalence (1 works)