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David L. Collinson
No full textThis entry outlines the work and contributions of David L. Collinson, UK-based scholar of gender, organizations and management. His range of work on critical approaches to leadership, management and organization is vast and variegated, with primary interests in: leadership and followership dialectics; power, identities and insecurities; gender, men and masculinities; conformity, dramaturgy and resistance; humour in organizations; and positivity and Prozac leadership. In particular, Collinson has focused much of his academic work on two related subject areas—leadership, and gender, men and masculinities, thus bridging critical leadership studies and critical studies on men and masculinities. He has worked creatively across dualities, bridging materialism and poststructuralism, individuals and collectivities, and work life and identity, as summated in the concept of cultural discursive practices.</p
David L. Collinson
No full textDavid L. Collinson is a UK-based scholar of gender, organizations and management, with a special interest in leadership. Collinson can rightly claim to be amongst a small number of top-flight European scholars in his field. His range of work on critical approaches to leadership, management and organization is vast and variegated, with primary interests in: leadership and followership dialectics; power, identities and insecurities; gender, men and masculinities; conformity, dramaturgy and resistance; humour in organizations; and positivity and Prozac leadership. In particular, he has focused much of his academic work on two related subject areas, leadership, and gender, men and masculinities, thus bridging Critical Leadership Studies (CLS) and Critical Studies on Men and Masculinities (CSMM).
Situating and progressing resistance leadership research : An interview with David Collinson and Keith Grint
No full textResistance leadership is a vital concept that gets to the heart of the power dynamics of organizations and societies. This interview, conducted by one of the special issue editors, Owain Smolović Jones, with two key figures in critical leadership studies, Keith Grint and David L. Collinson, provides readers with an orientation to this area of research. It does so through offering definititional clarity, expanding on the concept’s value and summarising key ideas. From this basis, the value of resistance leadership is explored in relation to the climate crisis, inequalities and other key contemporary issues. The interview concludes through offering readers advice on how to pursue compelling and impactful research on resistance leadership
Prozac Leadership and the limits of positive thinking
No full textThis article critically examines excessive positivity in leadership dynamics. It argues that the tendency for leader positivity to become excessive is a recurrent but under-researched medium through which power and identity can be enacted in leadership dynamics. Drawing on the metaphor of ‘Prozac’, it suggests that leaders’ excessive positivity is often characterized by a reluctance to consider alternative voices, which can leave organizations and societies ill-prepared to deal with unexpected events. Prozac leadership encourages leaders to believe their own narratives that everything is going well and discourages followers from raising problems or admitting mistakes. The article also argues that followers (broadly defined) are often quick to identify leaders’ excessive positivity and are likely to respond through various forms of resistance. It concludes by considering the extent to which excessive positivity also characterizes leadership studies, and raises additional questions for further critical analyses of Prozac leadership
Percezione di profondità binoculare in soggetti con tratti di personalità schizotipica
No full textIntroduzione. I pazienti schizofrenici presentano molti disturbi visuopercettivi. Fra questi, è noto il disturbo di percezione di profondità, che è stato attribuito a un deficit delle vie magnocellulare e parvocellulare. Molti studi hanno documentato in soggetti con tratti di personalità schizotipica la presenza di deficit visuopercettivi simili a quelli osservati nella schizofrenia. Tuttavia la percezione di profondità non è mai stata valutata in questi soggetti.
Metodo. Nel nostro studio abbiamo confrontato la prestazione di 12 soggetti schizotipici clinicamente sani con quella di 17 controlli utilizzando un compito computerizzato di percezione di profondità. Ai soggetti si chiedeva di compiere una discriminazione di profondità relativa, confrontando la posizione di due target presentati simultaneamente. Erano previsti quattro livelli di difficoltà, due semplici e due difficili.
Risultati. Oltre all’effetto principale del Gruppo (F1.27= 7.39; p< .02), con una maggiore percentuale di errori per il gruppo di schizotipici rispetto ai controlli, un’interazione Gruppo per Condizione (F3.8= 3.50; p< .02) ha mostrato che i due gruppi differivano significativamente solo nella condizione più difficile (p< .01).
Conclusioni. Il disturbo di percezione di profondità presentato da soggetti con tratti di personalità schizotipica sembra essere simile, ma meno grave, rispetto a quello presentato da pazienti schizofrenici. Poiché la percezione di profondità raggiunge il suo pieno sviluppo entro l’età di 9 anni, un deficit in questa funzione potrebbe indicare, nell’adulto, un fallimento della plasticità neurale avvenuto nei primi anni di vita, e potrebbe fornire nuovi spunti di riflessione per l’individuazione di soggetti ad alto rischio
Lucy and Frank Parker with Tom Collinson and Pam Wentworth at the Parker's wedding
No full textL-R: Tom Collinson, Pam Wentworth, Lucy Parker (nee Venables) and Frank Parker
The Alternative Library
No full textMuch time and effort has been devoted to designing and developing library Web sites that are easy to navigate by both new students and experienced researchers. In a review of the Southampton Institute Library it was decided that in addition to updating the existing homepage an alternative would be offered. Drawing on theory relating to user interface design,learning styles and creative thinking, an Alternative Library navigation system was added to the more traditional library homepage. The aim was to provide students with a different way to explore and discover the wide range of information resources available by taking a less formal approach to navigation based on the metaphor of physical space and playful exploration
Binocular Depth Perception in Subjects with Schizotypal Personality Traits.
No full textAn impairment of magnocellular and possibly parvocellular pathways has been suggested as cause of the altered binocular depth perception observed in schizophrenia. While there is evidence showing visual-perceptive deficits in people with schizotypal personality traits, binocular depth perception has not been evaluated yet. We examined 12 clinically healthy schizotypy and 17 controls with a stereoscopic depth perception task and found a subtle impairment in the schizotypy when high difficulty judgments on binocular depth were requested. Such impairment, similar but less marked than that of schizophrenia, may indicate a failure of plasticity during childhood and point to a possible intermediate phenotype for further investigation
In search of the perfect manager? Work-life balance and managerial work
No full textWork-life balance debates continue to proliferate but give relatively little critical attention to managerial workers. This article draws on research into the experiences of managers in a local government organization revealing an intricate, multifaceted and heterogeneous picture of fragmentation, conflicting demands, pressures and anxieties. The study highlights the importance of paid work for public sector managers; the concomitant difficulties in controlling working hours for those in managerial roles and the extent to which shifts in work orientation occur during managers’ careers. Research findings suggest that in practice work-life balance initiatives may only serve to increase managerial anxieties and pressures, the very opposite outcome to that intended. These themes do not feature in many work-life balance debates, which tend to assume the perfect manager who is able and willing to create a symmetrical balance between different spheres of life
Methods in rock magnetism and palaeomagnetism / D.W. Collinson
No full textEl desarrollo de las investigaciones en paleomagnetismo y magnetismo de rocas ha estado acompafiado y basado en el desarrollo de instrumentos y tecnicas. Este libra del Dr. D. W. Collinson sintetiza y discute parte del abundante material publicado sabre instrumentos y tecnicas, mucho del cual ha sido desarrollado en el Departamento de Geofisica y Física Planetaria de la Universidad de Newcastle upon Tyne, Gran Bretaña. El grupo de investigaci6n en paleomagnetismo y magnetismo de rocas de esta Universidad, ha realizado importantes contribuciones desde principios de los 50s (ver por ejem. referencias a trabajos de S. K. Runcorn, K. M. Creer, D. H. Tarling, D. W. Collinson, W. O'Reilly, A. Stephenson, L. Molyneux, A. de Sa, F. J. Lowes y otros investigadores) y sus laboratorios de magnetismo de rocas y paleomagnetismo en 'Close House' y en la Escuela de Física tienen una gran cantidad de instrumentos para un rango muy amplio de aplicaciones
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