Dr George Boak
Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Management
Contact details
E: g.boak@yorksj.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1904 8676862
'Situational Leadership' entry in the Sage Encyclopaedia of
Management Theory, forthcoming, 2012
'Learning to achieve service improvements in
healthcare' paper to the International Conference on
Organisational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities, Valencia,
25-27 April 2012
'Blending Q and P: Incorporating Action
Learning in a Master’s Programme'
Action Learning: Research and Practice 2011 8/2
pp165-172
'An exploration of options for the delivery of
revalidation: A project for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of
Great Britain' 2011, with Lindsay Mitchell and David Moore,
available on the General Pharmaceutical Council website,
www.pharmacyregulation.org
‘Competence frameworks in UK healthcare:
lessons from practice’, Journal of European Industrial
Training, 33 8/9 pp701-717 November 2009, with Lindsay
Mitchell
'An exploratory content analysis of
situational leadership' Journal of Management Development
28/7 August 2009 pp 593-606 with MA Papworth and Derek Milne
'Sensemaking within complex social systems:
core capabilities for leadership in complexity' paper
delivered to the 10th International Conference on Human
Resource Development Research and Practice across Europe,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 10-12 June 2009
Leading Innovation and Change in the
Health Service, 2002, Kingsham Press editor, with Helen
Jones
‘Characteristics of effective competency
frameworks’ in Neil Rankin, ed, 2001, The IRS Handbook on
Competencies, IRS LexisNexis
‘Competencies for retail leadership: accurate,
acceptable, affordable’ Leadership and Organization Development
Journal 2001 22/5 with Diane Coolican
‘Personal development plans’ in Anthony
Landale, ed, 1999, The Gower Handbook of Training and
Development, Gower
Mental Models for Managers,
1998, Century Publishing, Random House with David Thompson
A Complete Guide to Learning
Contracts, 1998, Gower