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Professor Jackie Ford's Outputs (3)

Performative seduction: How management consultants influence practices of leadership (2020)
Journal Article
Ford, J., & Harding, N. (2021). Performative seduction: How management consultants influence practices of leadership. International Journal of Public Leadership, 17(3), 222-235. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijpl-07-2020-0062

Purpose This paper tracks how a policy recommended by management consultants becomes embedded as an integral part of leadership practice. It explores the launch of the concept of “talent management” by McKinsey & Company and how it becomes adopted as... Read More about Performative seduction: How management consultants influence practices of leadership.

'You just had to get on with it': Exploring the persistence of gender inequality through women’s career histories (2020)
Journal Article
Ford, J., Atkinson, C., Harding, N., & Collinson, D. (2021). 'You just had to get on with it': Exploring the persistence of gender inequality through women’s career histories. Work, Employment and Society, 35(1), 78-96. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017020910354

This article examines the career histories of the first generation of UK women to enter professional employment in the 1970s and 1980s in comparatively large numbers. In so doing, it contributes to the sparse literature on older women’s working life... Read More about 'You just had to get on with it': Exploring the persistence of gender inequality through women’s career histories.

On the Ethics of Psychometric Instruments Used in Leadership Development Programmes (2020)
Journal Article
Wilson, S., Lee, H., Ford, J., & Harding, N. (2021). On the Ethics of Psychometric Instruments Used in Leadership Development Programmes. Journal of Business Ethics, 172(2), 211-227. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-020-04519-z

The leadership development industry regularly claims to aid in developing effective, ethical leaders, using 360-degree psychometric assessments as key tools for so doing. This paper analyses the effects of such tools on those subjected to and subject... Read More about On the Ethics of Psychometric Instruments Used in Leadership Development Programmes.