A selective overview of ESRC-funded work relating to the NSF Human

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A selective overview of ESRC-funded work relating
to the NSF Human Social Dynamics Program

• Professor Gerard P. Hodgkinson
• University of Leeds, UK
• ESRC Grants Board Member
• Senior Fellow, (UK) ESRC/EPSRC Advanced
  Institute of Management Research (AIM)
• Presented at the NSF Human Social Dynamics 2005
  Principal Investigators Meeting, Washington, DC,
  16th September 2005

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Outline

1. Highly selective overview of ongoing ESRC-funded
   work (mainly across management and psychology)
2. Slightly more focused overview of work in the
   management and organization studies area (the
   Advanced Institute of Management Research
   Initiative)
3. Brief overview of some of my own work

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Examples of ESRC-Funded on themes relating to the
NSF HSD Program - 1

• Research centers (10-15 year investments) and
  groups (five year investments) located in one
  institution (Strategic Priorities Board)
• CARR (Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation)
  London School of Economics (investigates risk
  management and regulation 1) organizations
  risk mgt 2) business regulation corporate
  governance (3) regulation of government
  governance)
• CSERGE (Centre for Socioeconomic Research on the
  Global Environment) University of East Anglia
  (investigates the causes, consequences and policy
  implications of global environmental change,
  including public acceptance of technological
  change and developing countries environmental
  problems )

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Examples of ESRC-Funded on themes relating to the
NSF HSD Program - 2

• Responsive mode grants (Grants Board awards)
• Internal working models and young childrens
  social-emotional development (Dr E Meins,
  University of Durham)
• The impact of early language experience on later
  speech perception (Dr JS Bowers, University of
  Bristol)
• Modelling the evolution of the aerospace supply
  chain (Prof Keith Ridgway, University of
  Sheffield)
• Effects of social identity on responses to
  emergency mass evacuation (Dr J Drury,
  University of Sussex)

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What is AIM?
AIM has a budget of 20 million 18M from the
ESRC and 2M from the EPSRC making AIM the UKs
largest investment in management research.

• CENTRAL THEMES
• Productivity
• Innovation
• Promising Practices

International Fellowship Arrangements
Portal Infrastructure to facilitate collaboration
Management Research Forum Series
AIM Fellows and Scholars currently 43 of the
UKs leading academics drawn from 23 universities
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Why was AIM Established?
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U.K.National Competitiveness
Corporate Performance
Role of Managers
Role of Employees
Productivity
Action Taking
Decision Making
Sensemaking Learning
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A holistic overview of my work

• Basic (i.e. theoretically-driven) applied
  psychological research at the interface of
  cognitive and industrial, work and organizational
  psychology (see, e.g., Hodgkinson, 2003, Special
  issue of Journal of Occupational Organizational
  Psychology)
• Two major aspects
• Development and evaluation of methods to
  operationalize the notion of mental
  representations in organizational research (e.g.
  Clarkson Hodgkinson, 2005 Hodgkinson et al,
  2004, Organizational Research Methods)
• Applications of such methods for the advancement
  of fundamental knowledge and intervention (e.g.
  Hodgkinson et al., 1999, Strategic Management
  Journal)

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Overview of 4 selected projects

• Images of Competitive Space (Hodgkinson, 2005)
• Investigation of scenario planning workshops
  (Hodgkinson, Chattopadhyay Healey)
• Mental representations of information and IT
  risks (Coles Hodgkinson)
• In Search of Strategic Knowledge (Clarke,
  Hodgkinson Pruyne)