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Dr Stephanie Morgan
Deputy Head of Department & Course Director - Leadership, HRM and Organisation.
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- Overview
- Qualifications
- Career Highlights
- Research
- Media Highlights
- Professional Body Membership
- Key Industry Roles
Overview
A charted psychologist, Stephanie has a background in IT management, with over twenty years experience in industry, including National Sales & Marketing Manager for Philips TDS, and Commercial Manager for Origin Brussels (now Atos Origin). During this time she was a Fellow of the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management. She began her career as a systems analyst and a systems engineer, and passed the Institute of Data Processing Management Parts I & II exams.
However in 1992 she switched to psychology and after gaining her BSc took a Masters and PhD at Birkbeck, University of London, where she later lectured before moving to Kingston.
Stephanie is Deputy Head of the department of Leadership, HRM & Organisation and is course director. She is module leader for Selection and Assessment, and teaches sessions on personality and psychometric testing on a range of programmes at both postgraduate and undergraduate levels
A full member of the British Psychological Society, she is on the register of competency for Level A (ability) and Level B (personality) tests, including the NEO, HPI and Saville Wave assessment tools. She is also a Principal Member of the Association of Business Psychologists, and has been a non-executive Director of Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, and at Crawley Primary Care Trust.
Stephanie is certified to test in occupational assessments (level A and B) and is a founder of the business forum www.bizface.co.uk She also consults to a range of companies on various aspects of work psychology including outsourcing, staff motivation, technology related change, and managing diversity.
Since moving from industry to academic work she has published a number of papers in both academic and practitioner journals and acts as a referee for business journals. Stephanie has written a number of book reviews, published in such journals as The Psychologist, Social Psychological Review and the Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics. She has just completed a book on the psychological and people management aspects of outsourcing (commissioned by Wiley-Routledge).
She is also currently continuing research into best practice in outsourcing management, remote management of staff, technology change, happiness at work, and leadership development in the NHS. She has a special interest in the use of technology in research, and during organisational change (including e-rostering); and in blended learning and the use of online networks to enhance higher education.
Qualifications
| Year gained |
Subject |
| 2003 |
PhD Occupational Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London. |
| 1999 |
MSc Organisational Behaviour, Birkbeck, University of London. |
| 1996 |
BSc (1st Class Hons) Psychology, Open University. |
Career Highlights
| Year |
Position held |
| Pre 1990 |
A range of senior management roles at Philips Telecommunications & Data systems, including national sales and marketing manager. |
| 2008 - |
Principal lecturer, Department Leadership, HRM & Organisation, Kingston Business School, Kingston University. |
| 2003 - 2008 |
Lecturer, Department of Organisational Psychology, Birkbeck, University of London. |
| 1999 - 2002 |
Teaching Fellow, Department of Organisational Psychology, Birkbeck. |
| 1997 - 1999 |
Associate Lecturer, Social Psychology, Open University. |
| 1991 - 1999 |
Independent IT consultant. |
| 1990 - 1991 |
Global commerical manager Origin Brussels (now Atos Origin). |
Research
Morgan, Stephanie (2008) Book Review of: Consumer culture, identity and well-being: the search for the 'good life' and the 'body perfect' by Helga Dittmar. The Psychologist, 21(7), p. 604. ISSN (print) 0952-8229
Morgan, Stephanie (2008) The psychological impact of outsourcing transfers. The outsourcing project: achieving competitive advantage through collaborative partnerships, 5(1),
Morgan, Stephanie J. and Symon, Gillian (2006) The experience of outsourcing transfer: implications for guidance and counselling. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 34(2), pp. 191-207. ISSN (print) 0306-9885
Morgan, Stephanie (2005) Careering ahead. The Psychologist, 18(3), p. 163. ISSN (print) 0952-8229
Morgan, Stephanie and Symon, Gillian (2002) Computer-mediated communication and remote management: integration or isolation? Social Science Computer Review, 20(3), pp. 302-311. ISSN (print) 0894-4393
Book
Morgan, Stephanie, ed. (2009) The human side of outsourcing: psychological theory and management practice. Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell. 320p. ISBN 9780470718704
Book Section
Morgan, Stephanie J. (2009) Conclusion: towards a model of responses to outsourcing. In: Morgan, Stephanie J., (ed.) The human side of outsourcing: psychological theory and management practice. Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 263-278. ISBN 9780470718704
Morgan, Stephanie J. (2009) Introduction to theory and evidence. In: Morgan, Stephanie J., (ed.) The human side of outsourcing: psychological theory and management practice. Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 73-94. ISBN 9780470718704
Blakeley, Richard and Morgan, Stephanie J. (2009) Knowledge transfer and knowledge sharing. In: Morgan, Stephanie J., (ed.) The human side of outsourcing: psychological theory and management practice. Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 181-189. ISBN 9780470718704
Morgan, Stephanie J. (2009) Transitioning and the psychological contract. In: Morgan, Stephanie J., (ed.) The human side of outsourcing: psychological theory and management practice. Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 249-261. ISBN 9780470718704
Morgan, Stephanie (2008) Interviews - electronic. In: Thorpe, Richard and Holt, Robin, (eds.) The Sage dictionary of qualitative management research. London : SAGE Publications Ltd. pp. 120-122. ISBN 9781412935289
Stuttaford, Sean S. and Morgan, Stephanie (2007) Employee engagement in IT outsourcing: a South African case study. In: Taplin, Ruth, (ed.) Outsourcing and human resource management: an international survey. Abingdon, Oxon., UK : Routledge. pp. 217-236. (Routledge studies in the growth economies of Asia series) ISBN 0415428912
Morgan, Stephanie (2007) Human resource management and employee engagement. In: Taplin, Ruth, (ed.) Outsourcing and human resource management: an international survey. Abingdon, Oxon., UK : Routledge. pp. 26-56. (Routledge studies in the growth economies of Asia series) ISBN 0415428912
Morgan, Royston and Morgan, Stephanie (2007) The outsourcing lifecycle. In: Taplin, Ruth, (ed.) Outsourcing and human resource management: an international survey. Abingdon, Oxon., UK : Routledge. pp. 57-81. (Routledge studies in the growth economies of Asia series) ISBN 0415428912
Morgan, Stephanie J. and Symon, Gillian (2004) Electronic interviews in organizational research. In: Cassell, Catherine and Symon, Gillian, (eds.) Essential guide to qualitative methods in organizational research. London, UK : SAGE. pp. 23-33. ISBN 0761948872
Media Highlights
Stephanie has done some radio interviews, both live and recorded, and been interviewed by a number of national nhewspapers, including the Guardian, Daily Mail and Daily Mirror.
Professional Body Membership
Chartered psychologist with the British Psychological Society, registered occupational psychologist, honorary member of the National Outsourcing Association and a principal member of the Association of Business Psychologists.
Key Industry Roles
May 2000 - December 2008 - Director and Consultant, Crosslight Management Ltd.
1991 - 2000 - Independent IT consultant.
1990 - 1991 - Global Commercial Manager, Origin Brussels (now Atos Origin).