The GENERAL BOARD beg leave to report to the University as follows:
1. Judge Business School is internationally recognized as one of the leading providers of innovative, intellectually challenging, and practical business management education across a portfolio of undergraduate, graduate, and executive programmes.
2. Operations and Information Technology (O&IT) concerns the management of operations within enterprises, and the role played by different forms of technology in supporting all internal and external activities of organizations. Human Resource Management and Organizational Behaviour (HROB) concerns the strategic integration of various people management practices such as staffing, evaluation, rewards and development, understanding how individuals and groups behave in organizations, and why they perform in the way they do. Both domains are critical to management of business and non-profit organizations and are at the core of what any leading Business School would research and teach.
3. To provide research leadership and develop innovative teaching in these two key areas, and in order to attract a strong field of candidates, the Faculty Board of Business and Management wish to establish two Readerships, one with interests in O&IT and one in HROB. Because of its rapid recent development Judge Business School is heavily weighted towards more junior academic members of staff, and several more junior posts are currently being recruited. In addition the senior ranks have been depleted by the recent resignations of two Professors. There is a particular shortage of personnel in the School to carry out the duties best allocated to more senior academics.
4. The cost of these Readerships will be met from funds released by the suppression of the University Lectureships released from abeyance on the resignations of Professor N. Oliver and Professor C. J. Grey from their personal Professorships and from funds available to Judge Business School. The Council of the School of Technology have supported the case made by the Faculty Board of Business and Management.
5. The General Board have accepted the Faculty Board's proposal for the establishment of two Readerships. The criteria for appointment to a Readership through open competition will be identical to those for appointment through the Senior Academic Promotions Procedure. The Appointments Committee will be constituted as specified in the regulations (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 698).
6. The General Board accordingly recommend:
That two Readerships be established in Judge Business School from 1 September 2007.
| 4 May 2007 | ALISON RICHARD, Vice-Chancellor | PHILIP FORD | D. W. B. MACDONALD |
| GRAEME BARKER | RICHARD FRIEND | MELVEENA MCKENDRICK | |
| JOHN BELL | JACOB HEAD | KAMIAR MOHADDES | |
| TOM BLUNDELL | RICHARD HUNTER | PATRICK SISSONS | |
| WILLIAM BROWN |