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Papers by Tracey Wond

Industry and higher education, Mar 8, 2018

Transitions can be stressful (Baruch, 2006), and we know that change can be difficult for many. C... more Transitions can be stressful (Baruch, 2006), and we know that change can be difficult for many. Career Matters April 2018 / Issue 6.2 32 orking for longer is a notion featuring more frequently within our day-today conversations with clients. Imagining working until later in life can potentially lead to questions such as: What will I do for all of that time? How will I sustain my work over several decades? It is conceivable that our clients will face a number of chapters within their working life. As well as working across a range of different roles and organisations, they may even consider changing professions.

Approaches to global sustainability, markets, and governance, Jul 3, 2018

Responsibility possesses a dual role within our twin pillars of sustainability. Not only does it ... more Responsibility possesses a dual role within our twin pillars of sustainability. Not only does it stand as a pillar in itself, but, responsibility is central to the notion of good governance. This chapter expands on previous efforts to define the role of responsibility in this twin pillar construct and posits it as a pivotal construct (Aras and Crowther in Journal of Business Ethics, 87(supp 1), 279–288, 2008a, Journal of Social and Environmental Accounting, 2(1), 19–35, 2008b; in: Crowther et al. (eds) The goals of sustainable development: responsibility and governance, Springer Nature, Singapore, 2017). In this chapter, the concept of the pillars of sustainability is explored by first acknowledging the Brundtland pillars and then proposing a different set of pillars. In this proposal, the suggestion is made of only two pillars: those of governance and responsibility. We argue that focusing on these two leads to an understanding of the needs of sustainability. In doing so, this chapter outlines the focus and argument of the book and introduced the subsequent chapters.

Green-lean and lean logistics research by the University of Derby’s Centre for Supply Chain Impro... more Green-lean and lean logistics research by the University of Derby’s Centre for Supply Chain Improvement (CSCI) (Garza-Reyes; Anosike; Nadeem) has addressed productivity and environmental challenges in distribution activities in the logistics, manufacturing and emergency medical service industries. CSCI’s research and engagement with non-profit and private organisations, both nationally and internationally, including companies from Mexico, China, Thailand, Colombia and Oman, has principally generated management and environmental impacts, including: (a) changed approaches to the management of resources; (b) improved service delivery and productivity; (c) enhanced processes and reduction of inefficient process; (d) improved environmental performance; (e) informed professional and educational exchanges.Instituto Politecnico Nacional, ESCA Santo Tomas (Mexico) Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes (UAA) (Mexico

Approaches to global sustainability, markets, and governance, Jul 3, 2018

A host of reasons exist for the pursuit of evidence in the public sector, including to support go... more A host of reasons exist for the pursuit of evidence in the public sector, including to support good governance and policy development. As the expectations for program evaluation from policymakers have evolved, so too has evaluation practice and a great deal of experimentalism has ensued. There is a risk that these developments and the complexity inherent in them, may lead to conflicting expectations about why program evaluation is done, or even a loss of purpose. This prompts the meso-level analysis of two types of stakeholders in a governance network, explored in this chapter. This chapter presents the findings of an ongoing study which explores the perceptions of program evaluators and policy implementers towards the purpose of evidence. The findings suggest that program evaluators and policy implementers have divergent expectations of why and how evaluation data might be used. The findings suggest that program evaluators aspire to support change and enhance the policy domains they serve, whereas policy implementers perceive program evaluation as serving a more governance-/managementorientated role. The chapter demonstrates the complexity of both program evaluation and policy and may have implications for the twin pillars of governance and responsibility at the heart of the book. If governance and responsibility are the twin pillars of sustainability then the complex networks of relationships, expectations, values, and outcomes may need to be considered. The findings also have implications for evaluation commissioners and practitioners, demonstrating the need for the purpose and expectations of program evaluation to be agreed early. The use of program evaluation as a symbolic, aesthetic or structural mechanism also emerges, prompting opportunity for further research, for instance, to explore legitimacy and program evaluation.

Journal for Perspectives of Economic Political and Social Integration, 2019

There is evidence that organisational career role holders are changing roles more frequently. Des... more There is evidence that organisational career role holders are changing roles more frequently. Despite this, career theories such as the career capital lens have so far neglected this role transition context. By adopting the lens of career capital theory specifi cally, this paper explores what aspects of career capital role holders need to facilitate their own voluntary, sideward or upward role transitions. Drawing upon an interpretivist approach and using event-based narrative interviews, this study explores the experiences of 36 business leaders who have undertaken a recent role transition within a large UK construction business. By applying this novel career capital lens, the paper empirically characterises those aspects of career capital important to internal role transitions and compares it to existing mainstream career capital theory. The study is original in that career capital has not been applied before in this increasingly important transition context. Surprisingly, whilst the study demonstrates that career capital eases transitions, it also recognises a 'dark side'-career capital aspects that hinder internal movement.

British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, Jun 14, 2021

Despite role transitions occurring frequently within organisations, career theories have often ov... more Despite role transitions occurring frequently within organisations, career theories have often overlooked such transitions. Here we explore the role of personal agency and organisational attachment in shaping career capital enactment within intra-organisational role transitions. We propose a new career capital usage typology. Using an interpretivist approach, the research is based within a UK construction business and explores the role transition experiences of 36 business leaders. Through an analysis of workers’ career capital use we identify a new typology and groups workers as follows: Passive Worker, Company Worker, Political Worker and Career Worker. We argue that type varies in accordance with levels of personal agency and organisational attachment and that this variation in type is particularly important during intra-organisational role transitions.N/

International Journal of Public Administration, Apr 15, 2016

This article draws upon autoethnographic data to explore distrust in an evaluation relationship, ... more This article draws upon autoethnographic data to explore distrust in an evaluation relationship, from the perspective of an external evaluator. The study is based within a local-level evaluation of an economic regeneration programme. The longitudinal nature of the study allowed for trust and the evaluation relationship to be examined with time and process present-a gap in previous evaluation studies. The exploration demonstrates various causes and symptoms of distrust within one evaluation. It also shows the manifestation of anxiety that stakeholders may have towards an evaluation, and how this may lead to an evaluator being perceived as a danger. The article also reflects on the autoethnographic research approach adopted.

Career Development International, May 18, 2020

Public Management Review, Feb 1, 2011

This article argues that there are considerable benefits in using longitudinal research in public... more This article argues that there are considerable benefits in using longitudinal research in public management and public policy re-search. Evaluation research (and UK public management research more generally) still pre-eminently utilizes a short-term perspec-tive, preventing ...

The Institutionalisation of Evaluation in Europe, 2020

Journal for Perspectives of Economic Political and Social Integration

There is evidence that organisational career role holders are changing roles more frequently. Des... more There is evidence that organisational career role holders are changing roles more frequently. Despite this, career theories such as the career capital lens have so far neglected this role transition context. By adopting the lens of career capital theory specifically, this paper explores what aspects of career capital role holders need to facilitate their own voluntary, sideward or upward role transitions. Drawing upon an interpretivist approach and using event-based narrative interviews, this study explores the experiences of 36 business leaders who have undertaken a recent role transition within a large UK construction business. By applying this novel career capital lens, the paper empirically characterises those aspects of career capital important to internal role transitions and compares it to existing mainstream career capital theory. The study is original in that career capital has not been applied before in this increasingly important transition context. Surprisingly, whilst t...

A 'Return on Investment' toolkit for HEI's to identify and quantify the benefits to e... more A 'Return on Investment' toolkit for HEI's to identify and quantify the benefits to employers of investing in postgraduate education. This was one of two toolkits funded by HEFCE under the Postgraduate Support Scheme.HEFC

Industry and higher education, Mar 8, 2018

Transitions can be stressful (Baruch, 2006), and we know that change can be difficult for many. C... more Transitions can be stressful (Baruch, 2006), and we know that change can be difficult for many. Career Matters April 2018 / Issue 6.2 32 orking for longer is a notion featuring more frequently within our day-today conversations with clients. Imagining working until later in life can potentially lead to questions such as: What will I do for all of that time? How will I sustain my work over several decades? It is conceivable that our clients will face a number of chapters within their working life. As well as working across a range of different roles and organisations, they may even consider changing professions.

Approaches to global sustainability, markets, and governance, Jul 3, 2018

Responsibility possesses a dual role within our twin pillars of sustainability. Not only does it ... more Responsibility possesses a dual role within our twin pillars of sustainability. Not only does it stand as a pillar in itself, but, responsibility is central to the notion of good governance. This chapter expands on previous efforts to define the role of responsibility in this twin pillar construct and posits it as a pivotal construct (Aras and Crowther in Journal of Business Ethics, 87(supp 1), 279–288, 2008a, Journal of Social and Environmental Accounting, 2(1), 19–35, 2008b; in: Crowther et al. (eds) The goals of sustainable development: responsibility and governance, Springer Nature, Singapore, 2017). In this chapter, the concept of the pillars of sustainability is explored by first acknowledging the Brundtland pillars and then proposing a different set of pillars. In this proposal, the suggestion is made of only two pillars: those of governance and responsibility. We argue that focusing on these two leads to an understanding of the needs of sustainability. In doing so, this chapter outlines the focus and argument of the book and introduced the subsequent chapters.

Green-lean and lean logistics research by the University of Derby’s Centre for Supply Chain Impro... more Green-lean and lean logistics research by the University of Derby’s Centre for Supply Chain Improvement (CSCI) (Garza-Reyes; Anosike; Nadeem) has addressed productivity and environmental challenges in distribution activities in the logistics, manufacturing and emergency medical service industries. CSCI’s research and engagement with non-profit and private organisations, both nationally and internationally, including companies from Mexico, China, Thailand, Colombia and Oman, has principally generated management and environmental impacts, including: (a) changed approaches to the management of resources; (b) improved service delivery and productivity; (c) enhanced processes and reduction of inefficient process; (d) improved environmental performance; (e) informed professional and educational exchanges.Instituto Politecnico Nacional, ESCA Santo Tomas (Mexico) Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes (UAA) (Mexico

Approaches to global sustainability, markets, and governance, Jul 3, 2018

A host of reasons exist for the pursuit of evidence in the public sector, including to support go... more A host of reasons exist for the pursuit of evidence in the public sector, including to support good governance and policy development. As the expectations for program evaluation from policymakers have evolved, so too has evaluation practice and a great deal of experimentalism has ensued. There is a risk that these developments and the complexity inherent in them, may lead to conflicting expectations about why program evaluation is done, or even a loss of purpose. This prompts the meso-level analysis of two types of stakeholders in a governance network, explored in this chapter. This chapter presents the findings of an ongoing study which explores the perceptions of program evaluators and policy implementers towards the purpose of evidence. The findings suggest that program evaluators and policy implementers have divergent expectations of why and how evaluation data might be used. The findings suggest that program evaluators aspire to support change and enhance the policy domains they serve, whereas policy implementers perceive program evaluation as serving a more governance-/managementorientated role. The chapter demonstrates the complexity of both program evaluation and policy and may have implications for the twin pillars of governance and responsibility at the heart of the book. If governance and responsibility are the twin pillars of sustainability then the complex networks of relationships, expectations, values, and outcomes may need to be considered. The findings also have implications for evaluation commissioners and practitioners, demonstrating the need for the purpose and expectations of program evaluation to be agreed early. The use of program evaluation as a symbolic, aesthetic or structural mechanism also emerges, prompting opportunity for further research, for instance, to explore legitimacy and program evaluation.

Journal for Perspectives of Economic Political and Social Integration, 2019

There is evidence that organisational career role holders are changing roles more frequently. Des... more There is evidence that organisational career role holders are changing roles more frequently. Despite this, career theories such as the career capital lens have so far neglected this role transition context. By adopting the lens of career capital theory specifi cally, this paper explores what aspects of career capital role holders need to facilitate their own voluntary, sideward or upward role transitions. Drawing upon an interpretivist approach and using event-based narrative interviews, this study explores the experiences of 36 business leaders who have undertaken a recent role transition within a large UK construction business. By applying this novel career capital lens, the paper empirically characterises those aspects of career capital important to internal role transitions and compares it to existing mainstream career capital theory. The study is original in that career capital has not been applied before in this increasingly important transition context. Surprisingly, whilst the study demonstrates that career capital eases transitions, it also recognises a 'dark side'-career capital aspects that hinder internal movement.

British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, Jun 14, 2021

Despite role transitions occurring frequently within organisations, career theories have often ov... more Despite role transitions occurring frequently within organisations, career theories have often overlooked such transitions. Here we explore the role of personal agency and organisational attachment in shaping career capital enactment within intra-organisational role transitions. We propose a new career capital usage typology. Using an interpretivist approach, the research is based within a UK construction business and explores the role transition experiences of 36 business leaders. Through an analysis of workers’ career capital use we identify a new typology and groups workers as follows: Passive Worker, Company Worker, Political Worker and Career Worker. We argue that type varies in accordance with levels of personal agency and organisational attachment and that this variation in type is particularly important during intra-organisational role transitions.N/

International Journal of Public Administration, Apr 15, 2016

This article draws upon autoethnographic data to explore distrust in an evaluation relationship, ... more This article draws upon autoethnographic data to explore distrust in an evaluation relationship, from the perspective of an external evaluator. The study is based within a local-level evaluation of an economic regeneration programme. The longitudinal nature of the study allowed for trust and the evaluation relationship to be examined with time and process present-a gap in previous evaluation studies. The exploration demonstrates various causes and symptoms of distrust within one evaluation. It also shows the manifestation of anxiety that stakeholders may have towards an evaluation, and how this may lead to an evaluator being perceived as a danger. The article also reflects on the autoethnographic research approach adopted.

Career Development International, May 18, 2020

Public Management Review, Feb 1, 2011

This article argues that there are considerable benefits in using longitudinal research in public... more This article argues that there are considerable benefits in using longitudinal research in public management and public policy re-search. Evaluation research (and UK public management research more generally) still pre-eminently utilizes a short-term perspec-tive, preventing ...

The Institutionalisation of Evaluation in Europe, 2020

Journal for Perspectives of Economic Political and Social Integration

There is evidence that organisational career role holders are changing roles more frequently. Des... more There is evidence that organisational career role holders are changing roles more frequently. Despite this, career theories such as the career capital lens have so far neglected this role transition context. By adopting the lens of career capital theory specifically, this paper explores what aspects of career capital role holders need to facilitate their own voluntary, sideward or upward role transitions. Drawing upon an interpretivist approach and using event-based narrative interviews, this study explores the experiences of 36 business leaders who have undertaken a recent role transition within a large UK construction business. By applying this novel career capital lens, the paper empirically characterises those aspects of career capital important to internal role transitions and compares it to existing mainstream career capital theory. The study is original in that career capital has not been applied before in this increasingly important transition context. Surprisingly, whilst t...

A 'Return on Investment' toolkit for HEI's to identify and quantify the benefits to e... more A 'Return on Investment' toolkit for HEI's to identify and quantify the benefits to employers of investing in postgraduate education. This was one of two toolkits funded by HEFCE under the Postgraduate Support Scheme.HEFC