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Together with the concepts of ‘leadership’ and ‘strategy’, ‘organisational culture’ must surely be one of the most fascinating and infuriating objects of study in organisational life. Beneath the lotus flower: discovering organisational cultures On 13 September 2019,...

Authority is the legitimate use of power. But what do we count as legitimate authority and how is such legitimacy achieved?Authority - a short enquiry The NIODA Group Relations Working Conference in November 2019 (Identity, Gender, Authority and Community at Work) has...

Trump's style of executive functioning Introduction In assessing Donald Trump as a president, it is common enough to evaluate his character in psychodynamic terms, for example, to highlight his apparent narcissism, grandiosity or impulsiveness. There is nothing wrong...

The 2019 NIODA Group Relations Conference aims to explore the idea of the community at work, especially those systems within the community that affect or are affected by identity and gender, and how these are affected by authority relations see

Professor Emeritus John F Newton, conferred at NIODA graduation ceremony 2018    Read of this fitting tribute to an extraordinarily gifted man, and his career that has impacted Victorian organisations in a profound way. You are likely to have been privy yourself to...

'This' by Susan Campbell, NIODA graduation speech 2018   The poet Marie Howe wrote 'This' following the experience of caring for her brother before he died at age 28. It's called 'The Gate'. I had no idea that the gate I would step through to finally enter this world...

Our workplaces and home life are becomingly increasingly networked. Through the use of technology, people are able to connect just as easily with people who are geographically distant as they are with people in their local area. In addition, our definition of the ways...