Dr George Boak

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Name:

Dr George Boak

Email:

g.boak@yorksj.ac.uk

Department:

York Business School

Organisation:

York St John University

Address:

Lord Mayor's Walk York YO31 7EX

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Homepage:

http://www.yorksj.ac.uk

Biography

Expertise:

Leading innovation and change, Leadership development, Team working, Organisational learning, Action learning

Job title:

Associate Professor in Leadership & Innovation

Biography:

George is an Associate Professor in Leadership and Innovation. He works with experienced managers and professionals on the Business School's global MBA programmes, and supervises PhD research. Through the MBA programmes, he works with leaders, managers and professionals based in countries all across the world. He is the Co-editor of the journal Action Learning: Research and Practice

Qualifications:

PhD, MSc, MA

My Latest

Finnestrand, Hanne, Vie, Ola Edvin and Boak, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4489-3096 (2023) Critical incident technique and action learning to enable organizational learning. Action Learning: Research and Practice, 20 (3).
Boak, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4489-3096 (2023) Action learning aiding innovation. Action Learning: Research and Practice, 20 (2). pp. 97-98.
Sanyal, C., Edmonstone, J., Abbott, C., Winterburn, K. and Boak, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4489-3096 (2022) Action learning and healthcare: affinities and challenges. Action Learning: Research and Practice, 19 (3). pp. 269-274.
Boak, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4489-3096 (2022) Action Learning and Healthcare 2011-2022. Action Learning: Research and Practice, 19 (3). pp. 251-268.
Boak, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4489-3096 (2022) The versatility of action learning. Action Learning: Research and Practice. pp. 1-2.
Boak, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4489-3096 (2022) The hidden power of systems thinking: governance in a climate emergency. Action Learning: Research and Practice, 19 (1). pp. 101-103.
Boak, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4489-3096 (2017) Reflexive Leadership. Action Learning: Research and Practice, 14 (3). pp. 292-295.
Boak, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4489-3096 (2021) Shining a Light on Toxic Leadership. In: Ortenblad, Anders, (ed.) Debating Bad Leadership: Reasons and Remedies. Palgrave Debates in Business and Management . Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 79-89
Boak, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4489-3096 (2021) Together in Adversity. Action Learning: Research and Practice, 18 (3). pp. 198-199.
Breen, Judith, Pedler, Mike, Edmonstone, John and Boak, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4489-3096 (2020) Re-framing theory and practice in current and future organisational contexts. Action Learning: Research and Practice, 17 (2). p. 239.

My Most Viewed

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1	Distributed leadership, team working and service improvement in healthcare	390	1612
2	Quality improvement in physiotherapy services	250	430
3	An exploratory content analysis of situational leadership	245
4	Evidence-Based Initiatives for Organizational Change and Development	228	403
5	Team learning and service improvements in health care	157	151
6	Experiences that develop leadership capabilities	156	624
7	Leading change: introducing an electronic medical record system to a paramedic service	149	288
8	Procuring a sustainable future: an action learning approach to the development and modelling of ethical and sustainable procurement practices	147	90
9	Developing competence frameworks in UK healthcare: lessons from practice	146
10	Enabling team learning in healthcare	124	186