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:

Senior Lecturer: Leadership & Innovation

Biography:

George is a Senior Lecturer 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

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.
Boak, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4489-3096 and Niehueser, Wilfried (2020) Introducing Artificial Intelligence into a human resources function. Industrial and Commercial Training.
Boak, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4489-3096, Gold, Jeff ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0289-6712 and Devins, David (2020) Action Learning and Action Research to alleviate poverty. Action Learning: Research and Practice, 17 (1). pp. 48-61.
Watt, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2274-8362, Boak, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4489-3096, Krlic, Marija, Wilkinson, Dawn Heather and Gold, Jeff ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0289-6712 (2018) Evidence-Based Initiatives for Organizational Change and Development. In: Hamlin, Robert G., Ellinger, Andrea and Jones, Jenni, (eds.) Evidence-Based Organizational Change and Development (EBOCD). IGI Global, pp. 472-482
Boak, George ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4489-3096 and Crabbe, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3172-5392 (2018) Evaluating the impact of coaching skills training on individual and corporate behaviour. European Journal of Training and Development.

My Most Viewed

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1	Distributed leadership, team working and service improvement in healthcare	367	1360
2	Quality improvement in physiotherapy services	240	357
3	An exploratory content analysis of situational leadership	220
4	Evidence-Based Initiatives for Organizational Change and Development	192	318
5	Team learning and service improvements in health care	147	125
6	Procuring a sustainable future: an action learning approach to the development and modelling of ethical and sustainable procurement practices	141	79
7	Leading change: introducing an electronic medical record system to a paramedic service	140	253
8	Developing competence frameworks in UK healthcare: lessons from practice	137
9	Experiences that develop leadership capabilities	134	495
10	Enabling team learning in healthcare	116	156