Christeen George

Dr Christeen George

Doctoral Supervisor
The Claude Littner Business School
christine.george@uwl.ac.uk

Dr Christeen George has worked as an internal consultant, a researcher, a university lecturer and a business consultant. She has also taught in Cross River State in Nigeria. She is a Chartered Psychologist and a registered Occupational Psychologist and was a member of the British Psychological Society’s Presidential Taskforce on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and the former Education and Training Lead on the Division of Occupational Psychology Committee. She is currently an Academic Fellow at Birkbeck on the Professional Doctorate programme. 

Dr George has managed and delivered research projects in many large organisations. Her publications include a book on ‘The Psychological Contract’ and work on the retention of professional workers.

Teaching

Dr George has specialisms in:

  • organisational behaviour
  • leadership
  • retention
  • job design
  • recruitment and assessment
  • organisational change
  • motivation and engagement
  • psychological safety

Research

  • Research and publications

    Blogs 

    ‘You’re a key worker now! Perceptions of job characteristics and Covid 19’, 11 May 2020 

    ‘Decolonising the curriculum’, 9 April 2020 

    ‘Don’t call me BAME!’, Amama Associates, 6 January 2020 

    ‘What happens to people who breach psychological contracts?’, Amama Associates, 21 March 2019 

    Books 

    C. George (November 2009) ‘Psychological Contract: Developing and managing professional workers’ as part of the ‘Work Psychology’ series, Open University Press/McGraw Hill 

    Book chapters 

    Forson , C , Calveley , M , Shelley , S & George , C (2017) , Academics at the intersection of age and gender: : A Ghanaian experience . in K Broadbent , G Strachan & G Healy (eds) , Gender and the professions : International and contemporary perspectives . Routledge Studies in Gender and Organisations , Routledge , New York and Abingdon , pp. 85-104 .

    Selected journal articles 

    C. George (2015) ‘Retaining professional workers: What makes them stay?’, Employee Relations, vol. 37(1) pp 102-121 

    J. Davey & C. George (2010) ‘Personality and its effect on financial attitudes and behaviours’ , The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, vol. 5. 

    D. Kelley-Patterson & C. George (2002) ‘Mapping the contract: An exploration of the comparative expectations of graduate employees and Human Resource Managers within the Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism industries in the United Kingdom.’, Journal of Service Management, vol. 2, No. 1, February 

    D. Kelley-Patterson & C. George (2001) ‘Securing graduate commitment: an exploration of the comparative expectations of placement students, graduate recruits and Human Resource Managers within the Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism industries’ , International Journal of Hospitality Management, vol. 20 pp 311-323 

    C. George, A. Hartley & J. Paris (2001) ‘The representation of female athletes in the textual and visual media’, Corporate Communication, vol 6, No 2, p 94-101
     

  • Conferences

    Association of Business Psychologists Conference 2024 

    Division of Occupational Psychology Conference 2024 

    Division of Occupational Psychology Conference 2023

  • Research degree supervision

    • Authentic leadership
    • Leadership and resilience
    • Professional managers
    • Psychological contract
    • Onboarding
    • People at their best
    • Dark Leadership Triad

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