What is happening to middle management? by Dopson, S, Stewart, R

“…For many years middle managers' work, career and future role have been the subject of gloomy descriptions, assertions and predictions. …”

Middle Management's Pivotal Role by Dopson, S

“…The impact of structural change is being substantially felt in middle management, with many commentators prepared to write off this tier of management. …”

The Changing Role of the Middle Manager in the United Kingdom by Dopson, S, Stewart, R, Risk, A

“…The article examines the changing role of the middle manager in Great Britain, including the changes affecting middle managers and of their reactions to the changes. …”

Beyond Crisis and Pessimism. Changes in Middle Management in the UK by Dopson, S, Stewart, R

The Changing Psychological Contracts of Middle Managers: Effects and Reactions by Dopson, S, Neumann, J, Newell, H

Information Technology, Organizational Restructuring and the Future of Middle Management by Dopson, S

“…This article examines the impact of information technology as one of the factors affecting the numbers and roles of middle managers. The authors highlight the need to empirically examine middle management work in the context of the complexity of changes affecting the job of middle managers and the complexity of reactions to these changes, if further assertions about the future of middle management are to be avoided. …”

Muddle in the middle: organizational restructuring and middle management careers by Newell, H, Dopson, S

“…Considers the extent to which one organization through rationalization and redundancy programmes has violated its psychological contracts with its middle manager employees by removing the prospect of a traditional career. …”

The Role of the Middle Manager in the Implementation of Evidenced-Based Health Care by Dopson, S, Fitzgerald, L

“…The present study reflects on the role of the middle manager in the implementation of what has become known as evidence-based health care. …”

Uncertainty, Contrariness and the Double-Bind: Middle Managers' Reactions to their Changing Contracts by Dopson, S, Neumann, J

“…This article describes the emerging changes in psychological contracts being experienced by British middle managers in relation to their employing organizations, the middle managers' negative reactions to these changes and organizational responses to such negativity. …”

What is happening to middle managers in Europe? Problems and promises associated with their changing roles and responsibilities. by Dopson, S, Stewart, R

“…Few people have anything encouraging to say about middle management: past, present, or future. The picture of middle management that comes from many articles and from the business press is predominantly a gloomy one. …”

Narrative based medicine. An action research project to develop group education and support for bilingual health advocates and elderly South Asian patients with diabetes by Greenhalgh, T, Collard, A, Begum, N

“…Key challenges in the project were: high burden of need; multiple stakeholders; a shifting baseline of policy directives; frequent staff changes; resource constraints; and resistance of top and middle management to new service models. These difficulties made progress slow, and several early initiatives failed to take root. …”

Closing the gender leadership gap: a multi-centre cross-country comparison of women in management and leadership in academic health centres in the European Union by Kuhlmann, E, Ovseiko, P, Kurmeyer, C, Gutiérrez-Lobos, K, Steinböck, S, von Knorring, M, Buchan, A, Brommels, M

“…Notably, there are also similar trends across countries and centres: gender inequality is stronger within academic enterprises than within hospital enterprises and stronger in middle management than at the top level. These novel findings reveal fissures in the 'glass ceiling' effects at top-level management, while the barriers for women shift to middle-level management and remain strong in academic positions. …”

The future higher education workforce in locally and globally engaged higher education institutions: a review of literature on the topic of 'the academic workforce' by Locke, W, Whitchurch, C, Marini, G

“…However, it also suggests that managing people in higher education is more complex than organisational policies and procedures alone might imply, and that the picture is, therefore, more nuanced, Overall, the review suggests that despite an apparent division of labour between teaching and research activity, evidenced by, for instance, teaching-only and research-only roles in some institutions, in practice the interpretation of policy at middle management level has helped to modulate these trends.…”

A science in the service of an art? The use of ‘value added’ analyses of school performance to aid school improvement by Saunders, L

“…The study was conducted in nine schools, with staff at senior and middle management levels, and focused on mathematics, English and science departments. …”

Are Agencies an Act of Faith? The Experience of HMSO by Dopson, S

“…A detailed account is given of developments in HMSO over three years, as well as the reactions of a group of middle managers to those changes. …”

The Role of Strategy Workshops in Strategy Development Processes: Formality, Communication, Coordination and Inclusion by Whittington, R, Hodgkinson, G, Johnson, G, Schwarz, M

“…The findings, based on 1,337 returns, show that strategy workshops play an important part in formal strategic planning processes; that they rely on discursive rather than analytical approaches to strategy formation; and that they typically do not include middle managers, rather reinforcing elitist approaches to strategy development. …”

Impact of COVID-19 on social prescribing across an integrated care system: a researcher in residence study by Westlake, D, Elston, J, Gude, A, Gradinger, F, Husk, K, Asthana, S

“…Data were collected from observations and field notes recorded during virtual interactions with over 80 social prescribing practitioners and an online survey of 52 social prescribing practitioners and middle managers. We conceptualise social prescribing as a pathway comprising access, engagement and activities, facilitated by workforce and community assets and strategic partnerships. …”