Dr Michael Butler – Profile
Executive Profile
Michael is a Senior Lecturer in Management at Aston Business School, UK. His research interests focus on change management, specifically, adapting promising management practices to enhance performance. His research has won funding from national competitions e.g. the ESRC.
Michael works on the boundary of academia/practice – he is passionate about helping people and organisations to achieve their potential. The TRANSFORMATION Project is creating innovative management tools by working with Catalyst Education (Birmingham Local Education Partnership), Echo Managed Services, NHS Warwickshire, Playgroup (a London advertising agency), Warwickshire Police, Associated British Foods plc, DHL Supply Chain and the Association for Project Management – new project partners include British Sugar and NGOs. His work has won awards and features regularly in international media (eg the BBC). He consults on organization development and is a Non Executive Director of Beyond Engagement. He has published 3 books, over 25 articles (including world top ranked journals), and many reports.
Why not join The TRANSFORMATION Project? (m.j.r.butler@aston.ac.uk)
Extended Profile
Dr. Michael JR Butler is a Senior Lecturer in Management at Aston Business School, UK. His research interests focus on change management, specifically, adapting promising management practices to enhance performance across varied organisational contexts, contributing to ideas about receptivity for change, knowledge exchange and project-based organisations. His research has won funding from national competitions e.g. the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) for The TRANSFORMATION Project, which involves translating existing academic theory into practitioner management tools by working with Catalyst Education (Birmingham Local Education Partnership), Echo Managed Services, NHS Warwickshire, Playgroup (a London advertising agency), Warwickshire Police, Associated British Foods plc, DHL Supply Chain and the Association for Project Management. The Project is being extended into Twinings. His work, both research and teaching, has won awards (e.g. at the university level, the Aston Excellence in Teaching Award) and nominations for prizes (The Warwick Prize for Writing). He features regularly in international media (including the BBC). He consults on organization development and policy processes (e.g. General Motors and the Cabinet Office) and is a Non Executive Director of Beyond Engagement, a community interest organisation. He is on the Editorial Board of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in twenty-five peer reviewed articles, including world top ranked journals e.g. Organization Science. He has published three books: Language, Power and Identity (Hodder and Stoughton, 1999, selling 10,000 copies), The Social Cognitive Neuroscience of Organizations (Blackwell, 2007) and Introduction to Organisational Behaviour (CIPD, 2011). He received his Ph.D. from Warwick Business School (UK) in 2000. He retains his passion for history and archaeology since his first degree (Durham, UK, 1988).