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Professor Dorota Bourne

Professor of Leadership and Change Management

Head of Leadership Teaching Group
Senior Fellow, UK HEA

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Specialisms

  • Personal Development, 
  • Leadership, 
  • Knowledge Transfer, 
  • Change Management, 
  • Coaching

Location

Henley Business School building room 226, Whiteknights campus

Professor Dorota Joanna Bourne is a Professor of Leadership and Change Management at Henley Business School.

Dorota holds a PhD in Management and a Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. She is also a certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming Master Coach and a member of the British Psychological Society's Occupational Psychology and Coaching Psychology divisions.

Her expertise lies in personal and leadership development, executive coaching and change management. She worked with businesses ranging from multinational corporations and public sector companies to private and not-for-profit organisations. She undertakes practice-oriented projects such as the creation of spin-off companies, implementation of organisational change programmes and leadership development programmes.

She works with senior business professionals as well as scholars in order to facilitate knowledge transfer between academia and practice. Her approach is underpinned by a belief that organisations should be built on shared values, where all individuals can truly belong and find their unique pathway to a personal and professional self-fulfilment.

Her work has won numerous research grants and has been published in various international journals and books. She has served on a board of the European Personal Construct Association and organised many conferences in her field. She acts as a reviewer for a number of academic journals, delivers programmes at all levels of academia and supervises and examines PhD students.

Reference: Bourne, D. J. and Jankowicz, D. (2024) George Kelly’s legacy: exploring the impact of personal construct psychology. Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry, 21 (1). pp. 29-49. ISSN 1532-5555
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Reference: Boddy, R., Bourne, D. , Ozbilgin, M. and Jankowicz, D. (2024) Does work mean something different to men and women? An empirical examination of the psychological contract in the workplace across two countries. Journal of Psychological Research, 6 (1). pp. 20-36. ISSN 2630-5143 doi: 10.30564/jpr.v6i1.6250
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Reference: Barbour, P. J. and Bourne, D. J. (2022) Developing sociality in a post-conflict Northern Ireland: an application of the perceiver element grid. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 35 (3). pp. 953-977. ISSN 1521-0650 doi: 10.1080/10720537.2020.1808867
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Reference: Balta, M., Valsecchi, R., Papadopoulos, T. and Bourne, D. J. (2021) Digitalization and co-creation of healthcare value: a case study in occupational health. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 168. 120785. ISSN 00401625 doi: 10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120785
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Reference: Jackson, S. and Joanna Bourne, D. (2020) Can an online coaching programme facilitate behavioural change in women working in STEM fields? International Coaching Psychology Review, 15 (1). pp. 19-35. ISSN 2396-8753 doi: 10.53841/bpsicpr.2020.15.1.20
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Reference: Bourne, D. , Fijn van Draat, N. M. and Raja, J. Z. (2015) One step forward, and two steps back: women and career progression in academia during times of uncertainty. In: 15th European Academy of Management Annual Conference, 17-20 June 2015, Warsaw, Poland.
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Reference: Bourne, D. , Aldossari, M. and Lewis, C. (2014) Would a rose by any other name still smell as sweet? The importance of authentic leadership in leadership development. In: European Academy of Management Conference, 4-7 June 2014, Valencia, Spain.
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Reference: Aldossari, M. A. and Bourne, D. J. (2014) Nepotism and turnover intentions amongst knowledge workers in Saudi Arabia. In: Jemielniak, D. (ed.) The Laws of the Knowledge Workplace: Changing Roles and the Meaning of Work in Knowledge-Intensive Environments. Gower, pp. 25-34. ISBN 9781472423887
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Reference: Raja, J. Z., Bourne, D. , Goffin, K., Cakkol, M. and Martinez, V. (2013) Achieving customer satisfaction through integrated products and services: an exploratory study. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 30 (6). pp. 1128-1144. ISSN 1540-5885 doi: 10.1111/jpim.12050
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Reference: Bourne, D. and Jankowicz, D. (2012) The repertory grid technique. In: Jemielniak, D. (ed.) Qualitative Research Methods. PWN.
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Reference: Bourne, D. (2012) The dream’s door: a case of MNC in Poland. Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies, 2 (4). pp. 1-13. ISSN 2045-0621 doi: 10.1108/20450621211256247
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Reference: Bourne, D. J. (2010) On identity reformation and local transition: a case from Poland. Journal of Organisational Change Management, 23 (6). pp. 710-730. ISSN 0953-4814 doi: 10.1108/09534811011084375
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Reference: Bourne, D. (2008) From managers to artists and priests: on transformation and development of organisational leaders. In: Kostera, M. (ed.) Organizational Olympians: heroes and heroines of organizational myths. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 40-49. ISBN 9780230515710 doi: 10.1057/9780230583580_5
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Reference: Bourne, D. (2008) Change management and explorations of organizational values with the repertory grid technique. In: Kostera, M. (ed.) New directions in organization theory and management. Wydawnictwa Akademickie i Profesjonalne, pp. 458-472.
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Reference: Bourne, D. and Ozbilgin, M. (2008) Strategies for combating gendered perceptions of careers. Career Development International, 13 (4). pp. 320-332. ISSN 1362-0436 doi: 10.1108/13620430810880817
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Reference: Dobosz-Bourne, D. and Kostera, M. (2007) The quest for quality: translation of a mythical idea in a global corporation. Journal of Organisational Change Management, 20 (1). pp. 60-73. ISSN 0953-4814 doi: 10.1108/09534810710715289
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Reference: Bourne, D. (2007) On image and identity in general motors Poland. In: Kostera, M. (ed.) Polish organizations: new system, new millennium, new Europe? Gdanskie Wydawnictwo Psychologiczne.
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Reference: Dobosz-Bourne, D. and Jankowicz, D. (2006) Reframing resistance to change: experience from General Motors Poland. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 17 (12). pp. 2021-2034. ISSN 1466-4399 doi: 10.1080/09585190600965431
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Reference: Dobosz-Bourne, D. (2006) Reverse diffusion of quality: evidence from general motors UK and Poland. Journal for East European Management Studies, 11 (3). pp. 244-266. ISSN 1862-0019
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Reference: Bourne, D. and Jankowicz, D. (2003) How are meanings negotiated? Commonality, sociality, and the travel of ideas. In: Scheer, J. (ed.) Crossing Borders, Going Places. Giessen: Fischer-Verlag. ISBN 9783898062961
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Reference: Dobosz, D. (2003) The repertory grid interview and laddering as complementary instruments for organisational culture analysis based on the ethnographic approach. In: Chiari, G. and Nuzzo, M. L. (eds.) Psychological contructivism and the social world. FrancoAngeli. ISBN 9788846448125
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Reference: Dobosz, D. and Jankowicz, A. D. (2002) Knowledge transfer of the Western concept of ‘quality’. Human Resource Development International, 5 (3). pp. 353-367. ISSN 1469-8374 doi: 10.1080/13678860210143578
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