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Professor Veronica Hope Hailey

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Veronica Hope-Hailey

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Veronica’s research focuses on the link between Business Strategy, HR Strategy and Change Management. She is particularly interested in the relationship between organisational change and individual transition. She teaches and consults on an international basis.

News

Professor Hope-Hailey speaks to Harvard Business Review on communicating change, leadership in context and the importance of persevering {more webcasts »}

2012 HR Most Influential list: Professor Hope-Hailey ranked 11th {more info...}

Veronica specialises in working with large, mature organisations in collaborative research partnerships.  A consistent theme of these collaborations is exploration of the challenges of corporate renewal and people transformation.  Her most recent work has focused on the Repair of Trust following the financial crisis, culminating in a report for the CIPD “Where has all the trust gone?”.  This research was undertaken within 14 organisations, including the John Lewis Partnership, GKN, Norton Rose, HMRC and a banking group. Before that Veronica was funded by SHRM in the USA to conduct a study comparing Employee Engagement and Performance Management in the UK, India and China and The Netherlands. Veronica has just commenced a new project with the CIPD, looking at Innovation and HRM.  She is also launching the second phase of her Trust research, examining how to foster the development of trustworthy leaders.

In the 1990s Veronica worked with Lynda Gratton on the Leading Edge Forum at LBS, after which she went on to found and direct the Change Management Consortium (CMC) which ran from 2002 until 2008. Members of the CMC included GSK, Ernst and Young, GKN, MOD and Kraft.

Veronica is a member of the UK Government’s Task Force on Employee Engagement. Veronica’s previous appointments include Associate Dean and Professor of HRM at Cass Business School, Professor of HRM at Cranfield School of Management and also a Fellowship at the University of Cambridge. Her publications include Strategic Human Resource Management with Lynda Gratton and Exploring Strategic Change with Julia Balogun which goes into 4th edition in 2013.

Dean, School of Management

The School has performed extremely well with The Times Rankings 2012, evidence of this.  The School has come out 1st for Business, Faculty Quality, Accounting & Finance, Salary Increase and Graduate Jobs. Delivering the very best student experience from a world class research base remains central to the School’s mission.

Veronica is married with five daughters

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Books

Balogun J & Hope-Hailey V (2008) Exploring Strategic Change 3rd Edition. Prentice Hall

Balogun J & Hope-Hailey V (2003) Exploring Strategic Change 2nd Edition. Prentice Hall

Hope-Hailey V (2000) Strategic Human Resource Management: Corporate Rhetoric and Human Reality. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Practitioner journals

Building a Trust Fund People Management October 2011

Developing context sensitive change Public Sector Executive 2009

The three levels of developing a change capability People Management February 2009

Culture of human resource management Quality Management May 1999

Transforming your Organisation through People Management Focus 1998

Transforming your Organisation Credit Control 8 (19) 1998

The Role of the HR function Management Quarterly January 1999

Introduction to People Management Management Quarterly October 1998