Sykes, Christopher S.

Overview

Christopher has a PhD in the area of organisational change. His research focuses on practices and processes in organisations and how they are shaped by the operations of time, power and politics. Current projects include: the politics of time and organisational change; a review of time and temporality, sensemaking and narrative in organisational change and; most recently, inter-personal and organisational misconduct leading to workplace suicide. He is experienced in the use of a range of qualitative methodologies including collaborative and participative action research and ethnography. His research has appeared in journals such as: Human Relations, International Journal of Management Reviews, Organization Studies, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Studies in Higher Education and Continuing Studies in Higher Education. He is co-author with Patrick Dawson of a monograph published by Routledge in 2016 entitled Organizational Change and Temporality: Bending the Arrow of Time. He is the current Management Discipline Leader in the School of Management and Marketing.

Research Areas

Research Overview

Chris's research interests include:
- Processual approaches to organisational change
- The politics of time and organisational change
- Practice-based research in organisations
- Inter-personal and organizational misconduct and workplace suicide

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2020	How Students Learn on Placement: Transitioning Placement Practices in Work-Integrated Learning Published In Vocations and Learning
2019	Concepts of Time and Temporality in the Storytelling and Sensemaking Literatures: A Review and Critique Published In International Journal of Management Reviews
2016	Food and music matters: Affective relations and practices in social justice organizations Published In Human Relations
2014	Re-viewing student teamwork: preparation for the 'real world' or bundles of situated social practices? Published In Studies in Continuing Education
2014	Stories affording new pathways: bridging the divide between aged and disability care Published In Journal of Organizational Change Management
2013	A practice-based approach to student reflection in the workplace during a Work-Integrated Learning placement Published In Studies in Continuing Education
2012	A dissemination methodology for learning and teaching developments through engaging and embedding Published In Studies in Higher Education
2012	Made to measure: taming practices with results-based accountability Published In Organization Studies
2012	Reflective assessment in work-integrated learning: to structure or not to structure, that was our question Published In Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education
2011	Who cares wins: owning the learning transition Published In Development and Learning in Organizations: an international journal
2010	Improving learning and teaching through a multi-institutional, discipline-specific project Published In Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management
2008	Building community in academic settings: the importance of flexibility in a structured mentoring program Published In Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning
2008	Partnership and participation: Contradictions and tensions in the social policy space Published In Australian Journal of Social Issues

Book

Year	Title
2016	Organizational Change and Temporality: Bending the Arrow of Time Publisher New York, United States

Chapter

Year	Title
2017	Patrick Dawson: Organizational change as a nonlinear, ongoing, dynamic process Published In The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers Publisher Cham, Switzerland
2009	Critical Action Research and Organizational Ethnography Published In Organizational Ethnography: Studying the Complexities of Everyday Life

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2018	Ethnography in work integrated learning research Published In 7th National Conference on Work Integrated Learning
2012	'So, what did you do?' A performative, practice-based approach to examining informal learning in WIL Published In 9th International Conference on Cooperative and Work-Integrated Education
2012	Building a matrix in the students' mind through embedding cross-disciplinarity in innovative capstone courses Published In 4th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies - Conference Proceedings
2012	Learning/Business’ and ‘The Real World’ Chimera: Exploring the Discursive Boundaries of Collaborative Practices Published In Higher Education Research and the Student Learning Experience (HERSLEB) Conference
2011	Change and wicked problems in health care transitioning Published In 25th Annual Australia New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (ANZAM 2011)
2011	How do mundane materialities matter with everyday organising? A case of food and music Published In Third International Symposium: How Matter Matters: Objects, Artifacts and Materiality in Organization Studies
2007	Embedding the development of intercultural competence in Australian business Higher Education Published In Australian International Education Conference

Other Research Activities

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	Career Orientations and Performance Management in an Emergency Service Organisation: Competing or Complementary Imperatives?	Bland, Jay
Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	Understanding the impacts of accreditation to the Australian NSQHS standards on quality and safety in public dental services.	Powers, John
Master of Philosophy - BAL	Exploring Organisations' Reactions to Employee Suicide	Pfitzner, Kym
Doctor of Philosophy	Multiple explorations of social misfit.	Sun, Stella

Reviewer Of

Human Relations (Journal)
Journal of Change Management (Journal)
Journal of Organizational Change Management (Journal)
Journal of Organizational Ethnography (Journal)
Studies in Higher Education (Journal)

Education And Training

Ph.D., The University of Sydney, Faculty of Economics and Business 2007
Master of Social Policy, Western Sydney University 2003

Keywords

Organisational change, practice-based approaches to organising, time and temporality, community and NGO organisations.

Full Name

Dr. Christopher S. Sykes

Mailing Address

School of Management, Operations and Management, UOW

Northfields Ave

Wollongong

NSW

2522

Australia

Research Areas

Research Overview

Chris's research interests include:
- Processual approaches to organisational change
- The politics of time and organisational change
- Practice-based research in organisations
- Inter-personal and organizational misconduct and workplace suicide

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2020	How Students Learn on Placement: Transitioning Placement Practices in Work-Integrated Learning Published In Vocations and Learning
2019	Concepts of Time and Temporality in the Storytelling and Sensemaking Literatures: A Review and Critique Published In International Journal of Management Reviews
2016	Food and music matters: Affective relations and practices in social justice organizations Published In Human Relations
2014	Re-viewing student teamwork: preparation for the 'real world' or bundles of situated social practices? Published In Studies in Continuing Education
2014	Stories affording new pathways: bridging the divide between aged and disability care Published In Journal of Organizational Change Management
2013	A practice-based approach to student reflection in the workplace during a Work-Integrated Learning placement Published In Studies in Continuing Education
2012	A dissemination methodology for learning and teaching developments through engaging and embedding Published In Studies in Higher Education
2012	Made to measure: taming practices with results-based accountability Published In Organization Studies
2012	Reflective assessment in work-integrated learning: to structure or not to structure, that was our question Published In Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education
2011	Who cares wins: owning the learning transition Published In Development and Learning in Organizations: an international journal
2010	Improving learning and teaching through a multi-institutional, discipline-specific project Published In Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management
2008	Building community in academic settings: the importance of flexibility in a structured mentoring program Published In Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning
2008	Partnership and participation: Contradictions and tensions in the social policy space Published In Australian Journal of Social Issues

Book

Year	Title
2016	Organizational Change and Temporality: Bending the Arrow of Time Publisher New York, United States

Chapter

Year	Title
2017	Patrick Dawson: Organizational change as a nonlinear, ongoing, dynamic process Published In The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers Publisher Cham, Switzerland
2009	Critical Action Research and Organizational Ethnography Published In Organizational Ethnography: Studying the Complexities of Everyday Life

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2018	Ethnography in work integrated learning research Published In 7th National Conference on Work Integrated Learning
2012	'So, what did you do?' A performative, practice-based approach to examining informal learning in WIL Published In 9th International Conference on Cooperative and Work-Integrated Education
2012	Building a matrix in the students' mind through embedding cross-disciplinarity in innovative capstone courses Published In 4th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies - Conference Proceedings
2012	Learning/Business’ and ‘The Real World’ Chimera: Exploring the Discursive Boundaries of Collaborative Practices Published In Higher Education Research and the Student Learning Experience (HERSLEB) Conference
2011	Change and wicked problems in health care transitioning Published In 25th Annual Australia New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (ANZAM 2011)
2011	How do mundane materialities matter with everyday organising? A case of food and music Published In Third International Symposium: How Matter Matters: Objects, Artifacts and Materiality in Organization Studies
2007	Embedding the development of intercultural competence in Australian business Higher Education Published In Australian International Education Conference

Other Research Activities

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	Career Orientations and Performance Management in an Emergency Service Organisation: Competing or Complementary Imperatives?	Bland, Jay
Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	Understanding the impacts of accreditation to the Australian NSQHS standards on quality and safety in public dental services.	Powers, John
Master of Philosophy - BAL	Exploring Organisations' Reactions to Employee Suicide	Pfitzner, Kym
Doctor of Philosophy	Multiple explorations of social misfit.	Sun, Stella

Reviewer Of

Human Relations (Journal)
Journal of Change Management (Journal)
Journal of Organizational Change Management (Journal)
Journal of Organizational Ethnography (Journal)
Studies in Higher Education (Journal)

Education And Training

Ph.D., The University of Sydney, Faculty of Economics and Business 2007
Master of Social Policy, Western Sydney University 2003

Keywords

Organisational change, practice-based approaches to organising, time and temporality, community and NGO organisations.

Full Name

Dr. Christopher S. Sykes

Mailing Address

School of Management, Operations and Management, UOW

Northfields Ave

Wollongong

NSW

2522

Australia

Geographic Location

Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Located In Facility

40.251

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1650-4196 (confirmed)

Overview

Overview

Research Areas

Research Overview

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Conference Paper

Funding

Other Research Activities

Supervision

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Service

Reviewer Of

Background

Education And Training

Keywords

Contact

Full Name

Mailing Address

Geographic Location

Located In Facility

Identity

Orcid Id

Overview

Research Areas

Research Overview

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Conference Paper

Funding

Other Research Activities

Supervision

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Service

Reviewer Of

Background

Education And Training

Keywords

Contact

Full Name

Mailing Address

Geographic Location

Located In Facility

Identity

Orcid Id

Visualisations

Research Areas