All Outputs (5)

Paradoxes of multi-level leadership: Insights from an integrated care system (2023)
Journal Article
Bolden, R., Kars, S., Jarvis, C., & Sheffield, R. (2023). Paradoxes of multi-level leadership: Insights from an integrated care system. Journal of Change Management, 23(4), 337-357. https://doi.org/10.1080/14697017.2023.2234388

In this paper, we draw on systems leadership, complexity and paradox theory to elucidate the tensions that organisational actors experience when practising multi-level leadership. We explore these issues through a study of the perceptions and experie... Read More about Paradoxes of multi-level leadership: Insights from an integrated care system.

Working with adaption‐innovation in leadership practice: What works and what's missing? (2023)
Journal Article
Sheffield, R. (2023). Working with adaption‐innovation in leadership practice: What works and what's missing?. Journal of Leadership Studies, https://doi.org/10.1002/jls.21840

The current paper reviews examples of working with organizational leaders and integrating adaption-innovation (A-I) theory and its associated psychometric, the Kirton's Adaption-Innovation Inventory (KAI; Kirton, 1985). Three specific in-depth cases... Read More about Working with adaption‐innovation in leadership practice: What works and what's missing?.

Adaption-Innovation theory: A tribute to Dr Michael J. Kirton (2022)
Journal Article
Sheffield, R., & Friedel, C. R. (2022). Adaption-Innovation theory: A tribute to Dr Michael J. Kirton. International Journal of Innovation Management, 26(1), 2277001. https://doi.org/10.1142/S1363919622770011

When Dr. Michael J. Kirton died, on August 18th 2020, he left behind a major contribution to the field of problem solving. In 2019, one of our authors visited Dr. Kirton to understand more about the early influences that shaped the development of Ada... Read More about Adaption-Innovation theory: A tribute to Dr Michael J. Kirton.

Working with attention and distraction in leadership development (2019)
Journal Article
French, R., Sheffield, R., & Simpson, P. (2019). Working with attention and distraction in leadership development. Organisational and Social Dynamics, 19(2), 230-248

Bion’s theory of groups is used to explore the dynamics of learning on a leadership development programme. The dynamic of a group is influenced by the capacity of its members to negotiate, consciously and unconsciously, the tension between the oppose... Read More about Working with attention and distraction in leadership development.

Healthy returns: Leadership learning and innovation climate in the UK health sector (2017)
Journal Article
Jarvis, C., Kars-Unluoglu, S., & Sheffield, R. (2017). Healthy returns: Leadership learning and innovation climate in the UK health sector

Sir Ian Carruthers’ (2011) report for the Department of Health entitled ‘Innovation, Health and Wealth’ highlighted a pressing need for the NHS to improve its capacity for innovation to deal with growing demand and shrinking/static budgets, a challen... Read More about Healthy returns: Leadership learning and innovation climate in the UK health sector.