André Spicer

André Spicer is a New Zealand academic, Dean, and Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Bayes Business School, City, University of London. He is an expert in the fields of Organisational Behaviour, Leadership and Corporate Social Responsibility, and is the founding director of ETHOS: The Centre for Responsible Enterprise at Bayes.

Early life

Spicer was born and raised in Whangarei, New Zealand. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Otago, and a PhD from the University of Melbourne.

Career

Spicer started his career at the University of Warwick and eventually became a Professor of Organisation Studies there. He then became Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Bayes Business School, City, University of London. He was the founding director of ETHOS: The Centre for Responsible Enterprise there and the Head of the Faculty of Management.

His research on wellbeing, organizational politics, organisational culture, employee identity, new organizational forms, work space and leadership among other areas of expertise have been published in numerous top scholarly journals.

Spicer is the author of a number of books include ''The Wellness Syndrome'', ''The Stupidity Paradox'', ''Desperately Seeking Self Improvement'' and ''Business Bullshit''.

He has written columns for the Guardian, the Financial Times, New Statesman and The Conversation.

Spicer has co-authored reports on the culture of banking and financial regulators.

On 1st December 2021, Spicer was named Bayes Business School’s Interim Dean following the departure of Professor Paolo Volpin. In March 2022, Spicer was appointed as the permanent Dean.Professor Andre Spicer appointed Dean of Bayes Business School
Bayes Business School, 11 March 2022

Publications

*''Contesting the Corporation Struggle, Power and Resistance in Organizations'' (2007), co-written with Peter Fleming. .
*''Unmasking the Entrepreneur'' (2009), co-written with Campbell Jones. .
*''Metaphors We Lead By: Understanding Leadership in the Read World'' (2011), co-written with Mats Alvesson. .
*''Managing 'Human Resources' by Exploiting and Exploring People's Potentials'' (2013), co-written with Mikael Holmqvist. .
*''The Stupidity Paradox: The Power and Pitfalls of Functional Stupidity at Work'' (2016), co-written with Mats Alvesson.
*''Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement: A Year Inside the Optimisation Movement'' (2017), co-written with Carl Cederström. .
*''Business Bullshit'' (2017).
*''Wellness Syndrome'' (2015), (2017), co-written with Carl Cederström.
*''The Corporation: A Critical, Multi-Disciplinary Handbook'' (2017), co-written with Grietje Baars. .

References

Further reading

'The one thing companies could do to stop toxic workplaces'. ''Stuff''. 11 June 2022.

External links

*
The power of pitfalls and functional stupidity at work
'. André Spicer at TEDxWandsworth, 2016 on YouTube.
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Living people
Academics of City, University of London
Academics of the University of Warwick
University of Otago alumni
University of Melbourne alumni
People from Whangārei
Year of birth missing (living people)
Researchers in organizational studies