Dr Martyn Griffin
Management School
Senior Lecturer in Organization Studies
+44 114 222 3392
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Management School
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Sheffield University Management School
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Sheffield
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- Profile
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Martyn is a Senior Lecturer in Organization Studies and joined Sheffield University Management School in February 2022, having previously worked at Durham University and the University of Leeds.
His research explores a wide range of different themes including: democratic organizing and the barriers faced in attempting to embrace more alternative ways of working; cultural representations of work within fiction, such animations and books; freedom in organizations, including efforts to understand the intricate ways that individuals constrain themselves and others within their working lives; and management learning in organizations through fairer and more inclusive practices.
Martyn's work is inspired and informed by his interdisciplinary academic past having graduated with a PhD in Political Theory from the University of Newcastle in 2010.
For more information on his latest research, please see his ESRC funded website which has details of all his latest projects:
- Qualifications
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PhD, MA and BA - University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- Research interests
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- Workplace democracy
- Cultural representations of work
- Freedom in organizations
- Management learning
- Inclusion in organizations
- Nursing and organization
- Publications
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Journal articles
- ‘Running towards the bullets’: moral injury in critical care nursing in the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Management Inquiry.
- Creating meaningful connections: An experiment in practically engaged CMS. Organization.
- The impact of COVID-19 on mental health and well-being in critical care nurses – a longitudinal, qualitative study. Nursing in Critical Care.
- Life during furlough: challenges to dignity from a changed employment status. Industrial Relations Journal.
- Inclusion and exclusion in management education and learning: a deliberative approach to conferences. Academy of Management Learning & Education.
- Learning to Live the Paradox in a Democratic Organization: A Deliberative Approach to Paradox Mindsets. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 21(4), 624-647.
- “Why Sit Ye Here and Die”? Counterhegemonic Histories of the Black Female Intellectual in Nineteenth-Century America. Journal of American Studies, 54(5), 1005-1031.
- Nonprofits as Schools for Democracy: The Justifications for Organizational Democracy Within Nonprofit Organizations. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 48(5), 910-930.
- Organizational Readiness: Culturally Mediated Learning Through Disney Animation. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 17(1), 4-23.
- Whistle While You Work? Disney Animation, Organizational Readiness and Gendered Subjugation. Organization Studies, 38(7), 869-894.
- Non-domination, contestation and freedom : the contribution of Philip Pettit to learning and democracy in organisations. Management Learning, 46(3), 317-336.
- Doing Free Jazz and Free Organizations, “A Certain Experience of the Impossible”? Ornette Coleman Encounters Jacques Derrida. Journal of Management Inquiry, 24(1), 25-35.
- How reasonable is intactivism?: A reply to van howe. Global Discourse, 3(2), 234-236.
- Raised aspirations and attainment? A review of the impact of Aimhigher (2004-2011) on widening participation in higher education in England. London Review of Education, 10(1), 75-88.
- Deliberative Democracy and Emotional Intelligence: An Internal Mechanism to Regulate the Emotions. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 31(6), 517-538.
- Developing deliberative minds-piaget, vygotsky and the deliberative democratic citizen. Journal of Public Deliberation, 7(1).
- Motivating Reflective Citizens: Deliberative Democracy and the Internal Deliberative Virtues. The Journal of Value Inquiry, 45(2), 175-186.
- Governing for the common good: the possibilities of sociocracy in nonprofit organizations. Voluntas.
- Toxic absence: why leader presence matters in times of crisis. Journal of Nursing Management.
Chapters
- Research, Knowledge Exchange and Impact: The Experience of a University–public Sector Partnership in North East England, The North East After Brexit: Impact and Policy (pp. 159-174). Emerald Publishing Limited
- Doing management education with free jazz and Derrida, The Routledge Companion to Reinventing Management Education (pp. 178-190).
- ‘Running towards the bullets’: moral injury in critical care nursing in the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Management Inquiry.
- Research group
- Grants
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ESRC Future Leaders Grant (2016 - 2019): A Democracy to Come? Investigating Change in Alternative Organisations
- Teaching interests
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Martyn enjoys teaching students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Over the past few years, his teaching has focused on organizational behaviour, change management and qualitative methods.
He likes to encourage a critical approach to learning, placing power and reflexivity at the heart of the educational experience. The lectures and seminars conducted in his classes draw heavily on experiential learning, asking students to reflect on their own and others' engagements with the world of work and draws heavily on his own research experiences in democratic organizing.
Finally, Martyn uses films and fictional representations of work regularly within his lectures in an effort to help students 'see' concepts in action so that they can discuss these collectively and understand how they might operate (and be critiqued) on a deeper level.
- Teaching activities
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- MGT120 - Introduction to Behaviour at Work
- MGT219 - Organizational Behaviour
- PhD Supervision
Martyn is interested in supervising PhD students with interests in:
- Workplace democracy
- Cultural representations of work
- Freedom in organizations
- Management learning
- Inclusion in organizations
- Nursing and organization