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Dr Richard Holti

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Senior Lecturer in Human Resources Management

Dr Richard Holti is a member of The Open University's Centre for Human Resource and Change Management.

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Research interests

Current developments in models for managing inter-organisational relations in complex services, including the nature of barriers to strategic change and approaches to working with these barriers; approaches to managing and consulting to strategic change, bringing together political, cognitive, cultural and psycho dynamic perspectives; the nature and dilemmas of professional leadership; the scholarly and practical contribution of action research in the field of management research.

Current projects

Research student supervision

Publications

Book
Holti, RW, Stern, E  (1987)  'Distance Working', Paris, CEC/Futuribles.
Book Chapter
Storey, J, Salaman, GJ, Holti, RW  (2008)  'Executive directors' knowledge', The Evolution of Business Knowledge, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 51-70. Abstract
Storey, J, Salaman, GJ, Holti, RW  (2007)  'Managers roles in the evolution of business knowledge', Scarbrough, H (ed.) The Evolution of Business Knowledge, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Holti, RW  (2001)  'Teams in manufacturing', Warner, M (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Business and Management, Thompson Learning.
Conference Paper
Holti, RW, Storey, J  (2008)  'Sense-making by clinical and non-clinical executive directors with new governance arrangements', Academy of Management Annual Meeting: the questions we ask, Anaheim, CA, USA, Open University Business School. Abstract
Holti, RW  (2006)  'Understanding social capital in developing collaboration for project-based organising', Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.
Holti, RW, Hutchinson, VJ  (2006)  'Institutional change and local learning: understanding the conditions for engagement and disengagement in the evolution of professional practices', European Group for Organisational Studies Annual Colloquium, Bergen, 6-8 July.
Holti, RW, Hutchinson, VJ  (2004)  'Institutional conditions and local learning: the troubled development of collaborative supply chain relations in the built environment', 20th European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium, "The Organization as a Set of Dynamic Relationships", Ljubljana University.
Holti, RW, Hutchinson, VJ, Smalley, M, Tomkins, C  (2003)  'Action research as a methodology for understanding and developing inter-organisational relationships in the construction sector', British Academy of Management Conference, Harrogate, September.
Holti, RW  (1997)  'The lost world: virtual organisation in the UK building', Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Boston, USA, August.
Holti, RW, Standing, H  (1997)  'Psychodynamics and inter-occupational relations in an industrial sector - the case of UK construction', Annual Symposium of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations, Philadelphia, June.
Holti, RW, Neumann, JE  (1990)  'The issue of shared gains: co-operation versus collective bargaining in teamwork', International Conference on "Man and Work On The Threshold of the Third Millenium", Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, January.
Holti, RW  (1988)  'Recent developments in corporate strategy in the UK: consequences for worker influence', Worker Participation", Slovak Institute for Technology and Social Development, Bratislava, December.
Journal Article
Storey, J, Holti, RW  (2009)  'Sense-making by clinical and non-clinical executive directors within new governance arrangements', Journal of Health Organization and Management, vol. 23, issue 2, pp. 149-169. Abstract
Nicolini, D, Holti, RW, Smalley, M  (2001)  'Integrating project activities: the theory and practice of managing the supply chain through clusters', Construction Management and Economics, vol. 19, issue 1, pp. 37-47. Abstract
Nicolini, D, Holti, RW, Oldman, A, Smalley, M, Tomkins, C  (2000)  'Can target costing and whole life costing be applied in the construction industry? Evidence from two case studies', British Journal of Management, vol. 11, issue 4, Blackwell Publishing, pp. 303-324.
Neumann, JE, Holti, RW, Miller, EJ  (1999)  'Three contemporary challenges for OD practitioners', The Leadership and Organisational Development Journal, vol. 20, issue 4, pp. 216-221.
Neumann, JE, Holti, RW  (1999)  'Organisationsentwicklung: stand der entwicklung und perspektiven', Organisationsentwicklung, issue 1, pp. 70-71.
Miscellaneous
Storey, J, Holti, RW, Winchester, NJ, Green, R, Salaman, GJ, Bate, P  (2010)  'Comparative Governance Arrangements and Comparative Performance: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study', NCCSDO project: SDO/129/2006, issue March, Queen’s Printer and Controller of HMSO.
Holti, RW, Smalley, M, Smith, K  (2007)  'Advancing the integration of the supply chain in construction: The challenges for commerical practice', Final evaluation report: findings from action research, London, UK, Constructing Intelligence.
Non OUBS Working Paper
Holti, RW, Storey, J  (2008)  'Clinical and non-clinical executive directors' sense-making of the new governance arrangements in the NHS', NHS/SDO Project Working Paper, issue 2008/4.
Report
Holti, RW, Nicolini, D, Smalley, M  (1999)  'Building Down Barriers Interim Evaluation Report No. 1: the concept phase', London, The Tavistock Institute.