Professor Roger Gill

Visiting Professor in the Business School

Biography

Professor Roger Gill is Visiting Professor of Leadership Studies and an independent scholar, researcher and writer in the field of leadership and workplace spirituality. He has led MBA classes at Durham in management consulting and leadership, supervised PhD students and contributed to executive development programmes. Roger is a Chartered Psychologist and a graduate of the universities of Oxford (BA, MA, psychology and philosophy), Liverpool (BPhil, occupational psychology) and Bradford (PhD, occupational psychology research). He was formerly Director of the Research Centre for Leadership Studies at the Leadership Trust in the UK and Professor of Business Administration (Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management) at the University of Strathclyde Graduate Business School in the UK., where he later also served as Visiting Professor of Leadership Studies. His career has encompassed HRM in industry in the UK, management consultancy, and leadership development across the world, and establishing and running his own company devoted to HRM consultancy and management training and development in East and Southeast Asia, based in Singapore. He has held a range of both permanent and visiting academic appointments in the UK, USA, France and the UAE. His publications include Theory and Practice of Leadership, 2^nd edition, which was shortlisted for the UK’s Chartered Institute of Management “Management Book of the Year” and “Management Textbook of the Year” awards in 2013. He has published widely on management, leadership, and religious and secular humanist spirituality in scholarly and practitioner journals and the media.

 

Current Research and Writing Projects

A new definition and model of leadership comprising six core themes and practices

Spiritual leadership in times of war and peace, with lessons from the Russian-Ukrainian war

 

Research Interests

The language, etymology, hermeneutics and definition of leadership

Mental health and well-being in relation to employee empowerment and engagement, religious and secular humanist spirituality, and leadership in the workplace

Authoritarian leadership, autocracy and democracy

 

Selected Recent Publications

Authored Books

Gill, R. (2011). Theory and Practice of Leadership, 2nd edition. London: SAGE Publications

Hodges, J. and Gill, R. (2015). Sustaining Change in Organizations. London: SAGE Publications

Chapters in Books

Gill, R. (2022). Introduction to Spirituality. In Altman, Y., Neal. J. and Mayrhofer, W., Editors, Workplace Spirituality: Making a Difference, Vol. 1 in the Management, Spirituality and Religion Series. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Gill, R. (2022). Leadership and Spirituality. In Altman, Y., Neal. J. and Mayrhofer, W., Editors, In Workplace Spirituality: Making a Difference, Vol. 1 in the Management, Spirituality and Religion Series. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Gill, R. (2018). Personal Reflections of the Future of Leadership Studies. In Schedlitzk, D. and Edwards, G., Studying Leadership: Traditional and Critical Approaches, Second Edition.  London: SAGE Publications.

 

Gill, R. (2017). Invited Message to the International Conference on Spirituality. In Management Education, Conference Proceedings, Globsyn Business School and the Association of Indian Management Schools, Kolkata, India.

 

Gill, R. (2015). Case Study: Corporate values at Goldman Sachs. In SAGE Business Cases.  London: SAGE Publications, http://knowledge.sagepub.com.

 

Gill, R. 2015). Case Study: Leadership and strategy at Marks & Spencer. In SAGE Business Cases.  London: SAGE Publications, http://knowledge.sagepub.com.

 

Gill, R. (2015). Studying Leadership through the Lens of the Literature on Leadership: A Hermeneutic Model. In Krasnikoa, Y. Negrov, A. and Sarapulov,V., Editors, General and Special Methods to Study Leadership, Leadership: Theory and Practice, Issue 2 – SPb. St Petersburg, Russia: St. Petersburg Christian University.

 

Gill, R. (2015). Change Management – or Change Leadership? In Dumas, C and Beinecke, R.H., Editors, Change Leadership.  London: SAGE Publications.

 

Gill, R. (2014). Текстовые рассказы в руководстве: проблема интерпретации в зависимости от определения и смысла руководства. Нравственные и духовные аспекты Лидерства. Под. ред. Ю.Н. Красниковой, А.И. Негрова, В.А. Сарапулова / Серия«Лидерство: теория и практика». Выпуск 1, Санкт-Петербургский христианский университет. (Textual Narratives in Leadership: The Problem of Interpretation as a Function of the Definition and Meaning of Leadership. In Krasnikoa, Y., Negrov, A. and Sarapulov, V., Editors, Moral and Spiritual Aspects of Leadership, Leadership: Theory and Practice, Issue 1. St Petersburg, Russia: St. Petersburg Christian University).

 

Gill, R. (2010). Case Study: The Client-Consultant Relationship and the Consultancy Process. In Biggs, D., Editor, Management Consultancy: A Guide for Students.  Andover: Cengage Learning EMEA.

Gill, R. (2009). Change Management – or Change Leadership?  In Price, D., Editor, The Principles and Practice of Change. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Gill, R. (2009). What is Leadership? In Aspects of Leadership, Buttery, D., Editor. Ross-on-Wye: The Leadership Trust.

 

Journal Articles

 

Vu, M.C. and Gill R. (2023). Are leaders responsible for meaningful work? Perspectives from Buddhist-enacted leaders and Buddhist ethics. Journal of Business Ethics, 187: 347–370.

 

Gill, R. (2021). Protecting our mental health from COVID-19. North East Times Magazine, UK, 440: 66-67.

 

Gill, R. (2021). Protecting our mental health from COVID-19. Durham University Business School, IMPACT magazine, Issue 9: 34-35.

 

Gill, R. and Negrov, A. (2021). Love as an influence for good in leadership. Theology of Leadership, 4 (1): 28-53, 2021.

 

Grawitch,, M.J., Lavigne, K., Cornelius,A., Gill. R. and Winton, S.(2020). COVID-19 and well-being: demographics, individual differences and leadership help explain pandemic impact. PsyArXiv, 10, December. Available at: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ce84n (American Psychological Association).

 

Gill. R. and Negrov, A. (2021). Perspectives on leadership development in post-Soviet Eurasia. International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management. October, 21(3): 409-429.

 

Vu, M.C. and Gill R. (2020). Corporate mindfulness is nothing more than a ‘quick fix’ for workplace stress, AMBITION magazine, AMBA (Association of MBAs). Available at https://www.associationofmbas.com/corporate-mindfulness-is-nothing-more-than-a-quick-fix-for-workplace-stress.

 

Vu, M.C. and Gill R. (2020). Corporate mindfuless: tackle the sources of stress, not use a ‘quick fix’.  Durham University Business School, IMPACT magazine, Issue 7: 30-31, January.

 

Vu, M.C. and Gill R. (2019). Fusion leadership: a transcultural interpretation and application. International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management, 19 (2): 140-159.

 

Offord, M., Gill, R. and Kendal, J. (2019). The effects of prestige on collective performance and information flow in a strictly hierarchical institution.  Palgrave Communications, Special Issue on Cultural Evolution, published online, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-018-0211-8, 15 January.

 

‘Letting go of the raft’ – The art of spiritual leadership in contemporary organizations from a Buddhist perspective using skillful means.  Leadership, 15 (3), pp.360-380, 2019 (with Chi Mai Vu).

 

Is there corporate mindfulness?  An exploratory study of Buddhist-enacted spiritual leaders’ perspectives and practices.  Journal of Management, Spirituality & Religion, 15 (2), pp.155-177, 2018 (with Chi Mai Vu).

 

Leadership between decks: a synthesis and development of engagement and resistance theories of leadership based on evidence from practice in Royal Navy warships.  Leadership and Organization Development Journal, 37 (2), pp.289-304, 2016 (with Matt Offord and Jeremy Kendal).

 

Exploring power assumptions in the leadership and management debate. Leadership and Organization Development Journal, 36 (3), pp.328-343, 2015 (with Gareth Edwards, Doris Schedlitzki and Sharon Turnbull).

 

Spirituality at work and the leadership challenge. Journal for the Study of Spirituality, 4 (2), pp.136-148, 2014.

 

The MLQ factor structure in a UK context.  Leadership and Organization Development Journal, 33 (4), pp.369-382, 2012 (with Gareth Edwards, Birgit Schyns and Malcolm Higgs).

 

Corruption and ethical leadership.  Editorial, Business Leadership Review. Association of MBAs (AMBA), 9 (4), October, 2012.

 

Transformational leadership across hierarchical levels in UK manufacturing organizations.  Leadership and Organization Development Journal, 33 (1), pp.25-50, 2012 (with Gareth Edwards).

 

Board leadership: the role and challenges of the senior leadership team.  LT Focus, The Leadership Trust, Autumn, 2010.

 

Leading with responsibility and conviction.  LT Focus, Leadership Trust, Summer, 2010.

 

Leadership, trust and trustworthiness.  LT Focus, Spring, 2010.

 

Change Management – or Change Leadership?  In Deborah Price, Editor, 2009, The Principles and Practice of Change.  Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

 

The journey to the top: how executives make it.  LT Focus, Winter, 2009/2010.

 

Psychological recognition and reward: essential for third sector success.  LT Focus, Autumn, 2009.

 

Leadership in public services and the private sector: a comparison and the implications for handling crises and emergencies.  International Journal of Leadership in Public Services, 5 (4), pp.20-26, 2009.

 

A summer menu for self-appraisal and self-development. Editorial, Business Leadership Review, AMBA, 6 (3), July, 2009.

 

Charisma or consensus – who decides?  Public Servant Scotland, June, 2009.

 

Leadership in the public and private sectors: is it different?  LT Focus, Summer, 2009.

 

The XYZ of leadership (Generation Y).  LT Focus, Spring, 2009.

 

What is Leadership? In Aspects of Leadership, Buttery, D., Editor. Ross-on-Wye: The Leadership Trust, 2009.