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DEFENCE MANAGEMENT IN UNCERTAIN TIMES
CRANFIELD DEFENCE MANAGEMENT SERIES
(Cranfield University Department of Defence Management and Security Analysis)
Series Editors: Trevor Taylor and Teri McConville
ISSN 1740-3073
1. Human Resources Management in the British Armed Forces (2001)
edited by Alex Alexandrou, Richard Bartle and Richard Holmes
2. New People Strategies for the British Armed Forces (2002)
edited by Alex Alexandrou, Richard Bartle and Richard Holmes
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DEFENCE MANAGEMENT IN UNCERTAIN TIMES
Editors
Teri McConville
and
Richard Holmes
First published by
FRANK CASS PUBLISHERS
This edition published 2011 by Routledge
Routledge
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Copyright 2003 Frank Cass Publishers
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Defence management in uncertain times: investing in the future
(Cranfield defence management; no. 3)
1. National security Great Britain 2. Great Britain Military policy 3. Great Britain Armed Forces Recruiting, enlistment, etc.
I. McConville, Teri II. Holmes, Richard, 1946
355.033041
ISBN 0-7146-5522-8 (cloth)
ISBN 0-7146-8414-7 (paper)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Defence management in uncertain times / editors, Teri McConville and Richard Holmes. 1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7146-5522-8 ISBN 0-7146-8414-7
1. Great Britain Armed Forces Management. 2. Military art and science Great Britain. 3. World politics 21st century.
I. McConville, Teri, 1954 II. Holmes, Richard, 1946 III. Title.
UB58 21st century .D44 2003
355.309410905 dc21
2003005220
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher of this book.
Typeset in 10.5/12pt ZapfCalligraphica by Frank Cass Publishers
Contents
JAMES YORK
JACK SPENCE
TERI McCONVILLE
TREVOR TAYLOR
PATRICK MILEHAM
W. BRIAN HOWIESON and HOWARD KAHN
CHARLES KIRKE
ANDY BOLT
RICHARD BARTLE
GEORGINA NATZIO
RICHARD BARTLE was an Army Officer for 23 years. He retired in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and is now a Cranfield University lecturer in the Department of Defence Management and Security Analysis at the Royal Military College of Science. He has published widely on Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management in the military sphere and is the co-editor of two recent books on HRM in the Armed Forces.
ANDY BOLT is an Engineer Officer in the RAF and is currently studying for a Masters in Defence Administration. He has enjoyed tours managing communications and information systems on a flying station, controlling satellites, teaching engineers, and most recently, coordinating overseas deployments. He maintains a good work-life balance by mountaineering, playing sport and spending time with his wife, Helen.
BRIAN HOWIESON joined the Royal Air Force in 1987. He has completed operational tours on both the Nimrod MR2 and the Nimrod R aircraft and was involved in the 1991 Gulf War; the Kosovo War and air operations against Northern and Southern Iraq. In addition, he has completed a tour as a flying instructor at the Royal Air Force College Cranwell. Brian held a Defence Fellowship at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and has worked in the Joint Defence and Concept Centre at the UK Defence Academy. He is currently on secondment to the National Mentoring Consortium in the East End of London. He is currently working on his PhD at the University of Edinburgh and his research interests include the influence of leadership on goal-setting and strategy.
HOWARD KAHN obtained his MA (Political Economy and Modern History) from the University of Glasgow and his MSc (Occupational Psychology) and PhD (Occupational Stress) from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. After a career as a computer and business analyst with British Steel and Lloyds of London (Underwriters), he lectured at Manchester Polytechnic in Systems Analysis. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour in the School of Management and Languages at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. Howard has written more than 50 books, book chapters, and academic papers, and regularly contributes to the media on aspects of people at work. He is also cited as an expert witness in stress-at-work litigation. His current interests include the development of leadership in the public and private sectors.
CHARLES KIRKE is a serving officer in the British Army. He joined the Royal Artillery in 1970 and has served at regimental duty with field artillery and in recruit training, and on the staff in MoD (Operational Requirements), HQ UK Land Forces (Artillery Branch), and RMCS (Directing Staff), and is currently the military member of the Defence Science and Technical Laboratory (Dstl) Human Sciences Team. He took a degree in Social Anthropology in 1974, carried out a Defence Fellowship at Cambridge University in 1993/4, and is a PhD Candidate with Cranfield University (RMCS) researching social structures in the regular combat arms units of the British Army.
TERI McCONVILLE gained practical management experience in the public sector. Following professional training and a commission in Princess Marys Royal Air Force Nursing Service, she moved into the NHS where she worked as a nursing officer and Sister Tutor. Teri gained a PhD from the University of Plymouth before joining the Defence Management Group at the Royal Military College of Science to teach Organisational Behaviour. She is currently involved in research activity surrounding the debate over women in combat, and the piggy in the middle effect of line management.
PATRICK MILEHAM is Reader in Corporate Management and Staff Governor, University of Paisley. He served in the Regular Army from 1964 to 1992 and holds degrees from the Universities of Cambridge and Lancaster. As Associate Fellow of both the Royal Institute of International affairs and Royal United Services Institute he has been instrumental in organising conferences on operational military ethics and has conducted much research into military motivation, leadership and morale in the UK and overseas. Among his many publications on historical and current topics are Will They Fight and Will They Die? in International Affairs (2001) and Morale in the Armed Forces in RUSI Journal (2001).
GEORGINA NATZIO formerly Deputy Editor of the official journal of the veterinary profession, The Veterinary Record, entered publishing aged 18. Her first introduction to military, rather than veterinary science, came via animal husbandry in a pigsty belonging to 58 Medium Regiment RA, aged 6. Later returning to informal study of military science after retirement from publishing aged 28, her work was generously guided and tutored by three World War II veterans from the Royal Navy and the Army. Her first review essay in this context, The Future of Women in the Armed Forces,
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