Keith Grint has been Professor Emeritus at Warwick University since 2018. He spent 10 years working in various positions across a number of industry sectors before switching to an academic career. His first undergraduate degree (Sociology) was from the Open University in 1981, and his second (Politics) from the University of York in 1982. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1986. He was Junior Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University between 1985 and 1986 and a Research Fellow there between 1986 and 1987.
Between 1986 and 1992 he was Lecturer in Sociology at Brunel University, and between 1992 and 1998 a Fellow at Templeton College, then University Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour, at the School of Management (now Saïd Business School), Oxford University. Between 1998 and 2004 he was University Reader in Organizational Behaviour at the Saïd Business School, and Director of Research there between 2002 and 2003. From 2004 to 2006 he was Professor of Leadership Studies and Director of the Lancaster Leadership Centre, Lancaster University School of Management. Between 2006 and 2008 he was Professor of Defence Leadership and Deputy Principal, Shrivenham Campus, Cranfield University. He was Professor of Public Leadership at Warwick Business School from 2009 to 2018.
He is a Fellow of the International Leadership Association (ILA) and Professorial Fellow of the Australian Institute of Police Management (AIPM). He is also a founding co-editor with David Collinson of the journal Leadership, and co-founder of the International Studying Leadership Conference. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2012 and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science (honoris causa) from Warwick University in 2013. He received the Chief Constable’s Commendation for Contribution to Police Leadership in 2018 and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Leadership Association in 2018.
His books include:
The Sociology of Work: An Introduction (Cambridge: Polity Press) (1991); 2nd edition (1998); 3rd edition (2005); 4th edition with Darren Nixon (2015).
Management: A Sociological Introduction (Cambridge: Polity Press) (1995).
The Machine at Work: Technology, Work & Society, (with Steve Woolgar) (Cambridge: Polity Press) (1997).
Fuzzy Management: Contemporary Ideas & Practices at Work, (Oxford: Oxford University Press) (1997)
The Arts of Leadership (Oxford: Oxford University Press) (2000).
Organizational Leadership (with John Bratton and Debra Nelson) (Mason: Southwestern/Thompson Press (2005).
Leadership: Limits and Possibilities. (London: Palgrave/Macmillan) (2005).
Leadership, Management & Command: Rethinking D-Day (London: Palgrave/Macmillan) (2008).
Leadership: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press) (2010).
Mutiny and Leadership (Oxford: Oxford University Press) (2021).
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