Janice McMillan
Janice McMillan

Dr Janice McMillan

Associate Professor

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  J.McMillan@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Dr Janice McMillan is Associate Professor in Human Resource Development and Public Management.. She has held previous posts at Northumbria, Robert Gordon and Nottingham Trent Universities. She specialises in public management and organisational analysis and was Chair of the Public Administration Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom from 1995-2006 and Vice-Chair of the Public Administration Committee of the Joint University Council 2013-2017.

She has published books and articles on public service reform in the UK and abroad and is currently working on a co-authored text for Edward Elgar Publishers considering critical organisational behaviour in the public sector. Janice has extensive experience in delivering training and development programmes for public organisations including local councils in the UK and the Egyptian and Vietnamese civil services.

Janice has a wide range of experience in knowledge transfer and has worked closely with local government on organisational learning projects. She was also a member of the Quality Assurance Agency subject benchmarking panel for Politics and International Relations and as a previous award holder acts as reviewer for ESRC programme and open awards. She has acted as external examiner at Ulster, Portsmouth, Nottingham, Queen Mary London and De Montfort Universities.

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Advisory panels and expert committees or witness

  • QAA Subject Benchmarking Panel - Politics and International Relations

 

Editorial Activity

  • Associate Editor - Frontiers in Communication
  • Guest Editor
  • Guest Editor

 

External Examining/Validations

  • Programme Approval University of the West of Scotland
  • Subject Revalidation University of the West of Scotland
  • External Examinership Scottish Police College
  • Periodic Subject Review University of Ulster
  • External Examinership De Montfort University
  • External Examinership Queen Mary, London
  • Periodic Subject Review De Montfort University
  • External Examinership University of Portsmouth
  • Programme Approval University of Portsmouth
  • External Examinership University of Nottingham
  • External Examinership University of Ulster

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Senior Fellow Advance HE (Higher Education Academy)

 

Grant Reviewer

  • ESRC Reviewer - Programmes and Open Competition

 

Membership of Professional Body

  • Vice Chair Public Administration Committee
  • Chair, Political Studies Association Public Administration Specialist Group

 

Public/Community Engagement

  • Management Training and Development - Local Government and Civil Service

 

Research Degree External Examining

  • Problem Sensing and Formulation in Talent Management: An Exploratory Study
  • The Impact of Managerial Coaching on Knowledge Seeking
  • Legitimisation of Repetitive Psychological Contract Breach, Through the Lived Experiences of Employee Well-being
  • Servant leadership in SMEs: A study of Scotland
  • An Examination of Strategic Leadership in a Dynamic Context: The Case of the German Automobile Manufacturer, BMW
  • Evaluation of the Current Performance Management System in the Orthopaedic Departments of the Hospitals of Sialkot, Pakistan
  • Chorus before singer: Elements of readiness for change within the Canadian public service, a bottom-up approach
  • Supervisor`s Support Behaviours and Transfer of Training
  • Exploring the Role of UK Public Sector Managers in Rewarding their Employees: A self-determination theory perspective
  • A Way for Welsh Local Authorities to Deliver their Services More Effectively
  • Principles of Good Governance and their Efficacy in Developing Countries: A Caribbean Perspective
  • Important Considerations in Developing a Framework to Effectively Regulate the Nigerian Upstream Oil Sector
  • Stretegic Decision Making in Career Management in the Oil and Gas Industry: A Case Study of Nigerian Petroleum Corporation
  • Applying a Model of Public Management Reform to Tax Reform in a Post-Soviet Transition Country: The Case of the Kyrgyz Republic
  • The Role of Local Government in Shaping and Influencing International Policy Frameworks
  • Organisational change, partnership working and agenda for change in the Scottish NHS: a phenomenological study
  • Environmental Financial Assurance as a Regulatory Tool in Developing Countries: Case Study of Ghanaian Mining Boards
  • An exploration into employee perceptions of the dyadic relationship with their leader within a retail SME in Edinburgh
  • A Critique of the Implementation of Crime and Intelligence Computing in Three British Police Forces 1976-1986
  • Political Occitanism 1974-2000: Exploring the Marginalisation of an Ethnoregionalist Movement
  • The Garbage Model of Organisational Change: The Case of an English Local Authority
  • Roles and Organisational Citizenship Behaviour of UK and Thai University Lecturers: A Comparative Study

 

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Flagship Councils that will lead the Way? Issues and Tensions in the Reorganisation of the English Counties

Presentation / Conference
McMillan, J., Fenwick, J., & Elcock, H. (2007, September)
Flagship Councils that will lead the Way? Issues and Tensions in the Reorganisation of the English Counties. Paper presented at Public Administration Committee Annual Conference

Learning, Gender and Public Management: What’s the Problem?

Presentation / Conference
McMillan, J., & Fenwick, J. (2006, September)
Learning, Gender and Public Management: What’s the Problem?. Paper presented at British Academy of Management

Barriers to Internal Learning: Why Do Public Sector Organisations Fail to Learn from Within?

Presentation / Conference
McMillan, J., Wilding, P., & Fenwick, J. (2006, September)
Barriers to Internal Learning: Why Do Public Sector Organisations Fail to Learn from Within?. Paper presented at Public Administration Committee Annual Conference

Leadership and Management in UK Local Government: A Role for Elected Mayors?

Journal Article
Fenwick, J., Elcock, H., & McMillan, J. (2006)
Leadership and Management in UK Local Government: A Role for Elected Mayors?. International Review of Administrative Sciences, 72(3), 431-447. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020852306068026
The paper assesses the impact of the elected executive mayor on leadership and management in UK local government. After exploring the new executive arrangements introduced by ...

What Value Knowledge? Gendered Learning in Public Management

Presentation / Conference
McMillan, J., & Fenwick, J. (2006, April)
What Value Knowledge? Gendered Learning in Public Management. Paper presented at International Research Society for Public Management Annual Conference

Barriers to learning: conflicts that occur between and within organisational systems

Journal Article
Grieves, J., McMillan, J., & Wilding, P. (2006)
Barriers to learning: conflicts that occur between and within organisational systems. International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital, 3(1), 86. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijlic.2006.009212
The paper argues that Organisational Learning (OL), as the underpinning process for Strategic Human Resource Development, has not yet reached a sufficient degree of maturity. ...

Barriers to Learning: Conflicts that Occur Between and Within Organisational Systems

Book Chapter
McMillan, J., Grieves, J., & Wilding, P. (2005)
Barriers to Learning: Conflicts that Occur Between and Within Organisational Systems. In Human resource Development: Challenges and Opportunities, 284-312. Anmol Publications

Leadership and Learning in Public Sector Management: An Alternative View of Organizational Change

Presentation / Conference
McMillan, J., & Fenwick, J. (2005, September)
Leadership and Learning in Public Sector Management: An Alternative View of Organizational Change. Paper presented at Public Administration Committee Annual Conference

Organizational Learning and Public Sector Management: An Alternative View

Journal Article
Fenwick, J., & McMillan, J. (2005)
Organizational Learning and Public Sector Management: An Alternative View. Public Policy and Administration, 20(3), 42-55. https://doi.org/10.1177/095207670502000305
The public service modernization agenda has directed attention to the problematic questions of how public sector organisations learn, what they learn, and how they fail to lea...

Managers' views of Barriers to Organisational Learning

Presentation / Conference
McMillan, J., Wilding, P., & van Zwanenberg, N. (2005, May)
Managers' views of Barriers to Organisational Learning. Paper presented at 6th International Conference on HRD Research and Practice across Europe

Pre-Napier Funded Projects

  • ESRC Award Holder

Current Post Grad projects

Previous Post Grad projects

Non-Napier PhD or MSc by Research supervisions

  • Labour Discrimination: The Case of the Chinese in Newcastle
  • Linguistics in Tourism Advertising
  • Organisational Commitment and Developing Countries: The Case of Nigeria
  • ‘No Qualifications are Necessary?’ Effective Governance in State Secondary Schools: Model Guidelines
  • An Exploration of the Impact of International and Domestic Factors on the Economic Reform Programme in Libya 1987-2004