Prof. Malcolm Higgs
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Malcolm is the Professor of HR Management and Organisation Behaviour and leads the group working in this field in the School of Management.
Prior to this appointment Malcolm was the Director of the School of Leadership, Change and HR and Research Director of Henley Management College. He took up this position in August 2005 having for the previous four years been the College Academic Dean. He remains a Visiting Professor at Henley Management College.
He moved to Henley from a role as Principal Partner in Towers Perrin's International Human Resource Management practice. In this role he was responsible for Organisation Change and Management Development, Assessment, Leadership Development and Training projects for clients and for developing programmes and strategies for human resource and change management. In addition he was responsible for the firm's International leadership development practice.
Prior to joining Towers Perrin, Malcolm had eight years consulting experience with the Hay Group and Arthur Young. In 1987 he undertook a research programme into the human resource implications of the major changes in the UK financial markets and in 1988 published a book based on this research "Management Development Strategy in the Financial Sector". He has also published extensively on leadership, team development, executive assessment and change management. In addition he has published widely on the topic of Emotional Intelligence and has jointly developed a new psychometric test to measure this together with a book on the topic (Making Sense of Emotional Intelligence).
Malcolm is a member of the British Psychological Society and a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and is also is actively involved in consulting on leadership, change and assessment with a range of international companies both as an individual consultant and as the Chairman of a specialist change consulting firm (RFLC). - Interest in Leadership
- Leadership, Change Management, Emotional Intelligence, Executive Values and Employee Engagement. My research interests are expanding into the linkages between the area of positive psychology and organizational behaviour. In particular this is exploring the relationships between positive emotions and effectiveness of change implementation and the linkages between Emotional Intelligence, personality and individual Well-Being.
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- School of Management, University of Southampton
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- Leadership, Change Management, Emotional Intelligence, Executive Values and Employee Engagement.
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