Professor Jan Francis-Smythe
Director of Research
Worcester Business School
Contact Details
email: j.francis-smythe@worc.ac.uk
tel: 01905 85 5242
Jan is the Director of Research and Staff Development in the Business School and as an active researcher and consultant has managed and delivered a wide range of
applied projects. Her specialist areas of expertise are in ‘time’ as it relates to both individuals and organisations and in the process of knowledge transfer between
universities and business and the community. She has supervised 10 PhDs to completion, is currently supervising a further five and has supervised 4 practitioners-intraining to become registered Occupational Psychologists.
Qualifications
C.Psychol. Registered Psychologist (HPC)
Occupational Psychologist
BSc(Hons)
MSc
DipPsych
PhD Organisational Psychology
Associate Fellow of the BPS
Teaching & Research
Teaching
Work Psychology
Research Methods
HRM
Research
Temporal Intelligence/ time management
Academic engagement in business-community interaction
Evidence-based practice in occupational psychology
Evidence-based management
Career competencies
Professional Bodies
British Psychological Society, British Academy of Management, European
Association of Work and Organisational Psychology
Publications
Ross,C. Robinson, L.R. Francis-Smythe,J.A. (2014) The contribution of academic scholarship to management development’. Journal of Management Development. 34.3,
pp.286-298.
Francis-Smythe, J.A. Robinson,L. Ross,C. (2013) The role of evidence in general managers’ decision-making. Journal of General Management. Vol.38, No.4, Summer 2013,
pp.3-21.
Applying career competencies in career management. Assessment and Development Matters ADM (Vol. 5, No1). March 31st 2013
Haase, S., Thomas, E., Steele, C. and Francis-Smythe, J. (2012). Career competencies: A new approach to successful career management. Assessment Development
Matters, 4(2)
Francis-Smythe,J.A., Haases,S. Steele,C. Thomas, E. (2012) 'Applying career competencies in career management' Journal of Career Assessment, Volume 21, Issue 2, pp.
227-248.
Francis-Smythe J.A. (2011) Russian Edition: Time Management in Glicksohn, J. & Myslobodsky, M.S. (Eds.). (2011) Planiruja vremja buducshego. Osnovannaja na vremeni
prospektivnaja pamjat’.Timing the Future: The Case for a Time-Based Prospective Memory. Kiev, Centruchebnoj literatury, p.103-107
Robinson,L. & Francis-Smythe,J.A. (2010) Are you a conceptual manager? Professional Manager, Vol.19, Issue 5, 36-38.
Andrews,H. & Francis-Smythe,J.A. (2010) A Wolf in Business Clothing, Psychopaths, Narcissists and Machiavellians at work. Professional Manager, Vol.19, Issue 3, May 3032.
Bicknell, A., Francis-Smythe, J. & Arthur, J. (2010) Knowledge transfer: de-constructing the entrepreneurial academic. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour &
Research. Volume 16. No.6. pp.485-501.
Francis-Smythe .J.A. (2010) Bending Time to Suit You. Professional Manager, Vol.19, Issue 1, January, 34-36.
Francis-Smythe, Jan (2008) Enhancing academic engagement in knowledge transfer activity in the UK. Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 12:3, 68-72.
Steele, C. & Francis-Smythe, J.A. (2008) Investigating the role of career anchors in job satisfaction and organisational commitment; a PJ fit approach. Proceedings of BPS
Annual Conference. ISSN:1754-8837.
Watts, H. N., & Francis-Smythe, J (2008). Membership retention in the fitness industry: The development and validation of a predictive model. in Annual Conference of the
British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Journal of Sports Sciences, 26,1, 1-143.
External Responsibilities
Advisory Board Member AURIL /JISC project on Supporting & Embedding CPD for Business and Community Engagement (BCE) Associate Editor – e-Journal of Issues in
Applied Psychology
Examiner for the Open University
Expertise: Occupational Psycology and HR
Selection and Assessment
Career Development and appraisal
Training
Employee relations and Motivation
Organisational Development and Change
Leadership
Counselling and Personal Development
Completed student projects:
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Applying Career Competencies in Career Management
Measuring Career Anchors and Investigating the Role of Career Anchor Congruence
The Masked Employee and False Performance: detecting unethical behaviour and investigating its effects on work relationship Membership Retention in the Health and Fitness Industry: A Predictive Model The Conceptualization and Evaluation of a Leader's Temporal Intelligence
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