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Amanda Hay

Amanda Hay

Associate Professor

Centre for People, Work and Organisational Practice

Staff Group(s)
Department of Human Resource Management

Role

Dr Amanda Hay is an Associate Professor of Management Learning in Nottingham Business School.

Amanda’s teaching responsibilities involve work on the undergraduate and doctoral programmes. She is the Module Leader for the second-year undergraduate module ‘Managing and Organising for Human Resources’. In addition, Amanda is also the Co-Module leader for the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) modules ‘Introduction to the Literature Review and Conceptual Development’ and ‘Advanced Literature Review and Conceptual Development’. Amanda also supervises research students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. As part of her involvement in the DBA programme, Amanda has taught in the United Arab Emirates.

Career overview

Prior to joining NTU, Amanda completed a degree in psychology at the University of Sheffield before completing a PhD in work psychology at the University of Derby. Alongside her doctoral studies, Amanda was involved in several projects for the Centre for Access and Lifelong Learning at the University of Derby which promoted learning and development in local companies.

Research areas

Amanda is a member of the Centre for People, Work and Organisational Practice. Broadly, her research focuses on management learning in both formal and informal settings. Her work explores processes of formal learning on programmes such as the MBA and the DBA, as well as the ways in which this learning is mobilised in everyday managerial work. In addition, Amanda’s work also examines learning as an everyday accomplishment or practical coping. Her current work focuses on ways of humanising management learning with attention to areas such as unknowingness and fallibility.

Her work has been published in leading international journals such as Academy of Management Learning and Education, Management Learning and Human Resource Development Quarterly. Amanda is also a member of the International Editorial Boards for Management Learning and Academy of Management Learning and Education.

External activity

Amanda is a member of the International Editorial Boards for Management Learning and Academy of Management Learning and Education.

Publications

Journal articles:

Hay, A. (forthcoming) On the neglect of fallibility in management learning and education: From perfect to adequate managers. Academy of Management Learning & Education.

Goumaa, R., Hay, A. and Elayouby, L. (2023). Developing Responsible Management in the Middle East and North Africa region: Reviewing PRME progress. Journal of Management Development, 42, 4, pp.277-296.

Hay, A. (2022). Exploring unknowingness in the DBA programme: Possibilities for developing ‘an attitude of wisdom”. Management Learning, 53, 2, pp.269-290.

Hay, A. and Blenkinsopp, J. (2019). Anxiety and HRD: Possibilities for cultivating negative capability. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 30, 2 pp.133-153

Hay, A. and Samra-Fredericks, D. (2019). Bringing the heart and soul back in: Collaborative Inquiry and the DBA. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 18, 1, pp.59-80.

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