MICHAEL DEMPSEY - Cranfield University

APPENDIX 2
INTERVIEW AIDE MEMOIRE
PROP 1.
Management of
merger
Ditto
PROP 4.
Stakeholders and
reasons for
involvement
PROP 5.
Boundaries
PROP 1. Factors
leading to role
acceptance
Ditto
PROP 4. How
they undertake
their managerial
roles
Ditto
ABOUT THE UNION
(Merger Management 1)
MERGER- talk me through the merger from your
perspective as a senior manager in one of the
constituent unions (which?)
DISCUSSION on different union positions, different
stakeholders, different power sources. ROLE OF
STAFF & staff stakeholders; of ELECTED LAY
MEMBERS - and how structures reflected their
agendas; and of MANAGERS
MODEL of lay member/manager relationship - total
leadership, partnership, lay member led?
B ABOUT UNION MANAGERS
• Background in unions
• To what extent do you see yourself as a senior
manager in the union?
• How has this come about?
• Who are union managers in the union? - how do
they see themselves? - tensions and contradictions -
views of staff.
• (Explain Dunlop model) - how do the different
elements of the job look on his headings (open
questions)
Areas of commonality with other
managers
• Environmental analysis
• Setting roles and priorities
• Selection and development of people
• Shaping the structure of the organization
• Negotiating and consensus building
• Generating and introducing innovation
• Managing the interface between politics and
management (Audit Commission
conceptualisation)
Areas of difference:
• Performance measurement
• efficiency or equity
• public or private processes
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