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Stephen Gourlay is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management at Kingston Business School, Kingston University, where he has served as full-time faculty since 1990. He held the position of Head of Department from 2016-2020 and maintains academic membership with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
Education
- PhD, London University
- CMBE
His research spans knowledge management (specializing in tacit knowledge and knowledge creation theory), organizational behavior, and health services management, with significant contributions to employee engagement and qualitative methodology. He critiques foundational KM theories like Nonaka's SECI model while advancing empirical understanding of workplace phenomena through textual analysis.
Publication trends reveal two distinct research phases: foundational work (1999-2006) deconstructing knowledge management frameworks, followed by applied health services research (2014-2023) using realist evaluation to study intentional rounding, nursing turnover, and health manager information behaviors.
Gourlay secured NHS funding as lead researcher on SDO and NIHR projects investigating hospital practices, and co-directed the Kingston Employee Engagement Consortium (2010-2013) with CIPD. He currently supervises doctoral research in self-concept and engagement while teaching advanced research methods.
He co-founded the Kingston Employee Engagement Consortium, producing influential CIPD reports on workplace engagement drivers through mixed-methods research across multiple organizational contexts.
