Other papers and articles

Articles :-

Fisher J M and Savage D J, 1999, An introduction to PCP, in Fisher J M and Savage D J (eds), 1999, Beyond experimentation into meaning, Lostock Hall, EPCA Publications, ISBN 0953019829

This is an introduction to Personal Construct Theory.  Click here to download this file

 

Fisher J M, 2001, Cultural diversity: an exercise in elaboration, in Human Resource Development International vol 4:2 (2001), pp. 263 274, Taylor & Francis

This paper looks  at a team building event I ran between a group from BAe Systems and their US customer interface team.  Cultural diversity: an exercise in elaboration download

 

Fisher J M, (2005), A Time for change, Human Resource Development International Vol 8 No. 2, (2005) pp257 - 263, Taylor & Francis

 

This paper looks at the Past, Present and Future with regards to change management and introduces the Timeline model.

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A recent organisational study I conducted :-

Fisher J M, (2009) An investigation using the rep grid into how road gangs see safety

This paper explores a repertory grid assessment  I made looking at why road gangs have service strikes (i.e. hit other gas/water/fibre optic/electricity cables)  Click here to download this file

 

Formal Papers presented at conferences:-

Fisher J M, 2000, Creating the Future?, in Scheer  J W (ed), The Person in Society: Challenges to a Constructivist Theory, Geissen, Psychosozial-Verlag, ISBN 3898060152

This was the paper I first introduced the Process of Transition model of change.  click here to download a copy of this paper (Creating the Future)

 

Fisher J M, 2003a, Fraggle rock: a study in isolationism, in Psychological Constructivism and the Social World, G. Chiari, M. L. Nuzzo (Ed.) 2003, Milano: Angeli, ISBN 884644812

This paper looked at how PCT was caught on the horns of a dilemma in that it was proud of it's small, close knit "family" feel yet wanted to be more widely known and recognised.  I attended many conferences where people stood up over the years and said we must expand without realising they part of the problem not the solution and their activities were helping keep PCT, the best model of the person , in the darkness!