Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Professor Jeffrey Gold
Professor
Jeff Gold is Professor of Organisation Learning at Leeds Business School. He is a strong advocate of the need for actionable knowledge that is rigorously developed but relevant for practice.
He has designed and delivered a wide range of seminars, programmes and workshops on culture shift, talent management and development, change, strategic learning, futures and foresight, management and leadership development with a particular emphasis on participation and distribution.
He has worked closely with organisations such as Skipton Building Society, Hallmark Cards, the NHS, the Police Service, Leeds Bradford Boiler Company, Lights4Fun and a host of others.
His current interests concern strategy development and effective implementation that includes a futures learning process. In addition he is interested in collaboration within and between organisations on the future of work relating to artificial intelligence, machine learning and the internet of things.
Current Teaching
Jeff Gold is the Director of the DBA programme and teaches methodology for DBA research projects.
Research Interests
Recent and current research projects reflect Jeff's interests and approach. He employs action approaches such as appreciative inquiry and action learning to shift culture in West Yorkshire Police; action research to reduce poverty in the Leeds City Region for Joseph Rowntree; and action research and action learning for implementing predictive analytics in West Yorkshire Police.
Selected Outputs
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Rodgers H; Stewart J; Iles P; Gold J; Holden R; Kershaw Solomon H (2013) Strategic HRD and the Learning and Development function. In: Beardwell J; Gold J; Holden R; Iles P; Stewart J ed. Human Resource Development: Theory and Practice. Palgrave Macmillan,
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Yeo R; Gold J (2012) Action in action learning. In: Pedler M ed. Action Learning in Practice. Farnham: Gower Publishing, Ltd.,
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Anderson L; Gold J; Gibb A (2012) Action learning in SME development. In: Pedler M ed. Action learning in practice. Farnham: Gower Publishing Company, Limited,
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Gold J; Yeo, R. (In press) More than Meets the Eye: Working Around Technology in Cross-Boundary Work Contexts. Information Technology & People
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Jolliffe P; collins H; Gold J (2023) Skilling Marginalised or Skills Eco-System, Precarious Workers and Higher Education – A Case Study of Roma in Liverpool, UK. International Journal of Training and Development, pp. 1-23.
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Gold J; Glaister C; Hallyday S; Joliffe P; Stewart J (2022) Futures and Foresight Learning in HRD. European Journal of Training and Development
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Gold J (2022) Improving Community Relations in the Police through Procedural Justice - An Action Learning Initiative. Action Learning: research and practice
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Gold J; Pedler M (2021) Bridging research to practice via action learning. Action Learning: Research and Practice, pp. 1-16.
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Yeo RK; Gold J (2015) More than meets the eye: Working around technology in cross-boundary work contexts. Information Technology and People, 28 (3), pp. 623-652.
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Gold J; Devins D (2014) Re-conceptualising talent management and development within the context of the low paid. Human Resource Devopment International, 17 (5), pp. 514-528.
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Beniston L; Ellwood P; Gold J; Roberts J; Thorpe R (2014) Innovation development – an action learning programme for medical scientists and engineers. Action Learning: Research and Practice, 11 (3), pp. 311-329.
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Gold J (2013) EDITORIAL. Action Learning: Research and Practice, 10 (3), pp. 276-277.
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Calver J; Gold J; Stewart J (2013) Action learning and the creative industries: The efficacy of an action learning set in building collaboration between a university and creative industries. Action Learning: Research and Practice, 10 (1), pp. 25-38.
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Kang D; Gold J; Kim D (2012) Responses to job insecurity. Career Development International, 17 (4), pp. 314-332.
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Thorpe R; Gold J; Lawler J (2011) Locating distributed leadership. International Journal of Management Reviews, 13 (3), pp. 239-250.
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Yeo RK; Gold J (2011) The inseparability of action and learning: unravelling Revans' action learning theory for Human Resource Development. Human Resource Development International, 14 (5), pp. 511-526.
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Gold J (2011) Theorising and practitioners in HRD: the role of abductive reasoning. Journal of European Industrial Training, 35 (3), pp. 230-246.
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Bratton J; Gold J (2012) Human Resource Management: Theory and Practice. 5th Edition Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
