Staff Profile:

Name::

Professor Chris Bones

Position / Job Title:

Dean, Henley Business School

Responsibilities:

Areas of Interest:

• Engagement in Organisations and the link to Performance.
• Business and Management Education, HR Management and Strategy, Sector expertise in alcoholic beverages and confectionery/soft drinks.
• Strategic HRM, Organisation Change, Communication and Engagement

Professional expertise:

Chris Bones was appointed Dean of Henley Business School at the University of Reading on 1 August 2008. Chris was previously Group Organisation Effectiveness and Development Director for Cadbury Schweppes, who he joined in 1999, taking responsibility for Executive Education and Development Culture, Communications, Change, Knowledge Management and Capability Development.

In his 22 years in business Chris has worked for Shell, Diageo (both in GrandMet and Guinness) and Cadbury Schweppes. He started in industrial relations, working on the UK's largest oil refinery and progressing through management teams in brewing, retailing and property to board roles covering Europe, Africa and Asia Pacific. He has significant international business experience and a reputation as a leading practitioner in executive education and development, change and HR strategy.

Chris writes a regular column for HR magazine and is a highly regarded speaker at international conferences on change, HR strategy and employment branding. He is a board member of the Skills for Government, the sector skills council for the Civil Service and an Independent Non Executive Director of the Agricultural and Horticultural Levy Board.

Research groups / Centres:

Publications:

Book: 'The Self-Reliant Manager' (Routledge 1994)
Articles: Monthly Columnist, HR Magazine (since 2003)

Recent Book Sections:

• C. Bones (2007) Forward in P. Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, The Classic Collection, Butterworth-Heinemann.

Recent Conference Papers:

• C. Bones and S. Lee (2005) Management and Motivation. Leadership Workshop. Oxfordshire Learning Disability Trust. Oxford, Nov/ Dec 2005.
• S. Lee, K. Money and C. Bones (2005) Managing Trust and Reputation. National School of Government (NSG) Research Seminar. London Dec 2005.

Recent Journal Articles:

• C.Bones (2007) Engagement is at the heart of a successful M & A, Ivey Business Journal Online, January/February 2007. Available from http://www.iveybusinessjournal.com/article.asp?intArticle_ID=643
  
• C.Bones (2006) Aligning and Understanding Engagement within the Organisation. Critical Eye, 14, 21-22
  
• C. Bones (2006) Put trust in your workforce. Human Resources, Feb 2006, p.20.
  
• C. Bones (2006) Serious ideas for the silly season. Human Resources, September 2006, p.22.
  
• C. Bones (2005) Second-Hand Schemes. People Management, 11 (9).

Recent Magazine/Newspaper Articles:

• C. Bones (2009) A Crisis of Confidence, By Invitation: Leadership, Economist.com, 21 July 2009. Available online from: http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/management/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13937034
• C. Bones quoted in M. Roche (2009) Le laboratoire du futur universel, Le Monde, 10 Juin 2009.
• C. Bones (2008) Don't kill ideas too quickly, HR and Training Journal, Issue 3, p12.
  
• C. Bones (2006) The "dark side" of the organisation. Human Resources. April 2006, p.18.
  
• C. Bones (2005) Beware the fruit-and-veg effect. Human Resources, Feb 2005, p. 16.
  
• C. Bones (2005) Do you mean talent or potential? HR Magazine, Sep 2005, p.20.
  
• C. Bones (2005) Integrity is as important as ability. Human Resources, May 2005, p. 14.
  
• C. Bones (2005) It's teams that get things done. Human Resources, Jun 2005, p. 14.
  
• C. Bones (2005) It all comes down to choice - selecting the right MBA. Financial Mail (South Africa), Sep 16th 2005.
  
• C. Bones (2005) Take advice from you competitors. Human Resources, April 2005, p. 14.
  
• C. Bones (2005) The business school challenge. Human Resources, Jan 2005, p. 14.
• C. Bones (2005) Viewpoint. The HR Director, Sept 2005.
  
• C. Bones (2005) What really matters to managers. Human Resources, Jul 2005, p. 14
  
• C. Bones (2005) You need vision to have a future. Human Resources, May 2005, p. 14.
• C. Bones (2004) Binge working is the latest cry for help. Human Resources, Feb 2004, p.18.
  
• C. Bones (2004) Charting a course for controlling change. April 2004, p.18.
  
• C. Bones (2004) Coaching? It's what managers are for. Human Resources, Jun 2004, p.14.
  
• L. Anderson and C. Bones (2004) HR director named Henley chief. Financial Times, 25th Oct, p. 10.
  
• C. Bones (2004) HR takes over from the priest and doctor. Human Resources, Jan 2004, p.16.
  
• C. Bones (2004) It's the HR equivalent of crack cocaine. Human Resources, Mar 2004, p.20.
  
• C. Bones (2004) Our brave new world is so isolated. Human Resources, Sep 2004, p.20.
  
• C. Bones (2004) The effect of bah humbug-style HR. Human Resources, Dec 2004, p. 14.
  
• C. Bones (2004) The making of good corporate citizens. Human Resources, Jul/ Aug 2004, p.20.
  
• C. Bones (2004) Too many graduates and too few skills. Human Resources, May 2004, p.16.
  
• C. Bones (2004) We are all project managers now. Human Resources, Oct 2004, p.16.
  
• C. Bones (2004) When you teach, you also learn. Human Resources, Nov 2004, p. 14.
  
• C. Bones (2003) Be a coward- try not to dish out easy answers. Human Resources, Jun 2003, p.16.
  
• C. Bones (2003) Change and the laws of human behaviour. Human Resources, Oct 2003, p.18.
  
• C. Bones (2003) Excellence is a comparative not an absolute. Human Resources, Jul/ Aug 2003, p.14.
  
• C. Bones (2003) It takes a critical mass to pull the levers of change. Human Resources, April 2003, p.20.
  
• C. Bones (2003) The Brent and Fawlty style of management. Human Resources, Nov 2003, p.20.
  
• C. Bones (2003) Things don't change as much as we think. Human Resources, Sep 2003, p.18.
  
• C. Bones (2003) What all HR directors want for Christmas. Human Resources, Dec 2003, p.20.
  
• C. Bones (2003) What formal incentives can and cannot do. Human Resources, May 2003, p.18.

Qualifications:

MA (Hons) Aberdeen, CCMI, FCIPD, FRSA