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Contact Email: g.b.pallis@dundee.ac.uk
Gillian Pallis holds a first degree in Organisation Studies, MSc Analysis of Decision Processes and is presently completing a PhD exploring the employment relationship and coping strategies of high skilled, technology-based sales workers. Her early career concerned overseas operations management for large travel organisations including Thomson Holidays and the Laker Group. During this period Gillian was responsible for organising, co-ordinating and contracting pan-European transport and accommodation services. Later in her career, Gillian managed her own travel company based in Greece.
Building upon her industrial experience, Gillian has delivered and organised management education programmes over a period of fifteen years. She has taught postgraduate management programmes at the Universities of Edinburgh and Abertay. Appointed to the University of Dundee in 2005, she is the Programme Director for MBA (Life Science Industries) and presently extending her interests in technology organisation management within The Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law & Policy.
Research
Keenly focused upon executive and management development, Gillian's area of research concerns team and leadership development, the management of change, performance management and cross-boundary working.
Teaching
Management & Personal Skills Development (On-Campus)
This module will develop a range of practical and management related personal skills and abilities as well as developing understanding of the relevance of Continual Professional Development programmes (CPD) in an organisational context. The module will improve employment-related qualities and transferable skills and will require the student to exercise personal responsibility through autonomous initiative(s), in professional or equivalent environments as well as understanding and critical evaluation of the design of education or training programmes for employees.
Management in Knowledge Intensive Industries (On-Campus)
This module will develop the student's critical understanding and application of models, approaches and tools for the management of complex knowledge in an organisational context. On completion of the module, the successful student will be able to demonstrate critical understanding of the business context, approaches and effective organisational behaviours underpinning the practice of management in knowledge intensive organisations.
