Keele Management School

Susanne Tietze, PhD, was appointed as Professor of Management at Keele Management School in October 2013. She holds degrees in language and literature from Karl-Ruprecht-Universität, Heidelberg, Germany; management and business from Sheffield Hallam University, UK and in pedagogy and teaching from IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland. She has worked at several universities in the UK and Europe, including a Visiting Professorship at Wirtschaftsuniversität Vienna, Austria and a Visiting Scholarship at Aalto University, Finland.

She sits on national and international research and management bodies, such as the ESRC (peer review college); the ARC (Austrian Research Council) and on the British Academy of Management Research and Development council; on editorial boards (Journal of Management Studies; associate editor of the bilingual Journal for HRM Research/Zeitschrift für Personalforschung) and has been guest editor for  peer-reviewed journals  such as the British Journal of Management, Journal of World Business, Journal of International Business Studies. She has authored and edited 5 books and is an active scholar and doctoral supervisor. 

My work is informed by an interpretative epistemology, which means that social life is constructed through inseparable ‘words and actions’ and that  social actors are in an on-going process of making sense of their social and cultural contexts. This epistemological position manifests itself in the application of various research methodologies (e.g. interviews; ethnography; survey methods; observation; document analysis; visual data analysis), which I have applied to a variety of themes and topics such as emerging work organizations; work life balance; organizational and intercultural communication; international management and language policies in MNCs; talent management and knowledge transfer.

A particular interest in language and discourse has shaped my earlier research trajectory and many of my publications concern themselves with the construction of boundaries and identities through the analysis of talk, rhetorical tropes and discourse. More recently, I have focused my research interest on the role of English as a dominant global lingua franca in the construction of management knowledge accounts; the role of language diversity and existence of language plurality in international work organizations; and the role of ‘translation’ in the transfer of knowledge between culturally and linguistically diverse contexts  with particular emphasis on  the role of the translator as agentic actor and institutional worker. 

Brannen, MY, Piekkari, R. and Tietze, S. (2014, forthcoming). The Multifaceted Role of Languages in International Work Contexts: Conceptual Imperatives; by invitation for International Journal of Business Studies; introduction to special issue (approx. 8000 - 9000 words), developing new IB theory, triple blind peer reviewed original manuscript.

Tietze, S. and Tansley, C. (2013) Riles of Passage through Talent Management Progression Stages: An Identity Work Perspective,  International Journal of Human Resource Management., forthcoming in July 2013. doi 10.1080/09585192/2-13/777542

Tietze, S. and Dick, P. (2013 ) The Victorious English Language: Hegemonic Practices in the Management Academy, Journal of Management Inquiry.

Maruyama, T. and Tietze, S. (2012) From Fear to Reassurance: A Comparative Study of Homeworking. Personnel Review, 40 (2). Tietze, S. and Nadin, S. (2011) Homeworking and the Psychological Contract, Human Resource Management Journal, 21(3):  318 - 334.

Tietze, S. (2010) International Managers as Translation. European Journal of International Management, 4(1/1): 184 – 199.

Tietze, S. and Musson, G. (2010) Identity, Identity Work and the Experience of Working from Home. Journal of Management Development, 29 (2): 148 – 155.

Tietze, S., Musson, G. and Scurry, T. (2009) Homebased Work: A Review of Research into Themes, Directions and Implications. Personnel Review. 38 (6): 585 – 604.

Tietze, S. and Dick, P. (2009) Hegemonic Practices and Knowledge Production in the Management Academy: An English Language Perspective, Scandinavian Journal of Management. 25(1): 119 – 123.

Tietze, S. (2008) The Work of Management Academics: An English Language Perspective, English for Specific Purposes, 27(4): 371 – 386.

Cohen, L., Musson, G. and Tietze, S. (2007) Pedagogy and the Linguistic Turn: Developing Understanding through Semiotics. Management Learning. 38, 24 – 44.

Tietze, S. and Musson, G. (2005) Recasting the Home-Work Relationship: A Case of Mutual Adjustment?, Organization Studies. 26 (9): 1331 – 1352.

Musson, G., Cohen, L and Tietze S. (2005) Teaching Communication in Business School: Forum edition of Management Communication Quarterly.  19 (2): 279 – 287.

Tietze, S. (2004) Spreading the Management Gospel – in English.  Language and Intercultural Communication. 4 (3):175 - 189.

Tietze, S. (2004) Discourse as Strategic Coping Resource: Managing the Interface between ‘home’ and ‘work’.  Journal of Organizational Change Management. 18 (1):  48 – 62.

Musson, G. and Tietze, S. (2004) Feeling Groovy: Appropriating Time in Home-based Telework. Culture and Organization, 10 (3): 251 – 264.

Musson, G. and Tietze, S. (2004) Places and Spaces: The Role of Metonymy in Organisational Talk, The Journal of Management Studies. 41(8): 1301 - 1324.

Tietze, S. and Musson, G. (2003) The Times and Temporalities of Home-Based Telework, Personnel Review, special edition on Time and Management, 32 (4): 438 – 455.

Tietze, S., Harris, L. and Musson, G. (2002) When Work comes Home: Coping Strategies of Teleworkers and their Families, Journal of Business Ethics, 41 (4): 385 – 396.

Tietze, S. and Musson, G. (2002) When ‘Work’ comes ‘Home’: Temporal Flexibility as Lived Experience. Time and Society, 11 (2/3): 315 – 334.

Tietze, S. (2002) Intercultural Communication begins … at Home The International Journal of Applied Human Resource Management, 3 (2): 3 – 12.

Tietze, S. and Musson, G. (2002) Working from Home and Managing Guilt, Organisations and People, 9 (1): pp. 34 – 39.

Tietze, S. (2001) Managing Boundaries, The International Journal of Applied Human Resource Management, 2 (1): pp. 42 – 55.

Tietze, S. (2001) Time is Money and Life is a Game: Metaphors of the Market Place in Organisational and Individual Sense-Making, The International Journal of Applied Management. 1 (3): pp. 3 – 18.

Tietze, S. (1998) Negotiating Change – Public Private Cooperation: The Case of Lufthansa AG, International Journal of Public-Private Partnership, 1(1): pp. 89 – 111.

Fowler, G. and Tietze, S. (1996) The Competent Approach to Learning of Placement, Education and Training, 38(1): pp. 30 – 36.

Articles/Special Issues editing

Tansley, C., Tietze, S. and Kirby, S. (2013 or 2014) 'A Response to Talent Managemetn and the Relvacne of context', Commentary Article (by invitation) for Journal of Management Inquiry.

Tietze, S. (2013 or 2014) 'Does Science need a Global Language? English and the Future of Research. S Montg0mery.  Review article for M@n@gement, by invitation.

Piekkari, P. And Tietze, S. (eds) (2011) A World of Languages: Implications for international management research and practice, Journal of  World Business, 46(3): 267 - 268.

Tietze, S. And Musson, G. (eds.) (2009)  International Perspectives on Flexibility: Overview and Introduction. British Journal of Management, 20: 132 – 135.

Tietze, S. (2006) Balancing Work and Life for International Professional Manager Association. 1 (4): www.ipma.co.uk

Tietze, S. (2004) Review article for Organization Studies on A. Bluedorn The Human Organization of Time.  Stanford: Stanford University Press. 25 (5): 856 – 861.

Tietze, S. (2004) Motivation and the Meaning of Work (reprint). Better Business Focus, February: pp. 1 – 5.

Tietze, S. (2002) Motivation and the Meaning of Work for CIPFA (Certified Institute of Professional Financial Accountants), www.accountingweb.co.uk

Tietze, S. (2002) Balancing Work and Lifefor CIPFA (Certified Institute of Professional Financial Accountants), www.accountingweb.co.uk

Tietze, S. (2002) Communication for Managersfor CIPFA (Certified Institute of Professional Financial Accountants), www.accountingweb.co.uk

Tietze, S. (2002) (ed) Managing HRM: Priorities, Perspectives and Processes. The International Journal of  Applied HRM

 

Books/edited Books

Holden, N., Michaelova, S. and Tietze, S. (forthcoming 2014) The Routledge Companion to Comparative Management.

Tietze, S. (2008) International Management and Language, London: Routledge

Tietze, S., Cohen, L. and Musson, G. (2003) Understanding Organisations through Language. London: Sage. (also translated into Russian)

Bowden, J., Tebbutt, S.and Tietze, S. (eds) (1997) Wirtschaftsdeutsch – Neue Strategien, Neue Herausforderungen. SHU Press.

 

 

 Book Chapters

Tietze, S., Holden, N. and Barner-Rasmussen, W. (2014, forthcoming) Languages in the MNC, in Economics and Language, Edgar Elgar.

Tietze, S., Piekkari, R. and Brannen, MY (2013, forthcoming), Languages between Standardisation and Localisation, Routlege Companion to International HRM, ed. Wood, G., Collins, D., Scullion, H.

Piekkari, R. and Tietze, S. (2012) Language and International Human Resource Management, in G. Stahl, I. Bjorkman and S. Morris, (Eds.) Handbook of Research in International Human Resource Management, Cheltenham: Edwar Elgar, 549 - 566.

Tietze, S. (2012) The  Researcher and the Researched, in C. Cassell and G. Symon (eds). The Practice of Qualitative Organizational Research. London: Sage

Tietze, S., Musson, G. and Scurry, T. (2006) Improving Services. Balancing Lives? A Multiple Stakeholder Perspective on the Work-Life Balance Discourse, in: P. Blyton, B. Blunsdon, K. Reed and A. Dastmalchian (eds.) Work Life Integration: International Perspectives on the Balancing of Multiple Roles. Pp. 180 – 195. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Tietze, S. (2002) Metaphors of the Mother, in: H. H?pfl and M. Kostera, eds., Interpreting the Maternal Organisation. London: Routledge: 63 – 78.

Tietze, S. (1998) Women in the European Labour Market, in: S.E. Kahal, Business in Europe. Maidenhead: McGraw Hill, pp. 229 – 244.

 

Reports

Fisher, C. and Tietze, S. (2010), The DBA, history and challenges, in Flint, K.    (eds) Report on Professional Doctorates, UKCHE.

Tietze, S. (2007) Introducing Homebased Telework in a Local Authority. Case study in Bratton, J. Callinan, M. Forshwa, C and Sawchuk, P. (2006) Work and Organizational Behaviour. Understanding the Workplace, Basingstoke:Palgrave. 

Tietze, S., Musson, G. and Scurry, T. (2005) Introducing Homeworking Practices at Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council. An Evaluation Report.

Tietze, S., Musson, G. and Scurry, T. (2005). Exploring Homeworking Practices at Sheffield City Council.

Tietze, S., Musson, G. and Scurry, T. (2005) Introducing Permanent Homeworking at Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council. An Evaluation Report.

Tietze, S., Musson, G. and Scurry, T. (2004) Homeworking in Local Authorities. Report for Local Authorities/ESRC collaborators.