Dr Tim Scott
MA, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Organisation
Contact details
Tel: +44 (0)1334 462796
Fax: +44 (0)1334 462812
Teaching 2010/2011
- MN4102 Organisation Philosophy
- MN4239 Advertising: A Social History
- MN5554 Marketing and Society
Biography
Tim Scott began his career with British Rail, attaining the position of senior industrial relations manager, ScotRail before leaving to read for a PhD in organisation theory. He has held previous academic positions at Warwick Business School, the University of York and the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Organisation. Since its publication, Scott's et al book on health organisational culture has influenced research and practice on NHS organisational development. His book on implementing new information technology in Kaiser Permanente (Scott, Rundall et al), was the first intensive study of a large scale implementation of a health information system and is currently influencing US policy development.
Research Specialisms
Poststructuralist perspectives on philosophy, aesthetics, organisation, marketing, advertising, organisational sociology and ethnography.
Current PhD Supervision
- Trenholme Junghens: Narratives Constructions of Patient Safety in the NHS.
- Susan Eldred: Female Identity Construction and Francoism in Catalonia.
- Elizabeth Irvine: The Social Visibility of LGBTs in the Mass Media.
Recent Publications
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Mark Exworthy and Tim Scott. Auto-Pathography: evidence, experience and health policy. Submitted to Sociology of Health and Illness.
Tobias Jung, Tim Scott, Huw T.O. Davies, Peter Bower, Diane Whalley, Rosalind McNally, Russell Mannion. Instruments for Exploring Organisational Culture: a review of the literature. Public Administration Review (In Press).
Tim Scott. Organisation Philospohy, Palgrave Macmillan. (In Press)
Tim Scott (2009) Catching a Wave: Auto-ethnographic Notes on Love and War in Hawaii. Culture and Organisation, Volume 15 (3) September 2009.
Ashish K. Jha, David Doolan, Daniel Grandt, Tim Scott, David W. Bates (2008) The Use of Health Information Technology in Seven Nations. International Journal of Medical Informatics, Volume 77, Issue 12 (December 2008) 848-854.
Scott JT, Rundall TG, Vogt T, Hsu J. (2007) Implementing an Electronic Medical Record: Successes, failures, lessons. Oxford: Radcliffe.
- Reviews:
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/300/13/1594
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2092404
John Øvretveit, Tim Scott, Thomas G. Rundall, Stephen M. Shortell, Mats Brommels (2007) Improving quality through effective implementation of information technology in healthcare, Int. Journal for Quality in Health Care, Volume 19, Number 5, 259-266.
John Øvretveit, Tim Scott, Thomas G. Rundall, Stephen M. Shortell, Mats Brommels (2007) Implementation of electronic medical records in hospitals: two case studies, Health Policy, Volume 84, Issue 2, 181-190.
Scott JT, Rundall TG, Vogt TM, Hsu J. (2005) Kaiser Permanente's experience of implementing an electronic medical record, British Medical Journal, 331;1313-1316.
Scott JT, Stanford N, Thompson DR (2004), Killing me softly: myth in pharmaceutical advertising, British Medical Journal, 329:1484-1487.
Scott JT, Mannion R, Davies H, Marshall M. (2003) The quantitative measurement of organisational culture in health care: what instruments are available? Health Services, Research. 38(3):923-945.
Scott JT, Mannion R, Davies H, Marshall M. (2003) Does organisational culture influence health care performance? A review of the evidence. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 8(2):105-117.
- Citation of Excellence Award. Judged by Emerald Management Review one of the top fifty out of 20,000 management articles of 2003.
Scott JT, Mannion R, Davies H, Marshall M. (2003) Health Care Performance and Organisational Culture. Oxford: Radcliffe.
- Review:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1393262
Selected Other Information
- 2002-2003 Harkness Fellowship in Health Care Policy. The Commonwealth Fund New York.
- 2002-2003 Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley.