Annette Clancy

• PhD, MSc
• Professor (Assistant) at University College Dublin

The launch of Basic Income for the Arts in April 2022 by the Irish Government marks a significant moment for the arts in Ireland. This article addresses the key assumptions underlying the policy and discusses whether what is primarily a welfare state redistributive intervention will address the social and economic complexities of life within the cu...

This is a personal reflection, as a female academic during Covid‐19, on how women's academic productivity seems primarily to be discussed in relation to a different kind of productivity–motherhood. A recent procedure in a maternity hospital, evoked feelings and associations of mothering and being mothered, and how these associations hover over rela...

When it comes to motivating your employees, monetary incentives might be the obvious choice. However, motivation is less about the reward and more about the emotional journey.

Coaching can help boost performance, but you must establish a culture that embraces coaching to see the benefits.

This paper discusses the value of learning from a psychodynamic approach to experiential learning. This approach is used to help students experience and understand the emotional and relational complexity of leading and managing within organizations. From this perspective, experiential learning means engaging with emotions and with embedded relation...

Being a people-pleaser and being an effective team player are two very different things

In this paper, we discuss emotions and fantasies that inform and influence the project of theory building. Our argument is that theory building can be improved by engaging directly with emotions and, in particular, with fantasies that are defensively and creatively generated by the researcher. Once acknowledged, these can be transformed into hunche...

The tyranny of satisfaction has reached crisis levels, but what if we could learn to disappoint?

Managers are often required to communicate change initiatives to their teams. While it can be a traumatic experience, you can ease the pain for all involved.

Every office has a narcissist, you just need to learn how to play up to their strengths instead of focusing on their weaknesses.

Introverts can be an organisation’s hidden weapon but to realise their true value, we need to re-think our work spaces

Meetings can be easily derailed by just one quarrelsome attendee, but fighting fire with fire isn’t the answer.

People leaders might baulk at the idea of an ‘emotional’ workplace, but emotion is a positive force if channelled properly.

The fantasy of the all good, 24/7 available, target-busting firm is a recipe for disappointment

In this paper, we discuss emotions and fantasies that inform and influence the project of theory building. Our argument is that theory building can be improved by engaging directly with emotions and with fantasies that are defensively and creatively generated by the researcher. Once acknowledged, these can be transformed into ideas and insights. We...

This paper explores the emotion of disappointment in organizations and develops a new line of theorizing inspired by psychoanalytic object-relations theory. Existing literature frames disappointment as a threat to organizational effectiveness, as both a response and an anticipation of failure and as an emotion that needs to be managed in order to p...