Jonathan Ivy

• BSc, BA (Hons), BCom (Hons), MEd, MA, EdD, PGCE
• Professor at Lancaster University

Wellbeing, performance and productivity have been subject to academic scrutiny over a number of years. The capacity of individuals to work effectively under pressure and deal with set-backs and adversity is of great interest. This study is carried out in a provincial police force in the UK and examines and reports on the efficacy of a work-based pe...

This paper examines and reports on the efficacy of work-based personal resilience training in a provincial police force in the north of UK. Taking a contextual view, data is modelled from an ASSET survey (n = 350) that provides evidence of the manifestations and consequences of providing such input, in comparison with respondents who had no trainin...

In a rapidly changing policing landscape in the UK, this research seeks to test the relationships between wellbeing, engagement, and discretionary effort. Data were garnered from the use of a wellbeing psychometric in- strument known as A Short Stress Evaluation Tool, which measures job perceptions, attitudes towards work, and general health. It is...

In a rapidly changing policing landscape in the UK, this research seeks to test the relationships between wellbeing, engagement, and discretionary effort. Data were garnered from the use of a wellbeing psychometric in- strument known as A Short Stress Evaluation Tool, which measures job perceptions, attitudes towards work, and general health. It is...

This research seeks to test the relationships between wellbeing, engagement and discretionary effort. This research is conducted in a provincial police force in the UK, but is generalisable to the public sector. Data is garnered from the use of a wellbeing psychometric instrument known as ASSET, which measures job perceptions, attitudes towards wor...

In a rapidly changing policing landscape in the UK, this research seeks to test the relationships between wellbeing, engagement, and discretionary effort. Data were garnered from the use of a wellbeing psychometric instrument known as A Short Stress Evaluation Tool, which measures job perceptions, attitudes towards work, and general health. It is a...

The purpose of this paper is to deepen conceptual understanding of workplace well-being in policing, particularly personal resilience. This is a conceptual paper reviewing and discussing contemporary literature with a focus on themes congruent with personal resilience in a police setting. This paper considers well-being in the context of police wor...

This article highlights individual behaviours associated with employee resilience in response to public sector [UK] organizational change programmes. The concept of ‘Leaveism’ emphasizes that sickness amongst employees can be a hidden phenomenon, and posits that effective workplace well-being strategies can contribute to successful work–life integr...

This paper details research the authors have conducted on the relationship between resilience and spirituality. A well-being psychometric instrument is modelled, providing resilience data (attitudes towards work, perceptions of the job and general health) from a small study of police officers in a provincial force in the north of the UK. Findings h...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine and report how the construct of “Well-being” is being recognised within the public services. Using research conducted in a northern provincial police force in the UK the paper explores the issues that may contribute to sickness absence, presenteeism and leaveism; a recently described manifestation o...

Purpose ‐ This paper aims to determine the role of ethnic origin on university application among Leicester college students. Design/methodology/approach ‐ The approach takes the form of a quantitative survey of 427 students in sixth form colleges in Leicester. Findings ‐ Five distinct motivational factors were derived from a survey of 427 sixth for...

For many educational administrators marketing has tended to focus on advertising, the institute's prospectus and open days. This research investigates marketing activities of private English as a Foreign Language Colleges in Damascus, Syria. A quantitative survey of students in four different EFL colleges in Damascus were interviewed, the results o...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a new marketing mix based on MBA students' attitudes and opinions towards the marketing initiatives of business schools in South Africa. The post‐graduate business education market is, and increasingly, getting more aggressive in their efforts to attract students on to their flagship degree, the MBA....

There has been enormous growth globally in the number of both MBA providers and students over the past few decades. While inclusion in national and international MBA league‐tables is part of the marketing arsenal of every MBA supplier that appears in them, identifying the determinants of success in this ever more crowded marketplace is a far less w...

“Create an image for your company or your competitors will do it for you.” In the higher education sector this statement by Keever is equally true; as competition for students increases and funding decreases universities and technikons need to create and maintain a distinctive image in the market place. Higher education institutions are becoming in...

The use of teams or quality circles is a relatively new approach to quality improvement in higher education in South Africa. This article describes some of the advantages in using the approach and some of the pitfalls that need to be considered. The debate of the "quality circle life cycle", which culminates in the demise of the tool is addressed....

Universities in the UK are facing huge changes to their environment, in terms of both supply of funding and level of demand for their courses. One of the most dramatic recent changes has been the alteration in status of the former polytechnics to fully fledged universities. In order to find out how both old and new universities are responding to th...