Mark Fenton-Ocreevy
Professor of Organisational Behaviour @The Open University Business School
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WORK HISTORY
Professor of Organisational Behaviour @The Open University Business School
Milton Keynes, GB
Expertise in:Psychology of decision-making and uncertaintyChange managementWork and emotionsOrganisational commitmentCross-national comparative managementMultinational firmsPractice based learning
EDUCATION
London Business School
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Business Administration and Management, General
University College North Wales, Bangor
PGCE, Mathematics and Outdoor Pursuits
London Business School
PhD, Organizational Behaviour
HEC Paris
PIM
University of Warwick
BA(Hons), Pure Mathematics
SKILLS
ABOUT MARK FENTON-OCREEVY
Mark Fenton-O\'Creevy is an educator, researcher and consultant with three current primary areas of interest. 1) He studies how managers and professionals make decisions in conditions of deep uncertainty. This includes a long standing interest in the work, behaviour and performance of professional traders. and the role of emotion in financial decision-making for traders, investors and everyday financial decision making.2) He studies the ways in which business and management practices develop and are transformed or corrupted within businesses and organisations. Particular interests include the transfer of HR practices between different national settings and the professional practices of traders in investment banks.3) He has a profound interest in the relationship between formal and informal learning. He spent five years running a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning the Centre for Practice-Based Professional Learning (http://cetl.open.ac.uk). His book on \"Learning in Landscapes of Practice\" with Etienne Wenger-Trayner, Beverly Wenger-Trayner, Chris Kubiak and Steve Hutchinson, builds on Etienne\'s prior work on communities of practice and the work of the OU centre for Practice-Based Professional Learning. He acts as a consultant to a range of organisations with a particular focus on change management and international HR management and on supporting and improving decision-making processes. Mark has acted as an academic advisor to a range of BBC documentaries: The Money Programme;\'Can Gerry Robinson Fix the NHS\';\'The Love of Money\'; Escape from the Boardroom; and (with Adrian Furnham) created the \'Big Money Test for the BBC\'s LabUK and the Watchdog programme, and \'Right on the Money\'.Specialties: Practice-Based Learning, Pedagogy, Distance Learning, International Management, Financial Trading, Investment Psychology, Management of Change
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