I am really excited that an article I submitted to the Voluntary Sector Review has just been accepted. Getting published in a peer review journal has been a long old slog but I had to attempt this a part of the requirements of my prof doc programme.
In my many moments of self doubt I have often lamented… I’m not an academic! On one occasion, I blurted this out to my cohort. In response, my very lovely, encouraging and supportive colleagues assured me that I had unique insights gained as a practitioner that are worth sharing academically.
One of them said, rather profoundly I thought, “we are all in the process of becoming. Whatever you become as a consequence of being on this programme, its great to get to know Patrick Goh before Patrick Goh has become Patrick Goh”.
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I am a ‘People Practitioner’ who has, over the years, been swept up by the tidal wave of change that has seen my profession go from being called Manpower Management to Personnel Management to Human Resource Management, and now back, well sort of… to Systemic People Management. I came up with the last phrase because I find myself increasingly uncomfortable with working within the confines of the ubiquitous neo-liberal approach to categorising and organising people. I believe that people are people, not merely assets, human capital or resources. While we do find fulfilment from PRODUCTivity, we are ultimately human beings, not human doings. I would like to transcend who we have become and becoming in a marketized, monetarised world and leave the corporatist worldview that reminds me so much of the allegory of Plato’s Cave.
I love God, my family, playing guitar, following Arsenal, travelling and taking and editing photos. This website is a celebration of all these things and more.
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