Professor Agi Oldfield

Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Management

Prior to joining Richmond Agi taught at Brunel University, at both undergraduate and post graduate level at Kingston Business School and Surrey University. Agi was also a visiting Professor at ESADE Business School Barcelona, where she taught on the MBA programme. She has been an external examiner at a number of UK universities.

During her academic career she has lectured at masters level in Hong Kong, Singapore, Athens, Barbados, Mauritius and worked on a number of European Union projects in Belarus, France, Holland and Hungary, where she also played a major role in the establishment of a Management Centre for development of higher education staff.

Agi’s research interest lies in Organisational and Project Risk Management, a specialism which has also formed the majority of her consultancy work over the past 20 years. The work is based largely on her work at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Decision Analysis Unit.

Agi also has substantial experience within other UK universities, where, in addition to her lecturing role she has undertaken substantial academic programme development for masters level programmes, gaining Centre of Excellence for Personnel Management for one institution and developing and delivering bespoke management development programmes for commercial organisations. Currently Agi is also on the committee at the British Standards Institute for Whistleblowing and Corporate Governance.

Agi Oldfield holds an MSc in Social Psychology from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BSc (Hons) in Psychology from Brunel University, UK. She is also a qualified Occupational Tester.

Courses Taught

• MGT 301 Organisational Behaviour
• MGT 358 Human Resource Management
• MGT 401 Leadership

Publications

• Rail Standards and Safety Board (RSSB): Report: T169 – Risk in Management Systems. 2002 (Key author).
• Oldfield, A. Stakeholder Analysis as Decision Support for Project Risk Management. In Organisational Cognitions. Z. Shapira and T. Lant (eds). Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc. 2000.
• BS 6079 part III Guide for managing organisational risk. Published in January 2000 by BSi, London with Gourlay, S and Ocock M.
• Project Risk Management: The Relevance of Human Factors. The International Journal of Project & Business Risk Management 1 (2) 1997.
• Barriers to Change: A cross-cultural perspective. Paper presented to the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management - Henley November 1995.
• Project Risk Management: The Importance of Stakeholders. Paper presented at INTERNET, 12th World Congress on Project Management, Oslo, June 1994.
• Handling Decision Problems: Structuring Language and Interactive Modules. (1990) Humphreys, Patrick, Wisudha, Ayleen, Wooler, Stuart, Oldfield, Agi. Defense Technical Information Centre.
• The Human Factor in Risk Management.Project, 1989 Vol.10 No.10 pp.13-15.
• Conflicting Perspectives in Multi-Stakeholder Problems: A comparative study.In: Proceedings of the Hazardous Waste World Conference: North Holland, 1988.
• Differences Between Judgements of Stakeholders in Social Decision Making.Technical Report 88-3, Decision Analysis Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1988.
• Analysis of Decision Conferences: Differences in Problem Handling by Management Stratum Technical Report 88-2, Decision Analysis Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1988
• Intuitive Handling of Decision Problems: A five-level Empirical Analysis. Technical Report 87-2, Decision Analysis Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1987.

Workshops, Seminars and Conference presentations

• British Standard:BS 6079- 3 -2000: Guide to the management of business related project risk. Presentation to European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) conference, Brussels.
• Key author for British Standard:BS 6079- 3 -2000:Guide to the management of business related project risk.
• Human Factors in Organisational Performance: Covert vs Overt Organisations Behavioural Economics and Economic Psychology Conference, Paris.
• Improving Strategic Decision Making. November 2000 to February 2001. Development Programme designed and delivered for Managers within Railtrack.
• Managing the expectations and behaviour of people in the risk management process. IIR September 2001. London. ‘Project Risk Management’ conference Guest Speaker.
• Knowledge Management: A Risk Management Support tool? 4th Annual Risk Symposium, London, October 2000.
• Project Risk management. IBM Project World European Conference (1998) Guest Speaker
• IBM Project World European Conference (1998) Two day workshop on Risk Management
• Effective Project management. IIR December 1997. London. Guest Speaker
• Organisations at Risk – The Enemy Within. Paper presented at conference. Total Risk Management: New directions – New Solutions. Oct.1997
• Other academic activities concern the development and delivery of short courses or workshops in Eastern Europe to transfer knowledge base relevant for Western Economies.
• Contributions to workshops concerned with developing Strategic Decision Support Systems funded and organised by IIASA (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis - Vienna).
• Member of the BSi Committee for Whistleblowing and Corporate Governance.
• Key author for Report T169 for Rail Safety and Standard Board on Risk Management.

Professional Activities

Management consultancy work also includes training and development workshops within the private and public sector:

• Blue Circle
• English Estates
• Ove Arup
• Millennium Commission
• Railtrack
• Tate Gallery
• Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB)
• Nirex
• South Downs Health Authority
• University of Ulster
• Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)
• British Gas
• Urotech