Donaldson, John

First name/s: John
Last name: Donaldson
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Date of birth: 01/04/1936
Year of birth: 1936

Life before Ruskin

Date and place of birth: Doncaster, Yorkshire

Family: Father: Miner, Mother: Nurse (SRN).

Work: I worked in various jobs, including optical mechanic, sales clerk.

Politics/Trade union activity: Clerical and Administrative Workers’ Union, Doncaster -regular attender at Branch Meetings. Took NCLC (Tillicoultry) correspondence courses (Archaeology, Economics). Parish Councillor (& sometime Vice-Chairman) at Charvil, 1996-2000.

Trade Union membership (at time of entry to Ruskin)

Life at Ruskin

Dates at Ruskin: 1962-1964

Source of funding: First Year – self funded (back tax, vacation earnings, wife was working). Second Year: Local authority grant (was offered TUC Appeal Fund Scholarship, but passed over in favour of another student who needed support))

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Subjects studied at Ruskin: For Oxford University Diploma in Economics and Political Science: Politics and Government,Economic Theory,Economic Organisation,Social and Economic History, Political Theory,Development Problems and Policies

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Qualification: Oxford University Diploma in Economics and Political Science

Life after Ruskin

Education: Keble College, Oxford BA (Hons. Second); MA Oxford)

Work: 1) Economic Research, University of Essex (1967-8); 2)then WEA Tutor-Organiser, West
Lancashire and Cheshire District (Full-time 1968-71) , then 3) (1971-4) Manchester Business School, Research Fellow, pay systems and structures specialist, then 4) University of London, Imperial College, Lecturer in Industrial Relations, Labour Economics, Organisational Behaviour, to 1979 and 5) Visiting Fellow, University of Leicester, Law and Management Departments,
Part-time Tutor and Lecturer (to 1998).

Politics/trade union activity: Part- time tutor to POEU and TGWU residential courses from 1969 for over twenty years). Place: POEU (Ledge Point, Westgate on Sea and Alvescot College); TGWU: Cirencester and Stoke Rochford.

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Year of death: 0

Achievements / Publications

Books:
1) Pay Differentials: an integration of theories, evidence and policies (1985) Editor and contributor, with Pamela Philby. Gower Press, Aldershot. Hants. (with contributors listed below in image of contents pages) 1985.
2) Key Issues in Business Ethics (1989). Academic Press, London, New York & Sidney
3) Business Ethics: A European Casebook (1992). Academic Press, London, New York & Sidney
4) Co-operative Management (1998). New Harmony Press, Leicester. (Also available in Spanish under the title Management Cooperativista, since 2005, published by Granica, Buenos Aires).

Academic Papers: Numerous papers include
“Codes, Stakeholders & Business Philosophy” (1999) International Journal of Value-Based Management. Vol 12 no 3. A Survey of Sixteen British Consumer Co-operative Societies” (2000) with Peter Davis. Journal of Co-operative Studies Vol 33, No 99, August.

“Multinational enterprises, employment relations and ethics”. (2001) Employee Relations. Vol 23 no 6. “Underlying Values and Consequences in Financial Services” (2003) (with Irene Fafaliou) International Journal of Value-Based Management Vol 16 No 3.

“Co-operative Management and corporate governance.” (2003) International Journal of Co-operative Management. Vol 1 Issue 1, July

“Business Ethics, corporate social responsibility and corporate governance: a review and summary Critique”. (2003) (With Irene Fafaliou).European Research Studies Journal Vol. VI, Issue 1-2.

“Privatization”s Narrative of State-owned Services: panacea or threat to businesses and to labour force democracy?” International Journal of Co-operative Management. Vol 3 No 1 January, 2007

“Principles of Administration Revisited” (With Irene Fafaliou). International Journal of Social Economics. Vol. 34 Issue 5 (2007)