Andreescu, Dr Francesca
Department: Human Resource Management (HRM), Westminster Business School
Position: Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour
Contact:
+44 (0)20 7911 5000
f.andreescu@westminster.ac.uk
Education
PhD in Management (University of Southampton, UK)
Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching Practice in Higher Education (University of Greenwich, London, UK)
Certificate in Management and HRM Studies (University of Oporto, Portugal)
BSc in Management Sciences, MSc in Human Resource Management (Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest, Romania)
Biography
Dr Francesca Andreescu is a Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour at WBS. Prior to joining the University of Westminster in September 2008, she worked as a full-time Lecturer at Greenwich Business School and part-time Lecturer at the University of Southampton.
Francesca holds a PhD in Management from the University of Southampton in the areas of Strategic Human Resource Management, Organisational Change and Public Sector Management. Drawing on qualitative, longitudinal case-study research carried out over a five-year period, her PhD thesis explored the changing roles of the Human Resources function in the context of commercialisation of public sector agencies in the United Kingdom. The study also addressed the contextual factors that influence the role played by the HR function and highlighted the way in which critical differences in organisational and HR processes could serve to enable or inhibit the contribution of the HR function. Francesca’s doctoral research was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) through a research scholarship granted to the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Southampton.
Francesca is a member of the British Universities Industrial Relations Association (BUIRA), British Academy of Management (BAM) and the “Strategy as Practice” research network supported by the Advanced Institute of Management Research (AIM). Her research interests cover the link between business strategy, HR strategy and change management, the strategic role of the HR department and micro-level research into HR processes in both private and public sector organisations.
Francesca teaches on both postgraduate and undergraduate programmes covering strategic HRM, employee resourcing and development, organisational behaviour and analysis, and employment and management in the public services. Francesca has teaching and course development expertise in all the key aspects of HR practice and personnel management, such as strategic HRM and the link between the HR strategy and the business strategy, people resourcing, employee reward, performance management, human resource development and international & comparative HRM, as well as in the areas of effective management and leadership skills. Francesca encourages students to adopt a critically evaluative approach towards strategic HR within the context of organisational environments and change; her teaching methods also place emphasis on combining experiential activities with group work, guided reflection and sharing of practical work experiences, which together provide opportunities for the development of key management skills, such as teamwork, leadership, planning, problem solving, decision making and ability to negotiate in a business environment.
Selected publications
- Andreescu, F. (2007) “Implementing a successful E-business strategy in the public services: challenges, constraints and successful elements” (Chapter 2) . In Lee, I. (ed.): Advances in E-Business Research Series, Volume 2 – E-Business Models, Services and Communications, Idea Group Publishing.
- Andreescu, F. (2006) “Organisational challenges of implementing E-business in the public services: the case of Britain’s National Mapping Agency”, International Journal of E-Business Research, Volume 2, No.4, Idea Group Publishing, pg. 39-60.
- Andreescu, F. (2004) “Innovating the HR function in a commercialising British public sector organisations: towards a more strategic role for HR?”, Management Revue: The International Review of Management Studies, Special issue on ‘Organisational Innovation and HRM’, Volume 15, issue 3, pg. 344-363.
