How To Eat an Elephant
Recoup conference speech 28.9.23 During COVID I spent a lot of my enforced leisure time on personal development, and one of the learning...
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Exploring leadership through the symbiosis of convenience grocery and single-use plastic packaging
Hello! Welcome to my unique blog where I share with you the ideas and findings developed as part of my MSc in Management Practice at the University of Manchester. Packing Up For Good has added such value to my life, and I love having the opportunity to share my experiences and insights with my readers.
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Rob Thompson
Packing Up for Good
Exploring the symbiosis of single-use plastic packaging and convenience grocery. As the Packaging Manager of a large convenience...
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Single-use Plastics
Debate on the social responsibility of organisations is anchored in two separate poles – economics, which is concerned with corporations,...
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Leadership (and its alternatives)
To overcome the challenges associated with a reimagining of convenience retail’s symbiotic relationship with plastic packaging will...
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Stakeholder Management
The vocabulary of stakeholder theory has passed into the vernacular of organisations, although few using the term fully understand its...
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Summary of research lenses
This research aims to address business challenges underpinning the provision of grocery products in a convenience store setting. The CSR...
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Customer Perceptions of Packaging Sustainability
Following the literature review, it became clear that consumer sovereignty remains a key driver of business CSR activity (Ehgartner,...
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Putting Insight into Action
Having ascertained that plastic reduction was a focus area for the organisation’s customer base, I set about creating a reduction plan by...
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Reflective Assessment
The conflict of CSR activity between the poles of moral philosophy and economics (Godfrey and Hatch, 2007) was in abundant evidence...
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Critical Reflection and Learning
My Hogan reports indicated that I’m insensitive, that I give objective, factual feedback which comes across as overly direct, blunt, and...
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Bibliography
Alvesson, M. (2017). Reflexive leadership: organizing in an imperfect world. Los Angeles: Sage. Ammeter, A. P., Douglas, C., Gardner, W....
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ABOUT ME
Rob Thompson MInstPkg(Dip) BA(Hons) MSc CEnv CMgr FIMMM FCMI
My reflections have been developed over a 2 decade career in packaging development in the retail, food and drink, and packaging industries.
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I'm a Chartered Environmentalist, a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, and a Diploma member of the Institute of Packaging.
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My first degree was in Modern Languages and European Studies from the University of Salford, where I completed my dissertation on Electoral Volatility in Western Europe since 1945.
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In 2023 I will complete the Senior Leader Apprenticeship programme, including a Master of Science degree in Management Practice from the University of Manchester. I developed Packing Up for Good as part of my evidence portfolio for the award of Chartered Manager from the Chartered Management Institute.
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In my spare time I enjoy family walks with my partner Suzy, our son Franklin, and our miniature poodle, Teddy. I also enjoy woodcarving, allotmenteering, and playing the trumpet in Manchester's number one ska band, The Uplifters.
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