Doctor Tina Harness
Head of Research, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange
Summary
Doctor Tina Harness is the Head of Research, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange for Sheffield Business School. She is responsible for the strategic oversight and delivery of the School's RIKE strategy, delivered through the combination of teaching, research and business engagement to develop strong societal impact.
About
As an experienced academic leader, Tina's career spans more than 25 years in higher education, 15 of those in senior leadership roles, across multiple Universities, taking responsibility for the development and implementation of strategic initiatives, locally and across the Universities she has worked in. In addition to her current role as the Head of Research, Innovation and Knowledge exchange for Sheffield Business School, she has also undertaken a broad variety of roles during her lengthy academic career. She joined Sheffield Hallam University in 2016 as Deputy Head of Department, and became Head of Department of Management in 2020, managing a large team of academic colleagues (fte. 125+). She has led a broad range of University strategic initiatives, including significant portfolio review, academic work planning projects and design and implementation of new courses.
Her research interests are focused on human resource management, concentrating more recently on diversity, inclusion and responsible practice. She has a Doctorate in Strategic Human Resource Management. She is a highly experienced academic, teaching students from Foundation through to post-graduate / professional level. She is an academic member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
Tina engages externally through consultancy, external examining and examining Doctoral students. She also supports other Universities, via being a member of validation panels, and acting as an advisor for accreditations. Through the various internal roles she has engaged with collaborative partners to develop the curriculum, ensured high quality in the academic provision, and managed large teams to effectively implement University and localised strategies. She is responsible for local decision making in relation to REF, research impact and knowledge exchange strategies.
Principal Lecturer Deputy Head of Department of Management
Teaching
Sheffield Business School
College of Business, Technology and Engineering
OBHRM
Publications
Journal articles
Alfakhri, D., Harness, D., Nicholson, J., & Harness, T. (2018). The role of aesthetics and design in hotelscape: A phenomenological investigation of cosmopolitan consumers. Journal of Business Research, 85, 523-531. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.10.031
Alfakhri, D., Harness, D., Nicholson, J., & Harness, T. (2017). The role of aesthetics and design in hotelscape: A phenomenological investigation of cosmopolitan consumers. Journal of Business Research, 85 (April), 523-531. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.10.031
Harness, T. (2013). Product Elimination for Post Downsizing Success. Journal of General Management, 38 (2), 39-60.
Harness, D.R., & Harness, T. (2012). Can Product Elimination Support Post-Downsizing Success Aspirations? Journal of General Management, 38 (2), 39-60. http://doi.org/10.1177/030630701203800203
Harness, T. (2009). Research Approach in Strategic Human Resource Management. Journal of Marketing Research.
Harness, T. (2009). Research methods for the empirical study of strategic human resource management. Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal, 12 (3), 321-336. http://doi.org/10.1108/13522750910963836
Harness, T. (2007). An Overview of Service Product Elimination: Insights from UK Financial Services. Journal of Financial Services Marketing.
Harness, T. (2004). An Overview of Service Product Elimination: Insights from UK Financial Services. Service Industries Journal, 24 (2), 67-80.
Harness, D., & Harness, T. (2004). The new customer relationship management tool – product elimination? The Service Industries Journal, 24 (2), 67-80. http://doi.org/10.1080/02642060412331301262
Harness, D.R., Marr, N.E., & Goy, T. (1998). The identification of weak products revisited. Journal of Product & Brand Management, 7 (4), 319-335. http://doi.org/10.1108/10610429810229852
Book chapters
Harness, T. (2015). The life and death's of a financial services offering. In Harrison, T., & Estelami, H. (Eds.) The Routledge Companion to Financial Services Marketing. Abingdon: Routledge
Harness, D.R., & Harness, T. (2014). The many deaths of a financial services offering. In Routledge Companion to Financial Services Marketing. (pp. 219-236). http://doi.org/10.4324/9780203517390-26
Harness, T. (2007). Managing Sports Products and Services. In Chadwick, , & Ellis, (Eds.) Sports Marketing. New Jersey: Prentice Hall (Pearson Education)
Presentations
Harness, T. (2015). Antecedents of Ethical Behaviour: A Study of Senior Female Officers in the UK Police Force.
Harness, T. (2015). The implementation of PRME in a Business School: Do we really need to change anything?
Harness, T. (2011). IK Supermarket’s Corporate Social Responsibility Activities – Real or Marketing Rhetoric: A Consumer Perspective.
Harness, T. (2009). Dispelling the Myth About the Thin Blue Ceiling: Women’s Career Progression Within the UK Police Service.
Harness, T. (2003). The Predictability of the Causes of Financial Services Product Elimination.
Harness, T. (2000). Product Elimination - A Relationship Management Tool.
Harness, T. (1999). The Link Between Market Characteristics, Business Strategies and Human Resource Strategies: An Examination of the Matching Model of Strategic Human Resource Management.
Harness, T. (1998). Elimination Strategies for Physical Goods and Financial Service Products - the Applicability of Harvesting and Divesting.