Curriculum Vitae

31 August 1930 - 29 January 2015 

Degrees obtained

MA (1953), MSc (1956), University of Edinburgh

DSc (1973), University of Aston

Employment history

·    Research Assistant, Social Sciences Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, 1953-56

·    Assistant Lecturer in Public Health and Social Medicine, University of Edinburgh, 1956-57

·    Lecturer in Human Relations, Birmingham College of Technology, 1957-60

·    Senior Research Fellow, Industrial Administration Research Unit, Birmingham College of   Advanced Technology (later Aston University), 1960-67

·    Reader in Industrial Administration, Aston University, 1967-68

·    Director of Research and Reader in Organizational Behaviour, London Business School, 1968-69

·    Professor of Organizational Behaviour, London Business School, 1970-82

·    Professor of Systems and Head of Systems Discipline, Faculty of Technology, Open University, 1983-88

·    Professor of International Management and Director of Research, Open University Business School, 1988-1995

·    Visiting Research Professor of International Management, Open University Business School, 1995-2000

·    Emeritus Professor of International Management, Open University, 2000-2015

Offices held

·    Chairman, Association of Teachers of Management, 1970-73

·    Honorary Vice-President, Association of Teachers of Management, 1980-85

·    Director and Trustee of Diapason Ltd (a musical education charity), 1970-84

Editorial duties

·    Editor, Newsletter of Association of Teachers of Management, 1961-66

·    General Editor, Library of Modern Management, Penguin Education Books, 1966-1986

·    Editorial adviser on Psychology, Batsford Books, 1967-1973

·    Editor, Newsletter of British Academy of Management, 1989-91

·    General Editor, History of Management Thought series, Ashgate Dartmouth Publishing, 1992-2002

·    General Editor Classic Research in Management series, Ashgate Dartmouth Publishing, 1997-2002

Honours

·    Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society and holder of the Certificate, 1959

·    Fellow of British Psychological Society, 1971

·    Fellow of Italian Academy of Business Administration, 1981

·    Fellow of International Academy of Management, 1987

·    The Professor Derek Pugh Prize is awarded annually to the best student on Professional Certificate in Management course of the Open University Business School, 1995 onwards

·    Recipient of Festschrift: T. Clark (ed.) Advancement in Organizational Behaviour: Essays in Honour of Derek S. Pugh, Ashgate, 1997

·    Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences, 2000

·    Honorary Fellow, University College, Northampton, 2001

·    Honorary Doctorate (DLitt), Aston University, 2009

·    Recipient of the Richard Whipp Lifetime Achievement Award of the British Academy of Management, 2009

Professional activities:

·    Correspondence Tutor in Industrial Psychology, Ruskin College, Oxford. 1958-1964

·    British Tutor at the First European Summer School for Social Psychology. 1965

·    Secretary, Management Education Study Group. 1958-1960

·    Founder member, Association of Teachers of Management (ATM) 1961

·    Editor of ATM Bulletin, 1961-1966

·    Chairman of ATM, 1970-1973

·    Immediate Past Chairman ATM (ex-officio member of the committee) 1973-1976

·    Consultant to METDC project on 'Resources for Management Education' conducted at the London School of Economics, 1969-1972

·    Member of Formation Committee, Central London Regional Management Centre (based at the Polytechnic of Central London), 1973-1975

·    Member of the CBI/BIM Advisory Panel on Management Education Working Party on Industry-Business School Relationships, 1973-1977

·    Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee, European Institute of Advanced Studies in Management, Brussels, 1972-1976

·    Co-designer and Principal Teacher of FORDOM: a management training course sponsored by a consortium of Italian firms (Fiat, Montedison, Olivetti, IRI, Bank of Rome, Bank of Naples, etc.) for managers who are about to become management teachers; Turin-Milan 1973-1974

·    Teacher on FORDOM-SUD: a management training course sponsored by the Italian Government for managers in the South of Italy who are about to become management teachers, Rome 1975

·    Member of the Editorial Board of:
     Administrative Science Quarterly, 1968-1971
     British Journal of Social Psychology, 1967-1975
     European Journal of Social Psychology, 1969-1977
     Human Relations, 1989 - 1995

·    Member, Flying Personnel Research Committee (Psychological sub-committee), Ministry of Defence, 1976-1980

·    Member of CNAA Business and Management Studies Postgraduate Board 1978-1983

·    Member of CNAA Research Sub-Committee 1979-1983

·    Final Selection Board, Civil Service