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Alasdair Antony Kenneth White is a British management theorist, specialist in performance management and organisational behaviour, an author of the White-Fairhurst Performance Hypothesis.

Biography
White was born May 24, 1952 in Shifnal, United Kingdom. He studied education and physics at the University of Winchester, England. He also received a Certificate in Education from the University of Southampton. In 1976 he took up a role of managing director of a small holding company in southern England and also worked as a business journalist and a newspaper editor. He became a management consultant in 1984 and moved to the Netherlands in 1987 to set up an international investment consultancy firm. In 1989, he joined Citibank to conduct a reorganization programme and moved to Belgium in 1992. White currently works as management consultant via his company Performance Management Solutions. He teaches Business Administration at the United Business Institutes in Brussels and at the European Management Development Institute (EMADIN). He also works for a publishing house "White and McLean Publishing". White wrote a political action novel Shadows under the pen name of Alex Hunter.

Research
White’s practical experiences as international management consultant were generalized in his first book. White presented performance management from the standpoint of behavioural psychology and motivation theory. He emphasized the difference of motivational (healthy) and manipulational (unhealthy) styles of management. Successful manager understands behavioural patterns of workers and watches the level of motivation via carefully measured combination of appreciation, criticism and challenges engendered by change. These concepts were further developed in the books and, the latter containing practical advice and case studies. In 2006, White developed a new All-RoundAppraisals model, which used a simple computer application [...].

The first book was a starting point of White’s almost life-long preoccupation with the management of change, and, more specifically, with the concepts of development phases and the comfort zone. Through the analysis of development phases White was able to state similarity between the phases of .... and ..... This research lead to the formulation of the White-Fairhurst hypothesis. According to this hypothesis ...

Membership

 * United Business Institutes, faculty member since 2001
 * European Management Development Institute, faculty member since 2001
 * Hoa Sen University in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, visiting faculty member since 2006
 * Institute of Directors, member since 19XX
 * International Napoleonic Society, fellow since 1992

Books

 * Managing for Performance London, 1995, Piatkus Books
 * Continuous Quality Improvement London, 1996, Piatkus Books
 * The Essential Guide to Developing Your Staff London, 1998, Piatkus Books
 * Managing Academic Performance, 2008, White & MacLean Publishing
 * Shadows by Alex Hunter