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Human Resource Management and Organisational
Behaviour Research Group
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
is an interdisciplinary Social Science research group based in Loughborough
University Business School. The group brings together Psychologists, Sociologists
and others interested in the field of 'people management' issues. By operating
across the boundaries of conventional academic disciplines and between
the boundaries of applied and fundamental research, the group makes a
distinctive contribution to knowledge and practice. The group conducts
research in three key areas:
- Career Studies and Professional Work
(John Arnold, Laurie Cohen, Amal El-Sawad and John Loan-Clarke)
- Sociology of Work (Peter Ackers,
Marek Korczynski, Maurizio Atzeni, Donald Hislop and Melissa Tyler)
- Quality of Working Life (Alistair
Cheyne, Kevin Daniels and Cheryl Travers)
The group's output ranges from traditional academic scholarship
to work with a significant impact on public policy and management training.
The group holds regular research seminars and workshops.
Group Members and their Research Interests
Core Members
- Professor Peter Ackers
(Professor of Industrial Relations and Labour History)
Family friendly policies; social partnership; labour history; business
ethics
- Professor John Arnold
(Professor of Organizational Behaviour)
Career management; organisational psychology; lifespan development
- Dr Maurizio Atzeni (Lecturer
in Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour)~
Work and labour relations: in particular: labour conflict, mobilisation
theory, labour process, work organisation in self-managed factories
and trade unionism in Argentina
- Nick Beesley (Researcher)
Safety in engineering; design; designer error and personality
- Dr Alistair Cheyne
(Senior Lecturer in Organisational Psychology)
Organisational culture; safety; employee attitudes
- Professor Laurie Cohen
(Professor of Organisation Studies )
Careers; language and organisation; professional work
- Professor Kevin
Daniels (Professor of Organisational Psychology, Director
of Research)
Cognition and emotion; stress; well-being at work
- Dr Amal El-Sawad
(Lecturer in Human Resource Management)
Careers; critical management studies; qualitative methods
- Ruth Hartley (Research
Associate)
Personality and safety culture
- Dr Donald Hislop
(Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management)
Knowledge management and mobile tele-working
- Professor Marek Korczynski
(Professor of Sociology of Work)
Service work; music at work; social theory
- John Loan-Clarke
(Senior Lecturer in Organisational Development)
Healthcare; organisational psychology; roles
- Dr Cheryl Travers
(Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour)
Stress; adaption to work; management of change
- Dr Melissa
Tyler (Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies)
Organisation theory; gender; sexuality and the body; emotion and aesthetics
- Professor Adrian Wilkinson (Professor
of Human Resource Management)
Employee involvement; organisational failure; industrial relations
- Dr Varuni Wimalasiri
(Researcher)
Safety; knowledge management
Affiliated Members
- Alison Smith (Deputy
Director, Professional and Management Development Centre)
- Deborah Walker (Tutor/
Lecturer in Occupational Health and Safety Management)
Risk assessment in small firms; motivating influences on SMEs to manage
health and safety; the role of intermediaries in supporting SMEs; strategy
issues for small firms' intervention
- Dr David Wenham
(Director of the Postgraduate Programme in Occupational Health and Safety
Management)
Occupational health and safety law; health and safety management in
educational establishments; negligence
Major Research Grants and Projects
Group members regularly achieve funding for research
from research councils, government, professional bodies and industry.
The web pages for individuals give more detail about this. Recently funded
projects include:
- ESRC
- "Seminar Series: Workplace Abjection and
Alterity" – PI: Melissa Tyler; Co-investigators: Jo Brewis
(Leicester), Philip Hancock (Warwick), Steve Linstead (York)
- "Seminar Series: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
on Career and Migration" – Laurie Cohen, John Arnold,
Maggie O'Neill (Social Sciences)
- "The Organization and Management of Science
in Diverse Contexts" – Laurie Cohen with Joanne Duberley
(University of Birmingham)
- "Careers and Family Friendly Policies"
- Seminar Programme – Amal El-Sawad, Laurie Cohen and Peter
Ackers
- Contemporary Service Work – Seminar Programme
– Marek Korczynski
- Careers in Science – Website Project –
Laurie Cohen with Joanne Duberley
- EPSRC
- "Designing for innovation and safety: How
can medical device designers do both?" Kevin Daniels, Alistair
Cheyne, Donald Hislop, Laurie Cohen, Varuni Wimalasiri, Nick Beesley
- “Risk and the Design Engineer” - Kevin
Daniels and Alistair Cheyne
- British Academy
- "History of Academic Industrial Relations
Theory" - Peter Ackers
- “The Careers of Call-Centre Workers in the
Indian Office: A UK-based Services Organization.” - Amal El-Sawad
and Laurie Cohen
- “The Invisible Woman: Women and Abjection
at Work” – Melissa Tyler and Laurie Cohen
- “The Social Origins of Broadcast Music in
British Factories” – Marek Korczynski
- Arts and Humanities Research Board
- "Music at Work: The Missing History"
- Marek Korczynski with Michael Pickering (Loughborough University,
Social Sciences Dept)
- “Music at Work” – Research Dissemination
Grant – Marek Korczynski and Michael Pickering
- Department of Health
- "Why Qualified Allied Health Professionals
Stay In, Leave, or Return to the NHS" - John Arnold, John Loan-Clarke
and Crispin Coombs
- Health and Safety Executive
- “Trojan Horse Construction Site Safety Messages;
Phase II; Behavioural Observation.” Alistair Cheyne
- "Health and Safety Performance Management
Index" - Alistair Cheyne and Deborah Walker
- “Human Factors Involved in Workplace Transport
Accidents” - Ruth Hartley, Alistair Cheyne
- National Union of Teachers
- "Teacher Ethnicity and Stress" - Cheryl
Travers
- EMDA
- “Daily Learning in SMEs” Kevin Daniels
with Grahame Boocock and Julie Holland
Research Collaboration
Group members have collaborative links with other leading researchers
throughout the UK and overseas. The following information illustrates
some international collaborations.
- Peter Ackers has undertaken work with the Indian
Institute of Management;
- Marek Korczynski’s collaboration with the University
of New South Wales, Australia has resulted in the publication of a major
study of international service employment;
- International careers research occurs with colleagues
in Hong Kong (John Arnold) and New Zealand (Laurie Cohen); Healthcare
projects also include New Zealand (John Loan-Clarke);
- Alistair Cheyne conducts safety climate research
with University of Valencia collaborators
Policy Impact
Much of the research undertaken by group members has tangible policy,
as well as academic impact e.g.,
- Quality of Working Life - work by Alistair Cheyne
on safety climate (HSE); Kevin Daniels on stress (HSE) and Cheryl Travers
on teacher stress (NUT);
- Healthcare Professionals Recruitment and Retention
– John Arnold and John Loan-Clarke and the Dept of Health;
- Employee Voice – Peter Ackers and Adrian Wilkinson
(CIPD)
Publications
The group is particularly notable for its contribution to the major academic
journals in the field, e.g., Human Relations, Journal of Management
Studies, Organization Studies, Work Employment and Society, British Journal
of Industrial Relations, International Journal of Human Resource Management,
Organization, Human Relations, British Journal of Management, Work and
Stress, Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology, Journal
of Vocational Behavior, International Journal of Management Reviews.
Members have also written or edited a number of books, the most recent
of which are:
- Ackers, P. and Wilkinson, A., (eds) Understanding
Work and Employment: Industrial Relations in Transition, Oxford University
Press, 2003
- Arnold, J., Work Psychology, (4th ed.), Pitman.
- Daniels, K., Harris, C. and Briner, R., Understanding
the Risks of Stress: A Cognitive Approach, HSE Books, 2002.
- Hancock, C. and Tyler, M., Work, Postmodernism and
Organisation: A Critical Introduction, Sage, 2001.
- Hislop, D (2005) Knowledge Management in Organizations:
A Critical
Introduction. Oxford University Press
- Korczynski, M., Hodson, R., and Edwards P., (eds.)
Social Theory at Work, Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Schabracq, M., Cooper, C., Travers, C., van Maanen,
D., Occupational Health Psychology: The Challenge of Workplace Stress,
BPS Books, 2001.
- Tietze, S., Cohen, L. and Musson, G., Understanding
Organisations Through Language, Sage, 2003.
Academic Journal Editorial Roles
John Arnold is editor of the Journal of Occupational and Organizational
Psychology and an editorial board member of the Journal of Vocational
Behavior.
Kevin Daniels is a former associate editor and now board
member of the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology,
and is a board member of British Journal of Management and Human Relations.
Peter Ackers was previously joint editor of Labour
History Review and is currently an editorial member of Work,
Employment and Society.
Marek Korczynski is an editorial board member of
Work, Employment and Society, and has guest-edited special issues
of Human Resource Management Journal.
Laurie Cohen is an editorial board member of Management
Learning and has guest-edited special issues of International
Studies of Management and Organisation.
Amal El-Sawad, Peter Ackers and Laurie Cohen have guest-edited
a symposium in British Journal of Guidance and Counselling.
Adrian Wilkinson is an editor of International Journal
of Management Reviews and on the editorial board of several journals,
including International Journal of Human Resource Management.
Visiting Professors
Professor Wilmar Schaufeli – Professor of Work and Organizational
Psychology, Utrecht University.
Professor Jan De Jonge – Professor of Work Psychology – Einhdhoven
University of Techology
PhD Candidates
The Group has great supervisory experience
and is keen to supervise high quality research students in members’
specialist research fields. Recognition of the quality of supervision
offered by Group members has resulted in funding for doctoral students
from organisations and the ESRC for post-doctoral work.
For an online
application form click here
and for full details
of the Business School PhD programme click here
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