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Career choice status among undergraduates and the influence of career management competencies and perceived employability (2016)
Journal Article
Wilton, N., Jackson, D., & Wilton, N. (2017). Career choice status among undergraduates and the influence of career management competencies and perceived employability. Journal of Education and Work, 30(5), 552-569. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2016.1255314

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This study examines the influence of career management competencies and perceived employability on career choice status (CCS) among undergraduates. Making informed and appropriate career... Read More about Career choice status among undergraduates and the influence of career management competencies and perceived employability.

How can competitiveness be achieved in post-crisis Europe: deregulating employment relations or enhancing high performance work practices? (2016)
Journal Article
Kornelakis, A., Veliziotis, M., & Voskeritsian, H. (2017). How can competitiveness be achieved in post-crisis Europe: deregulating employment relations or enhancing high performance work practices?. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 28(21), 2957-2976. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2016.1233445

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The recent Eurozone crisis has reinvigorated neoliberal policies and brought to the fore an academic and policy debate over the deregulation of employment relations’ institutions ‘in the... Read More about How can competitiveness be achieved in post-crisis Europe: deregulating employment relations or enhancing high performance work practices?.

Perceived employability among undergraduates and the importance of career self-management, work experience and individual characteristics (2016)
Journal Article
Wilton, N., Jackson, D., & Wilton, N. (2017). Perceived employability among undergraduates and the importance of career self-management, work experience and individual characteristics. Higher Education Research and Development, 36(4), 747-762. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2016.1229270

© 2016 HERDSA. Underemployment, continued growth in the supply of graduates and seemingly perpetual instability are dominant trends in graduate labour markets. In order to negotiate an increasingly complex career terrain, graduates require sharpened... Read More about Perceived employability among undergraduates and the importance of career self-management, work experience and individual characteristics.

Thin place: An alternative approach to curatorial practice (2016)
Thesis
Healy, C. Thin place: An alternative approach to curatorial practice. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/909166

The ideas proposed in this thesis emerged out of a practice based interdisciplinary curatorial research project titled Thin Place, which was installed at Oriel Myrddin, Carmarthen in early 2015. Fully funded by Arts Council Wales, the exhibition, edu... Read More about Thin place: An alternative approach to curatorial practice.

Onboarding and induction (2016)
Book Chapter
Chen, J. (2016). Onboarding and induction. In J. Neugebauer, & J. Evans-Brain (Eds.), Employability: Making the Most of Your Career Development (88-93). Sage Publications Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781473996694

This is particularly true for those of you who have just joined a new company and wish to achieve long-term success and satisfaction in your career. This section discusses what you can do to make a good start.

Revisiting Jewson and Mason: The Politics of Gender Equality in UK Local Government in a Cold Climate (2016)
Journal Article
Conley, H., & Page, M. (2017). Revisiting Jewson and Mason: The Politics of Gender Equality in UK Local Government in a Cold Climate. Gender, Work and Organization, 24(1), 7-19. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12135

© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd This paper revisits Jewson and Mason's seminal theoretical framework on liberal and radical approaches to equal opportunity policy and practice by applying it to our research on the implementation of the Gender Equality... Read More about Revisiting Jewson and Mason: The Politics of Gender Equality in UK Local Government in a Cold Climate.

Mentoring for equality: Women activists creating change in the UK aviation and aerospace industry (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Durbin, S., Lopes, A., Neugebauer, J., & Warren, S. (2016, June). Mentoring for equality: Women activists creating change in the UK aviation and aerospace industry. Paper presented at Acting for Women and Equalities in Organizations? Gender, Work and Organization Conference, Keele, England

The UK aviation and aerospace industry remains one of the most male dominated industries in the UK. While academic research has focused upon women’s reluctance to enter STEM employment, their propensity to leave when they become mothers and the lack... Read More about Mentoring for equality: Women activists creating change in the UK aviation and aerospace industry.

Running the penultimate lap of the race: A multimethod analysis of growth, generativity, career orientation, and personality amongst men in mid/late career (2016)
Journal Article
Clark, M., Arnold, J., & Clark, M. (2016). Running the penultimate lap of the race: A multimethod analysis of growth, generativity, career orientation, and personality amongst men in mid/late career. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 89(2), 308-329. https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12125

© 2015 The British Psychological Society. The dynamics of development in mid/late career are relatively uncharted territory in empirical research and represent a point of intersection between work/organizational psychology and lifespan developmental... Read More about Running the penultimate lap of the race: A multimethod analysis of growth, generativity, career orientation, and personality amongst men in mid/late career.

Absence management of migrant agency workers in the food manufacturing sector (2016)
Journal Article
Hopkins, B., Dawson, C., & Veliziotis, M. (2016). Absence management of migrant agency workers in the food manufacturing sector. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 27(10), 1082-1100. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2015.1053961

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. Temporary workers in low-skilled roles often experience ‘hard’ HRM practices, for example the use of the Bradford Factor to monitor absence, rather than using incentives to reward attendance. However, this peripheral workfo... Read More about Absence management of migrant agency workers in the food manufacturing sector.

Utilising Biographical Narrative Interpretive Methods: rich perspectives on union learning journeys and learner motivations (2016)
Journal Article
Moore, S., Ross, C., & Moore, S. (2016). Utilising Biographical Narrative Interpretive Methods: rich perspectives on union learning journeys and learner motivations. Journal of Education and Work, 29(4), 450-469. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2014.978273

© 2014 Taylor & Francis. This article explores the use of Biographical Narrative Interpretive Methods (BNIM) in research on motivations for trade union learning. Our use of BNIM – a new methodological approach for us – was intended to test our own... Read More about Utilising Biographical Narrative Interpretive Methods: rich perspectives on union learning journeys and learner motivations.

Developing career management competencies among undergraduates and the role of work-integrated learning (2016)
Journal Article
Jackson, D., & Wilton, N. (2016). Developing career management competencies among undergraduates and the role of work-integrated learning. Teaching in Higher Education, 21(3), 266-286. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2015.1136281

© 2016 Taylor & Francis. This paper explores undergraduate capabilities in career self-management and the influence of work-integrated learning (WIL). Career management competencies are an important aspect of individual employability and impact on... Read More about Developing career management competencies among undergraduates and the role of work-integrated learning.

Career management attitudes among business undergraduates (2016)
Journal Article
Jackson, D., & Wilton, N. (2016). Career management attitudes among business undergraduates. Australian Journal of Career Development, 25(1), 7-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/1038416215604002

© Australian Council for Educational Research 2016. Globalisation, organisational restructuring and new technology have been connected with a shift to ‘protean’ and ‘boundaryless’ career attitudes with workers, including new graduates, increasingly r... Read More about Career management attitudes among business undergraduates.

Gender equality in the UK: Is reflexive and responsive legislation the way forward? (2016)
Book Chapter
Conley, H. (2016). Gender equality in the UK: Is reflexive and responsive legislation the way forward?. In C. Bauschke-Urban, & I. Jungwirth (Eds.), Gender and Diversity Studies in European Perspectives. Opladen, Germany: Verlag Barbara Budrich

This chapter examines an experiment with different approaches to the law usually referred to as responsive and reflexive legislation. It outlines the theoretical underpinning of responsive legislation (Nonet and Selznik, 1979/2001) and its later dev... Read More about Gender equality in the UK: Is reflexive and responsive legislation the way forward?.

Encyclopedia of human resource management (2016)
Book Chapter
Hutchinson, S. J. (2016). Encyclopedia of human resource management. In S. Johnstone, & A. Wilkinson (Eds.), Encyclopedia for human resource management. Cheltenham: Elgar

Contributions on flexible working, flexitime, term time working, part-time working and compressed working hours