A balanced diet for construction workers to improve safety and productivity (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Umar, T. (2020). A balanced diet for construction workers to improve safety and productivity. In F. Sherratt, B. Hare, & F. Emuze (Eds.), Proceedings of the Joint CIB W099 & TG59 International Web-Conference 2020: Good Health, Wellbeing & Decent Work

The United Nations (UN) under its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aims to protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers around the world. Although the deadline to achieve the UN SDGs is approaching faster... Read More about A balanced diet for construction workers to improve safety and productivity.

Promoting employee safety performance in the Chinese construction industry (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Opoku, A., Zhao, S., Lok, K. L., Chen, C., & Umar, T. (2020). Promoting employee safety performance in the Chinese construction industry. In L. Scott, & C. Nielson (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual ARCOM Conference (285-294)

In the construction industry, safety leadership has been widely recognised as an indispensable factor that affects organisational safety performance. However, in China specifically, research on safety leadership in the construction domain is not adeq... Read More about Promoting employee safety performance in the Chinese construction industry.

Using ASHE to examine trends in low pay: Initial exploration of the data (2020)
Report
Bryson, A., Phan, V., Stokes, L., Ritchie, F., Forth, J., McKenzie, A., & Whittard, D. (in press). Using ASHE to examine trends in low pay: Initial exploration of the data. Bristol: Low Pay Commission

Using the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) 2004-2019 we report consistent time-series estimates of the percentage of jobs on and around the minimum wage; low paid jobs above the minimum; and ‘high paid’ jobs. In doing so we report on some i... Read More about Using ASHE to examine trends in low pay: Initial exploration of the data.

The evolution of business models of information and communication technology suppliers (2020)
Journal Article
Stone, M., Aravopoulou, E., Stott, R., Parnell, B. D., Machtynger, J., Foss, B., & Machtynger, L. (in press). The evolution of business models of information and communication technology suppliers. Bottom Line, https://doi.org/10.1108/bl-08-2020-0051

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to show how the business model of the information and communications technology (ICT) industry has evolved and the general differences that evolution has made to information management. Design/methodology/approac... Read More about The evolution of business models of information and communication technology suppliers.

Systems leadership: Pitfalls and possibilities (2020)
Report
Bolden, R. (2020). Systems leadership: Pitfalls and possibilities. London: National Leadership Centre

Systems leadership​ is heralded as a means for improving collaboration and alignment between those commissioning, providing and using public services. Despite the clamour, however, little attention has been paid to the challenges of such an approach... Read More about Systems leadership: Pitfalls and possibilities.

All that jazz (2020)
Journal Article
Turner, A. (2020). All that jazz. Coaching Psychologist, 16(1),

This is a paper (one of an informal series) looking at creative ways of coaching.

Leading to achieve social change: An interview with Ruth Hunt, former Chief Executive Officer of Stonewall (2020)
Journal Article
Bolden, R., Williams, R., & O’Regan, N. (2021). Leading to achieve social change: An interview with Ruth Hunt, former Chief Executive Officer of Stonewall. Journal of Management Inquiry, 30(1), 91-97. https://doi.org/10.1177/1056492620935192

In this interview Ruth Hunt, former CEO of the lesbian, gay, bi and trans equality charity Stonewall and now crossbench peer at the House of Lords, discusses her approach to leadership for social change. She considers the changing context of LGBT rig... Read More about Leading to achieve social change: An interview with Ruth Hunt, former Chief Executive Officer of Stonewall.

Safety climate factors in construction - A literature review (2020)
Journal Article
Umar, T. (2020). Safety climate factors in construction - A literature review. Policy and Practice in Health and Safety, 18(2), 80-99. https://doi.org/10.1080/14773996.2020.1777799

It is an established fact that a mature safety climate and a rich safety culture contribute to achieving a safe workplace. This paper aims to explore and to make explicit the existing safety climate assessment tools and dimensions and suggests the le... Read More about Safety climate factors in construction - A literature review.

Resource integration: Adopting a paradox perspective to inform the management of tensions in customer resource allocation (2020)
Journal Article
Vafeas, M., & Hughes, T. (2020). Resource integration: Adopting a paradox perspective to inform the management of tensions in customer resource allocation. Industrial Marketing Management, 91, 596-609. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2020.03.014

Service-dominant logic maintains that value is created collaboratively through a process of resource integration. Knowledge-intensive business services, the context for this study, are heavily dependent on customer resources for the fulfilment of the... Read More about Resource integration: Adopting a paradox perspective to inform the management of tensions in customer resource allocation.

Leadership learning, power and practice in Laos: A leadership-as-practice perspective (2020)
Journal Article
Case, P., & Śliwa, M. (2020). Leadership learning, power and practice in Laos: A leadership-as-practice perspective. Management Learning, 51(5), 537-558. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507620909967

This article contributes to the growing body of literature developed within the leadership-as-practice perspective, focusing on issues of learning and power. It draws on a co-constructed (auto)ethnographic account of an individual’s longitudinal expe... Read More about Leadership learning, power and practice in Laos: A leadership-as-practice perspective.