Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

Outputs (291)

The state and the labour process: Bureaucratic flexibility and constrained autonomy in the Indian information technology industry (2025)
Journal Article

ABSTRACTThis paper examines the connections between state regulation and the labour process, an underdeveloped area within labour process analysis. It explores the interaction between state employment regulation and bureaucratic control mechanisms in... Read More about The state and the labour process: Bureaucratic flexibility and constrained autonomy in the Indian information technology industry.

From social justice to social value: The changing fortunes of using public purchasing for social ends (2025)
Journal Article

This aim of this article is to trace the concept of ‘social value’ in public procurement (purchasing by the public sector from private and third sector contractors of goods, services and works) in the UK through four decades of the incorporation of s... Read More about From social justice to social value: The changing fortunes of using public purchasing for social ends.

Feminist activism to create change in a male dominated industry: The alta mentoring platform (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The alta mentoring platform, launched within the aviation and aerospace industry in 2019, is the outcome of a joint knowledge exchange project between academics and industry and was designed to meet the mentoring needs of women in this male dominated... Read More about Feminist activism to create change in a male dominated industry: The alta mentoring platform.

Human resource management students – but no HR analytics? Modifying the traditional masters dissertation to accommodate students struggling with data (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This developmental paper outlines how the Human Resource Management (HRM) module team on a master’s degree programme at a UK University are attempting to shape the curriculum to encourage HRM students to work with data. This is in direct response to... Read More about Human resource management students – but no HR analytics? Modifying the traditional masters dissertation to accommodate students struggling with data.

In search of the good life? Experiences of executives and senior managers navigating reduced hours in the UK (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The challenges of greater wellbeing, work-life reconciliation and gender balance in senior management and executive careers are well established. Working hours are critical to career advancement and women, more so than men, seek a reduction in hours... Read More about In search of the good life? Experiences of executives and senior managers navigating reduced hours in the UK.

Relational mentoring in the aviation and aerospace industry: Meeting women’s needs through the Alta mentoring scheme (2022)
Book Chapter

The alta mentoring platform, launched within the aviation and aerospace industry in 2019, is the outcome of a joint knowledge exchange project between academics and industry. It was designed and launched to meet the mentoring needs of women in this m... Read More about Relational mentoring in the aviation and aerospace industry: Meeting women’s needs through the Alta mentoring scheme.

Navigating reduced hours careers: Experiences of male and female executives and senior managers (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The focus of this research project was to examine the extent to which elite workers (senior managers and executives) who are often associated with traditional ways of working and long full time hours, are able to work reduced hours and navigate their... Read More about Navigating reduced hours careers: Experiences of male and female executives and senior managers.

Trade Union collective identity, mobilisation and leadership – a study of the printworkers’ disputes of 1980 and 1983 (2021)
Thesis

The National Graphical Association (NGA) typified the British model of craft unionism with substantial positional power and organisational strength. This study finds that it relied upon, and was reinforced by, the common occupational bonds that membe... Read More about Trade Union collective identity, mobilisation and leadership – a study of the printworkers’ disputes of 1980 and 1983.

When do supervisor expectations for creativity lead to newcomer innovative role orientation (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Using a role theory perspective, this study investigated contingent conditions under which supervisor expectations for creativity is related to newcomer innovative role orientation. Longitudinal data were collected from 161 graduates from a universit... Read More about When do supervisor expectations for creativity lead to newcomer innovative role orientation.

Understanding newcomer role orientation in the workplace: A self-determination theory perspective (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Newcomers can be a source of innovation for organisations, bringing fresh perspectives and novel solutions. Thus, in many organisations, it is desirable for newcomers to adopt an innovative (versus custodial) role orientation. Using self-determinatio... Read More about Understanding newcomer role orientation in the workplace: A self-determination theory perspective.

Trade union strategy in fashion retail in Italy and the USA: Converging divergence between institutions and mobilization? (2018)
Journal Article

We investigate trade union strategies in fashion retail, a sector with endemic low-wages, precarity and a representation gap. Unions in Milan organized ‘zero-hours contract’ workers, while their counterparts in New York established an alternative cha... Read More about Trade union strategy in fashion retail in Italy and the USA: Converging divergence between institutions and mobilization?.