Outputs (20)
Editorial: Gender equality and modernization of public sector employment (2011)
Journal Article
Still 'a good job for a woman'? Women teachers' experiences of modernization in England and Wales (2011)
Journal Article
This article examines women teachers' experiences of modernization in schools in England and Wales. The article explores the impact of modernization on their work and non-work lives and why, in some cases, modernization has made it impossible for the... Read More about Still 'a good job for a woman'? Women teachers' experiences of modernization in England and Wales.
Non-unionized young workers and organizing the unorganized (2011)
Journal Article
Young workers are concentrated in low-waged, poorly organized industries. Although poorly unionized, evidence suggests that they are positively predisposed towards unions. Most research on youth and unionization is attitudinal, however, with little e... Read More about Non-unionized young workers and organizing the unorganized.
Newcomer adjustment and the role of supervisor: Evidence from two studies in China (2011)
Journal Article
'All they lack is a chain': Lean and the new performance management in the British civil service (2011)
Journal Article
The adaptation of lean techniques in public services is viewed as an innovative managerialist response to government demands for more efficient services amidst large reductions in public spending. This paper explores workers' experiences of the impac... Read More about 'All they lack is a chain': Lean and the new performance management in the British civil service.
Gower Handbook of Discrimination at Work (2011)
Book
Gender Mainstreaming - Hidden Leadership? (2011)
Journal Article
This article intends to open a discussion of what it might mean to lead gender equality mainstreaming in the context of significant changes in equality legislation and in the governance of the public services. The research data are drawn from two sou... Read More about Gender Mainstreaming - Hidden Leadership?.
Racing bodies (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Do employability skills really matter in the UK graduate labour market? the case of business and management graduates (2011)
Journal Article
Two dominant rationales are offered by UK policymakers for the continued expansion of higher education: to service the high-skill labour requirements of a knowledge economy, and to increase educational and employment opportunities for under-represent... Read More about Do employability skills really matter in the UK graduate labour market? the case of business and management graduates.
Lean and mean in the civil service: The case of processing in HMRC (2011)
Journal Article
The public sector has been importing private sector methods and practices aimed at generating efficiencies and cost savings. However, the consequences of these changes on the working lives of civil servants are under-researched. This article uses det... Read More about Lean and mean in the civil service: The case of processing in HMRC.
Sketching a socio-economic model of labour markets (2011)
Journal Article
Using insights from the 'socio-economics of labour markets' and building upon critical realist meta-theory, this paper offers the first sketch of a socio-economic model of labour markets as an alternative to the orthodox model. © The Author 2010. Pub... Read More about Sketching a socio-economic model of labour markets.
Not just for the love of horses. Bodywork and the labour process in racing stables (2011)
Journal Article
Knowledge creation, call centres and gender: A critical perspective (2011)
Book Chapter
This chapter analyses the design of call centres and the implications of this from a business and gender perspective. It is based upon research in two UK call centres developed by two leading financial services organisations, referred to throughout a... Read More about Knowledge creation, call centres and gender: A critical perspective.
Powers and tendencies re-visited (2011)
Journal Article
Whilst powers and tendencies are amongst the most fundamental concepts of critical realism, there are several problems with these concepts that have been ignored, avoided or glossed. The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to tease out these problem... Read More about Powers and tendencies re-visited.
The brain drain, FDI and trade: Channels and evidence (2011)
Journal Article
Employee relations and the illusion of trust (2011)
Book Chapter
Teacher, lecturer or labourer? Performance management issues in education (2011)
Journal Article
Education management has increasingly been dominated by the norms and requirements of general management ideologies that focus on performance controls and target achievements. Under this regime, solving the labour problem - relatively low productivit... Read More about Teacher, lecturer or labourer? Performance management issues in education.
Creating knowledge through networks: A gender perspective (2011)
Journal Article
This article offers a theoretical analysis of knowledge creation through networking, specifically drawing upon the example of female senior managers as potential knowledge creators. The article constructs a model of networks and their corresponding k... Read More about Creating knowledge through networks: A gender perspective.