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Organising migrant workers: The living wage campaign at the University of East London (2015)
Journal Article

This critical case study looks at the campaign led by Citizens UK and Unison to get the University of East London (UEL) to sign up to the London Living wage (LLW). UEL agreed to pay the LLW after a brief campaign in November 2010 and it was subseque... Read More about Organising migrant workers: The living wage campaign at the University of East London.

Employability and students' part-time work in the UK: Does self-efficacy and career aspiration matter? (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 British Educational Research Association. Amid a growing focus on graduate employability, this study examines the relationship between students' part-time work, career aspirations and self-efficacy, in a survey of 357 UK students from two post... Read More about Employability and students' part-time work in the UK: Does self-efficacy and career aspiration matter?.

Human resource management practices and performance link: Applying critical realist meta-theory (2015)
Thesis

Abstract
Many of those who conduct empirical research in the field of human resource management (HRM) believe that a quantifiable and statistical, relation, association or link exists between HRM practices and organizational performance, and can b... Read More about Human resource management practices and performance link: Applying critical realist meta-theory.

Hourly paid teachers in UK universities: Findings from an exploratory survey (2015)
Journal Article

The Higher Education sector in the UK has seen some unprecedented changes in recent years. One of the most striking changes has been the widespread use of casualised contracts in UK universities. In 2012-13, almost 34 per cent of academics worked par... Read More about Hourly paid teachers in UK universities: Findings from an exploratory survey.

Sample selection and bribing behaviour: Evidence from post-socialist countries and Western Europe (2015)
Journal Article

We study the individual-level determinants of bribing public officials. Particular attention is paid to the issue of respondents’ non-random selection into contact with public officials, which may result in biased estimates. Data come from the 2010 L... Read More about Sample selection and bribing behaviour: Evidence from post-socialist countries and Western Europe.

Mentoring professional women in aviation and aerospace (2015)
Journal Article

In this article, we report on a new ESRC co-funded project which aims to design, implement and develop a mentoring scheme for female professionals within the aviation and aerospace industry, through a knowledge exchange partnership between UWE, the R... Read More about Mentoring professional women in aviation and aerospace.

Talking and acting for our rights: The interview in an action-research setting (2015)
Book Chapter

This chapter draws upon an action-research project in which the ethnographer became a participant and facilitator of a collective effort that led to the unionisation of sex workers in the UK. It is within this context that I will explore the way in w... Read More about Talking and acting for our rights: The interview in an action-research setting.

Unwaged posts in UK Universities: Controversies and campaigns (2015)
Journal Article

The article examines unwaged posts at UK universities, using recent examples of advertised posts. While unpaid work is common in the UK higher education system, unwaged posts are not. The posts under scrutiny in this article differed from traditional... Read More about Unwaged posts in UK Universities: Controversies and campaigns.

Cabin crew collectivism: labour process and the roots of mobilization (2015)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2014. The protracted dispute (2009–11) between British Airways and BASSA (British Airways Stewards and Stewardesses Association) was notable for the strength of collective action by cabin crew. In-depth interviews reveal collectivism... Read More about Cabin crew collectivism: labour process and the roots of mobilization.

A life span perspective on leadership (2015)
Book Chapter

Global economic crisis and corruption (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York. We study the effects of the 2008–2009 global economic crisis on the household experience of bribing public officials. The data come from the Life in Transition-2 survey, conducted in 2010 in 30 post-s... Read More about Global economic crisis and corruption.

From labour market institutions to an alternative model of labour markets (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014 The Association for Social Economics. This post-disciplinary article goes beyond orthodox labour economics and combines insights from the ‘socio-economics of labour markets’ (SELM), and critical realism (CR), to develop a SELMCRperspective, wh... Read More about From labour market institutions to an alternative model of labour markets.

Bhaskar and critical realism (2014)
Book Chapter

Therapeutin oder spionin? Qualitative interviews with German senior managers (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Despite the fact that qualitative interviews are reputed to be an effective method of obtaining data from organizational elites, studies are concurrent on a number of obstacles which surround the interviewing of senior management. Problem areas flagg... Read More about Therapeutin oder spionin? Qualitative interviews with German senior managers.

Gender inequality in work (2014)
Book Chapter

Critical realism and systematic dialectics: A reply to Andrew Brown (2014)
Journal Article

In 'Approach with caution: critical realism in social research', Andrew Brown sets out a series of criticisms of critical realism from the perspective of systematic dialectics. This current article is one critical realist's reply to Brown. © The Auth... Read More about Critical realism and systematic dialectics: A reply to Andrew Brown.

2004 Minority Education Reform and pupil performance in Latvia (2014)
Journal Article

One quarter of all schoolchildren in Latvia go to the publicly funded minority (predominantly Russian) schools. In 2004, the language of instruction in minority schools was changed from essentially minority language to a composite of 60% Latvian and... Read More about 2004 Minority Education Reform and pupil performance in Latvia.

Female part-time managers: Careers, mentors and role models (2014)
Journal Article

This paper explores the careers of 27 women employed as part-time managers in a range of UK public, private and not-for-profit sector organizations. Drawing upon semi-structured interviews, the article briefly summarizes the career trajectories of th... Read More about Female part-time managers: Careers, mentors and role models.

The transformation of employment regulation in Greece: Towards a dysfunctional liberal market economy? (2014)
Journal Article

Gender Equality in Public Services: Chasing the Dream (2014)
Book

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS NOT THE FULL BOOK TEXT - PUBLISHER POLICY ONLY ALLOWS ACCESS TO AN EXTRACT OF THIS BOOK IN THE UWE BRISTOL RESEARCH REPOSITORY

The provision of state funded and democratically accountable care services represents one of the mo... Read More about Gender Equality in Public Services: Chasing the Dream.