Performance management
(2010)
Book Chapter
An introduction to human resource management (2010)
Book
Social welfare reform: From dependency to malingering for people with mental health disabilities? (2010)
Journal Article
Of the 600,000 new claimants of incapacity benefits in the UK, approximately 40 per cent report mental health disabilities. The percentage remains consistent for the total number on incapacity benefits, over 2.5 million people of which 41 per cent re... Read More about Social welfare reform: From dependency to malingering for people with mental health disabilities?.
The impact of partnership and family-building on the careers of highly-qualified women: issues for effective management practice (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
The dramatic rise in female labour market participation over the last twenty years in the UK has led to a significant growth in the proportion of dual-career couples and working parents. For example, the Office for National Statistics report that the... Read More about The impact of partnership and family-building on the careers of highly-qualified women: issues for effective management practice.
People Management and Performance (2009)
Book
The impact of family-building on the careers of female graduates: Some insights for effective management practice (2009)
Journal Article
In the UK, the proportion of couples with dependent children where both partners were in work increased from 57 per cent to 66 per cent between 1994/5 and 2005/6 (Simon and Whiting 2007) and looks set to continue to rise. The imperative for both men... Read More about The impact of family-building on the careers of female graduates: Some insights for effective management practice.
Do employability skills really matter in the UK graduate labour market? The case of business and management graduates (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Two dominant rationales are put forward by UK policymakers for the continued expansion of higher education (HE): to service the high-skill labour requirements of a ‘knowledge’ economy and to increase educational and, subsequently, labour market oppor... Read More about Do employability skills really matter in the UK graduate labour market? The case of business and management graduates.
Business graduates and management jobs: An employability match made in heaven? (2008)
Journal Article
The rapid growth in undergraduate business education over the last three decades has coincided with the growing dominance of an economic ideology of higher education (HE); that its role is principally one of contributing to national competitiveness t... Read More about Business graduates and management jobs: An employability match made in heaven?.
Higher education, the ‘knowledge economy’ and ‘knowledge workers’: does current education policy make sense? (2008)
Journal Article
The UK higher education (HE) system has undergone a major transformation over the past three decades from a system that catered for an elite group of entrants in the late 1960s and early 1970s to one that now aims to provide tertiary education to hal... Read More about Higher education, the ‘knowledge economy’ and ‘knowledge workers’: does current education policy make sense?.
The path of least resistance? Choice and constraint in HRM strategy in the UK hotel sector (2008)
Book Chapter
Guerrier and Deery (1998) suggest two central questions that are recurrent in HRM research in the hotel sector. Firstly, to what extent is the work of hospitality managers influenced by the industry context? Secondly, to what extent do hospitality ma... Read More about The path of least resistance? Choice and constraint in HRM strategy in the UK hotel sector.
Does a management degree do the business for women in the graduate labour market? (2007)
Journal Article
The increasing dominance of an economic ideology of higher education, that its principal role is to contribute to national competitiveness, has increased focus on the employability of graduates and their transition into the labour market. Drawing on... Read More about Does a management degree do the business for women in the graduate labour market?.
Hard lessons for lifelong learners? age and experience in the graduate labour market (2007)
Journal Article
The expansion of the higher education system and widening access to undergraduate study has led to growing diversity within the graduate labour supply, including increasing numbers who studied for their degrees as mature students. Analysis of graduat... Read More about Hard lessons for lifelong learners? age and experience in the graduate labour market.
Satisfaction with HR practices and commitment to the organisation: Why one size does not fit all (2005)
Journal Article
This article examines the links between employees' satisfaction with HR practices and their commitment to the organisation. It draws on recently collected data to examine these links for three groups of employees: professionals, line managers and wor... Read More about Satisfaction with HR practices and commitment to the organisation: Why one size does not fit all.