We offer a strongly collegial, research-supportive, and intellectually stimulating interdisciplinary environment and excellent provision for PhD students. Group members are involved in the delivery of highly successful specialist undergraduate and postgraduate programmes that are research-led and reflect the wide-ranging disciplinary areas associated with WOM including a BA in Business Management, MSc in Human Resource Management (CIPD Accredited), Master in Management (MIM), and MSc in Occupational and Organisational Psychology (BPS Accredited).
Group members publish regularly in FT 50 listed academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Human Resource Management, Human Relations, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Organizational Research Methods, Organization Studies, and Research Policy, as well as leading specialist academic journals including Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Work, Employment and Society. They hold senior editorial positions for the following journals: Journal of Management Studies (Professor Caroline Gatrell, general editor), Work, Employment and Society (Professor Rory Donnelly, editor), Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology (Dr Laura Radcliffe, Dr Joanne Lyubovnikova, associate editors), Organization (Professor Damian O’Doherty, associate editor) and International Journal of Human Resource Management (Dr Huadong Yang, associate editor). They also sit on numerous editorial boards, including: Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Academy of Management Learning & Education, British Journal of Management, Human Relations, Journal of Management, and Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology.
Members of WOM work closely with business, the public sector and the third sector in impactful research and knowledge exchange. Such activities are funded by a range of national and international funding agencies including the ESRC, Leverhulme, the British Academy, and the public and private sector. The Group currently supports the Organisational and Employee Well-Being research cluster.
Human Resource Management
Group activities related to human resource management (HRM) cover a range of research topics and span different research methodologies including qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods approaches. Professor Rory Donnelly’s work focuses on knowledge work, particularly IT work in the UK, US and India; changing work and career dynamics; diversity and inclusion; the employment relationship and comparative employment systems. Research by Dr Emma Hughes examines employment relations; comparative employment systems; workplace partnership/conflict; the moral economy of work. Professor Stephen Woods researches recruitment and selection in organisations, especially around digital assessments, people and HR analytics and process fairness. Professor Caroline Gatrell currently studies fathers, employment and the work-family interface through the lenses of gender and the body. Dr Laura Radcliffe researches the impact of organisational polices and structures on work-life balance. Professor Yves Guillaume’s research looks at the effectiveness of diversity, equality and inclusion management practices. Professor Lillian Otaye’s research examines strategic human resource management, employee relations, diversity management (race/ethnicity and gender), international HRM and employee well-being. Dr Salma Raheem’s research revolves around international human resource management in the Middle East and the management of multicultural teams. Dr Huadong Yang’s work focuses on the effects of employee self-identity in HRM, implementation of HRM in teams, and high-performance work systems. Dr Yaru Chen’s research centres on professional identity, role identity, sensemaking/giving and applying these theoretical lenses to explore the adoption and diffusion of innovation in healthcare organisations. Dr Mariella Miraglia’s work examines performance management with a special focus on feedback and job crafting. Dr Ming Li (Lily) researches international HRM.
Organisational Behaviour
Group members’ research in the area of organisational behaviour draws on a range of disciplines including HRM, Organisation Studies, and Organisational Psychology and employs a wide spectrum of research methodologies, such as laboratory experiments, surveys, meta-analysis as well as qualitative and mixed methods. Professor Yves Guillaume’s research revolves around the study of diversity, leadership, teams, performance, innovation, well-being, and more recently social responsibility behaviours. Dr Huadong Yang researches culturally diverse teams and conflict management. Dr Ming Li (Lily) studies global leadership, cross-cultural and Chinese management, and application of research methods. Dr Salma Raheem’s researches the role of multicultural individuals in enhancing team productivity and cohesion as well as leadership in developing inclusive organisational cultures. Dr Pascale Daher’s work investigates leadership, gender and diversity, teams, and emotions. Professor Steve Woods’ research centres on personality at work, assessment of traits, and the ways in which personality develops in work environments. Dr Joanne Lyubovnikova’s research focuses on five interrelated areas; team composition and processes; team leadership; team innovation and creativity; multiple team membership; and teamwork in the context of healthcare. Dr Greg Fetzer ‘s research revolves around meaningful work and how individuals and groups manage creativity. Dr Laura Radcliffe research focuses on how people manage their various roles and identities as well as gender and diversity issues at the intersection of work and other life domains. Employing innovative qualitative methods, Dr Leighann Spencer‘s research examines two substantive domains, those of workplace mistreatment and the integration of scholarship and practice. Dr Mariella Miraglia studies attendance behaviour in organisations (absenteeism and presenteeism) and wellbeing. Dr Samah Shaffakat’s research studies leadership, leadership development, mindfulness, psychological contracts, change management, emotions and personality.
Organisation Studies/ Theory
In Organisation Studies, group members draw on a range of perspectives including Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology and History. The group employs a wide spectrum of reflective, analytical, and empirical methodologies. Professor Damian O’Doherty is an organization theorist who works ethnographically in organization, broadly defined, through which he seeks to animate and reanimate controversies at play in the ongoing maintenance, reproduction and disappearance of organizations. Research by Professor Caroline Gatrell research centres on work, family and health, which she explores from a socio-cultural perspective. Dr Nora Meziani ‘s research revolves around sensemaking, communication, intuition, embodiment, and inventive qualitative research methods. Professor Roy Suddaby’s research focuses on processes of change at the individual, organizational and institutional levels of analysis. He is particularly interested in the critical role of symbolic resources - legitimacy, authenticity, identity and history - in improving an organization's competitive position. Yihan Liu‘s research centres on organisational space, organisational history, and archive-based research methods. Dr Garance Marechal research investigates sensemaking, strategizing and reflexive processes in professional firms as well as gender. Drawing on recent approaches to cognitive science, Dr Meziani’s research centres on sensemaking, and on how a relational bundle made of words, objects and bodies contribute to meaning construction. Dr Mike Rowe’s work examines police discretion, policing, and police culture and he has a strong interest in ethnographic research approaches. Dr Claes Belfrage examines the political economy of financial regulation and market integration, inequality and climate change with a particular interest in the Nordic economies and the Mercosur. Dr Adriana Nilsson’s research focuses on the interaction between /organisational action and the institutional environment, particularly in relation to macro-processes of international political economy and regional and transnational governance. Dr Michael Cole researches local government, devolution and student unions. He is also interested in public leadership in China.
Management Education
The group also sees its role increasingly as a leader in intellectual and policy debate on university education, and is very active in pedagogy scholarship. Group members publish in national and international peer-reviewed management learning journals, producing monographs and edited collections with a learning and teaching focus. Professor Lisa Anderson’s research focuses on the aim of improving management practice and developing the management profession; she is currently Vice Chair of the British Academy of Management. Dr Jason Macvaugh has a particular research interest in higher education pedagogy and practice. Dr Susan Minten’s research revolves around graduate employability and careers as well as managing change in elite sport. Dr Patricia Murtagh has a particular research interest in technology, representation, media and strategy as practice. Dr Denise Preece research revolves around high performance working, learning, and development; she is also an Athena Swan National Panellist. Dr Jennifer Johnson’s research focuses on how culture, personality and individual ecology affect learning; she is a Branch Chair of CIPD. Dr Graeme Ridgeway research interests centre on micro ethics in organisations. Dr Caroline Ramsey’s research explores practice-based and processual as well as dialogic approaches to learning and practice innovation, reflective learning, judgment and quality of practical wisdom. John Hunter-Jones’s research focuses on recreational health and safety and fundraising strategies for charities. Dr Ali Rostron’s research explores the implications of an identity perspective in manager education and development; she is a member of the British Academy of Management Identity SIG Organising Committee. Other research on management education focuses for example on the changing function of university student unions (Dr Michael Cole), and the role of reflexivity and cultural sensitivity in academic performance of MBA students (Dr Joanne Lyubovnikova).
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