Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour

Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour
Research Coordinator
Professor Rosemary Lucas
Email: r.lucas@mmu.ac.uk

This group comprises more than 25 research-active academics, some 25 Doctoral and 50 Masters HRM research students at MMUBS and MMU Cheshire.

HRMOB research is conducted within five overarching research themes:

A  Fairness at work
(migrant workers; employee engagement; work-home life balance; well-being; workplace stress; gender equality; age and intergenerational working; employment law)

B Performance and reward
(executive remuneration; rewards and incentives in social care; minimum wages; small firms; gender and performance; performance management; teamworking; psychological contract)

C Leading and developing people
(mentoring and coaching; reflective practice; identity of leadership; personality and self-awareness; employability; emotions in organisations; managing change; entrepreneurship)

D Learning and development
(inter- and intra-organisational; individual; transferability; work-based learning; in multinational corporations; lifelong learning; student skills and engagement; developing managers; careers of Chinese managers; blended learning; knowledge transfer)

E Ethics and society
(social inclusion and regeneration through sports; corporate social responsibility; pubs in the community; binge drinking; piracy; cross-cultural management; the aesthetics of identity and consumerism)

Researchers and Research Interests

Dr Linda Alker

Older workers; learning and development in the financial sector. 

* Ian Atkin
Organisational analysis and sports coaching.

Dr Shahida Choudhary
Learning; leadership; culture; change; continuous professional development.

Cecilia Ellis
Employee engagement.

Glenda Frankl
Organisational behaviour and education.

Maryam Herin
HR change in sports sectors.

Margot Jackson
Managing change; international HRM & OB.

Dr Shirley Jenner
Consumerism and the graduate work proposition.

Anne Jones
Employment law; age discrimination.

* Chris Lovat
Employment law.

Prof Rosemary Lucas
HRM, performance and reward in social care; employment relations and migrant workers in the hospitality sector; minimum wages.

Dr Ben Lupton
Gender equality; small firms; age.

Steve Mansfield

Migrant labour; sports management; sports regeneration.

Hamish Mathieson
Employee relations; employee voice; employee engagement; teaching employee relations.

Jill Murray
Exploring how frontline managers are developed.

Dr Ghulam Nabi 
Entrepreneurial cognition and motivation; cross-cultural entrepreneurship and intentions; graduate entrepreneurship.

Chrissy Ogilvie

Work based learning.

Poonam Puri
Training and development in MNCs; work/organisational culture of UK firms in India; student learning in western universities and it application in Indian businesses.

Dr Andrew Rowe
Organisational learning; teamworking; remuneration strategies; arts and management.

Dr Peter Sandiford  
Sociology of work; orientation to work; emotions in organisations; organisational ethnography.

Dr Tom Scanlon
Work-home interface; stress and well-being at work; social power within buyer-supplier relationships; leadership in a multi-professional context.

Dr Sue Shaw
Gender and performance; gender and careers; HRM in China; careers of Chinese managers.

Dr Anna Sutton
Personality and self-awareness in the workplace.

Stephen Taylor
Recruitment and employer branding; employment law.

Aarti Vyas-Brannick
Personal and self-development skills; student feedback and skills.

Sara Ward
Mutuality and professional football;, corporate governance; non-profit board composition

Richard Warren
Business ethics.

[* Based at MMU Cheshire]

 

»  Centre for Professional Personnel and Development (CPPD)

» RIBM HRM and OB Membership

 

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Academic Divisions and Research Centres

The Business School is structured around four academic divisions and Research Centres which reflect the full range of business and management studies, as well as the School's own distinctive strengths.
They are:

Centres

Departments