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.
Shahida Choudhary
Learning; leadership; culture; change; continuous professional development.
* Sue Curtis
Psychological contracts and part-time workers.
Cecilia Ellis
Employee engagement.
Glenda Frankl
Organisational behaviour and education.
* Dr Laura Hall
Work-life integration and performance and HR and technology.
Maryam Herin
HR change in sports sectors.
Dr Qihai Huang
Knowledge transfer; contingent employment; employer branding; employee commitment.
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.
* Jacqueline McLean
Knowledge management and new product development
Prof Huw Morris
Management education and learning.
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 John Pratten
Licensed trade; front-line staff; business ethics.
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.
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.
Richard Warren
Business ethics.
[* Based at MMU Cheshire]
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