Chris Grocott
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A radical redesign of the UK benefits system for gig economy workers could draw inspiration from a French scheme that covers art industry workers writes Guillaume Wilemme and Piotr Denderski of the University of Leicester School of Business and Helene Benghalem of Lausanne University. From independent contracting and self-employment to on-call and temporary contracts, non-standard […]
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Representations in Marketing Require more Attention to Context.
Brands can play an important role in fostering inclusion in our increasingly diverse societies. 38% of the respondents to a recent survey conducted by Adobe, said that they are more likely to purchase products and services from brands that show diversity in their advertisements.
Why Academics Need to Engage in Public and Political Discourse
People often struggle to distinguish between the advice of a charlatan and an expert, meaning that academic input into public discussions of important issues such as COVID-19 is vital, writes Aris Boukouras The developments of the past decade (the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, the 2016 presidential elections in US, the Brexit […]
Differentiating High-Involvement Management from High-Performance Work Systems: Why it Matters for UK Productivity
Professor Stephen Wood argues that focusing on management practices that involve workers in workplace decisions could be the answer to the UK’s productivity crisis. Increasing attention is being given to better management as part of the solution to Britain’s languishing productivity problem. Successive governments have attempted to increase productivity through programmes designed […]
How to think about Social Distancing and Containment using Network Formation Games
An unreliable test and tracing system risks becoming counter-productive once we consider how it may affect people’s behaviour, writes Dr. Fabrizio Adriani When pandemics cannot be addressed by pharmaceutical solutions, policy makers need to find viable alternatives to indiscriminate lockdowns, which carry huge human and economic costs. At the time of writing, the most promising […]
Distrust of Employer’s Responses to COVID-19 Could increase both Presenteeism and Absenteeism in UK Workplaces
People’s trust in their employer’s response to COVID-19 will shape their attitudes to returning to the workplace, Professor Stephen Wood writes. Stay at home wherever possible is a central plank of the UK (and other) government’s policy to combat the Covid-19 pandemic. There are now signs this is beginning to be tempered as workers […]
The Continuing Imperialism of Free Trade
In this post Dr Chris Grocott, Lecturer in Management and Economic History in ULSB, discusses his recently published book, co-edited with Dr Jo Grady (University of Sheffield), on the continuing imperialism of free trade. Free trade is once again part of popular political discourse. In the United States of America, Donald Trump has […]
Markets over Morals: Neoliberal Thought Has Always Struggled to Condemn Authoritarianism
In this blog post Dr Chris Grocott, Lecturer in Management and Economic History in ULSB, discusses his research analysing the relationship between neoliberal economic thought and morality. The recent election of far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency of Brazil provoked a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation journalist to speculate that the new regime’s positive stance […]
Brexit: How Does it Look from Gibraltar?
In April 2015, in the run-up to the British general election, I predicted that, counter-intuitively, the best outcome for the UK overseas territory of Gibraltar might well be a Labour or Labour-SNP coalition government. True enough, the Conservative Party has traditionally been seen as a more resilient defender of Gibraltar’s sovereignty, whilst the Labour Party, […]
Anarchy in the UK (‘s Most Famous Fortress)
Lecturer in Management and Economic History at the School, Chris Grocott, outlines the first output of a new collaborative research project on the history of labour organisations in the British Empire. In an article just published in Labor History, Jo Grady, Gareth Stockey and I examine the history of anarchism in Gibraltar and its surrounding […]
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