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Posted by in School of Business Blog on August 4, 2015
Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations, Jo Grady, looks behind The Welfare Reform and Work Bill’s upbeat rhetoric to reveal the downplayed reality “Britain deserves a pay rise and Britain is getting a pay rise” By discontinuing a series of Tax Credits and by replacing the current National Minimum Wage (£6.50 […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Budget, Fair Pay, George Osborne, Industrial Relations, Living Wage, Minimum Wage, Pay Dispute, Politics, Progressive Tax, Real Wages, Shareholder Theory, Tax, Tax Break, Tax Credits, Trade Unionism, Welfare Reform and Work Bill |
Posted by Daniela Rudloff in School of Business Blog on July 15, 2015
Iain Duncan Smith MP was in uncharacteristically exuberant mood during last week’s Budget speech. Daniela Rudloff, Lecturer at the School and Director of Undergraduate Studies, was not. While the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne was presenting the first conservative budget for eighteen years, many would have been reacting as I was: with a growing […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Austerity, Budget, Conservative Party, Education Policy, Employment Relations, Full Employment, George Osborne, Grants, Higher Education, Iain Duncan Smith, Maintenance Grants, Politics, Public Debate, Publicy Policy, Research Excellence Framework, Student Debt, Teaching Excellence Framework, Tory Government, Work and Employment, Zero-Hours Contract |
Posted by csmith in School of Business Blog on July 1, 2015
With the Tour de France about to get under way, Charlotte Smith, Lecturer in Management at the School, considers the tension between sporting success and good sportsmanship Whether your interests are in sport or in anything but sport, the Lance Armstrong case cannot have escaped your attention. Last year, when Oprah Winfrey interviewed him, he […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Cheating, Competition, Competitiveness, Consumption, Cycline, Deviance, Doping, Lance Armstrong, Legitimacy, Legitimation, Leisure, Performance Management, Scapegoat, Sociology, Sociology of Sport, Spectacle, Spectator, Spectatorship, Sport, Team Work, Tour de France |
Posted by awynne in School of Business Blog on June 24, 2015
Senior Lecturer in Public Financial Management at the School, Andrew Wynne, considers the explicitly contested – and implicitly concealed – issue of good governance in Nigeria There have been numerous calls for a more independent judiciary within Nigeria. While the constitution allows for such autonomy, Nigeria’s judiciary has been notoriously susceptible to external pressure, particularly […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Constitutional Reform, Corporate Governance, Development Economics, Finance, Funding, Governance, Industrial Relations, International Development, International Finance, Legal Theory, Nigeria, Oil, Politics, Public Finance Initiatives, Public Financial Management, Regional Governance, Trade Unionism |
Posted by Vanessa Beck in School of Business Blog on June 3, 2015
Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, Vanessa Beck, considers the economic implications of the legal expectations placed on the contemporary unemployed The social security and support infrastructure provided to unemployed individuals in the UK has weakened substantially. To seek state aid today is, as one commentator recently put it, to travel within a ‘perfect […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Austerity, Charity, Choice, Competition, Competitiveness, Department for Work and Pensions, Deregulation, Disability, Disabled Workers, DWP, Economic Policy, Employment Relations, ESRC, Liberalism, Paternalism, Policy Making, Private Sector, Privatisation, Public Private Partnerships, Public Sector, Regulation, Social Security, Social Welfare, Third Sector, Unemployment, Voluntary Sector, Welfare, Work Placements, Work Programme |
Posted by Angus Cameron in School of Business Blog on May 12, 2015
Deputy Head of School, Angus Cameron, reflects upon one of the stranger tasks he has been asked to perform: being a central character in a murder mystery novel. Working as an academic often involves slipping between identities. The person at the front of the lecture theatre is not quite the same person that inhabits the […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Academia, Academic Freedom, Academic Journals, Aesthetics, Alternative Organisation, Art, Artistic Production, Corporate Governance, Fiction, Georges Bataille, Headless, Identity, off-shore finance, Organisation Studies, Performance Management, Performativity, Policy Making, Realism, Tax Avoidance, Tax Evasion |
Posted by Gibson Burrell in School of Business Blog on May 6, 2015
Former Head of School, Professor Gibson Burrell, uncovers a series of uncomfortable parallels between managerialism and the militaRy At first sight, it appears as if the discipline of ‘business and management’ has no room for a debate on ‘the organization of destruction’ and the use of well-considered techniques of administration in acts of unspeakable violence […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Call for Papers, CIA, Consumption, Ethics, Management, Max Weber, Military, Military Force, Operations rersearch, Organisation, Organisation Studies, Rationality, Strategy, Taylorism, Violence, War, Zygmunt Bauman |
Posted by jcromby in School of Business Blog on April 29, 2015
Recently appointed Reader in Psychology at the School, John Cromby, provides a disturbingly plausible account of why Nigel Farage’s rhetoric has been so successful. The United Kingdom’s electorate will soon pass judgment on David Cameron’s performance of what is perhaps the nation’s most important managerial role: the Prime Minister. The competition to beat (or join) […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Campaign Management, Democracy, Emotions, EU, European Union, General Election, Image Management, Immigration, Impression Management, Neoliberalism, Nigel Farage, Populism, Reason, Rhetoric, UKIP |
Posted by Chris Grocott in School of Business Blog on April 22, 2015
Lecturer in Management and Economic History at the School, Chris Grocott, reckons so. This year, I ran the inaugural third year BA Management Studies module ‘Organisations in Economic Context’. It analyses how the political economy over the past thirty years has had a profound effect on the state and trade unions, as well as on […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Adam Smith, BA Management and Economics, BA Management Studies, Critical Management Studies, Economics, Free Market, Freedom, Gambling Industry, Gibraltar, Hayek, History, Neoliberalism, Political Economy, Political Philosophy, Politics, Public Finance Initiatives, Thatcher, Tony Blair |
Posted by Stephen Dunne in School of Business Blog on April 15, 2015
Stephen Dunne (henceforth SD): Can I ask you to recount, when you set out on the book, what you were trying to do and in relation to what body of work? WD: The main question I had, following on from my PhD, concerned competition and competitiveness as forms of justification, or as sources of […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Biopolitics, Bob Jessop, Capitalism, Chicago School, Competition, Competitiveness, Critical Management Studies, Critique, Deirdre McCloskey, Donald Mckenzie, Economic Policy, Economics, Economy & Society, Efficiency, Entrepreneurialism, Entrepreneurs, ephemera: theory and politics in organisation, Eve Chiapello, Finance, Financialization, Friedrich Hayek, Governmentality, John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Schumpeter, Karl Popper, Keynes, Keynesianism, Laurent Thevenot, Leadership, Legitimacy, Legitimation, Liberalism, London Riots, Luc Boltanski, Management, Management Gurus, Managerialism, Marxism, Max Weber, Michael Porter, Michel Callon, Michel Foucault, Milton Friedman, Money, Mont Pelerin Society, Neoliberalism, NHS, Paul Mason, Philip Mirowski, Pierre Bourdieu, Policy Making, Political Economy, Politics, Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Russell Brand, Scottish Independence, Scottish Referendum, Social Class, Social Studies of Finance (SSF), Sociology, Strategy, Tax, The New Spirit of Capitalism, Thomas Piketty, Violence |
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