Posted by Stephen Wood in School of Business Blog on February 19, 2018
In this blog post Professor Stephen Wood presents some interesting findings on work-life balance and well-being, arguing that the main reasons for the improvement of employee well-being where work-life balance supports are implemented are the increase in job autonomy these supports allow and the perception that management are supportive. Work–life balance supports can succeed in improving […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Employee well-being, Employment Relations, Flexibility, Industrial Relations, Job Autonomy, Management, Work-life balance |
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 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 Jo B in School of Business Blog on December 10, 2014
Deputy Head of School Professor Jo Brewis briefly outlines details of the thematic streams awaiting delegates of next summer’s 9th Critical Management Studies (CMS) Conference Martin Parker has already explained why Leicester’s management academics have regularly had the cheek to criticize the pervasiveness of managerialism. Managerialism, he argued, should not be seen as the natural […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 4th Wave Feminism, 9th CMS Conference, Accounting, Alternative Organisation, Alternatives, Artistic Production, Borders, Branding, Catastrophe, Civil Society, Cooperatives, Critical Friendship, Critical Management Studies, Cultural Animation, Cultural Governance, Culture, David Erdal, Eastern Europe, Ecological Accounting, Economic Education, Elites, Employment Relations, Entrepreneurs, Environmental Accounting, Environmentalism, Feminism, Finance, Financialization, Health Management, Heterodox, Industrial Relations, International Development, Jo Brewis, Management Education, Managerialism, Managers, Marketing, Martin Parker, Migration, Mobility, Neoliberalism, Not for Profit, Oliver James, Organisation Studies, Place Branding, Place Marketing, Political Economy, Principles of Responsible Management Education, Professions, Regional Governance, Social Studies of Finance (SSF), Stakeholder Theory, Stakeholders, The Arts, Unemployment, Vandana Shiva, VIDA, Voluntary Sector |
Posted by Paul Brook in School of Business Blog on November 19, 2014
In the age of much austerity and few alternatives, Paul Brook, Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Work and Employment at the School, makes a renewed claim for a politics of labour mobilisation Not long after Occupy Wall Street re-injected the idea of class (‘We are the 99%’) into America’s political consciousness, fast food workers […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Arun Gupta, Barack Obama, Burger King, Civil Disobedience, Class, Consumerism, Dunkin' Donuts, Employment Relations, Fast Food, Fight for 15, Flexibility, Ideology, Industrial Relations, Labour, Labour Market, Labour Mobilisation, Living Wage, McDonalds, Mobilisation, Neoliberalism, Occupy, Occupy Wall Street, Part-Time Work, Paul Brook, Pizza Hut, Politics, Poverty, Private Sector, SEIU, Sit-Down Strikes, Strike Action, Struggle, Taco Bell, Trade Unionism, UFCW, Union Rights, Walmart, Work and Employment |
Posted by Ian Clark in School of Business Blog on May 16, 2014
Ian Clark, Professor of Employment Relations at the School, discusses a controversial contemporary acquisition bid through the concepts of financialisation, ownership and employee relations. Astra Zeneca is the UK’s second largest pharmaceuticals firm: it sells £7 billion worth of drugs every year and contributes 2.3% to total UK exports. The firm employs 51,000 workers globally with 7,000 in […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Astra Zeneca, Centre for Sustainable Work and Employment Futures (CSWEF), Employment Relations, Finance, Financialization, Ownership, Pfizer, Stakeholder Theory, Stakeholders, Sustainability |
Posted by Glynne Williams in School of Business Blog on April 16, 2014
The generation game is getting personal, according to Glynne Williams and Vanessa Beck. ‘Generation gap’ once referred to the gulf in culture and understanding between teenagers and their parents. Now that the baby boomers are approaching old age, however, it is made to refer to a pernicious economic divide. What began in 2008 as a […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Austerity, Baby Boomers, Collective Bargaining, David Willets, Employment Relations, Entitlement, Financial Crisis, Generation, Housing Market, Individualism, Industrial Relations, Intergenerational Bargaining, Intergenerational Conflict, NHS, Pensions, Unemployment, Welfare, Youth Unemployment, Zero-Hours Contract |
Posted by Stephen Wood in School of Business Blog on November 27, 2013
Professor Stephen Wood, co-author of the latest Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) Report, “Employment Relations in the Shadow of Recession”, suggests the Government’s austerity programme will have more effect than the recession has had. The Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) of 2011 shows that there has been a marked rise in feelings of job insecurity […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Austerity, Ballots, Compulsory Redundancy, Employment Relations, Industrial Relations, Job Autonomy, Job Insecurity, Job Quality, Job Satisfaction, Private Sector, Public Sector, Recession, Recruitment Moratoriums, Stephen Wood, Strike Action, Voluntary Redundancy, Wage Freezes, Well Being, Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) |
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