Posted by Stephen Wood in School of Business Blog on November 25, 2015
Professor of Management at the School, Stephen Wood, presents some of the findings – and methodology – from the National Survey of Staff Morale amongst Mental Health Staff 2013’s Francis report on the failings in the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust highlighted bullying as one part of the problem. While the effects of bullying upon an individual’s […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Absenteeism, Abuse, Bullying, Discrimination, Francis Report, Hurdle Count Regression Model, Mental Health, NHS, NHS Trust, Psychology, Sick Leave, Sociology, Stress, Values Based Recruitment |
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 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 |
Posted by Chris Land in School of Business Blog on March 18, 2015
Our recently appointed Reader in Work and Organisation, Christopher Land, takes it upon himself to dethrone the anti-working class morals symptomatic within films such as, though by no means limited to, Kingsman Two weeks ago I saw Kingsman: a mash up of Shaw’s Pygmalion and a Roger Moore era James Bond movie, complete with insane […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bourdieu, Chavs, Class Politics, Class War, Colin Firth, Consumption, Council Estates, Creative Industry, Cultural Capital, Culture, Culture Industry, education, Kingsman, Labour Market, NEETs, Owen Jones, Privilege, Proletariat, Social Class, Social Mobility, Sociology, Training, Work, Working Class |
Posted by Stephen Dunne in School of Business Blog on January 14, 2015
Lecturer in Social Theory and Consumption at the School, Stephen Dunne, attempts to renew a recent academic argument through a more accessible medium Social scientists engage in debates which matter to people other than themselves. Very often, however, those potentially publicly meaningful debates preside within academic journals which regularly assume a lot of terminological familiarity and disposable […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Academia, Academic Freedom, Academic Journals, Blogging, Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy (CPPE), Critique, Debate, Jargon, Leicester Sociology, Michel Foucault, Norbert Elias, Open Access, Open Access Publishing, Pay Wall, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Public Debate, Publishing, Rhetoric, Social Science, Sociology, The Civilising Process |
Posted by Richard Courtney in School of Business Blog on December 3, 2014
On the day of 2014’s Autumn Statement, Richard Courtney, Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, opposes the ideology of minimum taxation I used to get excited by budget statements. Listening to and subsequently dissecting how the government’s representatives say they are ‘balancing the books’ still reminds me of why I initially became a sociologist. […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Arts Council, August Statement, Austerity, Budget, Financial Crisis, George Osborne, Handbag Economics, Keynesianism, Mary Mellor, Money, Money Supply, Neoliberalism, Paul Krugman, Politics, Protectionism, Richard Courtney, Sociology, Tax, Taxation |
Posted by Rutvica Andrijasevic in School of Business Blog on November 10, 2014
Rutvica Andrijasevic, Lecturer in Employment Studies at the School, overviews some provisional findings from the research she has been doing into the ongoing protest While ‘Occupy Central’ has become the umbrella term applied to Hong Kong’s ongoing mobilisations, three less heeded groups are also playing very active roles within it. Scholarism, founded by Joshua […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Admiralty, Barricades, Benny Tau, Causeway Bay, Chan Kin, Chu Yiu, Citizenship, Consumer Culture, Consumerism, Cyber-Politics, Debate, Democracy, Electoral Reform, Ethnography, Federation of Students, Hong Kong, Joshua Wong, Kowloon, Mobilisation, Mong Kok, Occupy, Occupy Central, Occupy Central with Love and Peace, Occupy Hong Kong, Police, Politics, Poverty, Protest, Protest Camps, Public Debate, Scholarism, Sociology, Solidarity, Sovereignty, Student Protest, surveillance, Tiananmen Square |
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