Posted by Glynne Williams in School of Business Blog on December 17, 2015
Unemployment stands at a seven year low. This headline shouldn’t satisfy today’s many ‘zero-hours’ contracts (ZHCs) workers, despite what they are reported to have said, argues Glynne Williams, Senior Lecturer in Industrial Relations at the School. According to the Chartered Institute for Personnel Development (CIPD), there are now around 1.3 million ZHCs. Even allowing for […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Chartered Institute for Personnel Development, Entrepreneurs, Industrial Relations, Job Satisfaction, Legislation, Office for National Statistics, Politics, Self-Employment, Self-Management, Unemployment, 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 James Fitchett in School of Business Blog on April 30, 2014
James Fitchett, Professor of Marketing and Consumer Research at the School, traces the historical evolution of socio-economic illness in a Midlands city UK Coal recently announced the closure of the last remaining coal mines in Britain. The proposal will see the pits face a phased shutdown, with UK Coal’s six surface mines being sold off […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Austerity, Climate Change, Consumer Culture, Consumerism, Consumption, Credit, Culture, Entertainment, Gaming, Industrial Relations, Leisure Industry, Marketing, Midlands, Minecraft, Mining, National Union of Mineworkers, Nottingham, Simulation, Sustainability, UK Coal, Unemployment, Working Class, Xbox Live |
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 Melanie Simms in School of Business Blog on February 5, 2014
Melanie Simms, Professor of Work and Employment at the School, highlights the under-reported blind-spot in the over-reported fact of an emergent economic recovery: today’s youth are unlikely to be experiencing it. It is roughly a decade since researchers and policy makers began raising serious concerns about the approximately one million young people who are Not […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Apprenticeships, Austerity, Bureaucracy, Career Guidance, Economic Recovery, Employability, ephemera: theory and politics in organisation, European Union, Financial Crisis, Flexibility, JobSeeker's Allowance, Labour Force Survey, Labour Market, NEETs, OECD, Training, Unemployment, Youth Unemployment, Zero-Hours Contract |
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