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Dr David Cross BA (Hons), MSc, PhD

Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management

Dr David Cross is a Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management within Southampton Business School at the University of Southampton.

David holds a PhD in Management from the University of Bath School of Management where he also gained an MSc in Management, achieving a Distinction and graduating top of his class. As an undergraduate he read History and Sociology at the University of Warwick. Before joining Southampton he was a Research Associate and Teaching Fellow at the University of Bath.

He has presented papers at international conferences, including the Academy of Management (AoM) Annual Meeting in Chicago where he won a best paper award, European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquiums, and smaller workshops on HRM and OB. He has won awards for his public engagement work and appeared on local radio and ITV as a specialist on self-employment. He is an academic member of the Centre for Research on Self-Employment (CRSE) based in London.

Prior to academia he served as a commissioned officer in the Pilot Branch of the Royal Air Force and has worked in both civilian and uniformed roles for Avon and Somerset Police.

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Research interests

My research interests broadly concern understanding the experience of a changing world of work. This primarily concerns the investigation of bonds of commitment as a central way of forming relationships and guiding behaviour. Empirically I explore these through the lens of ‘liminality’, that is, the experience of being ‘betwixt and between’ and outside of regular social frameworks such as organisations and employment.

My work centres on self-employed individuals, primarily knowledge workers and consultants. Naturally this overlaps with research in the so-called 'gig-economy' although I am sceptical as to the usefulness of this label and how new this really is.

I am currently involved in research projects to investigate these issues on a wider scale, looking at how individuals coalesce into project network organisations. These often appear to be traditional organisations but are in fact self-employed individuals or a project based core with a wider network of collaborators that are legally independent but often operationally interdependent.

My research methods are qualitative in nature, focussing on interviews and I am especially interested in visual methods, participant drawings and visual metaphor analysis.

I am currently a reviewer at the Human Resource Management Journal and the British Journal of Management.

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Articles

Cross, D., & Swart, J. (2020). In a flash of time: knowledge resources that enable professional cross-boundary work. Journal of Professions and Organization. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpo/joaa025
Cross, D., & Swart, J. (2020). Professional fluidity: reconceptualising the professional status of self-employed neo-professionals. Organization Studies, 0, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840620964985
Cross, D., & Swart, J. (2018). Professional liminality: Independent consultants spanning professions. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2018(1). https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2018.14500abstract
van Rossenberg, Y., Klein, H., Asplund, K., Bentein, K., Breitsohl, H., Cohen, A., Cross, D., Ana Carolina, D. A. R., Duflot, V., Kilroy, S., Ali, N., Rapti, A., Ruhle, S., Solinger, O., Swart, J., & Yalabik, Z. (2018). The future of workplace commitment: key questions and directions. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 27(2), 153-167. https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2018.1443914

Book Chapters

Kinnie, N., Swart, J., & Cross, D. (2021). Human resource management and organisational performance: in search of the HR advantage. In A. Wilkinson, & T. Dundon (Eds.), Contemporary Human Resource Management : Text and Cases SAGE Publications.
Swart, J., & Cross, D. (2018). The value of human work in a future automated world. In Working Well: Perspectives on Good Work and why it matters (pp. 47-50). Involvement and Participation Association. https://www.ipa-involve.com/working-well-perspectives-on-good-work-and-why-it-matters

Conferences

Cross, D., Swart, J., & Kinnie, N. (2018). Commitment without the organisation: Clients, collaborators and professional bodies as substitutes. Paper presented at 11th People and Organizations Conference, Philadelphia, United States.
Cross, D. (2018). Independent consultants: A segmentation, definition, review and research agenda. Paper presented at British Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Bristol, United Kingdom.
Cross, D., & Swart, J. (2017). Conflicts of client commitment for independent consultants. Paper presented at 4th Conference on Commitment, Columbus, United Kingdom.
Cross, D. (2017). Holidays are coming: inclusion and exclusion in organisational rituals. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 1)

Review

Cross, D., & Swart, J. (2021). The (ir)relevance of human resource management in independent work: Challenging assumptions. Human Resource Management Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12389

I am the module co-ordinator on MANG1003 Introduction to Management

Dr David Cross
Southampton Business School, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK

Room Number: 2/4047

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