Dr Guy Vernon BSc, MSc, PhD
Associate Professor

Dr Guy Vernon is an Associate Professor within Southampton Business School at the University of Southampton.
Guy's formal education is in economics – he obtained his PhD (Economics) from Warwick (examiners: Andrew Glyn and Paul K. Edwards) in 2000.
However, through his PhD, Guy broadened his interests in political economy to encompass industrial and political sociology and industrial relations.
This was honed into specialism in cross-national comparative employee relations and international HRM through posts at Oxford, Kings College London, Henley Management College and (from 2007) Southampton Business School.
Guy is particularly interested in the implications of people management for organizational and industrial performance.
In the last few years (since 2011), Guy has published in:
- the British Journal of Industrial Relations (ABS 4*),
- European Journal of Industrial Relations (3*),
- International Journal of Human Resource Management (3*)
- Economic and Industrial Democracy (3*),
and completed a project for the International Labour Organization (ILO).
Meanwhile, he has (co-)authored the third edition of a leading textbook on international HRM, whilst delivering closely evidence-based teaching typically evaluated by students in the top decile and praised externally for its quality.