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Centre for Research on Work and Organisations

Research into organisational behaviour and human resource is organised and coordinated through the Centre for Research on Work and Organisations. It provides a hub for research-active staff in the area to work within a closer collaborative research agenda.

About us

The Centre’s research reflects its interdisciplinary approach to people and organisations, focusing on a broad range of organisational behaviour and human resource management issues, such as leadership, diversity, teams, collaborative learning, workplace and organisational learning, performance management, corporate social responsibility and other governance related transformations. The Centre Staff also investigate the impact that individuals, groups, and structures have on behaviour within the organisation.

The Centre’s members are from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds and research interests.  These include: organisational behaviour (Yehuda Baruch, Mina Beigi, Jane Parry, Naveena Prakasam, David Cross); leadership (Naveena Prakasam, Malcolm Higgs, Mina Beigi); HR (Yehuda Baruch, Bernard Bempong, Taposh Roy, Jane Parry); Economics (Guy Vernon, Tahir Nisar, Michail Veliziotis); Psychology (Melanie Ashleigh, Malcolm Higgs); Corporate Social Responsibility (Denise Baden); Sociology (Jane Parry); and Governance (Michail Veliziotis, Melanie Ashleigh, Guy Vernon, Denise Baden, Tahir Nisar).

Objectives

The Group has three main functions:

Contact us

Please get in touch with the Centre’s Director, Jane Parry, to find out more about our work: j.parry@soton.ac.uk

You can follow the Centre for Research on Work and Organisations on twitter: @CRWO14

Dr Melanie Ashleigh Associate Professor of OB and HRM; Director of DBA Programme
Professor Denise Baden Professor of Sustainable Business; Chair of University of Southampton Green Group; Sustainability Officer for Southampton Business School
Professor Yehuda Baruch Professor of Management
Dr Mina Beigi Associate Professor of OB and HRM; Faculty of Social Sciences Research Integrity Champion; Head of Centre of Research of Work and Organisations
Dr Bernard Bempong Teaching Fellow of OB and HRM; Senior Tutor for BA Business Management Programme
Dr David Cross Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management
Professor Malcolm Higgs Visiting Professor of OB & HRM
Dr Gloria Kutscher Lecturer in Organisation Studies
Dr Jane Parry  Lecturer of OB and HRM
Dr Tahir Nisar  Associate Professor of OB and Strategy
Dr Naveena Prakasam  Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management
Prof Peter Rodgers  Professor of Strategy & International Management
Dr Michail Veliziotis  Associate Professor
Dr Guy Vernon  Associate Professor of OB and HRM; Programme Leader of MSc in HRM
Dr Taposh Roy Senior Teaching Fellow in Organisational Behaviour and HRM
Dr. Ai Yu Associate Professor

 DBA Students

Renato Martyn Raho Edora Ismail
Olivia Sarhene Colette Susan Lees
Nigel Clive Cumberbatch Sarah Leidner
Daniela Petrova Bariakova Zhaoying Lu
Barbara Caroline Bradbury Zenabu Moomin
Eilis Collins Belinda Uzo (Uzoejinwa) Nnenia Nwosu
Jane Louise Clark Susan Patrick

Visiting academics

Last year Dr Eneli Kindsiko, worked with Yehuda Baruch on the careers of academics in early career. Dr Inci Ozturk is currently working with Yehuda Baruch on a project on female academics in STEM. Dr William Donald is working with Melanie Ashleigh and Yehuda Baruch on a project on the impact of Covid-19 on students’ graduation careers.

Dr Zoe Young, author of Women’s Work and Director of flexible work consultancy Half the Sky, is currently working with Jane Parry, Yehuda Baruch, Mina Beigi and Michalis Veliziotis on the Work after Lockdown project.

You can find the latest on news and seminars here.

News & events

Our staff regularly comment on their research in national and local media sources, and also write for The Conversation, where they tie their research in with topical news stories.

Research seminars

The Centre runs a research seminar series, which invites scholars to present their research.  Please email j.parry@soton.ac.uk for joining instructions.  Seminars scheduled for 2021 are:

Wednesday 9th  June

Dr Mark Williams, Queen Mary’s

Mapping Good Work: The quality of working life across the occupational structur 

Wed 12 May

Professor Tracey Warren, University of Nottingham, and Prof Clare Lyonette, University of Warwick

Work and care during the COVID-19 pandemic: Intensifying inequalities of class and gender? 

Wednesday 3 March, 13:00 – 14:30

Professor Peter Rodgers, University of Southampton

Leveraging Symbolic Capital: Transnational journeys for East European migrants

Wednesday 17 February, 13:00 – 14:30

Dr Naveena Prakasam, University of Southampton, and Dr Natasha Cooper, UCL

The dialectics of meritocracy and positive discrimination amidst racialised and gendered foreign workers

Wednesday 3 February, 13:00 – 14:30

Professor Peter Case, University of the West of England

Studying leadership in non-Anglophone contexts: An ethnographic account of leadership practices in Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Wednesday 27 January, 13:00 – 14:30

Professor Colin Williams, University of Sheffield

Explaining and tackling undeclared work: reflections on a European journey

Previous seminars have included:

Professor Maria Daskalaki, University of Southampton

The gendered impact of COVID-19: Struggles over working from home and social reproduction

Dr Ahmed Mustafa, Leeds Business School

Work-family conflict and emotional exhaustion: Do self-sacrificing disposition and work meaningfulness make a difference?

Dr Emily Yarrow, Edinburgh Business School

Informal networks and inequality: Women’s lived experiences of REF

Dr Kathryn Hartwell, LSE

Navigating transitions in institutional logics: How a UK law firm is responding to increasing institutional complexity in real time

Dr David Cross, Southampton Business School

The (ir)relevance of human resource management in independent work: Challenging assumptions 

Recent tweets from CRWO

  • CRWO is thrilled that @MBoussebaa from @UofGlasgow joins us today to share his research on Unsettling West-centrism in management studies,  ...

    @crwo14 - Wed 19 Jan

  • Join us at 14:00 on Wed 19 Jan when Prof Mehdi Boussebaa speaks to CRWO about his exciting work on Unsettling West-centrism in management s ...

    @crwo14 - Tue 18 Jan

  • We are very happy to accounce that CRWO's Prof Yehuda Baruch's new book Managing Careers and Employability will be published in March @SAGE ...

    @crwo14 - Thu 13 Jan

    • UKRI (ESRC) for Work After Lockdown, a project that looks at the impact of working from home upon organisational learning 2020-2022; £214,820.  A project lead by the OB/HRM department, collaborating with the Institute for Employment Studies and Half the Sky.   PI Jane Parry

    UK Arts Council for a project looking at the entrepreneurial careers of artists; £585,284.  A collaboration between The Point Theatre, Southampton Business School and cultural organisations in the south of England.  Co-I Yehuda Baruch

    The Centre has secured funding from a wide range of sources, including UKRI, ESRC, British Academy of Management, British Academy, Leverhulme, British Council, DWP, HSE, and Arts Council England.  Some of its current projects include:

    ESRC awards for investigating sustainable solutions for the hair and beauty sector, around a project which has included developing a virtual salon training programme and associated sustainable stylist/salon certification, and which won a prestigious ESRC Outstanding Impact in Business and Enterprise Award. PI: Denise Baden

    Leverhulme/British Academy for a project that examined the role of social media in how people navigate their personal and professional lives, 2016-2018; £9,133. Extending work-nonwork scholarship, the research also spoke to HRM training and policy, and generated multiple international presentations and two papers in 3* journals  PI: Mina Beigi

    Learn more about the impact our work and research has led to. Our most recent publications can be found here.

    Impact and Publications

    Our research is engaged with rapid changes in the world of work, and Centre staff work with practitioners and policy communities to share our findings and improve the quality of evidence available to support decision-making in the rapidly changing world of work and organisations.

    For example:

    Professor Denise Baden has been researching around sustainability in the hair and beauty sectors for a number of years, and in 2018 was awarded the ESRC’s Celebrating Impact Prize for Outstanding Impact in Business and Enterprise.  You can read more about this work here.

    The Work after Lockdown team are engaging with employers and policy makers on organisational learning around working from home, as it happens, and have already contributed to several parliamentary inquiries and given oral evidence at the Welsh Government on their proposals for remote working.”

    Recent Publications

    Academics in the Centre regularly publish in ABS 3* and 4* journals.  Our articles in the past 2 years include:

    2020

    • Alshaikhmubarak, A., Da Camara, N. & Baruch, Y. (2020) ‘The impact of high-performance human resource practices on the research performance and career success of academics in Saudi Arabia’, Career Development International, 25(6): 671-690.  https://doi.org/10.1108/CDI-09-2019-0209
    •  Avetisyan, E., Baruch, Y., Meschi, P., Metais, E. & Norheim-Hansen, A. (2020) ‘Tying the acquirer’s human resource management quality to cross-border acquisition divestment probability: Curvilinear connection with slacklining’, British Journal of Management, 31(3): 568-588. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12403
    • Baden, D., Peattie, K. and Oke, A. (2020) ‘Access over ownership: Case studies of libraries of things’, Sustainability, 12 (17): 7180.
      Baden, D., Wilson, M. & Wilkinson, S. (2020) ‘Towards ecological health: Cuba’s moral economy of food and agriculture’, Third World Quarterly, 1-16. doi.org/10.1080/10436597.2020.1787825
    • Beigi, M. & Otaye-Ebede, L. (2020) ‘Social media, work and nonwork interface: a qualitative inquiry’, Applied Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.12289
    • Cross, D. & Swart, J. (2020) ‘Professional fluidity: reconceptualising the professional status of self-employed neo-professionals’, Organization Studies.  https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840620964985
    • D’Amato, A. & Baruch, Y. (2020) ‘Cultural and generational predictors of learning goal orientation: A multilevel analysis of managers across 20 countries’, International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, 20 (2): 159-179. doi: 10.1177/1470595820926218
    • Daskalaki, M., Fotaki, M. & Simosi, M (2020). ‘The gendered impact of the financial crisis: Struggles over social reproduction in Greece’, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0308518X20922857
    • Degbey, W., Rodgers, P., Kromah, M. & Weber, Y. (2020) ‘The impact of psychological ownership on employee retention in mergers and acquisitions’, Human Resource Management Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrmr.2020.100745
    • Eldridge, D. & Nisar, T. (2020) ‘Does making a business case for voluntary quota-induced board gender diversity pay off?’ Academy of Management Proceedings.  https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2020.16578abstract
    • Fotaki, M. & Daskalaki, M. (2020). Politicizing the Body in the Anti-Mining Protest in Greece. Organization Studies, doi.org/10.1177/0170840619882955
      Gao, L. & Baruch, Y. (2020) ‘The moderating role of a city’s institutional capital and people’s migration status on career success in China’, Human Relations, 1-27.  https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726720946102
    • Hughes, P., Hughes, M., Stokes, P., Rodgers, P. & Degbey, W. (2020) ‘Micro-foundations of organizational ambidexterity in the context of cross-border mergers and acquisitions’, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 153: 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.119932
    • Ma, C., Lin, X., Chen, Z. X. & Wei, W. (2020) ‘Linking perceived overqualification with task performance and proactivity? An examination from self-concept-based perspective’, Journal of Business Research, 118: 199-209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.06.041
    • Murithi, W., Vershinina, N. & Rodgers, P. (2020) ‘Where less is more: institutional voids and business families in Sub-Saharan Africa’, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 26(1): 158-174. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR-07-2017-0239
    • Nisar, T., Prabhakar, G. & Torchia, M. (2020) ‘Crowdfunding innovations in emerging economies’, Strategic Change, 29(3): 355-361. https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.2334
    • Parry, J., Brookfield, K. & Bolton, V. (2020) ‘The Long Arm of the Household: gendered struggles in combining paid work with social and civil participation over the lifecourse’ Gender, Work & Organization. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12569
    • Parry, J. & Hracs, B. (2020) ‘From leisure to labour: towards a typology of the motivations, structures and experiences of work-related blogging’, New Technology, Work and Employment. Doi: 10.1111/(ISSN)1468-005X
    • Roy, T., Al-Abdin, A. & Quazi, P. A. (2020) Examining the CSR strategy of MNCs in Bangladesh. Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal. https://doi.org/10.1108/SAMPJ-09-2019-0327
    • Shirmohammadi, M., Hedayati Mehdiabadi, A., Beigi, M. & McLean, G. (2020) ‘Mapping human resource development: Visualizing the past, bridging the gaps, and moving toward the future’, Human Resource Development Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrdq.21415
    • Vershinina, N., Markman, G., Han, L., Rodgers, P., Kitching, J., Hashimzade, N. & Barrett, R. (2020) ‘Gendered regulations and SMEs’ performance in transition economies, Small Business Economics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-020-00436-7
    • Voskeritsian, H., Kornelakis, A., Kapotas, P. & Veliziotis, M. (2020) ‘United we stand? Marketization, institutional change and Employers’ Associations in crisis’, Economic and Industrial Democracy. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X20935511
    • Wankhade, P., Stokes, P., Tarba, S. & Rodgers, P. (2020) ‘Work Intensification and ambidexterity - the notions of extreme and 'everyday' experiences in emergency contexts: surfacing dynamics in the ambulance service’, Public Management Review, 22(1): 48-74. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2019.1642377
    • Yao, C., Zheng, D. & Baruch, Y. (2020) ‘Time, space, Confucianism and careers: A contextualised review of careers research in China – current knowledge and future research agenda’, International Journal of Management Reviews, 22(3), 222-248.  https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12223

    2019

    • Adjei-Bamfo, P., Bempong, B., Osei, J. & Kusi-Sarpong, S. (2019) ‘Green candidate selection for organisational environmental management’, International Journal of Manpower.  https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-10-2019-0480
    • Afreh, B., Rodgers, P., Vershinina, N. & Williams, C. (2019) ‘Varieties of context and informal entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial activities of migrant youths in rural Ghana’, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, 25 (5): 996-1013.  https://doi.org/10.1108/ijebr-02-2018-0109
    • Altman, Y., Baruch, Y., Zoghbi Manrique-de-Lara, P. & Viera Armas, M. M. (2019) ‘Baby boomers at the cusp of their academic career: Storming ahead, Hanging on, or Calling it a day’, Studies in Higher Education: 1335-1350.  doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2019.161086
    • Baden, D. (2019) ‘Solution-focused stories are more effective than catastrophic stories in motivating pro-environmental intentions’, Ecopsychology, 11 (4). doi.10.1089/eco.2019.0023
    • Baden, D., Mcintyre, K. and Fabian, H. (2019) ‘The impact of constructive news on affective and behavioural responses’, Journalism Studies, 20 (13): 1940-1959. Doi.10.1080/1461670X.2018/1545599
    • Baruch, Y., Ashleigh, M. & Donald, W. (2019) ‘Striving for sustainable graduate careers: Conceptualization via career ecosystems and the new psychological contact, Career Development International, doi: 10.1108/CDI-03-2019-0079
    • Baruch, Y., Point, S. & Humbert, A. L. (2019) ‘Factors related to knowledge creation and career outcomes in French academia’, Academy of Management Learning & Education, 19 (2). doi: 10.5465/amle.2018.0028
    • Baruch, Y. & Rousseau, D. M. (2019) ‘Integrating Psychological Contracts and their Stakeholders in Career Studies and Management’, The Academy of Management Annals, 13(1): 84-111. doi: 10.5465/annals.2016.0103
    • Beigi, M., Callahan, J. & Michaelson., C., (2019) ‘A critical plot twist: Changing characters and foreshadowing the future of organizational storytelling’, International Journal of Management Review. 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12203
    • Beigi, M., Nayyeri, S. & Shirmohammadi, M. (2019) ‘Driving a career in Tehran: Experiences of female internet taxi drivers’,  Journal of Vocational Behavior.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2019.103347
    • Beigi, M., Shirmohammadi, M. & Otaye, L. (2019) ‘Half a Century of Work–Nonwork Interface Research: A Review and Taxonomy of Terminologies’, Applied Psychology: An International Review, 68 (3) 449–478. doi: 10.1111/apps.12168
    • Bhaskar, U., Mishra, B. & Baruch, Y. (2019) ‘Career dynamics in India: A two-wave study of career orientations and employability of graduates’, Personnel Review, doi: PR-10-2018-0429
    • Byington, E., Felps, W. & Baruch, Y. (2019) ‘Mapping JVB: A 23-year review. Journal of Vocational Behavior’, 110, 229-244.  doi: 10.1016/j.jvb.2018.07.007
    • Daskalaki, M., Fotaki, M. & Sotiropouplou, I. (2019) ‘Performing values, practices and grassroots organizing: The case of solidarity economy initiatives in Greece’, Organization Studies 40 (11): 1741-1765.
    • Donald, W., Ashleigh, M. & Baruch, Y. (2019) ‘Sustainability through employability and competitive advantage: Individual and organizational perspectives of graduates' careers’, Career Development International, doi: CDI-03-2019-0079
    • Donald, W. Baruch, Y. & Ashleigh, M. (2019) ‘The undergraduate self-perception of employability: Human capital, careers advice, and career ownership’, Studies in Higher Education, 44(4): 599-614. doi: 10.1080/03075079.2017.1387107
    • Eldridge, D., Nisar, T. M. & Torchia, M. (2019) ‘What impact does equity crowdfunding have on SME innovation and growth? An empirical study’, Small Business Economics. DOI: 10.1007/s11187-019-00210-4
    • Ilavarasan, P. V., Prabhakar, G., Baabdullah, A. M. & Nisar, T. M. (2019) ‘Up the ante: Electronic word of mouth and its effects on firm reputation and performance’, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services. DOI: 10.1016/j.jretconser.2018.12.010
    • Kindsiko, E. & Baruch, Y. (2019) ‘Careers of PhD graduates: The role of chance events and how to manage them’, Journal of Vocational Behavior, 112: 122-140. doi: 10.1016/j.jvb.2019.01.010
    • Lawrence, D.O. and Ashleigh, M.J. (2019) ‘Impact of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) on Users in Higher Educational System: Southampton University as a Case Study’, International Journal of Management, 6(3):1-12.
    • Leidner, S., Baden, D. and Ashleigh, M.J., (2019) ‘Green (environmental) HRM: aligning ideals with appropriate practices’, Personnel Review, 48 (5) https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-12-2017-0382
    • Lin, X., Chen, Z. X., Tse, H. H., Wei, W. & Ma, C. (2019) ‘Why and when employees like to speak up more under humble leaders? The roles of personal sense of power and power distance’, Journal of Business Ethics, 158(4): 937-950. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-017-3704-2
    • Nisar, T., Kumar, N. & Prabhakar, G. (2019) ‘Effects of best management practices on the performance and productivity of small firms’, Production Planning & Control, 30 (10-12): 919-934. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2019.1582100
    • Nisar, T. M., Prabhakar, G., Ilavarasan, P. V. & Baabdullah, A. M. (2019) ‘Facebook usage and mental health: An empirical study of role of non-directional social comparisons in the UK’, International Journal of Information Management, 48: 53-62. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2019.01.017
    • Nisar, T. N., Prabhakar, G. & Strakova, L. (2019) ‘Social media information benefits, knowledge management and smart organizations’, Journal of Business Research, 94, 264-272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.05.005
    • Nisar, T., Prabhakar, G. & Torchia, M. (2019) ‘Whistleblowing: When do employees act to ‘blow the whistle’?’, Organizational Dynamics, 44-49.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orgdyn.2018.03.003
    • Nisar, T. M., Hajli, N., Prabhakar, G. & Dwivedi, Y. (2019) ‘Sharing economy and the lodging websites: Antecedents and mediators of accommodation purchase intentions’, Information Technology & People. DOI: 10.1108/ITP-06-2018-0297
    • Prakasam, N. & Huxtable-Thomas, L. (2020) ‘Reddit: affordances as an enabler for shifting loyalties’, Information Systems Frontiers. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-020-10002-x
    • Rodgers, P., Khan, Z., Tarba, S., Nurgabdeshov, A. & Ahammad, M. (2019) ‘Exploring the determinants of location choice decisions of offshored R&D projects’, Journal of Business Research, 103: 472-483. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2017.11.009
    • Rodgers, P., Shehryar Shahid, M. & Williams, C. (2019) ‘Reconceptualizing informal work practices: some observations from an ethnic minority community in urban UK’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 43 (3:, 476-496. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12774
    • Rodgers, P., Stokes, P., Tarba, S. & Khan, Z. (2019) ‘The role of non-market strategies in establishing legitimacy: the case of service MNEs in emerging economies’, Management International Review, 59 (4): 515–540. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11575-019-00385-8
    • Rodgers, P., Vershinina, N., Williams, C. & Theodorakopoulos, N. (2019) ‘Leveraging symbolic capital: the use of blat networks across transnational spaces’, Global Networks, 19 (1): 119-136. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12188
    • Shirmohammadi, M., Beigi, M. Stewart, J. (2019) ‘Understanding skilled migrants’ employment in the host country: A multidisciplinary review and a conceptual model’, International Journal of Human Resource Management, 30(1): 96-121 https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2018.1511615
    • Shoaib, S. & Baruch, Y. (2019) ‘Deviant behavior in a moderated-mediation framework of incentives, organizational justice perception, and reward expectancy’, Journal of Business Ethics, 157(3): 617-633. doi: 10.1007/s10551-017-3651-y
    • Tran, H. Baruch, Y. & Bui, H. T. M. (2019) ‘On the way to self-employment: The dynamics of career mobility’, International Journal of Human Resource Management, doi: 10.1080/09585192.2019.1640267
    • Vershinina, N. & Rodgers, P. (2019) ‘Symbolic capital within the lived experiences of Eastern European migrants: a gendered perspective’, Entrepreneurship & Regional Development.  https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2019.1703045
    • Vershinina, N., Rodgers, P., McAdam, M. & Clinton, E. (2019) ‘Transnational migrant entrepreneurship, gender and family business’, Global Networks, 19 (2): 238-260. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12225
      Vershinina , N., Rodgers, P., Tarba, S., Khan, Z. & Stokes, P. (2019) ‘Gaining Legitimacy through proactive stakeholder management: the experiences of high-tech women entrepreneurs in Russia’, Journal of Business Research.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.12.063            

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    The Department of Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour examines leadership and its professional development from the relational perspective, processes and factors associated with individual and organisational change, and HR practices affecting learning and performance in organisations.

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