糖心Vlog

Our members regularly review for academic publishers, edit collections and book series, and publish research monographs including:

• Academy of Management Review
• British Journal of Management
• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Gender in Management
• Gender, Work and Organisation
• Human Relations Journal of Labour and Society Management
• Learning Organisation
• Organisation Studies
• Work, Employment and Society
• Work in the Global Economy

The focus of CWOS research in this area is the key processes that are critical to developing collective creativity, underlining the types of organisational mechanisms that can be intentionally designed to foster collective creativity. Current projects are being undertaken with different collaborative research initiatives, developed thanks to partnerships with various organisations, particularly in the Italian fashion and industrial design industries. Another set of studies is on practices of collaborative innovation, focusing in particular on University-based intermediaries as key actors that can promote innovation-related collaborations and collaborative spaces.

• Cirella S. (2016) 鈥樷��, Creativity and Innovation Management. 25(3): 331-343.
• Cirella S., Radaelli G. and Shani A.B. (2014) 鈥樷��, Management Research Review. 37(7): 590-614.
• Cirella S. and Ystro虉m A. (2018) 鈥樷��, CERN IdeaSquare Journal of Experimental Innovation. 2(1): 8-13.
• Flocco N., Canterino F., Cirella S., Coget J.F. and Shani A.B.R. (2018) 鈥樷��, in C. Mainemelis, O. Epitropaki and R. Kark (eds) Creative Leadership: Contexts and Prospects. London: Routledge, pp. 244-258.
• Hoedemaekers, C. (2018) 鈥樷��, Human Relations. 71(10): 1348-1370
• Radaelli, G., Guerci, M., Cirella, S. and Shani, A.B. (2014) 鈥樷��, British Journal of Management. 25(2): 335鈥�351

Research in this area includes the critical analysis of particular workplace cultures and settings, and of emotional, aesthetic and sexualized forms of interactive service work, using visual methods of data collection, analysis and critical discourse analysis. Current research also includes studies of organisational space, place and setting, incorporating immersive and embodied methods including rhythmanalysis. Current doctoral research on emotional labour includes a study of higher education institutions and organisational change.

• Hoedemaekers, C., (2019) , Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. 24(3): 303-322.

• Nash, L., (2020) , Organisation Studies. 41(3): 301-321.

• Tyler, M. (2020) . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Freeman, T., Kunter, A., Douglas, C. and Roper, I., (2015) 鈥樷��, Human Resource Management International Digest. 23(5): 43-44.

• Fu, H., Su, Y. and Ni, A., (2018) 鈥樷��, Gender and Society. 32(6): 814-836.

• Hancock, P. (2019) 鈥樷��. Organisation. On-Line First DOI: 

Our CWOS researchers are working on several projects focusing on gender and work, including embodied experiences and perceptions of ageing and sexuality in the workplace, LGBT people鈥檚 experiences of work, the future of work in relation to gender, and reproductive labour in the Global South.

Current doctoral research on gender and work includes an ethnographic study of aerial dance and the gendered nature of 鈥榚dgework鈥�, and working practices at the Feminist Library, London. Collaborations include the United Nations Global Compact Target Gender Equality, Johnson & Johnson, the United Nations Systems Staff College, the International Labour Organisation, and the European Parliament. Research also includes collaborations around auto-ethnographic accounts of race, gender and marginalized communities.

• Hancock, P., Sullivan, K. and Tyler, M. (2017) , Organisation Studies. 36(12): 1715-1739. 
• Tyler, M. (2019) . London/New York: Routledge. 
• Adamson, M. and Kelan, E. K. (2019) 鈥溾��, British Journal of Management. 30(4): 981-996. 
• Duffy, K., Hancock, P. and Tyler, M. (2017) 鈥樷��, Gender, Work and Organisation. 24(3): 260-273. 
• Hales, S., Riach, K. and Tyler, M. (2019) 鈥樷��. Organisation Studies. 
•  Hales, S., Riach, K. and Tyler, M. (2019) 鈥�Putting sexualized labour in the picture: Encoding 鈥榬easonable entitlement鈥� in the lap dancing industry. Organisation. 26(6): 783-
• Hancock, P. (2016) 鈥樷��. Human Relations. 69(2): 461 鈥� 481.

CWOS research in this area includes projects with Provide, a Community Interest Company (CIC), and 糖心Vlog County Council. Other current projects involve an evaluation of mobile technologies with 糖心Vlog and Kent police, a project with ACAS on the management of mental health at work, and action-learning research on mental health in the workplace, conducted in collaboration with a range of 糖心Vlog based public, private and voluntary sector organisations. Other collaborations include: Equity, EY (Ernst & Young), and the Department for Work and Pensions.

• Hendy, J., and Tucker, D.A. (2020) , Journal of Business Ethics. (online early)
• Nash, L. (2018) , Gender, Work & Organisation, 25(6): 601-620. 
• Tucker, D. and Hendy, J. (2020) 鈥楬ow does policy alienation develop? Exploring street-level bureaucrats鈥� responses to policy context鈥�, Academy of Management Proceedings. Vol 2020 (1)
• Hudson, M., (2016). The Management of Mental Health at Work. London: ACAS.
• Upchurch, P., Kunter, A. and Moore, P. (2015) 鈥樷�� autonomy in England: Sraffa and Althusser Reconsidered鈥�, Research in Political Economy. Volume 29.

Research in this area includes international projects adopting a multilevel approach to studies of job insecurity, taking into account factors related to economic conditions, social policies and labour market features. The goal of this multidisciplinary research is to gain a comprehensive picture of job insecurity in order to identify resourceful contexts and common strategies for dealing with it.

• De Cuyper, N., Piccoli, B., Fontinha, R., and De Witte, H. (2019) 鈥楯ob insecurity, employability and satisfaction among temporary and permanent employees in post-crisis Europe鈥�, Economic and Industrial Democracy. 40(2): 173-192.
• Fu, H. (2016) , British Journal of Industrial Relations. 54(3): 552-573.
• Hoedemaekers, C., (forthcoming) , Culture and Organisation (online early).
• Milroy, T., Cutcher, L. and Tyler, M. (2019) 鈥樷��, Gender, Work and Organisation. 26(4): 393-410. 
• Piccoli, B., Callea, A., Urbini, F., Ingusci, E., Chirumbolo, A., and De Witte, H. (2017) 鈥樷��, Personnel Review. 46(8): 1508-1522. 

Research projects in this area have sought to understand and evaluate the interrelated dynamics of organisational change, transformation and leadership in organisations. Examples of current work include projects on the evaluation of mobile technologies with 糖心Vlog and Kent police; health and social care system transformations (including the aforementioned Provide CIC, and Anglian Community Enterprise); a range of longitudinal ethnographic case studies examining the lived experience of employees as recipients and agents of change, and a set of studies focusing on organisational learning and transformational leadership dynamics.

• Roper, I. and Higgins, P. (2020) 鈥�, Human Resource Management Journal. 30(4): 508-524. 
• Canterino F., Cirella S., Piccoli B., Shani A.B. (2020) 鈥樷��, Journal of Business Research. 108: 42-51.
• Fu, H. (2020) 鈥樷��. Human Relations. On-Line First
• Hancock, P. and Tucker, D.A. (2020) 鈥樷��. Journal of Organisational Change Management. (online early).
• Kelan, E.K. and Wratil, P. (2018) 鈥樷��, European Management Review, 15(1) 5-18 
• Roper, I., Etherington, D. and Lewis, S. (2017) 鈥楬ollowing out national agreements in the NHS? The case of 鈥淚mproving Working Lives鈥� under a 鈥淭urnaround鈥� plan鈥�, Employee Relations. 39(2): 145-159 

Critical research on sustainability, ethics and CSR is currently being undertaken in collaboration with the International Labour Organisation鈥檚 Decent Work Agenda and the United Nations鈥� Sustainable Development Goals with specific reference to evaluation projects focusing on the Global South. Other research focuses on the role of multi-stakeholder networks addressing climate change, deforestation and the global food trade, and on global governance efforts in the areas of labour rights and sustainability. Community work undertaken alongside local authorities, libraries and resource hubs focuses on wellbeing and the impact of resource allocations on specific social groups and communities.

In parallel with this stream of research, an on-going project on vocational education schemes and inclusion through work addresses the challenges associated with country specific government-sponsored vocational education schemes such as apprenticeships.  This line of research investigates potentially competing goals, namely, reducing skills gaps, improving workforce productivity, and enabling the inclusion of marginalized groups and socially disadvantaged individuals in the labour market.   

• Guerci M., Siletti E., Radaelli G., Cirella S. and Shani A.B. (2015) 鈥樷��, Journal of Business Ethics. 126(2): 325-342.
• Tyler, M. (2019) , Human Relations. 72(1): 48-68.
• Ehnert, I., Parsa, S., Roper, I., Wagner, M. and Muller-Camen, M. (2016) 鈥樷��, International Journal of Human Resource Management. 27(1): 88-108.
• Moog, S. Spicer, A. and B枚hm, S. (2015) 鈥樷��, Journal of Business Ethics. 128: 469-493. 
• Parsa, S., Roper, I., Muller-Camen, M. and Szigetvari, E. (2018) 鈥樷��, Accounting Forum. 42(1): 47-64. 
• Tyler, M. and Vachhani, S. (2020) 鈥樷��, Organisation. (online early).

CWOS researchers apply critical perspectives to the analysis of human resource management in the public sector in Britain and internationally. Current projects include a critical analysis of governmentality, austerity and public service 鈥榬eform鈥� in the UK Civil Service, local government and the NHS.

• Barratt, E. (2020) 鈥樷��, Foucault Studies. 1(28): 120-141. 
• Barratt, E. (2016) 鈥樷��, in M. Bevir (Ed.) Governmentality after Neoliberalism, London: Routledge, pp. 71-91.
• Barratt, E. (2019) 鈥樷��, Management and Organisational History. 14(3): 294-310.
• Mackenzie, E. and Barratt, E. (2019) 鈥�The freelance project manager as an agent of governmentality鈥�, in D. Hodgson, M. Fred, S. Bailey and P. Hall (eds) The Projectification of the Public Sector. London: Routledge, pp. 250-267.

CWOS research has a strong international focus with expertise on emerging economies such as India and the Middle East and in the nexus of multinational corporations (MNCs) and their global value chains. In collaboration with colleagues across the Global South current projects examine informal and precarious work, reproductive work, automation and possible work futures. Of particular focus are core labour standards and rights, and workers鈥� organisations, as well as issues associated with job quality, workplace control and representation.

Current research also examines opportunity structures and social justice in the UK context, engaging with lived experience and social policies. Specific projects currently focus on: structural racisms and their intersections with other social divisions and inequalities; in-work poverty; labour market transitions, and social mobility. Members of CWOS have recently undertaken research for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation 鈥業mmigration and Inclusion鈥�, 鈥楶overty and Ethnicity鈥� and 鈥楤radford鈥� Research Programmes, and for the TUC on vulnerable workers, casualisation and low pay. Funded by the British Academy, another current project in this area, undertaken in collaboration with Equity and the Musicians鈥� Union, focuses on the impact of COVID on self-employed live performers in the UK.

• Butler, P and Hammer, A. (2020) 鈥�HR Practice in a fast-food MNC:  Exploring the low discretion, high commitment phenomenon鈥� International Journal of Human Resource Management.
• Adham, A. and Hammer, A. (2019) 鈥樷�� International Journal of Human Resource Management.
• Hammer, A.  (2019) 鈥樷��, Review of International Political Economy. 26(2): 337-360. 
• Michalski, M. (2014) 鈥樷��, Management Learning. 45(2): 145鈥�166. 
• Michalski, M., 艢liwa, M. and Manalsuren, S. (2020) 鈥樷��, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, (online early). 
• Netto, G., Hudson, M., Kamenou-Aigbekaen, N. and Sosenko, F. (2019) 鈥樷��, Sociology. 53(5): 843-860.
• Netto, G., Noon, M., Hudson, M., Kamenou-Aigbekaen, N. and Sosenko, F. (2020) 鈥樷��, Gender, Work and Organisation. 27: 1020-1039. 
• Kelly, P. R. (2018) 鈥樷��, Information Systems Journal. 28(3): 465-488.