BUSINESS B796
Research Issues: Human Resources and Industrial Relations
Winter 2023
Topics
- Employment relations
- Human resource management research
- Emerging workplace issues
- Research paradigms
Readings
- Troth, A. C., & Guest, D. E. (2020). The case for psychology in human resource management research. Human Resource Management Journal, 30(1), 34-48.
- Kaufman, B. E. (2020). The real problem: The deadly combination of psychologisation, scientism, and normative promotionalism takes strategic human resource management down a 30‐year dead end. Human Resource Management Journal, 30(1), 49-72.
- Wright, P. M., & Ulrich, M. D. (2017). A road well traveled: The past, present, and future journey of strategic human resource management. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 4, 45-65.
- Pfeffer, J., 2018. Dying for a Paycheck: How Modern Management HRM, unions, and wellbeing Harms Employee Health and Company Performance—And what We Can Do about it. Harper Collins Publishers: New York, NY. (Chapters 1-3 and 8).
- Guest, D. E. (2017). Human resource management and employee well‐being: Towards a new analytic framework. Human resource management journal, 27(1), 22-38.
- Blanchflower, D. G., Bryson, A., & Green, C. (2022). Trade unions and the well‐being of workers. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 60(2), 255-277.
- Agarwal, P. (2021). Shattered but smiling: Human resource management and the wellbeing of hotel employees during COVID-19. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 93.
- Cooper, B., Wang, J., Bartram, T., & Cooke, F. L. (2019). Well‐being‐oriented human resource management practices and employee performance in the Chinese banking sector: The role of social climate and resilience. Human Resource Management, 58(1), 85-97.
- Romani, L., Holck, L., & Risberg, A. (2019). Benevolent discrimination: Explaining how human resources professionals can be blind to the harm of diversity initiatives. Organization, 26(3), 371-390.
- Derous, E., & Ryan, A. M. (2019). When your resume is (not) turning you down: Modelling ethnic bias in resume screening. Human Resource Management Journal, 29(2), 113- 130.
- Angrave, D., Charlwood, A., Kirkpatrick, I., Lawrence, M., & Stuart, M. (2016). HR and analytics: why HR is set to fail the big data challenge. Human resource management journal, 26(1), 1-11.
- Parent-Rocheleau, X., & Parker, S. K. (2022). Algorithms as work designers: How algorithmic management influences the design of jobs. Human Resource Management Review, 32(3), 100838.
- Todolí-Signes, A. (2019). Algorithms, artificial intelligence and automated decisions concerning workers and the risks of discrimination: the necessary collective governance of data protection. Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 25(4), 465-481.
- Lee, M. K. (2018). Understanding perception of algorithmic decisions: Fairness, trust, and emotion in response to algorithmic management. Big Data & Society, 5(1), 2053951718756684. Required:
- Möslein, K., & Wrede, M. (2019). Electronic monitoring at work: Surveillance and The role of attitudes, functions, and perceived control for the performance management acceptance of tracking technologies. Human Resource Management Journal, 29(4), 657-675.
- Aloisi, A., & Gramano, E. (2019). Artificial intelligence is watching you at work: Digital surveillance, employee monitoring, and regulatory issues in the EU context. Comp. Lab. L. & Pol'y
- Taylor, C., & Dobbins, T. (2021). Social Media: A (new) contested terrain between sousveillance and surveillance in the digital workplace. New Technology, Work and Employment, 36(3), 263-284.
- Holland, P., & Tham, T. L. (2022). Workplace biometrics: Protecting employee privacy one fingerprint at a time. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 43(2), 501-515.
- Nash, M., & Churchill, B. (2020). Caring during COVID‐19: A gendered analysis of Australian university responses to managing remote working and caring responsibilities. Gender, Work & Organization, 27(5), 833-846.
- O’Brady, S., & Doellgast, V. (2021). Collective Voice and Worker Well‐being: Union Influence on Performance Monitoring and Emotional Exhaustion in Call Centers. Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 60(3), 307-337. Required:
- Franken, E., Bentley, T., Shafaei, A., Farr-Wharton, B., Onnis, L. A., & Omari, M. (2021). Forced flexibility and remote working: Opportunities and challenges in the new normal. Journal of Management & Organization, 1-19.
- Wood, A. J., Lehdonvirta, V., & Graham, M. (2018). Workers of the Internet unite? Online freelancer organisation among remote gig economy workers in six Asian and African countries. New
- Fleming, P., & Sturdy, A. (2011). ‘Being yourself’ in the electronic sweatshop: New forms of normative control. Human relations, 64(2), 177-200.
- Donnelly, R., & Johns, J. (2021). Recontextualising remote working and its HRM in the digital economy: An integrated framework for theory and practice. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 32(1), 84-105. Recommended:
- Rubery, J., Grimshaw, D., Keizer, A., & Johnson, M. (2018).
- Birnbaum, S., & De Wispelaere, J. (2021). Exit strategy or exit trap? Basic income and the ‘power to say no’ in the age of precarious employment. Socio-Economic Review, 19(3), 909-927.
- Betti, E. (2018). Historicizing precarious work: Forty years of research in the social sciences and humanities. International Review of Social History, 63(2), 273-319.
- Doellgast, V., Lillie, N., & Pulignano, V. (Eds.). (2018). Reconstructing solidarity: Labour unions, precarious work, and the politics of institutional change in Europe. Oxford University Press. Required:
- Lloyd, C., & Payne, J. (2019). Rethinking country effects: robotics, AI and work futures in Norway and the UK. New Technology, Work and Employment, 34(3), 208-225.
- Schotter, A. P., Meyer, K., & Wood, G. (2021). Organizational and comparative institutionalism in international HRM: Toward an integrative research agenda. Human Resource Management, 60(1), 205-227.
- Reinecke, J., & Donaghey, J. (2021). Political CSR at the coalface– The roles and contradictions of multinational corporations in developing workplace dialogue. Journal of Management Studies, 58(2), 457-486.
- Garnero, A. (2021). The impact of collective bargaining on employment and wage inequality: Evidence from a new taxonomy of bargaining systems. European Journal of Industrial Relations, 27(2), 185-202.
- Keune, M. (2021). Inequality between capital and labour and among wage-earners: the role of collective bargaining and trade unions. Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 27(1), 29-46. Required:
- Neumark, D., & Shirley, P. (2022). Myth or measurement: What does the new minimum wage research say about minimum wages and job loss in the United States?. Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 61(4), 384-417.
- Bosch, G. (2018). The making of the German minimum wage: a case study of institutional change. Industrial Relations Journal, 49(1), 19-33.
- Alsos, K., Nergaard, K., & Van Den Heuvel, A. (2019). Collective bargaining as a tool to ensure a living wage. Experiences from the Nordic countries. Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 25(3), 351-365.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027