Human Resource and Marketing Management (HRMM)

Research in Human Resource Management at Portsmouth Business School

 The Subject Group's research activities and achievements centre around:

  • Workplace Bullying
  • Organisational change and HRM
  • Employment relations and trade unions
  • International HRM
  • Organisational leadership and management development
  • Human resource development
  • Employability

 

HRM Research Staff and their Interests

The HRM Research Subject Group is led by Professor Charlotte Rayner, who is director of the Centre for Organizational Research and Development (CORD).  The following list details the core interests of research-active staff. 

Dr Valerie Anderson

  • Strategic HRD evaluation
  • National culture and approaches to HRD
  • Learning by professionals
  • Coaching and line managers

 Dr Cheryl Brook

  • Action learning
  • Management development
  • Organisational development
  • Organisational behaviour

 Dr Emma Brown

  • Airline security and connected HR issues
  • Managerial Psychology

 Dr Iona Byford

  • Trade unions and union renewal

 Dr Sarah Gilmore

  • High performing organisations 
  • The changing nature of professions and professional identity
  • The use of psychoanalysis within management and organisation studies

 Dr Liza Howe-Walsh

  • International HRM - global mobility
  • Global competencies of international assignees
  • Islamic HR
  • SMEs' HR strategy

Dr David McConville

  • Organisational psychology: attitudes and behaviours at work
  • Feelings of psychological ownership at work
  • The psychological impact of employee share ownership
  • Remuneration, rewards and financial incentives

Professor Charlotte Rayner

  • Intervention to deal with workplace bullying
  • Leadership style
  • Meaning at work  

Dr Peter Scott

  • Employment relations and trade unions, particularly in the public sector
  • Internships, volunteering and unpaid labour
  • National and regional forms of the state, politics and labour relations
  • The role of institutions and employment relations
  • Globalisation and labour
  • Technological change and the changing nature of work 

Alex Tymon

  • Employability, particularly developing graduate employability skills
  • Leadership and leadership development, particularly the role of followers and negative leadership
  • Learning, training and development with a focus on reflective learning 

Dr Steve Williams

  • Employment relations, trade unions and labour movements
  • Globalisation and employment relations
  • The politics of employment relations
  • Social movements and employment relations
  • The regulation and experience of work and worker representation
  • Civil regulation and employment relations

 

HRM Research Students

Seita Almandeel

The impact of leadership style on the link between personality and intention to leave/job satisfaction: a field study on commercial banks in Saudi Arabia

Mishari Alshalhoub 

An investigation into the effectiveness of performance management process in the Saudi Arabian public sector from managerial perception of using the Balanced Scorecard

Areej Alshamasi 

The impact of leaders in creating an innovative foundation for the process of strategic change

Moudhi Al-Zoman

Charismatic leadership, ethical leadership and social identity in a Saudi Arabian multinational

Hazel Beadle

An exploration of the technology-related research within the field of human resource management

Deborah Callaghan

Tackling workplace bullying after successive failures to do so: a case study

Nicholas Caveney

What do the police mean by engagement?

Radostin Chernev

A long-term strategy for stress reduction among pre-selected Bulgarian LMEs

Karen Harman

Regulatory change in a professional context

Lynn Lansbury

Bystander interventions to reduce interpersonal workplace conflict

Sue Nash

Ground rules - a senseless ritual or a key foundation for group work

Vijay Pereira

Offshoring human resources

Bob Smale

Change in trade unions - an investigation into the strategies adopted by 'niche' unions.

Michael Staunton

Implementing talent management in a large UK PLC – the role of HR

Anna Syrigou

Exploring how HR practitioners fulfill the professional status assigned to the role