Outputs (14)

Job insecurity, employee anxiety, and commitment: The moderating role of collective trust in management (2018)
Journal Article

This article examines the moderating effect of collective trust in management on the relation between job insecurity (both objective and subjective) and employee outcomes (work-related anxiety and organisational commitment). This is contextualised in... Read More about Job insecurity, employee anxiety, and commitment: The moderating role of collective trust in management.

Job insecurity and employee outcomes: the moderating role of collective trust in management (2017)
Journal Article

Contextualized within the widespread cynicism and employment insecurity of the modern British workplace, this article intends to examine the moderating effect of collective trust on the correlation of job insecurity (both subjective and actual) and e... Read More about Job insecurity and employee outcomes: the moderating role of collective trust in management.

Heading for disaster: the management of skill mix changes in the emergency services (2016)
Journal Article

This article examines the impact on staff of state-imposed public sector reforms alongside austerity cuts since 2010 in the emergency services of England. We discuss the contextual imperatives for change in the police, fire and ambulance services whi... Read More about Heading for disaster: the management of skill mix changes in the emergency services.

Police pay-contested and contestable: Police Pay (2016)
Journal Article

This article provides an analysis of developments in the determination of police pay since 1919. It reveals the contested nature of public sector pay setting where the government of the day pursues short-term economic goals rather than taking a long-... Read More about Police pay-contested and contestable: Police Pay.

The changing nature of professional and managerial work: issues and challenges from an empirical study of the UK (2016)
Book Chapter

The close supervision of further education lecturers: ‘You have been weighed, measured and found wanting’ (2013)
Journal Article

This is an empirically based study of changes in the FE lecturer labour process driven by college managers under pressure from central state targets and funding controls. Two elements of labour management are considered: close observation and profess... Read More about The close supervision of further education lecturers: ‘You have been weighed, measured and found wanting’.

Neo-Liberalism at Work: A Case Study of the Reform of the Emergency Services in the UK (2013)
Journal Article

This paper examines changes in labor management of workers in UK emergency services under a regime of budget cuts and neoliberal state strategies. It takes an extreme case study, the emergency services, as an example of the limits of privatization an... Read More about Neo-Liberalism at Work: A Case Study of the Reform of the Emergency Services in the UK.

Engineering compliance and worker resistance in UK further education: The creation of the Stepford lecturer (2012)
Journal Article

Employee Relations and the Illusion of Trust (2011)
Book Chapter

Teacher, lecturer or labourer? Performance management issues in education (2011)
Journal Article

Education management has increasingly been dominated by the norms and requirements of general management ideologies that focus on performance controls and target achievements. Under this regime, solving the labour problem — relatively low productivit... Read More about Teacher, lecturer or labourer? Performance management issues in education.