All Outputs (14)

Job insecurity, employee anxiety, and commitment: The moderating role of collective trust in management (2018)
Journal Article
Wang, W., Mather, K., & Seifert, R. (2018). Job insecurity, employee anxiety, and commitment: The moderating role of collective trust in management. Journal of Trust Research, https://doi.org/10.1080/21515581.2018.1463229

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
Wang, W., Mather, K., & Seifert, R. (2017). Job insecurity and employee outcomes: the moderating role of collective trust in management. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2017(1), 14355. https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2017.14355abstract

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
Mather, K., & Seifert, R. (2016). Heading for disaster: the management of skill mix changes in the emergency services. Capital and Class, 3-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309816816667423

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
Mather, K., & Seifert, R. (2016). Police pay-contested and contestable: Police Pay. Industrial Relations Journal, 204 - 219. https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12140

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
Worrall, L., Mather, K., & Cooper, C. L. (2016). The changing nature of professional and managerial work: issues and challenges from an empirical study of the UK. In Perspectives on contemporary professional work: challenges and experiences (60-85)

The close supervision of further education lecturers: ‘You have been weighed, measured and found wanting’ (2013)
Journal Article
Mather, K., & Seifert, R. (2014). The close supervision of further education lecturers: ‘You have been weighed, measured and found wanting’. Work, Employment and Society, 28(1), 95-111. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017013490332

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
Seifert, R., & Mather, K. (2013). Neo-Liberalism at Work: A Case Study of the Reform of the Emergency Services in the UK. Review of Radical Political Economics, 45(4), 456-462. https://doi.org/10.1177/0486613412475185

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
Mather, K., Worrall, L., & Mather, G. (2012). Engineering compliance and worker resistance in UK further education: The creation of the Stepford lecturer. Employee Relations, 34(5), 534-554. https://doi.org/10.1108/01425451211248541

Employee Relations and the Illusion of Trust (2011)
Book Chapter
Mather, K. (2011). Employee Relations and the Illusion of Trust. In Trust and Human Resource Management. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857932006.00021

Teacher, lecturer or labourer? Performance management issues in education (2011)
Journal Article
Mather, K., & Seifert, R. (2011). Teacher, lecturer or labourer? Performance management issues in education. Management in Education, 25(1), 26-31. https://doi.org/10.1177/0892020610388060

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.

Solving the Labour Problem Among Professional Workers in the UK Public Sector: Organisation Change and Performance Management (2009)
Journal Article
Worrall, L., Mather, K., & Seifert, R. (2010). Solving the Labour Problem Among Professional Workers in the UK Public Sector: Organisation Change and Performance Management. Public Organization Review, 10(2), 117-137. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11115-009-0100-0

This paper draws together evidence from across the UK public services to present an analysis of public sector organisational change that has been observed and experienced since the 1980s. The argument is that the pattern of persistent change, package... Read More about Solving the Labour Problem Among Professional Workers in the UK Public Sector: Organisation Change and Performance Management.

The changing locus of workplace control in the English further education sector (2009)
Journal Article
Mather, K., Worrall, L., & Seifert, R. (2009). The changing locus of workplace control in the English further education sector. Employee Relations, 31(2), 139-157. https://doi.org/10.1108/01425450910925292

Purpose The purpose of the paper is to discuss how the so‐called “modernisation” agenda has triggered changes in the structure and management of the UK public sector. The concern of the paper is with how such changes have impacted on the labour proc... Read More about The changing locus of workplace control in the English further education sector.

Organizational Change and its Dysfunctional Effect on Managers in Large Organizations (2007)
Book Chapter
Worrall, L., Cooper, C. L., & Mather, K. (2007). Organizational Change and its Dysfunctional Effect on Managers in Large Organizations. In Research Companion to the Dysfunctional Workplace. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781847207081.00031

Reforming further education: the changing labour process for college lecturers (2007)
Journal Article
Mather, K., Worrall, L., & Seifert, R. (2007). Reforming further education: the changing labour process for college lecturers. Personnel Review, 36(1), 109-127. https://doi.org/10.1108/00483480710716740

Purpose The purpose of this article is to examine how the labour process of further education lecturers has changed as a result of legislative reforms introduced in the early 1990s. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on labour process t... Read More about Reforming further education: the changing labour process for college lecturers.