Perish in gossip? Nonlinear effects of perceived negative workplace gossip on job performance (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Perish in gossip? Nonlinear effects of perceived negative workplace gossip on job performance. Personnel Review, https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-10-2018-0400

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the curvilinear relationship between perceived negative workplace gossip and target employee’s task performance, and the moderating roles of perceived organizational support (POS).Design/methodology... Read More about Perish in gossip? Nonlinear effects of perceived negative workplace gossip on job performance.

More than a little act of kindness?: Towards a typology of volunteering as unpaid work (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). More than a little act of kindness?: Towards a typology of volunteering as unpaid work. Sociology, 1239-1256. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038517692512

Definitions of volunteering are widespread and complex, yet relatively little attention is given to volunteering as unpaid work, even though it intersects with the worlds of paid employment and the domestic sphere, cutting across individual/collectiv... Read More about More than a little act of kindness?: Towards a typology of volunteering as unpaid work.

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.