Cluster: Employment Relations
See, for example, the work of:
Dr Pauline Dibben (Head)
Cluster Objectives
The objectives of the Employment Relations cluster are to:
- Explore, critique and develop theoretical debates around the nature of work and employment relations, primarily through political economy-based comparative institutionalist approaches
- Evaluate legal tradition, specific employment legislation and its implications for trade unions
- Investigate the causes and impacts of employment policy for vulnerable workers, and particularly those facing job insecurity
- Facilitate discussion among postgraduate students and academic staff on the nature of work and employment
- Promote inter-disciplinary work, bringing to bear insights, tools and techniques from disciplines ranging from finance and accounting to international business – as well, as, of course, as industrial relations and industrial sociology - to understand the relationship between institutions, firm finance, and work and employment relations outcomes.
- Conduct work that potentially has an economic, political and social impact
- Pursue research-led teaching arising directly from members’ research agendas