University of Bath School of Management

Dr Mehdi Boussebaa

Director of Studies for the MSc in Human Resource Management and Consulting, Lecturer in Organisational Studies
Key research interests: International and Comparative Management; Organisational Design and Theory, Professional Service Firm Management

My primary research investigates the managerial and organisational implications of globalisation. Empirically, I currently focus on global professional service firms and, theoretically, I draw on the fields of International Management and Organisation Theory (principally Institutionalism and Postcolonialism). My most recent research project examined the organisational challenges that globalisation creates for major management consultancies, focusing on such domains as the international transfer of employees, the formation of global teams, and the worldwide diffusion of knowledge.
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Professor Rob Briner

Professor of Organisational Psychology

I am particularly interested in the reciprocal relationships between work conditions (e.g. characteristics, events, the psychological contract, contexts) psychological well-being/affect (e.g. emotion, moods, 'stress', satisfaction) and behaviours (e.g. pro- and anti-social, withdrawal and withdrawal of effort, engagement, job crafting). My other research areas include the psychological contract, ethnicity, absence, work-nonwork relationships and food and organizations. I am also involved in several initiatives around evidence-based management which seek to identify ways of increasing the use of evidence of various kinds (including academic research) in management practice.
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Professor Andrew Brown

Professor of Organization Studies
Key Research Interests: Narrative, Sensemaking, Identity, Change

My current research is an exploration of aspects of the linguistic turn in Organization Studies, and draws on a broad range of disciplines from literary theory to anthropology and discursive psychology in an attempt to theorise processes of organizing, identities, change and leadership (e.g., Currie & Brown 2003; Humphreys & Brown, 2002).

Professor Juani Swart

Head of Group, Professor in HRM, Director, Work and Employment Research Centre (WERC)

My research interests include:

• Managing Knowledge and Knowledge workers
• Professional service firms
• Intellectual capital
• Knowledge mapping

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Dr Carolyn Strong

My key research interests are environmental marketing, ethical consumerism, environmental education and its impact on environmental consumerism, and marketing to families.
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Professor Nick Kinnie

Associate Dean Undergraduate Taught Students, Reader in Human Resource Management
Key research interests: Managing People and Managing Knowledge in Professional Service Firms, Links between HR and Performance and Managing HRM in Outsourced Telephone Call Centres.

My principal research interests lie in exploring the links between HR practices and business performance in a variety of organizations including professional service firms and outsourced telephone call centres. This has involved extensive empirical research in private and public sector organizations on a series of projects mostly sponsored by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. Most recently this has involved a two year research project examining the links between managing people and managing knowledge in a series of professional service firms in the UK and the US. This research has been published in a variety of academic and practitioner publications and presented at various international conferences.
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Dr Greg Schwartz

Lecturer in Organisation Studies

My key research interests are management and organisation in comparative perspective, co-evolution of institutional and organisational change, and management in emerging economies. For further information, please visit my website.

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