Professor Pauline Dibben
Management School
Chair in Employment Relations
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- Profile
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Pauline has published widely on employment relations in the UK and emerging economies. She has also attracted funding from the ESRC, EPSRC and UK Government departments.
She was PI for a large interdisciplinary ESRC project examining supply chain accounting and employment practices in the rising economies.
Pauline is also Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Work, Organisation and Well-being at Griffith University, Australia, and Academic Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development.
- Research interests
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Pauline's recent research has been focused in the area of employment security, with two sub-themes: employment security and the role of the trade unions in emerging economies, and job security for those who are disabled and/or have long-term health conditions.
Employment Security and the role of trade unions in emerging economies:
This research programme has considered different dimensions of work and employment and includes the development and analysis of large scale surveys in South Africa and Mozambique in addition to in-depth qualitative research.
Job security for those who are disabled and/or have long-term health conditions:
Pauline continues to explore disability discrimination, dynamics of sickness absence and return to work, and the policies and practices surrounding this.
- Publications
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Books
- Employment Relations. Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development - Kogan Page.
- Modernising Work in Public Services. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Contesting Public Sector Reforms. Palgrave Macmillan.
Journal articles
- . International Journal of Human Resource Management, 31(2), 254-271.
- . Employee Relations.
- . International Journal of Human Resource Management, 28(18), 2519-2537.
- . Africa Journal of Management, 2(4), 422-437.
- . International Journal of Human Resource Management, 27(20), 2398-2414.
- . Labor History, 57(1), 126-140.
- . Academy of Management Proceedings, 2016(1), 12333-12333.
- . Revue internationale du Travail, 154(3), 407-428.
- . Revista Internacional del Trabajo, 134(3), 401-422.
- . Business History, 57(3), 461-483.
- . International Labour Review, 154(3), 373-392.
- . International Journal of Management Reviews, 16(4), 384-396.
- . Labor History.
- . INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, 51, 563-582.
- . Industrial Relations Journal, 43(6), 494-510.
- . Relations Industrielles, 66(1), 54-73.
- . Journal of World Business, 46(1), 31-41.
- . Human Resource Management Journal, 21(4), 379-394.
- Deprivation, Delivery and Union Mobilization: The Case of the Congress of South African Trade Unions. Irish Journal of Management, 29(2), 67-87.
- . Work, Employment and Society, 24(3), 468-486.
- . Relations Industrielles, 63(4), 671-693.
- . Public Management Review, 8(2), 207-225.
- . Employee Relations, 28(3), 290-303.
- . Public Administration, 84(3), 655-672.
- . Maritime Policy and Management, 32(2), 139-157.
- . British Journal of Management, 15(3), 273-290.
- . Relations Industrielles, 59(4).
- . Municipal Engineer, 156(2), 105-110.
- . Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Municipal Engineer, 156(2), 105-110.
- . Society in Transition, 33(2), 213-226.
- . Human Resource Management Journal, 12(2), 82-94.
- . International Journal of Social Economics, 29(6), 453-467.
- . Local Government Studies, 28(4), 107-121.
- . Public Money and Management, 21(4), 55-60.
- . Local Government Studies, 27(3), 43-58.
- . Personnel Review, 30(4), 454-467.
- . Local Government Studies, 25(2), 102-118.
- Conceptualising employee voice in the majority world: Using multiple intellectual traditions inspired by the work of Mick Marchington. Human Resource Management Journal.
- Justifying (non)discrimination against disabled workers in emerging economies: Managerial choice, business vs moral case arguments and home vs host country effects. British Journal of Management.
Chapters
- , Research Handbook on Decent Work in a Post-COVID-19 World (pp. 53-67). Edward Elgar Publishing
- Institutional theory - organisational, A Guide to Key Theories for Human Resource Management Research (pp. 113-118).
- Institutional theory - comparative, A Guide to Key Theories for Human Resource Management Research (pp. 107-112).
- , Managing Human Resources in Africa (pp. 199-225). Springer Nature Switzerland
- , Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2021) (pp. 201-210).
- Reconfiguration and regulation of supply chains and HRM in times of economic crisis In Collings D, Wood G & Szamosi L (Ed.), Human Resource Management: A critical approach (pp. 156-170). Abingdon: Routledge.
- , Human Resource Management (pp. 156-170). Routledge
- Employment relations in Africa, The Routledge Companion to Employment Relations (pp. 418-431).
- Social movement unionism, Trade Unions and Democracy: Strategies and Perspectives (pp. 280-302).
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Preparing for best value, Managing Local Services: From CCT to Best Value (pp. 102-118).
- Union Renewal: Objective Circumstances and Social Action, International Handbook on Labour Unions: Responses to Neo-liberalism Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
- Employment Security and Job Insecurity in Public Services: Two Sides of the Same Coin?, Modernising Work in Public Services: Redefining Roles and Relationships in Britain’s Changing Workplace (pp. 121-138). London: Palgrave.
- Introduction: Is Modern Necessarily Better, Modernising Work in Public Services: Redefining Roles and Relationships in Britain’s Changing Workplace (pp. 1-10). London: Palgrave.
Conference proceedings papers
- Regulation of work in emerging economies: conceptualising the institutional framework in Mozambique. British Academy of Management Conference, September 2010.
Other
- A tool to strengthen the supply chain.
- Employment Relations. Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development - Kogan Page.
- Research group
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Pauline is a member of the Centre for Decent Work and is also the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion lead for the Institute for Global Sustainable Development.
- Grants
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A major project was funded by the ESRC and entitled 'Supply chain accounting and employment practices in the rising economies: global commodity chains, cost effectiveness and competitiveness' (Grant Reference: ES/K006452/1), which Pauline led, together with a team of six Co-Investigators.
This research involved fieldwork within South Africa and Brazil.
- Teaching activities
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Pauline´s teaching is strongly research led. She currently teaches on International Human Resource Studies at postgraduate level and Industrial Relations at undergraduate level:
- MGT670 International Human Resource Studies
- MGT309 Industrial Relations
Through her teaching style, Pauline aims to challenge students to think critically and to consider employment practices within both advanced and emerging economies.
She encourages critical thinking through the use of case studies and student-led debates.
- PhD Supervision
Professor Pauline Dibben supervises:
Pauline has previously supervised:
Name Thesis title Year of completion Fanke Huang Institutional and cultural influences on performance management in MNCs: Chinese MNCs in other developing countries 2024 Paula Kohn Precarious work and mechanisms of control across the Brazilian wind power supply chain 2024 Are you interested in applying for a PhD?
