Professor Adrian Wilkinson

Professor Adrian Wilkinson

B Science, M Science, PhD

Professor, Griffith Business School

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Research expertise

  • Employee Involvement / Voice
  • Total Quality Management and the Management of Human Resources
  • Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management Theory
  • High Performance Workplaces
  • Industrial and Comparative Employment Relations

Current teaching areas

  • Employment Relations / Human Resource Management Theory

Publications

Journal articles

  • Age Discrimination and Working Life: Perspectives and Contestations – A Review of the Contemporary Literature, (with G. Wood and M. Harcourt), International Journal of Management Reviews, (forthcoming).
  • A Refinement and Test of the Unfolding Model of Voluntary Turnover in a Sellers' Labour Market (with K. Morrell, J. Loan-Clarke and J. Arnold), Applied Psychology: An International Review (forthcoming).
  • Control of Subsidiaries of MNCs from Emerging Economies in Developed Countries, (with Y. Ying Chang and K. Mellahi), International Journal of Human Resource Management, (forthcoming).
  • The Tyranny of Corporate Slenderness: Understanding Organizations Anorexically, (with M. Tyler), Work, Employment and Society, Vol. 21, No. 3, 2007, pp. 537-549.
  • Developments in Information and Consultation, (with P. Gollan), International Journal of Human Resource Management, Vol. 18, No. 7, 2007, pp. 1133-1145.
  • Information but not Consultation: Exploring Employee Involvement in SMEs (with T. Dundon and I. Grugulis). International Journal of Human Resource Management, Vol. 18, No. 7, 2007, pp.1133-1145.
  • Worlds Colliding: The Transition of Modern Management Practices with a UK Based Subsidiary of a Korean Owned Company (with L. Glover), International Journal of Human Resource Management, Vol. 18, No. 8, 2007, pp. 1437-1455.
  • The EU Information and Consultation Directive and the Future of Employee Consultation in the UK (with P. Gollan).International Journal of Human Resource Management, Vol. 18, No. 7, 2007, pp. 1279-1297.
  • HRM Strategies and MNCs from Emerging Economies in the UK (with Yi Ying Chang and Kamel Mellahi), European Business Review, Vol. 19, No. 5, 2007, pp. 404-419.
  • Improving the Recruitment and Return of Nurses and Allied Health Professionals: A Quantitative Study (with C. Coombs, J, Arnold, J, Loan-Clarke, J. Park and D. Preston), Health Services Research, Vol. 20, 2007, pp. 22-36.
  • Conservatism vs. Reformism: Cultural Determinants of TQM in the Greek National Business Context (with A. Psychogios), International Journal of Human Resource Management, Vol. 18, No. 6, 2007, pp. 1042-1062.
  • How Well Can the Theory of Planned Behaviour Account for Occupational Intentions? (with J. Loan-Clarke, C. Coombs, J. Park and D. Preston), Journal of Vocational Behaviour, Vol. 60, 2006, pp. 374-390.
  • Employee Participation in Britain: From Collective Bargaining and Industrial Democracy to Employee Involvement and Social Partnership – Two Decades of Manchester / Loughborough Research (with P. Ackers, M. Marchington, and T. Dundon), Decision, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2006, pp. 76-88.
  • Downsizing, Rightsizing or Dumbsizing? Quality, Human Resources and the Management of Sustainability, Total Quality Management, Vol. 16, No. 8/9, 2005, pp. 1079-1088.
  • "Remember I'm the Bloody Architect!": Architects' Discourses of Profession and Organization," (with L. Cohen, R. Finn and J. Arnold), Work, Employment and Society, Vol. 19, No. 9, 2005, pp. 775-796.
  • The British Industrial Relations Paradigm: Formation, Breakdown and Salvage (with P. Ackers), Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 47, No. 4, 2005, pp. 443-456.
  • Organizational Failure (with K. Mellahi), Long Range Planning, Vol. 38, 2005, pp. 233-238.
  • The Management of Voice in Non-union Organisations: Managers Perspectives (with T. Dundon, M. Marchington and P. Ackers), Employee Relations, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2005, pp. 307-319.
  • Labour Reform in a Neo-Liberal 'Protected' Democracy: Chile 1990-2001 (with F. Duran-Palma, and M. Korczynski), International Journal of Human Resource Management, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2005, pp. 65-89.
  • The Role of Shocks in Employee Turnover (with K. Morrell and J. Loan-Clarke), British Journal of Management, Vol. 15, 2004, pp. 335-349.
  • Quality and the Human Factor, Total Quality Management, Vol. 15, No. 8, 2004, pp. 1019-1025.
  • Organizational Failure: A Critique of Recent Research and a Proposed Integrative Framework (with K. Mellahi), International Journal of Management Reviews, Vol. 5/6, No. 1, 2004, pp. 1-21.
  • Partnership Paradoxes: A Case Study of an Energy Company (with S. Johnstone and P. Ackers), Employee Relations, Vol. 26, No. 4, 2004, pp. 353-376. (Awarded prize for Best Paper of 2005).
  • The Meaning and Purpose of Employee Voice (with T. Dundon, M. Marchington and P. Ackers), International Journal of Human Resource Management, Vol. 15, No. 6, 2004, pp. 1149-1170.
  • Changing Patterns of Employee Voice (with T. Dundon, M. Marchington and P. Ackers), Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 46, No. 3, 2004, pp. 298-322.
  • Organisational Change and Employee Turnover (with K. Morrell and J. Loan-Clarke), Personnel Review, Vol. 33, No. 2, 2004, pp. 161.

Guest editorships

  • New Approaches to Employee Voice and Participation (with J. Budd and P. Gollen), Human Relations, (in preparation).
  • Australian Industrial Relations (with C. Allan and J. Bailey), Industrial Relations Journal (in preparation).
  • Product - Service Modes of Working (with A. Dainty and A. Neely), International Journal of Operations and Production Management (in preparation).
  • Employee Voice (with C. Fay), Human Resource Management (in preparation).
  • Information and Consultation (with P. Gollan), International Journal of Human Resource Management, Vol. 18, No. 7, 2007.
  • Organizational Failure (with K. Mellahi) Long Range Planning, Vol. 38, 2005.
  • Quality and the HR Dimension, Total Quality Management, Vol. 15, No. 8, 2004.
  • The Management of Professional Workers (with L. Cohen and J. Arnold), International Studies of Management and Organisation, Vol. 32, No. 2, 2003.

Books

  • Handbook of Comparative Employment Relations, (with M.Barry) (eds), London: Edward Elgar (in preparation).
  • The Handbook of Human Resource Management (with T. Redman, S. Snell and N. Bacon) (eds), London: Sage (in preparation).
  • Participation in Organizations (with P. Gollan, D. Lewin and M. Marchington) (eds), Oxford: Oxford University Press (in preparation).
  • Contemporary Human Resource Management, 3rd edition (with T. Redman) (eds), Pearson, 2008 (in press).
  • Human Resource Management at Work, 4th edition (with M. Marchington), London: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, 2008, pp. 622.
  • Contemporary Human Resource Management, 2nd edition (with T. Redman) (eds) Harlow: Financial Times/Prentice Hall, 2006, pp. 528.
  • Human Resource Management at Work, 3rd edition (with M. Marchington), London: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, 2005, pp. 528.
  • Understanding Work and Employment: Industrial Relations In Transition (with P. Ackers) (eds), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 366.
  • The Informed Student Guide to Human Resource Management (with T. Redman) (eds) Thomson Learning, 2002, pp. 276.

Book chapters

  • Industrial Relations and the Social Sciences (with P. Ackers) in P. Blyton, N. Bacon, J. Firito and E. Heery (eds), Sage Handbook of Industrial Relations, London: Sage (forthcoming).
  • Industrial Relations, in S. Clegg and J. Bailey (eds), Encyclopaedia of Organizational Studies, London, NY: Sage, 2008.
  • Empowerment, in S. Clegg and J. Bailey (eds), Encyclopaedia of Organizational Studies, London, NY: Sage, 2008.
  • Managing People (with A. Brown) in B. Dale, T. Van De Wiele and J. Van Iwaardan, Managing Quality, Blackwell, 2007, pp. 200-229.
  • Changing Employment Practices in UK Banking (with P. Cressey, J. Storey and T. Morris), in H. Beynon and T. Nichols, Patterns of Work in The Post Fordist Era, Edward Elgar, 2006, pp. 235-253.
  • Bouquets, Brickbats and Blinkers: Total Quality Management and Employee Involvement in Practice (with G. Godfrey, and M. Marchington), in H. Beynon and T. Nichols, The Fordism of Ford and Modern Management, Edward Elgar, 2006 pp. 265-285.
  • The Long and Winding Road: The Evolution of Quality Management (with J. Yong) in D. Bennett (ed), Operations Management, Vol. 3, Sage, 2006, pp. 282-304.
  • Downsizing (with T. Redman) in T. Redman and A. Wilkinson (eds), Contemporary Human Resource Management, 2nd edition, London: FT/Prentice Hall, 2006, pp. 356-381.
  • Employee Participation (with T. Dundon) in T. Redman and A. Wilkinson (eds), Contemporary Human Resource Management, 2nd edition, London: FT/Prentice Hall, 2006, pp. 382-404.
  • Human Resource Management (with T. Redman) in T. Redman and A. Wilkinson (eds), Contemporary Human Resource Management, 2nd edition, London: FT/Prentice Hall, 2006, pp. 3-25.
  • Direct Participation and Involvement (with M. Marchington) in S. Bach (ed), Managing Human Resources: Personnel Management in Transition, 4th edition, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 398-423.
  • Partnership and Voice, with or without Trade Unions: Changing UK Management Approaches to Organisational Participation (with P. Ackers, M. Marchington and T. Dundon) in Stuart, M. and Martinez Lucio, M. (eds), Partnership and Modernisation in Employment Relations, London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 23-45.

Reports and monographs

  • The Attractiveness of the NHS as an Employer to Potential Nursing and Allied Health Profession Staff, Final Report (with J. Arnold, J. Loan-Clarke, C. R. Coombs, J. R. Park, and D. Preston), 2003, pp. 415 (for the Department of Health).
  • Management Choice and Employee Voice: Research Report (with M. Marchington, P. Ackers and T. Dundon), Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, 2001, pp. 98.

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