Professor Jonathan Morris

Teaching profile

Japanese Management Systems (3rd year undergraduates)
PhD students (supervision)
MSc HRM/MBA students (supervision

Research interests

New Organizational Forms and Managerial Work
Work and Organization in East Asia
Critical Perspectives in New Public Management

Grant Funding

Developing Organization Leaders as Change Agents in the Public Services, funded by ESRC (£318,000), with M Reed and M Wallace (Cardiff, R Deem (Bristol)

Management and New Organizational Forms: Middle Managers in the UK, USA and Japan, funded by the ESRC (£103,000) with J Hassard (Manchester), 2002-2005

Roles and Behaviour of Middle and Junior Managers: Managing New Organizational Forms of Health Care. Funding by NHS, SDO Division (£400,000). In collaboration with J Hassard, P Hyde and L McCann (all Manchester University), started January 2008 for 3 years.

Selected publications

Hassard, J., Morris, J. and McCann, L. (2012) My Beautiful Career? New Organizational Forms and Changing Managerial Careers in Japan, UK and USA, Journal of Management Studies (in press).

Cai, Z. Morris, J. and Chen, J. (2011) Explaining the Human Resource Preferences of Employees: A Study of Chinese Workers, International Journal of Human Resource Management (in press).

Wallace, M. O’Reilly, D., Morris, J., Deem, R. (2011) Public Service Leaders as Change Agents – For Whom, Public Management Review 13: 65-93.

Wallace, M., Deem, R., Morris, J., O’Reilly, D., Reed, M. and Tomlinson, M. (2012) Leadership in Public Services, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hassard, J., Morris, J., Sheehan, J. and Xiao, Y. (2010) China’s State-Owned Enterprises: Economic Reform and Organizational Restructuring, Journal of Organizational Change Management, 23:500-16

McCann, L., Hassard, J. and Morris, J. (2010) Restructuring Managerial Labour in USA, UK and Japan: Challenging the Salience of Varieties of Capitalism, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 49.

Hassard, J., McCann, L. and Morris, J. (2009), Managing in the Modern Corporation: The Intensification of Managerial Work in the USA, UK and Japan, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Morris, J. and Farrell, C. (2009) Still Searching for the Evidence? Evidence-based Policy Performance Pay and Teachers, Journal of Industrial Relations, 5:75-94.

Morris, J., Wilkinson, B. and Gamble, J. (2009), Strategic International Human Resource Management or the Bottom Line? FDI in the Clothing and Electronics Industries in China, International Journal of Human Resource Management, 20: 348-371.

Wu, B. and Morris, J. (2009) Riding the Wave of Globalization: The Boundaryless and Borderless Careers of Chinese Seafarers, Economic and Industrial Democracy, 30: 429-53.

Morris, J., Hassard, J. and McCann, L. (2008), The Resilience of ‘Institutionalised Capitalism’: Managing under ‘Shareholder Capitalism’ and ‘Managerial Capitalism’ Human Relations, 61: 687-710.

McCann, L., Hassard, J. and Morris, J. (2008), Normalised Intensity - The Labour Process of UK Middle Managers after Large Scale Restructuring, Journal of Management Studies, 45: 343-71

Iida, T. and Morris, J. (2008), Farewell to the Salaryman? The Changing Roles and Work of Middle Managers in Japan, International Journal of Human Resource Management, 19: 1074-89.

Hassard, J., McCann, L. and Morris, J. (2007) New Communities of Inquiry in Multinational Research: Politics, Resistance and Perspective, Ethnography 8: 383-93.

Hassard, J., McCann, L. and Morris, J (2007) At the Sharp End of New Organizational Idealogies: Ethnography and the Study of Multinationals, Ethnography 8: 325-45

Hassard, J., Sheehan, J., Zhou, M., Terpstra-Tong, J. and Morris, J. (2007), China's State Enterprise Reform: from Marx to the Market , London: Routledge.

Farrell, C. and Morris, J. (2007), The “Post Bureaucratic” Public Sector Organisation? New Organisational Forms and HRM in Ten UK Public Sector Organizations, International Journal of Human Resource Management, 18: 1578-88.

Morris, J., Hassard, J. and McCann, L. (2006). “New Organizational Forms, Human Resource Management and Structural Convergence? A Study of Japanese Organizations”, Organization Studies 27: 1485-1511.

Sheehan, J., Hassard, J., Morris, J. and Xiao Y. (2006) “Downsizing the Danwei: Chinese State-owned Enterprise Reform and the Surplus Labour Problem”, International Journal of Human Resource Management, 17: 1441-45.

Wu, B and Morris, J (2006) “’A Life on the Ocean Wave’: The ‘Post-Socialist’ Careers of Chinese, Russian and Eastern European Seafarers”, International Journal of Human Resource Management 17: 1-24.

Smith, J., Morris, J. and Ezzamel M, (2005) “Organisational Change and Outsourcing and the Impact on Management Accounting , The British Accounting Review 37: 415-41.

Farrell, C. and Morris J. (2004) “Resigned Compliance: Teacher Attitudes Towards Performance Related Pay”, Education Management, Administration and Leadership 32: 381-404.

Gamble, J., Morris, J. and Wilkinson, B (2004) “Mass Production is Alive and Well: The Future of Work and Organization in Pacific Asia”, The International Journal of Human Resource Management 15: 397-409.

Hassard, J., Morris, J. and Sheehan, J. (2004). “The Third Way: The Future of Work and Organization in a Corporatized Chinese Economy”, International Journal of Human Resource Management 15: 314-330.

McCann, L., Hassard J, and Morris, J. (2004) “Middle Managers, the New Organisational Ideology and Corporate Restructuring: Comparing Japanese and Anglo American Management Systems”, Competition & Change 8: 27-44.

Morris, J. (2004) “The Future of Work: Organizational and International Perspectives”, International Journal of Human Resource Management 15: 263-75.

Farrell, C. and Morris. J. (2003) “The Neo-Bureaucratic State-Professionals, Managers and Professional Managers in Schools, General Practices and Social Work”, Organization 10: 129-157.

Gamble, J., Morris, J. and Wilkinson, B. (2003) “Japan and Korean Multinationals: The Replication and Integration of their National Business Systems in China”, Asia Business and Management 2: 347-409.

Hassard, J., Morris, J. and Sheehan, J. (2003) “The Elusive Market: Privatisation, Politics and Enterprise Reform in China, British Journal of Management 13: 222-31.

Morris, J., Hassard J and Sheehan. J (2002) Privatisation, Chinese-Style: Economic Reform and the State-Owned Enterprise”, Public Administration 80: 355-369.

Driscoll, A and Morris, J (2001) “Stepping Out: Culture Change at a UK Civil Service Agency”, Public Administration 79: 803-824.

Morris, J, (2001) “Inward Investment in a Cold Climate”, Work, Employment and Society 15: 661-65.

Morris, J., Hassard, J. and Sheehan, J. (2001) “From Dependency to Defiance? Work Unit Relationships in China's State Enterprise Reforms”, Journal of Management Studies 38: 697-718.

Wilkinson, B., Gamble, J., Humphrey, J. and Morris, J. (2001) “The New International Division of Labour In Asian Electronics: Work Organization and Human Resources in Japan and Malaysia”, Journal of Management Studies 38: 675-697.