Professor Keith Whitfield

Teaching profile

Module Leader, Managing Human Resources, MSc in Human Resource Management
Lecturer, Business Management Research in Practice, MSc in Social Science Research Management

Research interests

The Economic Impact of Human Resource Management Policies and Practices
Education, Training and Skills Shortage
The Determinants of Earnings Inequality
Research Methodology in the Economic and Social Sciences

Selected publications

More than Mere Fragments? The Use of the Workplace Employment Relations Survey Data in HRM Research, International Journal of Human Resource Management, December 2007 (with R Delbridge).

Perceptions of Job Influence under Varying Forms of Employee Participation, in T Hanami (ed), Universal Wisdom through Globalization: Selected Papers from 12th IIRA World Congress, Tokyo: Japan Institute of Labour, 2002, 179-196 (with R. Delbridge).

Employee Perceptions of Job Influence and Organizational Participation, Industrial Relations, 40(3), 472-89, July 2001 (with R Delbridge).

Job Evaluation and High Performance Work Practices: Compatible or Conflictual?, Journal of Management Studies, 38(2), March 2001, 293-312 (with R McNabb).

‘Worth So Appallingly Little’: A Workplace-Level Analysis of Low Pay, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 38(4), December 2000, 585-610 (with R McNabb).

Methods Matter: Changes in Industrial Relations Research and their Implications, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 38(1), March, 2000, 141-152 (with G Strauss).

‘High Performance’ Workplaces, Training and the Distribution of Skills, Industrial Relations, 39(1), 1-25, January 2000.

Activities

Senior Academic Consultant to the Economic and Social Research Council for the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey, 2002-2007

Member, Steering Group for 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey

Associate Fellow, ESRC Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE)