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Cultural factors Impacting on the Selection of Black and Minority Ethnic People in the BBC
Healy, G.; Forson, Cynthia; Noon, Mike; Oikelome, Franklin (Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity, 2010)This is an independent report produced by academics and associates from the Centre for Research in Equality and Diversity, School of Business and Management, at Queen Mary, University of London. The research was commissioned ... -
Cutting across diversity : trade union learning initiatives and migrant workers in the Communication Workers' Union in the United Kingdom
Calveley, Moira; Shelley, Steven; Hardy, Jane (University of Hertfordshire, 2012)This article examines trade union learning activities and migrant workers in the communications industry. The key research questions focus on how far this learning meets the needs and aspiration of migrant workers, whether ... -
Damaged by Democracy : The National Union of Mineworkers and the 1984-85 Strike
Allsop, D.; Wray, D. (2011-06-01)This paper explores the democratic tensions within the National Union of Mineworkers that split the union during the 1984-85 strike over mine closures. In seeking to understand the conflict over the failure to hold a ... -
Diffusion of e-government in Nigeria : a qualitative study of culture and gender
Choudrie, Jyoti; Umeoji, Emeka; Forson, Cynthia (University of Hertfordshire, 2012)E-government failure is prevalent in developing countries, and of the varying reasons for this, adoption of online products and services by citizens is one strong factor. Using this reasoning, this research-in-progress ... -
Diversity in Russia
Calveley, Moira; Hollinshead, Graham (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010) -
Does sector make a difference : A comparative study of managerialism in secondary and higher education
Calveley, Moira; Shelley, S. (University of Hertfordshire, 2002)The public sector has undergone considerable change over the last two decades with massive privatisation and marketisation programmes; governments have focused on economy, efficiency and effectiveness (Pollitt 1993), with ... -
The embeddedness of software development in Ukraine : An offshoring country perspective
Hardy, Jane; Hollinshead, Graham (2011-09-01)Since 2004 there has been an acceleration in offshoring tasks that engender high-level skills. The aim of this article is to examine the offshoring of software development to the Ukraine from the perspective of sender ... -
The emergence of EMERGENCE : the challenge of designing research on the new international division of labour
Huws, Ursula (2007)This paper anatomises a pioneering international research project on the global relocation of telemediated employment. It outlines the intellectual origins of the project in the literature on globalisation, the knowledge ... -
The Emergence of eWork in Europe and Implications for China
Huws, Ursula; Huang, X.; Standen, P. (2001) -
Equal pay - or what? : Economics, politics and the 1968 Ford sewing machinists' strike
Cohen, Sheila (2012-02)The 40-year anniversary of the Equal Pay Act in 2010 brought a new notoriety to what was once an obscure dispute – the Ford sewing machinists’ strike of 1968. Even a film, Made In Dagenham, has now been released in Britain ... -
The Equality Effects of the 'Hyper-formalization' of Selection
Noon, Mike; Healy, Geraldine; Forson, Cynthia; Oikelome, Franklin (2013-09)This paper explores how formalization of employee selection procedures for the purpose of ensuring equality of opportunity can become so extensive that the intended outcome of fairness is undermined. Drawing on empirical ... -
Ethnic Minorities and Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Groups in Engineering: A Research Report
Forson, Cynthia; Calveley, Moira; Smith, Paul (University of Hertfordshire, 2015-07)The main aim of this study was to develop a better understanding of the issues and challenges faced by black and minority ethnic (BME) people and those from socio-economically disadvantaged (SED) backgrounds in engineering ... -
eWork: Consequences for Employment in the Developing World
Huws, Ursula; Standen, P.; Ahuja, S.; Sienthai, S. (2002-05) -
Finance, policy and industrial dynamics : The rise of co-productions in the film industry
Morawetz, N.; Hardy, Jane; Randle, K.R.; Haslam, Colin (2007-09-01)This paper explores the growing phenomenon of international co-productions in the film industry. We argue that the rise of co-productions is part of a wider narrative of financial and institutional innovation shaping ... -
The firm's choice of HRM practices : Economics meets strategic human resource management
Kaufman, B.; Miller, B.I. (2011)The authors compare and contrast two theoretical approaches to explaining a firm's choice of human resource management (HRM) practices - one from strategic human resource management (SHRM) and the other from economics. ... -
Gender ethnicity and migration in Black women's start up resourcing
Forson, Cynthia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) -
Gender, Ethnicity and the Exclusionary Organisation
Forson, Cynthia; Healy, Geraldine (2009) -
Getting in, getting on, getting out? : Women as career scramblers in the UK film and television industries
Leung, Wing Fai; Gill, Rosalind; Randle, K.R. (2015-05-01)This paper looks at the predominance of freelancing in the film and television industries as a lens to examine the persistence of gender inequalities within these fields. Previous research has indicated that women fare ... -
The Glass Ceiling : Gender Differences in Perceptions of Managers in the UK Travel and Tourism Sector
Smith, Paul; Crimes, Brandon; Forson, Cynthia (2011)