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Chapter case: Energy Co (2017)
Other
Bratton, J., & Bratton, A. (2017). Chapter case: Energy Co. [Teaching Resource in 'Human Resource Management: Theory and Practice']. London

Embedding compassionate care in local NHS practice: developing a conceptual model through realistic evaluation (2016)
Journal Article
MacArthur, J., Wilkinson, H., Matthews-Smith, G., & Gray, M. A. (2017). Embedding compassionate care in local NHS practice: developing a conceptual model through realistic evaluation. Journal of Research in Nursing, 22(1-2), 130-147. https://doi.org/10.1177/1744987116678901

The aim of this study was to critically analyse the impact of the ‘Leadership in Compassionate Care Programme’ and offer a conceptual model of factors that can embed compassionate care in contemporary health care environments. This three-year initiat... Read More about Embedding compassionate care in local NHS practice: developing a conceptual model through realistic evaluation.

Creating Sustainable Workplaces Together: Employee Relations Practice and Environmental Management (2016)
Thesis
Bratton, A. Creating Sustainable Workplaces Together: Employee Relations Practice and Environmental Management. (Thesis). University of Strathclyde. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2781227

The aim of this research is to examine how employee relations enables and improves environmental management in the workplace. The objective is to understand the dynamics around the relationship between existing HR practices, individual and collective... Read More about Creating Sustainable Workplaces Together: Employee Relations Practice and Environmental Management.

Developing middle managers in the Hong Kong Public sector: A critique of leadership development from a labour process perspective (2016)
Thesis
O'Neil, J. J. Developing middle managers in the Hong Kong Public sector: A critique of leadership development from a labour process perspective. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/978274

Critical scholars have written about the ‘squeezed middle’ and the new labour process of front line and middle managers generally, but there is a gap in the literature relating to both how changes to managerial work have affected those subjected to t... Read More about Developing middle managers in the Hong Kong Public sector: A critique of leadership development from a labour process perspective.

Academic Diary Or Why Higher Education Still Matters (2016)
Journal Article
Hanna, B. (2016). Academic Diary Or Why Higher Education Still Matters. Teaching Fellows Journal, Autumn 2016, 23

On the outside of this book the spine is now broken. The plastic red covering is beginning to curl away slightly from the edges of cover. This is a book which I have carried with me; jammed into bags and packed into luggage for those moments when a g... Read More about Academic Diary Or Why Higher Education Still Matters.

The Management of Dementia in the Workplace in the Public Sector in Scotland (2016)
Report
Egdell, V. (2016). The Management of Dementia in the Workplace in the Public Sector in Scotland. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Napier University Business School Research Funding 2015/16

The Scottish population is ageing. This will have a significant impact on the labour market, in particular on the greater need for employers to employ relatively more older workers (those aged 50 plus) and extend people's working lives – especially s... Read More about The Management of Dementia in the Workplace in the Public Sector in Scotland.

Problematizing HRD in SMEs: A “Critical” Exploration of Context, Informality, and Empirical Realities: Problematizing HRD in SMEs: A ‘Critical’ Exploration of Context, Informality and Empirical Realities (2016)
Journal Article
Nolan, C. T., & Garavan, T. N. (2016). Problematizing HRD in SMEs: A “Critical” Exploration of Context, Informality, and Empirical Realities: Problematizing HRD in SMEs: A ‘Critical’ Exploration of Context, Informality and Empirical Realities. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 27(3), 407-442. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrdq.21261

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent the backbone of the global economy and therefore are an integral part of the HRD research agenda. The HRD literature has predominantly focused on both large firms and formal practices, and as a cons... Read More about Problematizing HRD in SMEs: A “Critical” Exploration of Context, Informality, and Empirical Realities: Problematizing HRD in SMEs: A ‘Critical’ Exploration of Context, Informality and Empirical Realities.

The Use of Imagery in the Campaign Speeches of Barack Hussein Obama and John McCain during the 2008 US Presidential Election. (2016)
Journal Article
McGuire, D., Garavan, T. N., Cunningham, J., & Duffy, G. (2016). The Use of Imagery in the Campaign Speeches of Barack Hussein Obama and John McCain during the 2008 US Presidential Election. Leadership and Organization Development Journal, 37(4), 430-449. https://doi.org/10.1108/LODJ-07-2014-0136

Purpose – The use of imagery in leadership speeches is becoming increasingly important in shaping the beliefs and actions of followers. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of speech imagery and linguistic features employed during the... Read More about The Use of Imagery in the Campaign Speeches of Barack Hussein Obama and John McCain during the 2008 US Presidential Election..

Human Resource Management Approaches (2015)
Book Chapter
Bratton, A., & Bratton, J. (2015). Human Resource Management Approaches. In J. L. Robertson, & J. Barling (Eds.), The Psychology of Green Organizations (275-295). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199997480.003.0012

This chapter contributes to the debate on corporate sustainability by outlining the role of human resource management (HRM). It focuses on the quest for corporate environmental performance in the context of the contested employment relationship, ackn... Read More about Human Resource Management Approaches.

Social capital and cultural adjustment of international assignees in NGOs: Do support networks really matter? (2015)
Journal Article
Claus, L., Maletz, S., Casoinic, D., & Pierson, K. (2015). Social capital and cultural adjustment of international assignees in NGOs: Do support networks really matter?. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 26(20), 2523-2542. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2014.1003083

International assignees face cultural adjustment challenges in their host countries in work and nonwork situations. At the same time, social capital theory suggests that individuals can access and mobilize resources from their social networks. We exp... Read More about Social capital and cultural adjustment of international assignees in NGOs: Do support networks really matter?.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Careers and Human Resource Development: A Systematic Literature Review (2015)
Journal Article
McFadden, C. (2015). Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Careers and Human Resource Development: A Systematic Literature Review. Human Resource Development Review, 14(2), 125-162. https://doi.org/10.1177/1534484314549456

A systematic review was carried out on literature within the business, management, and broader social sciences disciplines, from 1985 to the present day, on the careers and workplace experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) worke... Read More about Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Careers and Human Resource Development: A Systematic Literature Review.

Skills utilisation in Scotland: exploring the views of managers and employees (2014)
Journal Article
Grant, K., Maxwell, G., & Ogden, S. (2014). Skills utilisation in Scotland: exploring the views of managers and employees. Employee Relations, 36(5), 458-479. https://doi.org/10.1108/er-09-2012-0069

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to explore empirically manager and employee views on employees’ skills utilisation in organisations in Scotland.
Design/methodology/approach
– Questionnaires to managers and employees, plus three case studies... Read More about Skills utilisation in Scotland: exploring the views of managers and employees.

Exploring reflection as a multi-dimensional construct: implications for HRD theory and practice (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Duncan, F., Watson, S., & Ramdhony, A. (2014, June). Exploring reflection as a multi-dimensional construct: implications for HRD theory and practice. Paper presented at AHRD European Conference 2014: 15th International Conference on Human Resource Development Research and Practice across Europe, Edinburgh

This conceptual paper seeks to explore the concepts of reflection and reflective practice to develop a critical understanding of the process and its multiple dimensions and the implications for HRD theory and practice. Although reflective practice ha... Read More about Exploring reflection as a multi-dimensional construct: implications for HRD theory and practice.

Innovation and human resource development (HRD) (2014)
Journal Article
Sheehan, M., Garavan, T. N., & Carbery, R. (2014). Innovation and human resource development (HRD). European Journal of Training and Development, 38(1/2), 2-14. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJTD-11-2013-0128

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a prologue to the issue of human resource development (HRD) and innovation which has been under-researched despite the widespread recognition of the critical role of innovation for sustained national... Read More about Innovation and human resource development (HRD).