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      Prof Philip James

      ROLE: Professor of Employment Relations
      SCHOOL: Business School
      DEPARTMENT: Management Leadership & Organisations
      TELEPHONE: +44 (0)20 8411 5860
      EMAIL: P.W.James@mdx.ac.uk
      1. Biography &
        Qualifications
      2. Learning &
        Teaching Interests
      3. Research Outputs &
        Interests
      4. Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects
      5. Engagement &
        Impact

      • Biography &
        Qualifications

        M.Phil, 'An Evaluation of Employee Participation in Occupational Safety', CNAA, 1980.

        BA (Hons) Business Studies, Upper Second, CNAA, 1976


        Languages Spoken

      • Learning &
        Teaching Interests

        Six PhDs supervised to completion. At present engaged in supervising three students, two as Director of Studies.

        External examinations of doctorates have been undertaken at City, Kent, Teeside, Manchester, Warwick, Bath, Kent, Strathclyde and Cardiff universities, as well as the University of New South Wales.

      • Research Outputs &
        Interests

        • James, P., Walters, D., Sampson, H. and Wadsworth, E. Forthcoming. 'Regulating the Employment dynamics of domestic supply chains', Journal of Industrial Relations, 57(4).
        • Ciuk, S. and James, P. 2014. 'Interlingual translation and transfer of value-infused practices: An in-depth qualitative exploration', Management Learning. DOI: 10.1177/135050761456030.
        • James. P., Walters, D., Sampson, H. and Wadsworth, E. 2014. 'Protecting workers through supply chains: Lessons from two construction case studies', Economic and Industrial Democracy. DOI: 10.1177/0143831x14532296.
        • Harpur, P and James, P. 2014. 'The shift in regulatory focus from employment to work relationships: Critiquing reforms to Australian and UK occupational safety and health laws', Comparative Labor Law and Policy, 36(1).
        • Cunningham, I and James, P. 2014. 'Public service outsourcing in an era of austerity: The case of British social care', Competition and Change, 18(1), 1-19.
        • Sampson, H., Walters, P., Wadsworth, E. and James, P. 2014. 'Making headway? Regulatory compliance in the shipping industry', Social and Legal Studies, 23(3), 383-402.
        • Cunningham, I., Hearne, G. and James, P. 2013. 'Voluntary organisations and marketisation: A dynamic of employment degradation', Industrial Relations Journal, 44(2), 171-188.
        • James, P., Tombs, S. and Whyte, D. 2013. 'An independent review of health and safety regulation? From common sense to non-sense', Policy Studies, 34(1), 36-52.
        • Bloor, M., Sampson, H., Baker, S., Walters. D., Dahlgren, K., Wadsworth, E. and James, P. 2013. Room for manoeuvre? Regulatory compliance in the global shipping industry', Social  and Legal Studies, 22 (2), 171-189.
        • James, P. and Karmowska, J. 2012. 'Unions and migrant workers: Strategic challenges in Britain', Transfer, 18(2), 201-212.
        • Spencer, M., Clay, H., Hearne, G and James, P, 2012. 'A comparative examination of academic sabbaticals', International Journal of Management Education', 10(3), 147-154.
        • Cunningham, I., James, P. and Walters, D. 2011. 'Social care outsourcing in Britain and its potential occupational health effects', Policy and Practice in Health and Safety, 4(1), 79-93.
        • James, P. and Walters, D. 2011. What motivates employers to establish preventive arrangements? An examination of the case of supply chains', Safety Science, 49 (7), 988-994.

        Publication Feed

        Legal sanction, international organisations and the Bangladesh Accord

        Croucher, Richard and Houssart, Mark and Miles, Lilian and James, Philip (2019) Legal sanction, international organisations and the Bangladesh Accord. Industrial Law Journal , 48 (4). pp. 549-570. ISSN 0305-9332

        Micropolitical dynamics of interlingual translation processes in an MNC subsidiary

        Ciuk, Sylwia and James, Philip and Sliwa, Martyna (2019) Micropolitical dynamics of interlingual translation processes in an MNC subsidiary. British Journal of Management , 30 (4). pp. 926-942. ISSN 1045-3172

        Regulating factory safety in the Bangladeshi garment industry

        James, Philip and Miles, Lilian and Croucher, Richard and Houssart, Mark (2019) Regulating factory safety in the Bangladeshi garment industry. Regulation & Governance , 13 (3). pp. 431-444. ISSN 1748-5983

        Examining public service motivation in the voluntary sector: implications for public management

        Lapworth, Louisa and James, Philip and Wylie, Nick (2018) Examining public service motivation in the voluntary sector: implications for public management. Public Management Review , 20 (11). pp. 1663-1682. ISSN 1471-9037

        Employment regulation and productivity: is there a case for deregulation?

        Brookes, Michael and James, Philip and Rizov, Marian (2018) Employment regulation and productivity: is there a case for deregulation? Economic and Industrial Democracy , 39 (3). pp. 381-403. ISSN 0143-831X

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      • Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects

        2009-2011: 'The role of supply chains in influencing health and safety management in three sectors', joint project with D. Walters, funded by Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, £125,000.

        2008-2009: 'Supply chains and their health and safety implications', joint project with D.  Walters (Cardiff University), funded by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, £64,000.

        2006: 'False economy? The costs of contracting and workforce insecurity in the voluntary sector', joint project with I. Cunningham, funded by Unison, £12,741.

        2005: 'Directors responsibilities for health and safety', funded by the Health and Safety Executive, £15,000.

        2001-2003: 'Perceptions of health and safety in small ethnic firms', joint project with D. Smallbone and I. Vickers, funded by the Health and Safety Executive, £96,000.

        2001- 2002: 'Job retention and vocational rehabilitation', joint project with P. Dibben and I. Cunningham, funded by the Health and Safety Executive, £51,386.

        2001: 'Review of attendance management in H.M. Prison Service', H.M. Prison Service, £11,000.

        2000-2001: 'Employers and the job retention of ill and injured workers: a study of recent Dutch initiatives', Nuffield Foundation, £2,584.

        1999-2000: 'Meeting the skills and training needs of small printing fims', collaborator in project led by D. Smallbone, funded by European Social Fund, £91,245.

        1999: 'Costs and Benefits of TUC affiliation', Royal College of Midwives, £5,000.

        1999 'Employers and the management of long-term sickness', Joseph Rowntree Foundation, £4,500.

        1997- 1999: 'Corporate environmental policies: Use, implementation and evaluation', joint project with A. Ghobadian, S. Homewood, D. Holt and H. Viney, funded by MUBS incentive grant, £40,000.

        1997 - 1999: 'Absence and return to work', joint project with I. Cunningham, funded by NFFR grant, £31,000.

        1996 - 1997: 'Health and safety management and workforce involvement in the NHS',  project with A. Kyprianou, funded by Middlesex University Business School (MUBS) small research grant, £1,200.

        1995 -1996: 'Survey of corporate environmental policies', joint project with A. Ghobadian, funded by Industrial Relations Services, £2,800.

        1995: 'Joint management-union training activity in the US auto industry', funded by Nuffield Foundation Small Grant, £2,500.

        1994 -1996: 'The implementation of total quality management', joint project with A. Ghobadian and J. Liu, funded by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), £15,000.

        1994 - 1988: 'Corporate strategies in the privatised electricity industry', joint project with A. Ghobadian, funded through HEFC funds, £33,000.

        1992 - 1994: 'The impact of privatisation on business strategy and human resource management in the Electricity Supply industry', joint project with R. Brennan, funded by Middlesex University Small Grant, £800.

        1990 - 1991: 'The implementation of flexibility agreements in manufacturing industry', funded by Middlesex University Small Grant, £500.

      • Engagement &
        Impact

        • Member, editorial board, Employee Relations (2008-present)
        • Deputy Editor, Policy and Practice in Health and Safety (2002-Present)
        • Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Human Resource Management Journal (1991-2001).
        • Editor, Special Edition of Employee Relations on Health and Safety at Work and its Relevance to Employee Relations Research – published 2006.
        • Referee for a variety of journals, including most of the core journals in my areas of subject specialisation. The journals include, Industrial Relations Journal, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Industrial Relations, Personnel Review, Human Resource Management Journal, European Journal of Industrial Relations, Economic and Industrial Democracy, Journal of Management Studies, Social Policy, Human Relations, and Employee Relations. Invited provision of oral evidence to the Lofstedt Review of Health and Safety Legislation (2011)
        • Twice served (2004 and 2008) as a Specialist Adviser to the Work and Pensions Select Committee on enquiries into the work of the Health and Safety Executive and Commission
        • Advisory Board member, Cardiff Work Environment Research Centre (2007-present).
        • Visiting Professor, Middlesex University (2006 – present)
        • Visiting Professor at the University of New South Wales (2005)
        • Advisor to the Victorian WorkCover Authority, one of the Australian regulatory authorities for occupational health and safety (2005).
        • Member, International Advisory Panel, European Centre for Occupational Health and Safety and the Environment (2000-2005)
        • Member, Royal College of Nursing Work and Environment Advisory Panel (2000-2004).
        • Associate Fellow, Institute of Employment Studies (1999-2000).
        • Member, TUC Rehabilitation Initiative Steering Committee (1998-2000).
        • Visiting Fellow in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University (Spring 1995)
        • Examiner, National Examination Board for Occupational Safety and Health (1991-1994).
        • Member, Executive Committee, Institute of Employment Rights (1996-Present).

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