Mick Marchington, a leading academic in the field of employment relations in the UK, has joined the Department of Human Resource Management as a Professor on a proportional contract, having taken early retirement from Manchester Business School. Mick Marchington, a leading academic in the field of employment relations in the UK, has joined the Department of Human Resource Management as a Professor on a proportional contract, having taken early retirement from Manchester Business School.
His career has been marked by outstanding achievements as a scholar and practitioner. Professor Marchington has internationally recognised expertise in the fields of employee participation and voice, HRM theory and practice, and fragmented employment systems. He has published over 100 refereed journal articles and more than a dozen books; as well as securing large grants from the ESRC and EPSRC, the Departments of Employment, Trade and Industry, and Health. He is Editor of the Human Resource Management Journal.
Professor Marchington has had a long relationship with the professional body – the CIPD – rising to a Companion in 2003 (one of only 200 from a membership of 135,000). He was Chief Examiner from 1994-2002 and Chief Moderator, Standards, from 2002-8. Professor Marchington has had an ongoing relationship with the Department of HRM at Strathclyde through his association with the Employee Relations journal; as an external examiner; and his work with Professor Paul Thompson in their co-editorship (with Gibson Burrell) of the successful Palgrave Series, Management, Work and Organisation.
Head of Department, Professor Dennis Nickson said, 'This appointment is an important and exciting one for the department and the Business School. Mick Marchington is an internationally renowned scholar whose expertise and experience will significantly strengthen our relationships with academic and practitioner communities.'