Department of HR Management and Organisational Behaviour

CIPD accredited
Our master’s degree in Human Resource Management is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
Diverse research methodologies
We have expertise in both quantitative and qualitative research approaches
We edit top HRM and OB journals
Our academics are editors of journals including Human Relations and Human Resource Management

About the department

Part of Southampton Business School, our departmental interests encompass the fields of human resource management (HRM) and organisational behaviour (OB). This includes research within the related fields of:

industrial or employment relations
employment studies
organisation studies
labour economics
work sociology

We aim to develop future leaders in management who can engage with people from diverse national and international backgrounds. We lead the CIPD-accredited MSc Human Resource Management degree. We provide research-informed teaching on other undergraduate and specialist master’s courses. Our team also teach on the Business School’s Help to Grow executive course.

We’re influential within the HR sector and contribute to leading academic journals. Our academic experts are regularly recognised for their research.

Research

Recent research topics include:

alternative theorising of leadership
careers and skills
digital media technologies and people
corporate social responsibility
sustainability and ethics
entrepreneurship and self-employment
human resource development
independent professionals
individual and organisational responses to hardship
labour market institutions and workplace trade unions
new ways of working
power in technological change programmes
work/non-work interface
work quality and well-being
workforce diversity and inequalities

Our influence

We are an active department with international influence. Our academics publish in leading academic outlets, such as:

British Journal of Management
British Journal of Industrial Relations
Human Relations
Human Resource Management Journal
Journal of Vocational Behavior

Many of our members also edit journals:

Professor Peter Rogers is the co-editor of the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research
Professor Yehuda Baruch is the consulting editor of the Journal of International Business Studies
Professor Mina Beigi is the Associate Editor of Human Relation
Professor Tahir Nisar is the Associate Editor for Management Decision

Our work is recognised within the HR sector:

the most recent Stanford 2% Global Scientist Citation Rankings (2021) features 8 of our staff
Dr Jane Parry made the top 10 in HR Magazine’s most influential thinkers in 2021
Professor Yehuda Baruch received the Business and Management in United Kingdom Leader Award in 2023 from Research.com

Equality, diversity and inclusion

The values of equality, diversity and inclusion are at the very heart of everything we do. This includes our research, teaching and engagement with the business world and the broader community.