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Dr Jonathan Booth NAB 4.20

This course is compulsory on the MRes/PhD in Management (Employment Relations and Human Resources). This course is available on the MRes/PhD in Management (Organisational Behaviour). This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

The Employment Relations and Human Resource Management PhD seminars cover micro- and macro-HRM course content. The MG518 Seminar familiarizes students with foundational micro-HRM topics (e.g., job search, recruitment, and selection; organisational socialization and newcomer adjustment; compensation; work arrangements; retention and turnover; training, learning, and development; performance management; careers and career management; diversity and inclusion). The MG518 Seminar will cover familiarizes students with foundational micro-HRM topics (e.g., job search, recruitment, and /selection;, organisational socialization and newcomer adjustment; compensation; work arrangements; retention and turnover; training, learning, and development; performance management; careers and career management; diversity and inclusion).

This course also will provides the opportunity for students the opportunity to get to know the faculty members and their research in detail. Further, the course will incorporates comprehensive direct discussion of each week’s academic materials between students and faculty lead for the respective week. Seminar discussions allows students to develop their critical evaluation skills, to generate research ideas and make connections with previous studied literatures, and to learn best practice in reading and interpreting scholarly research to understand the  to teach students how to correctly ‘read’ academic journals in detail for their theoretical, and empirical, and other contributions.This course also provides students the opportunity to get to know faculty members and their research. Further, the course incorporates comprehensive discussion of each week’s academic materials between students and faculty lead for the respective week. Seminar discussions allows students to develop their critical evaluation skills, to generate research ideas and make connections with previous studied literatures, and to learn best practice in reading and interpreting scholarly research to understand the theoretical, empirical, and other contributions. In addition to reading the required readings for each week and being prepared to engage in discussion, each student is generally asked to present and lead group discussion for at least one article. To aid students in generating research ideas, students typically are asked to identify a research gap in the respective week’s literature and to bring to seminar a research proposal and/or model related to the identified gap for discussion with the larger seminar group.

30 hours of seminars in the LT.

The seminars will follow a variety of formats, including discussing recent work of academic colleagues, and so include the following indicative reading.

Bauer, T. N., Bodner, T., Erdogan, B., Truxillo, D. M., & Tucker, J. S. (2007). Newcomer adjustment during organizational socialization: A meta-analytic review of antecedents, outcomes,