People, Management and Organisations (PMO)
The People Management and Organisations (PMO) Division is an interdisciplinary and internationally connected community of scholars dedicated to exploring how we can create workplaces where individuals thrive, remain healthy, and contribute productively to society and the economy.
The division is characterised by a commitment to multiple methods and interdisciplinary collaboration. It has robust connections with:
- International academic communities
- Policymakers
- Industries
- The voluntary sector
- Intergovernmental agencies, including the International Labour Organization (ILO).
Our shared vision: How can we understand organisations, their motivations and actions to create work environments that enable people, organisations and society to flourish and thrive in responsible and sustainable ways?
The division’s research addresses pressing and contemporary topics, including:
- Work, safety, and well-being
- AI, technology, and work futures
- Decent work and regional economic development
- Responsible management and ethical decision-making
- Equality, diversity, and inclusion
- Leadership innovations and new organisational forms
- The future of work organisation and meaningful employment
- Regulation, representation, and equity in employment
- Work and employment in supply chains
- Organisation and management practices for societal challenges.
The division supports renowned undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and executive education - while contributing to the broader mission of Alliance Manchester Business School in developing future leaders and change-makers.
Our Centres and Institutes
The agenda of the Work and Equalities Institute is to identify and promote the conditions for more inclusive and fair work and employment arrangements.
The Institute develops world-leading interdisciplinary research, focused around four key themes:
- Business transformation and work futures
- Fair treatment at work
- Inequalities and the life course
- Regulation and representation.
The PMO division has an affiliation with the Thomas Ashton Institute, further extending its expertise and impact.
Subject area groups
The PMO division encompasses three distinctive subject area groups.
With 16 academics, a thriving cohort of PhD students, and numerous research associates/fellows, the OP Group is one of the largest and most successful groups of work psychologists in Europe.
We have experts researching topics such as:
- Leadership
- Creativity
- Psychometrics
- Safety
- Wellbeing
- Emotions
- Workplace bullying
- Personality and job design.
We host a regular seminar series inviting world experts and rising stars to share their work, and teach two renowned and successful MSc programmes: MSc Organisational Psychology and MSc Business Psychology.
The HRMERL subject area group consists of 17 academics, affiliated doctoral students and a number of research associates and fellows.
The group's interests focus on the studies of:
- Work and employment, including labour market and institutional change
- Equality, diversity and inclusion at work
- Representation and regulation at work
- Technology in relation to the changing nature of work and employment.
They also study other broad themes at multiple levels within a wider international and comparative context.
The group's members are central to the Work and Equalities Institute (WEI). They're engaged in teaching these thematic areas across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes - including our MSc in International Human Resource Management and Comparative Industrial Relations.
The MOS group engages and explores questions around:
- How we understand complex management and organisational processes and practices through a focus on Responsible Management (RM)
- Issues of ethics, inclusivity, equity, and sustainability.
We critically examine how certain reasoning, processes, practices, and innovations can limit, enhance, or rethink responsible management in different ways. Crucially, we explore the potential impacts this may have on individuals, organisations, and society.
The group has extensive engagement activities in responsible management and socially responsible business with the civil society and public institutions. The group contributes foundational and elective courses across a range of undergraduate, postgraduate (MSc and MBA) and executive programmes.
Management and Organisational Studies
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Ruth Boaden | Honorary Professor | ||
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Gibson Burrell | Honorary Professor of Organisation Theory | ||
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Carlo Cordasco | Lecturer in Management & Org Studies | ||
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Ismail Erturk | Senior Lecturer in Banking | 0161-2756354 | |
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John Foster | Lecturer | ||
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Julie Froud | Professor of Financial Innovation | ||
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Anita Greenhill | Senior Lecturer | ||
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John Hassard | Professor of Organizational Analysis | ||
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Saleema Kauser | Senior Lecturer in Organisational Strategy and Business Ethics | 0161-2756467 | |
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Eunice Maytorena-Sanchez | Professor of Project Management | 0161-3063405 | |
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Christine Mclean | Senior Lecturer | ||
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Karel Williams | Emeritus Professor | ||
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Graham Winch | Professor of Project Management | ||
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Mark Winter | Senior Lecturer |
Organisational Psychology
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Felicity Algate | Professor of Practice | ||
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Sharon Clarke | Professor of Organisational Psychology | ||
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Angelique Fu | Lecturer in Organisational Psychology | ||
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Simon Hayward | Professor of Practice | ||
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Helge Hoel | Emeritus Professor | ||
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David Holman | Professor of Organisational Psychology | ||
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David Hughes | Senior Lecturer, Organisational Psychology | ||
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Paul Irwing | Professor of Psychometrics | ||
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Julie Jebsen | Lecturer in Organisational Psychology | ||
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Sheena Johnson | Professor of Work Psychology and Wellbeing | 0161-3063445 | |
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Wing Lam | Professor in Organisational Psychology | ||
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Robin Martin | Professor of Organisational Psychology | 0161-3064583 | |
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Kara Ng | Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Organisational Psychology | 0161-3063365 | |
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Elinor O'Connor | Professor of Occupational Psychology | ||
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Masakatsu Ono | Lecturer in Organisational Psychology | 0161-2753448 | |
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Lina Siegl | Lecturer in Organisational Psychology | ||
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Geoff Thomas | Professor of Organisational Psychology | ||
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Sara Willis | Senior Lecturer in Organisational Psychology |
Human Resource Management, Employment Relations and Law
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Francisca Alvarez-Figueroa | Lecturer in Employment Studies | ||
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Cassandra Bowkett | Lecturer in Human Resource Management | ||
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Damian Grimshaw | Honorary Professor | ||
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Debra Howcroft | Professor of Technology and Organisation | ||
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Ian Johnson | Lecturer in Business Law | ||
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Mathew Johnson | Senior Lecturer in HRM and Employment Studies | ||
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Arjan Keizer | Senior Lecturer in Comparative HRM and IRs | 0161-3065886 | |
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Fiona E.C. King | Lecturer in Business and Accounting Law | ||
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Stefania Marino | Senior Lecturer in Employment Studies | ||
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Miguel Martinez Lucio | Professor in International HRM and Comparative Industrial Relations | ||
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Anne Mcbride | Professor of Employment Relations | 0161-3065863 | |
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Stephen Mustchin | Senior Lecturer in Employment Studies | 0161-3068988 | |
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Anthony Rafferty | Professor in Employment Studies | ||
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Jenny Rodriguez | Senior Lecturer in Employment Studies | 0161-2756396 | |
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Jill Rubery | Professor / Director of the Work and Equalities Institute | ||
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Syed Imran Saqib | Lecturer in Human Resource Management/Employment Studies | 0161-3063457 | |
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Isabel Tavora | Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management | 0161-3068489 | |
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Nathaniel Tetteh | Lecturer in Employment Studies |