People, Management and Organisations (PMO)

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.

Work and Equalities Institute

The PMO division has an affiliation with the Thomas Ashton Institute, further extending its expertise and impact.

Thomas Ashton Institute

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 Human Resource Management and 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.