Professor Pauline Dibben
Management School
Chair in Employment Relations
p.dibben@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 3472
+44 114 222 3472
A016, Sheffield University Management School
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Professor Pauline Dibben
Management School
A016
Sheffield University Management School
Conduit Road
Sheffield
S10 1FL
Management School
A016
Sheffield University Management School
Conduit Road
Sheffield
S10 1FL
- Profile
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Pauline has published widely on employment relations in the UK and emerging economies. She has also attracted funding from the ESRC, EPSRC and UK Government departments.
She was PI for a large interdisciplinary ESRC project examining supply chain accounting and employment practices in the rising economies.
Pauline is also Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Work, Organisation and Well-being at Griffith University, Australia, and Academic Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development.
- Research interests
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Pauline's recent research has been focused in the area of employment security, with two sub-themes: employment security and the role of the trade unions in emerging economies, and job security for those who are disabled and/or have long-term health conditions.
Employment Security and the role of trade unions in emerging economies:
This research programme has considered different dimensions of work and employment and includes the development and analysis of large scale surveys in South Africa and Mozambique in addition to in-depth qualitative research.
Job security for those who are disabled and/or have long-term health conditions:
Pauline continues to explore disability discrimination, dynamics of sickness absence and return to work, and the policies and practices surrounding this.
- Publications
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Books
- Employment Relations. Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development - Kogan Page.
- Modernising Work in Public Services. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Contesting Public Sector Reforms. Palgrave Macmillan.
Journal articles
- Vanishing value chains, industrial districts and HRM in the Brazilian automotive industry. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 31(2), 254-271. View this article in WRRO
- Do return to work interventions for workers with disabilities and health conditions achieve employment outcomes and are they cost effective? A systematic narrative review. Employee Relations. View this article in WRRO
- Institutional legacies and HRM: similarities and differences in HRM practices in Portugal and Mozambique. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 28(18), 2519-2537. View this article in WRRO
- A tale from the field: Reflexivity during management research in an African-based development organisation. Africa Journal of Management, 2(4), 422-437. View this article in WRRO
- Knowledge transfer within strategic partnerships: the case of HRM in the Brazilian motor industry supply chain. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 27(20), 2398-2414. View this article in WRRO
- The legacies of coercion and the challenges of contingency: Mozambican unions in difficult times. Labor History, 57(1), 126-140. View this article in WRRO
- "Industrial Clusters, Value Chains And HRM In The Brazilian Automotive Industry". Academy of Management Proceedings, 2016(1), 12333-12333.
- Face à l'économie informelle au Mozambique: volontarisme ou maintien du statu quo?. Revue internationale du Travail, 154(3), 407-428.
- Presiones en contra y a favor de la formalización. Regulación y empleo informal en Mozambique. Revista Internacional del Trabajo, 134(3), 401-422.
- The ending of southern Africa's tripartite dream: the cases of South Africa, Namibia and Mozambique. Business History, 57(3), 461-483. View this article in WRRO
- Pressures towards and against formalization: Regulation and informal employment in Mozambique. International Labour Review, 154(3), 373-392.
- Comparative capitalism without capitalism, and production without workers: The limits and possibilities of contemporary institutional analysis. International Journal of Management Reviews, 16(4), 384-396. View this article in WRRO
- The limits of transnational solidarity: the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the Swaziland and Zimbabwean crises. Labor History.
- Varieties of Capitalism and Employment Relations: Informally Dominated Market Economies. INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, 51, 563-582.
- Is social movement unionism still relevant? The case of the South African federation COSATU. Industrial Relations Journal, 43(6), 494-510.
- Community unionism in Africa: The case of Mozambique. Relations Industrielles, 66(1), 54-73.
- HRM in Mozambique: Homogenization, path dependence or segmented business system?. Journal of World Business, 46(1), 31-41. View this article in WRRO
- MNCs in Central, Southern and Central Europe and the former Soviet Union: Investment decisions and the regulation of employment. Human Resource Management Journal, 21(4), 379-394.
- Deprivation, Delivery and Union Mobilization: The Case of the Congress of South African Trade Unions. Irish Journal of Management, 29(2), 67-87.
- Trade union change, development and renewal in emerging economies: The case of Mozambique. Work, Employment and Society, 24(3), 468-486.
- The challenges facing the South African labour movement: Mobilization of diverse constituencies in a changing context. Relations Industrielles, 63(4), 671-693.
- Tensions in local government employment relationships: The case of long-term sickness absence. Public Management Review, 8(2), 207-225.
- Job retention and return to work of ill and injured workers: Towards an understanding of the organisational dynamics. Employee Relations, 28(3), 290-303.
- The 'socially excluded' and local transport decision making: Voice and responsiveness in a marketized environment. Public Administration, 84(3), 655-672.
- Ports and shipping in Mozambique: Current concerns and policy options. Maritime Policy and Management, 32(2), 139-157.
- Bridging the gap between rhetoric and reality: Line managers and the protection of job security for ill workers in the modern workplace. British Journal of Management, 15(3), 273-290.
- "Pulled apart, pushed together": Diversity and unity within the Congress of South African Trade Unions. Relations Industrielles, 59(4).
- Transport, social exclusion and young people in rural England. Municipal Engineer, 156(2), 105-110.
- Transport, social exclusion and young people in rural England. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Municipal Engineer, 156(2), 105-110.
- Modern HRM: Does it have a human face?. Society in Transition, 33(2), 213-226.
- Absence management and the issues of job retention and return to work. Human Resource Management Journal, 12(2), 82-94.
- Employers and employees with disabilities in the UK an economically beneficial relationship?. International Journal of Social Economics, 29(6), 453-467.
- Public sector innovation and entrepreneurship: Case studies from local government. Local Government Studies, 28(4), 107-121.
- Absence management in the public sector: An integrative model?. Public Money and Management, 21(4), 55-60.
- Local government and service users: Empowerment through user-led innovation?. Local Government Studies, 27(3), 43-58.
- Senior management commitment to disability: The influence of legal compulsion and best practice. Personnel Review, 30(4), 454-467.
- Preparing for best value. Local Government Studies, 25(2), 102-118.
- Conceptualising employee voice in the majority world: Using multiple intellectual traditions inspired by the work of Mick Marchington. Human Resource Management Journal.
- Justifying (non)discrimination against disabled workers in emerging economies: Managerial choice, business vs moral case arguments and home vs host country effects. British Journal of Management.
Chapters
- Institutional theory - organisational, A Guide to Key Theories for Human Resource Management Research (pp. 113-118).
- Institutional theory - comparative, A Guide to Key Theories for Human Resource Management Research (pp. 107-112).
- Extending the HR Role in Global Value Chains: The Monitoring and Control of HR Practices in the South African Automotive Industry, Managing Human Resources in Africa (pp. 199-225). Springer Nature Switzerland
- Work Dimensions of the Inclusion of Autistic People: An Integrative Literature Review, Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2021) (pp. 201-210).
- Reconfiguration and regulation of supply chains and HRM in times of economic crisis In Collings D, Wood G & Szamosi L (Ed.), Human Resource Management: A critical approach (pp. 156-170). Abingdon: Routledge. View this article in WRRO
- Reconfiguration and regulation of supply chains and HRM in times of economic crisis, Human Resource Management (pp. 156-170). Routledge
- Employment relations in Africa, The Routledge Companion to Employment Relations (pp. 418-431).
- Social movement unionism, Trade Unions and Democracy: Strategies and Perspectives (pp. 280-302).
- Effective People Management in Africa Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Preparing for best value, Managing Local Services: From CCT to Best Value (pp. 102-118).
- Union Renewal: Objective Circumstances and Social Action, International Handbook on Labour Unions: Responses to Neo-liberalism Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
- Employment Security and Job Insecurity in Public Services: Two Sides of the Same Coin?, Modernising Work in Public Services: Redefining Roles and Relationships in Britain’s Changing Workplace (pp. 121-138). London: Palgrave.
- Introduction: Is Modern Necessarily Better, Modernising Work in Public Services: Redefining Roles and Relationships in Britain’s Changing Workplace (pp. 1-10). London: Palgrave.
Conference proceedings papers
- Regulation of work in emerging economies: conceptualising the institutional framework in Mozambique. British Academy of Management Conference, September 2010.
Other
- A tool to strengthen the supply chain.
- Employment Relations. Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development - Kogan Page.
- Research group
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Pauline is a member of the Centre for Decent Work and is also the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion lead for the Institute for Global Sustainable Development.
- Grants
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A major project was funded by the ESRC and entitled 'Supply chain accounting and employment practices in the rising economies: global commodity chains, cost effectiveness and competitiveness' (Grant Reference: ES/K006452/1), which Pauline led, together with a team of six Co-Investigators.
This research involved fieldwork within South Africa and Brazil.
- Teaching activities
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Pauline´s teaching is strongly research led. She currently teaches on International Human Resource Studies at postgraduate level and Industrial Relations at undergraduate level:
- MGT670 International Human Resource Studies
- MGT309 Industrial Relations
Through her teaching style, Pauline aims to challenge students to think critically and to consider employment practices within both advanced and emerging economies.
She encourages critical thinking through the use of case studies and student-led debates.
- PhD Supervision
Professor Pauline Dibben supervises:
- PhD student Leah Derham-Boyce
- PhD student Rachael Green
- PhD student Akanni Mc Dowall
- PhD student Yanan Yu