Overview
Introduction
You’ll study the foundations of employment relations and human resource management and gain the skills to design, conduct and evaluate quantitative and qualitative research.
Drawing on our wide-ranging research strengths, you’ll have the chance to study topics such as diversity and inclusion, wellbeing, recruitment and selection, and people analytics. Multidisciplinary study is a key feature of learning at LSE. So, alongside your core studies, you’ll take an elective course from a related field such as management or law.
You’ll begin your studies on the master of research degree and move on to the PhD (subject to satisfactory progress). You’ll also have the chance to complete a substantial piece of work that makes an original contribution to the field.
Here at LSE, we have a vibrant community of world-class academics and doctoral students who are pursuing varied research in different fields of management. Ranked sixth in the world for social sciences and management, LSE is the ideal place to engage in the latest employment debates and learn from world leaders in the field.
We're also ranked second in the UK by percentage of overall four and three stars in the most recent Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021).
Preliminary readings
- Salas, E., Kozlowski, S. W. J., & Chen, G. (2017). A century of progress in industrial and organizational psychology: Discoveries and the next century. Journal of Applied Psychology, 102(3), 589-598.
- Farh, C.I.C., Liao, H., Shapiro, D.L., Shin, J., & Guan, O.Z. (2020). Out of sight and out of mind? Networking strategies for enhancing inclusion in multinational organizations. Journal of Applied Psychology. Advance online publication
- Hulshof, I. L., Demerouti, E., & Le, P. B. (2020). Reemployment crafting: Proactively shaping one's job search. Journal of Applied Psychology, 104, 58-79.
- 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, and methods. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92, 707-721. doi: 10.1037/0021-9010.92.3.707
- Dulebohn, J. H., & Werling, S. (2007). Compensation research: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Human Resource Management Review, 17: 191-207.
- Bolino, M. C., Kelemen, T. K., & Matthews, S. H. (2021). Working 9‐to‐5? A review of research on nonstandard work schedules. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 42(2), 188-211.
- Felps, W., Mitchell, T.R., Hekman, D.R., Lee, T.W., Holtom, B.C., & Harman, W.S. (2009). Turnover contagion: How coworkers’ job embeddedness and job search influence quitting. Academy of Management Journal, 52(3), 545-561.
- Bell, B. S., & Kozlowski, S. W. (2008). Active learning: effects of core training design elements on self-regulatory processes, learning, and adaptability. Journal of Applied psychology, 93, 296-316.
- Cappelli, P., and Conyon, M. J. (2018) What Do Performance Appraisals Do? Industrial and Labor Relations Review, vol. 71, 1: pp. 88-116.
- Dobrow Riza, S., & Heller, D. (2015). Follow your heart or your head? A longitudinal study of the facilitating role of calling and ability in the pursuit of a challenging career. Journal of Applied Psychology, 100, 695-712.
- Bowen, D. E. & Ostroff, C. (2004). Understanding HRM–firm performance linkages: The role of the “strength” of the HRM system. Academy of Management Review, 29(2), 203–221.
- Chowhan, J. (2016). Unpacking the black box: understanding the relationship between strategy, HRM practices, innovation and organizational performance. Human Resource Management Journal, 26(2), 112-133.
- Bulger, C. A., Matthews, R. A., & Hoffman, M. E. (2007). Work and personal life boundary management: Boundary strength, work/personal life balance, and the segmentation-integration continuum. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 12, 365-375. doi: 10.1037/1076-8998.12.4.365
- Chamberlin, M., Newton, D. W., & Lepine, J. A. (2017). A meta‐analysis of voice and its promotive and prohibitive forms: Identification of key associations, distinctions, and future research directions. Personnel Psychology, 70(1), 11-71.
- Booth, J. E., Lup, D., & Williams, M. (2017). Union Membership and Charitable Giving in the United States. ILR Review, 70(4), 835-864.
- Amengual, M., Distelhorst, G. and Tobin, D., 2020. Global purchasing as labor regulation: the missing middle. ILR review, 73(4), pp.817-840.
- Frege, C. and J. Kelly (2020): Theoretical perspectives on comparative employment relations. In: Frege, C. and J. Kelly (eds.): Comparative Employment Relations in the Global Economy. Routledge. Ch 2.
- Frymer, P., & Grumbach, J. M. (2021). Labor unions and white racial politics. American Journal of Political Science, 65(1), 225-240.
- Cappelli, P., Tambe, P., & Yakubovich, V. (2020). Can Data Science Change Human Resources?. In The Future of Management in an AI World (pp. 93-115). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
- Anthony, C., Bechky, B. A., & Fayard, A. L. (2023). “Collaborating” with AI: Taking a system view to explore the future of work. Organization Science.
