Prof. Stephen Wood
University of Leicester, United Kingdom
I am Professor of Management. I joined the School in April 2010 from the University of Sheffield, where I was Deputy Director and Research Chair at the Institute of Work Psychology, and Professor of Employment Relations in the School of Management from 2000. I was a Co-Director of the University of Sheffield's ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) Centre for Organisation and Innovation, 2001-06. Prior to this, I was Reader in Industrial Relations at the London School of Economics.
I was elected an Academician of the British Academy of Social Science in 2007 and became an Academic Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development in 2014 and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2017.
I was a co-convenor of the ESRC seminar series, Work-Life Balance in the Recession and Beyond (2013-15); a member of the Department of Business, Innovation and Skill's Steering Committee and Research Team for the Workplace Employee Relations Survey Series, (2009-14); member of the Methods and Infrastructure Committee of the Economic and Social Research Council (2008-11); Chair of the Steering Committee of the ESRC's Management Practices Survey; Co-Convener (with Simon Francis, DWP) of the Yorkshire, Humberside and East Midlands Mental Health and Employment Network, and Visiting Professor at the Cass Business School, City University (2006-14).
I have provided policy advice to a range of organisations, public and private, and contributed to public life in a number of ways. Consultancies include an evaluation on the impact of the post-1997 Employment Relations Legislation on corporate performance for the Department of Trade and Industry which led to a published report in 2005. I was a member of the Steering Committee of EEF-ESRC innovation research initiative 2009-11. I was Chair of the Management Board of the Health and Safety Commission's Workers Safety Adviser Challenge Fund, 2004-07 and a member of the Employment Task Group for the 2004 Health White Paper.
I am an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Management, Industrial Relations Journal, Industrial and Economic Democracy, Administrative Sciences, International Journal of Human Resource, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Human Resources Management and Services and I was Chief Editor of the British Journal of Industrial Relations, 1999-2003, and I am currently a member of its International Advisory Board.
Research
Recent research includes the nature of high involvement management, its determinants and impact on well-being and organisational performance; family-friendly management, its nature, predictors of use and performance effects; work-non-work conflict; employee appraisal; teamworking amongst software engineers; health management; staff morale in mental health in-patient care; discrimination and aggression at work; job design in call centres