Paul Marginson
- Director of IRRU - Professor of Industrial Relations
Biography
Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Industrial Relations at Warwick from 1990 - 1995; then Professor of HRM and Employment Relations at University of Leeds, 1996-1998. Current links with European Commission, European Foundation for Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Acas, BERR, CBI, Engineering Employers Federation and TUC.
Research interests
Europeanisation of industrial relations; multinational companies and industrial relations; European Works Councils; collective bargaining innovations.
Selected research projects
- INTREPID - Employment Relations in Multinational Companies: Cross National Comparative Analysis: European Commission, February 2009 - January 2013.
- Fellowship - Why Industrial Relations Matters: An Integrated Approach to Comparative European Industrial Relations: ESRC, January 2010 - December 2011.
- GUSTO: Meeting the challenges of economic uncertainty and sustainability: EU, October 2008 - September 2011.
- Surveying Employment Practices of Multinationals in Comparative Context: Integrating and Differentiating National Systems: ESRC, June 2009 - May 2011.
- EC- Europeanisation of Industrial relations - Chief Editor: European Commission, October 2009 - March 2011.
- Information and analysis on quality of work and employment, industrial relations covering all member states and acceding/candidate countries of the European Union - Lot 2: European Foundation for Improvement of Living & Working Conditions, March 2006 - February 2010.
- Information and analysis on quality of work and employment, industrial relations covering all member states and acceding/candidate countries of the European Union: European Foundation for Improvement of Living & Working Conditions, March 2006 - February 2010.
- Employment Practices of MNCs in Organisational Context: ESRC, October 2004 - March 2007.
- Overseas Fieldwork - Thomas Prosser: ESRC, January 2007 - March 2007.
- Variable Pay, Industrial Relations and Collective Bargaining: ESRC, January 2004 - June 2006.
- European Working Conditions Observatory - UK Correspondent: European Foundation for Improvement of Living & Working Conditions, March 2005 - February 2006.
- ESRC Studentship - visit to overseas institution for Annette Hayden: ESRC, October 2004 - December 2005.
- Overseas Fieldwork - Thomas Prosser: ESRC, January 1900 - January 1900.
- Information and analysis on quality of work and employment, industrial relations covering all member states and acceding/candidate countries of the European Union: European Foundation for Improvement of Living & Working Conditions, January 1900 - January 1900.
Only selected externally-funded projects are listed here.
Teaching activity this year
Masters Portfolio
- IB96R0 Transnational Employment Relations module leader
Undergraduate
- IB3810 Critical Issues in Management
- IB3E00 Comparative European Employment Relations module leader
- IB3E10 International and European Employment Relations
Publications
Journal articles
- The impact of European Works Councils on management decision-making in UK- and US-based multinationals: a case study comparison. British Journal Of Industrial Relations 42 (2004): 209-233.
- National influences on European Works Councils in UK- and US-based companies. Human Resource Management Journal 13 (2003): 75-92.