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John Purcell

John Purcell is the Strategic Academic Adviser, Employment Relations, for ACAS and, in addition, a part-time Research Professor in the Industrial Relations Research Unit at Warwick University. Between 1995 and 2006 he was the Professor of Human Resource Management at the University of Bath and Director of the Work and Employment Research Centre. Prior to that he has worked at Oxford University and Templeton College, Manchester Business School, the Commission on Industrial Relations and Perkins Engines..

His main publications include Human Resource Management in the Multi-divisional Company (OUP 1994), Strategy and Human Resource Management (written with Peter Boxall) (Palgrave 2003 and 2007) and the Oxford Handbook of HRM (OUP 2007). These books are in the areas of corporate and business strategies and their connection with human resource management, and trends in industrial relations.

John is a very active researcher. At Bath university he lead a team of four examining the effect of people management practices on business performance, and the particular issues in knowledge-intensive firms, both funded by the CIPD. This was followed by research on the people management work of line managers in the NHS and in dealing with reward and training, learning and development. Other recent research has been on employment regimes in call and contact centres and the use of temporary work agencies. Currently he is involved in a longitudinal study of information and consultation arrangements in response to the ICE regulations. John is a Deputy Chairman of the Central Arbitration Committee, and for five years until 2005 was the editor of the Human Resource Management Journal.
 
 
 
 
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