Colleagues,
(Apologies for cross-posting)
This is a reminder of the upcoming ESRC Seminar on Regulation and the Firm, taking place at Newcastle University Business School on Friday 5th of June. The seminar will explore the impact of regulation on firms; the similarities and differences between MNCs and SMEs, the impact of employment protection regulations on firms' hiring and firing decisions, and the possibility to harmonise firms' need for labour market dynamism with workers' needs for decent, secure jobs. Below is a draft programme for the day.
Registration - Attendance to this event is FREE. Lunch and refreshments will be provided. All attendees must register in order to allow us to plan catering numbers. To register, please go to: http://forms.ncl.ac.uk/view.php?id=5465
Travel and accommodation - Participants (or their institutions) are responsible for their own costs for travel, accommodation and subsistence. For information about travel to the venue, accommodation and tourist information, see: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/about/visit/travel/. Newcastle University Business School is located at 5 Barrack Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4SE (Building No. 81 on the following campus map http://www.ncl.ac.uk/documents/Campus-Map-Print.pdf
For enquiries, please contact the Organising Team at: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. The Organising Team are: Dr Stewart<http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nubs/staff/profile/tracy.scurry> Johnstone (Newcastle University Business School, England) & Dr Jenny Rodriguez<http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nubs/staff/profile/jenny.rodriguez> (Newcastle University Business School, England).
ESRC Seminar Series: Regulation of work and employment: Towards a multidisciplinary, multilevel framework
Seminar 5: Regulation and the Firm
Newcastle University Business School
Friday 5th June 2015, 9am - 5pm
Programme
08:45-09:45 Registration and coffee
09:45-10:00 Introduction and Welcome
10:00-11:45 New perspectives on regulation and the firm (Chair: Steve Procter)
Mark Beatson (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development) -'Employment regulation and the firm: stimulant or irritant?'
Geraldine Healey (Queen Mary University of London) - 'Title TBC'
Paul Richter (Newcastle University) - 'The emotionality of regulation'
Steve Vincent (Newcastle University) - 'Labour market regulation and firm-level HRM: A critical realist overview'
11:45-12:00 Coffee/Tea break
12:00-12.45 Regulation, voice and the firm (Chair: Jo McBride)
Stewart Johnstone (Newcastle University) - 'Employee voice and the Regulation of Employment Relations'
Tony Dobbins (Bangor University) - 'Bad regulatory design & neo-liberal path dependency: explaining weak consultation'
12:45-13.45 Lunch
13:45-15.30 Regulation, policy and the firm (Chair: Judith Watson)
Carol Atkinson (Manchester Metropolitan University) - 'Workforce Policy and Care Quality in English Adult Social Care'
Greg Bamber (Monash University) - 'Influences of regulation on decent work: Insights from research on hospitals and airlines'
Aristea Koukiadaki (University of Manchester) - 'Joint Regulation and Labour Market Policy in Europe during the Crisis: A Seven-country Analysis'
Michael Whittall (Technische Universität München) - 'Transnational Company Agreements: the mergence international corporate regulation within the Volkswagen Group'
15.45-16.30 Panel 'Regulation and the firm: Moving forward' (Chair: Sir Peter Carr)
Beth Farhat (Northern TUC)
Sarah Glendinning (CBI North East)
Steve Procter (Newcastle University)
Steve Vincent (Newcastle University)
16:30 Close
* * Another date for your diary * * The final seminar in the series, Seminar 6 - Future of Regulation will take place on 17th September 2015 at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Confirmed speakers include: Hazel Conley (Queen Mary University London), Olena Fedyuk (University of Strathclyde), Jane Hardy (University of Hertfordshire), Jo McBride (University of Newcastle), Miguel Martinez Lucio (University of Manchester) and Ida Regalia (University of Milan).
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Dr. Jenny K. Rodriguez
Lecturer in Human Resource Management
Degree Programme Director, BA(Hons) International Business Management
Book Reviews Editor, Gender in Management
Principal Investigator, ESRC Seminar Series Regulation of Work and Employment
Newcastle University Business School
Room 5.01
5 Barrack Road
Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 4SE
United Kingdom
T. +44 (0) 191 208 1718
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