ESRC SEMINAR REGULATION

1. 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, Partners’ Room (8.10), 9am – 5pm
08:45-09:30 Registration and coffee
09:30-09.45 Introduction and Welcome (Stewart Johnstone)
09:45-11:45 New perspectives on regulation and the firm (Chair: Stephen Procter)
Mark Beatson (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development) -‘Employment
regulation and the firm: stimulant or irritant?’
Geraldine Healey (Queen Mary University of London) - ‘Casualisation, unions
and regulation’
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: Judith Watson)
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
13:45-15.45 Regulation, policy and the firm (Chair: Mick Brookes)
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’
15.45-16.00 Coffee/Tea Break
16.00-16.45 Panel ‘Regulation and the firm: Moving forward’ (Chair: Sir Peter Carr)
Mick Brookes (Newcastle University)
Beth Farhat (Northern TUC)
Sarah Glendinning (CBI North East)
Philip James (Middlesex University)
Stephen Procter (Newcastle University)
16:45 Close (Jenny Rodriguez)
Find out more about the seminar series: www.regulationseminars.org.uk
Email the organising team: esrcseminar@ncl.ac.uk Twitter #esrcregulation