James Richards

BA (Hons) (Stirling), PG Certificate in Academic Practice (Heriot-Watt)

Lecturer

James Richards is a lecturer in Human Resource Management (HRM) in the School of Management and Languages. He is a graduate from the University of Stirling,a Graduate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and currently in the final stages of finishing his PhD (University of Stirling) that looks at workplace misbehaviour.

James is the module co-ordinator for Employment Relations (C13RE2), People Management (C14PE1) and Employee Resourcing I and II (C14RO2 and C14RP3). He also contributes to teaching on the Human Resource Management (C12HM3) and Critical Approaches to Management (C13CA2) modules. Prior to joining Heriot-Watt University, James tutored and lectured at the University of Stirling on their Management and HRM degree programmes.

James’s doctoral research interests include workplace misbehaviour. More specifically he is looking at how employees both within and outwith the workplace overtly and covertly resist management practices, how employees informally cope with the demands of mundane work, the part informal workplace practices play in workplace relations, and how non-work identities (such as gender, age, etc.) conflict with work-related identities. More recently, he has begun to research new forms of web-based communication technologies as a medium for worker voice and an outlet for work-related experiences and imagery. See his weblog for more details.

James is a member of the British Universities Industrial Relations Association (BUIRA), British Sociological Association, and East of Scotland CIPD Knowledge into Practice group.

Selected Publications

• Richards, J. and Marks, A. ‘Biting the hand that feeds: Social identity and resistance in restaurant teams’, British Journal of Industrial Relations, submitted July 2005. 
  
  
• Richards, J. (2005) Misbehaviour and Dysfunctional Attitudes in Organizations, Employee Relations (2005), vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 118-120.
  
  

• Richards, J. ‘The end of mystery? Positioning organizational misbehaviour in a multi-disciplinary framework’, presented at the Work, Employment and Society Conference, Manchester Conference Centre, UMIST, 1-3 September 2004.

• Richards, J. ‘Developing the concept of organizational misbehaviour’, presented at the 22nd International Labour Process Conference, at Universiteit van Amsterdam, 5-7 April 2004.