Labour-Management Studies Foundation
Professor Mick Marchington
Chartered Companion of the CIPDMick Marchington has been Professor of Human Resource Management at what is now Manchester Business School, University of Manchester since 1995, having joined the University in the late 1980s. Prior to that, he worked at the Universities of Aston and Central Lancashire. He moved into HRM after gaining a first class honours degree in Chemical Engineering and indeed much of his work has been in that sector. Whilst being at Manchester he has also been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Sydney, Auckland and Paris. During his employment at Manchester, he has occupied a wide range of managerial roles, including Dean of Management Studies and Divisional Research Co-ordinator. He is currently the 40th Anniversary Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Employment Studies.
He has published widely on HRM, including about twenty books and monographs and nearly 150 book chapters and papers in refereed journals. He is best known for his work on employee involvement and participation, on the links between HRM, strategy and performance, and for more recent research examining how HRM is in danger of becoming fragmented as organisations move towards greater use of contracting and partnership arrangements. He is especially interested in how the HR function can work more effectively with line managers to ensure that intended HR policies are put into effect.
He is also Editor of the Human Resource Management Journal, one of the leading journals in the area, and he has been joint chair of the HRM Study Group of the International Industrial Relations Association since 2003. He has been active in the CIPD since the late 1980s, as Chief Examiner until 2002 and as Chief Moderator, Standards up to 2008. He is a Chartered Companion of the CIPD, the highest grade of membership available.