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This workshop will introduce participants to a range of diverse perspectives from which voice and silence in organisations can be understood whilst acting as the inaugural event for the voice and silence community (VSC). An understanding of what encourages employees to voice is a fundamental concern for the HR professional and operational manager, yet preoccupations remain over how organisations can create conditions conducive to voice. Voice and silence scholars have traditionally focused on the role of the individual and the manager as main influences over voice and silence, yet contextual factors, as well as different types of voice have been shown to be highly influential. In the morning, the workshop will explore a number of contextual influences such as economic austerity, the presence of trade unions, the formality of voice mechanisms, and managerial processes. In the afternoon we will focus on one particular and topical form of voice, whistleblowing. To finalise the day, a workshop activity will discuss next steps for the voice and silence community, including subsequent events and collaborative opportunities.
Wednesday 6th March 9.30am - 4.30pm
This workshop will be of interest to scholars in the field of voice and silence as well as practitioners interested in how to harness the power of employees’ voices
Benefits of Attendance
• Increased awareness of diverse influences over voice and silence
• Networking opportunity
• Discussion around collaborations and subsequent events
Sheffield University Management School
Middleton Lecture Theatre
Conduit Road
Sheffield
S10 1FL
BAM Organisational Psychology SIG
Professor Jimmy Donaghey
Professor John Blenkinsopp
Professor Kate Kenny
Dr Rea Prouska
Dr Stewart Johnstone
Dr Sarah Brooks
For more information about this event, please contact Sarah Brooks: s.brooks@sheffield.ac.uk
For general enquires, please contact Linh Dang at the BAM Office at eventsofficer@bam.ac.uk, or on 02073837770
Students £15
BAM members £20
Non-BAM members £35
Registration Deadline: 5th March 2019
Professor Frank Burchill OBE
In very sad news for the industrial relations community, Professor Frank Burchill passed away on Saturday, 18 July 2020, after a short illness.
Frank was highly respected by his colleagues in the academic, practitioner and wider industrial relation community.
In 1989, after 22 years with the Department of Adult Education, Frank was appointed Keele’s first Professor of Industrial Relations and established a Department of HRM and Industrial Relations and ultimately a full-time undergraduate programme, full-time Masters’ degrees and a Doctorate programme. Many people from the industrial relations community benefited and, indeed, had their lives changed, by being educated and enlightened as students in Frank’s Department. The Department provided a proper robust social science education, in the best sense of the meaning.
In 1999, Frank stepped down from the Headship of the Department because he had been appointed by the Secretary of State at the Home Department – then Jack Straw – to conduct an inquiry into industrial relations procedures in the then UK Fire and Emergency Service.
Frank also conducted extensive practical industrial relations work as a Deputy Chairman of the UK Central Arbitration Committee, and with Acas.
In 2009 he went to Tasmania, where his wife Alice had been appointed to work for the Tasmanian Department of Health and Human Services, later becoming CEO.
Frank returned to the UK in 2012, and continued to teach at various universities and to do Acas work. In 2009 he was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for Services to Acas.
Sincere condolences to Alice and the family from BUIRA.
21st July 2020