Dr Rachel Cook

Lecturer in HRM and Organisational Behaviour, Business

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Office 329 - 329
Third Floor
School of Management
Bay Campus

Available For Postgraduate Supervision

About

Rachel is part of the People and Organisation Group within the School of Management. Her main areas of interest are employment relations and human resource management. She obtained her PhD from Cardiff University, which focused on workplace wellbeing as a lens to investigate employment relations. She has a personal and professional interest in trade unions. She is an Associate Member of the CIPD.

Areas Of Expertise

Employment relations
Workplace wellbeing
Human resource management
Qualitative research

Career Highlights

Teaching Interests

Employment relations
Human resource management
Strategic HRM
Organisational behaviour

Research

Supervision

Untitled (current)

PhD

Other supervisor: Dr Jocelyn Finniear

Taught Modules

MN-1520 The Global Context of Organisation

This module introduces students to key issues within the global context for organisation. Developing an understanding of how organisation is shaped by global contexts and how organisation shapes global contexts enables students to better understand external forces upon organisations and organising.
MN-M012 Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management (HRM) has become the dominant concept in the field of employment relations in recent times. This course critically evaluates the claim that the firm can achieve a sustained competitive advantage through its human resource with the implementation of HRM. It introduces the key functions of HRM and looks at the implications of HRM of companies operating within diverse contexts.
MN-M062 Human Resource Management: Strategy and Practice

The purpose of this module is to critically assess the extent to which employers are strategically integrating a range of HR practices to compliment business/strategy with a view of developing workers as a source of competitive advantage. We critically explore the ways in which human resource management is influenced and shaped by factors both internal and external to the employing organisation. Learners explore and evaluate the ways in which key HR issues ¿ such as recruitment and selection, skill development, performance management, and employee involvement and participation ¿ are practised strategically in employing organisations. We also debate the links between competitive advantage, the development of employees as ¿resourceful humans¿, and the contribution of human resource management to performance. Drawing on contemporary academic research and organisational practice, both in the UK and in other countries to explore this contribution.
MN-M598 Employment Relations and Wellbeing

The purpose of this module is to introduce key aspects of and current developments in the employment relationship. During the module we will discuss issues of perennial importance such as the wage-effort bargain, the indeterminacy of labour power and conflict in the workplace. We will consider the impact of managerial strategies designed to increase worker motivation and how these serve to individualise the workplace and generate dysfunctional outcomes. We will consider HRM as system of people management from this perspective and how it complements or contradicts more traditional systems of people management and its impact on indirect (e.g., trade union) representation. We will also critically evaluate current developments in employee relations in the UK, with a particular focus on employee wellbeing.

Dr Rachel Cook

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Areas Of Expertise

Career Highlights

Supervision

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Taught Modules

MN-1520 The Global Context of Organisation

MN-M012 Human Resource Management

MN-M062 Human Resource Management: Strategy and Practice

MN-M598 Employment Relations and Wellbeing