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Professor Christopher John Baldry
BSc. (Soc.Sci.), MSc., PhD.

Member of the Contemporary Workplaces Research Group

Director of Research, Department of Management

Editor of New Technology Work and Employment

Teaching

International HRM, Introduction to HRM, Work and Employment, Organisational Behaviour.

Research

Chris Baldry’s recent research interests have focused on the changing world of work and employment, including the area of work-life balance. He continues to be interested in the role of the built working environment, and office buildings in particular, on the way that work is experienced.  His work on occupational health and safety has led to publications looking at ill-health in offices and call centres, and safety trends for trackside rail workers. On the basis of his work in the latter area, he was called as an expert witness to the Cullen Inquiry on the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster.

His other long-standing interest, in the interface between technological change and work organisation, is reflected in his editorship of the journal New Technology, Work and Employment.

Publications

Baldry C. (2008, forthcoming) ‘Plastic palm trees and blue pumpkins: synthetic fun and real control in contemporary work space’, in: McGrath-Champ S., Herod A. and Rainnie A. (eds.) (2008) Handbook of Employment and Society: Working Space.

Baldry C, Bain P, Taylor P, Hyman J, Scholarios D, Marks A, Watson A, Gilbert K, Gall G and Bunzell D (2007), The Meaning of Work in the New Economy, Basingstoke, Palgrave; 278 pp.

Baldry C (2006), ‘Off the rails: factors affecting track worker safety in the rail industry’, Employee Relations 28 (3); 255-272.

Baldry C, Taylor P and Bain P (2006) ‘ “Bear with me…” – the problems of health and well-being in call centre work’, in: Wood G and James P (eds.) (2006) Institutions, Production and Working Life, Oxford, OUP; 235-254.

Hyman J, Scholarios D and Baldry C (2005) ‘Getting on or getting by?: employee flexibility and coping strategies for home and work’, Work Employment and Society, 19 (4); 705-726.

For additional publications: Baldry Publications