Professor Phil Almond

Phil Almond is Professor of Comparative Employment Relations and coordinator of the Contemporary Research on Work, Organisations and Employment (CROWE) Group.

His research focuses on: 
- Multinational companies and employment relations 
- Local and regional strategies for attracting and retaining FDI 
- Comparative HRM and comparative capitalisms 
- How actors within and around international firms seek to gain the capacity to develop and work in international environments

Teaching

International HRM; undergraduate dissertation module; supervision of student dissertations at undergraduate, MA/MBA/MSc and PhD levels.

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Almond, P. and Ferner, A. (2006) American multinationals in Europe: Managing employment relations across national borders.  Oxford University Press. 

Employment practice in multinational companies
Comparative HRM and employment relations
Regional economic and employment policy
Societal institutionalism

International HRM; dissertation preparation. 

BSc. (Aston), MA (Warwick) PhD (Manchester)

Module leader for HRM dissertation module

International HRM module on MSc/MA/MBA

Member of ESRC Peer Review College.

British Universities Industrial Relations Association, member, convenor of Comparative IR Study Group.

Regional Studies Association, member.

Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, member.

Almond, P. And Gonzalez, M. (2011) “The ideational underpinnings of comparative employment relations: a critical review”, Industrial Relations in Europe Conference, Barcelona, September.

Almond, P. (2011) ‘Multinational Corporations, Sub-national Governance and Human Resources’  colloquium The Strategies of Multinational Corporations and Social Regulation : European and Asian Perspectives, Hong Kong Baptist University, June 2011.

Almond, P. (2011) ‘Sub-national embeddedness amidst institutional instability? The case of England’, International Conference on MNCs, Global Value Chains and Social Regulation, Montreal, June.

Gonzalez, M. and Almond, P. (2011) ‘Sub-national governance and foreign direct investment in Spain: the case of Asturias’, International Conference on MNCs, Global Value Chains and Social Regulation, Montreal, June.

Almond, P. and Gonzalez, M. (2011) ‘The embeddedness of multinationals in regional economies: Spain and England compared’, Society for the Advanced of Socio-Economics, Madrid, June.

Almond, P. (2010) “Economic Development Policies and MNCs: Early Findings from Studies of Regions in Four Countries”, Irish Academy of Management, Cork, September.

Almond, P. And Gonzalez, M. (2010) “Cross-national comparisons of sub-national economic governance”, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), Philadelphia, June.

Almond, P. (2010) “Regional development and MNCs: England in comparative perspective”, CIRA-CRIMT, Quebec, June.

Almond P. (2009) “Adapting societal institutionalism for diverse spatial scales: the case of multinational corporations and sub-national space”, Paper prepared for the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), July, Paris.

Almond, P. (2008) “Globalisation, sub-national business systems and multinational corporations: challenges for institutionalist IHRM”, Paper prepared for the “Industrial Relations in Europe” Conference, Greenwich, 23rd-25th June 2008.

1^st supervisions

1. Rochelle HAYNES
2. Wessam KHEDR
3. Alexey SAVRASOV
4. Bill WELLS

2^nd supervision

Suttimon Srichot 

Member of ESRC Peer Review College, 2010-2014
Examiner of ESRC Studentship Competition, 2009
Appointed expert for Spanish Agencia Nacional de Evaluation y Prospectiva (ANEP) to assess funding applications.
Project proposals reviewer for Agence National de Recherche (France)

Journal refereeing:

British Journal of Industrial Relations
Human Relations
Human Resource Management Journal
Industrial Relations
Industrial Relations Journal
Irish Journal of Management
Relations Industrielles

Feedback event for practitioners, policy-makers and academics for ESRC funded project on Multinationals and Regions (PI Phil Almond, DMU) 19^th December 2011.