The London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Management
Monday 26 - Tuesday 27 June 2023
Centre Building, Ground Floor LSE Lecture Theatre (CBG.G.01)
LSE and the British Journal of Industrial Relations are hosting a two day conference and special issue which seeks to honour and take forward David's work, building on the themes which David spent his life exploring.
Employment relations scholars were shocked and saddened to learn of David Marsden’s death on 10 August 2021. In his long and distinguished career, David shaped and contributed to debates across the employment relations field from youth employment, through performance management and pay, to comparative institutional analysis.
David’s first refereed article (1980) was an analysis of shop stewards in West Germany, France and the UK, and his fascination with cross-national variation in formal and informal institutions persisted throughout his career. He was ahead of the curve in his focus on the sources and effects of pay inequality in Europe (1981).
David’s magisterial book A Theory of the Employment Systems: Micro-Foundations of Societal Diversity (1999, Oxford University Press), developed a novel theory of how institutions shaped work organisation and employment relations within firms. Yet this was not David’s final comparative contribution, with further cross-national analyses focusing on issues such as individual voice (2013) and performance management (2019). David was also interested in a wide range of policy issues from training, to pay determination and collective bargaining, to, most recently, employee wellbeing (2021).
Join us on this two day conference in which former colleagues, students and IR scholars will present papers, followed by discussions on a range of topics including Theories of Employment Relations, Voice and Wellbeing and Wages, Payment Methods and Inequality.
Outline Programme
Conference organisers: Sarah Ashwin, Professor of Comparative Employment Relations, London School of Economics
Rafael Gomez, Professor of Employment Relations, University of Toronto
Patrice Laroche, Professor of HR Studies and Labor Relations, IAE Nancy School of Management
Monday 26 June, 09:00 - 17:30 (GMT)
Welcome Participants 09:00 - 09:30
Opening 09:30 - 09:45
Sarah Ashwin, Rafael Gomez, Patrice Laroche
Theories of the Employment Relations
Comparative Employment Relations
Lunch
The Transformation of Work, Gig Economy and Voice
Voice and Well-Being
There wil be a drinks reception at 17:45 followed by an optional dinner
Tuesday 27 June. 09:00 - 15:00 (GMT)
Welcome Participants 09:00 - 09:30
HRM Practices and Impacts
Wages, Payment Methods and Inequality
Lunch
CONCLUSION
“From The End of Economic Man to a New Theory of Employment Systems: David Marsden and the Search for a Better World of Work”
If you you would like to join the conference remotely please email Emma Ward (e.ward1@lse.ac.uk) for details.
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