Dr Sazid Ahmad

Dr Sazid Ahmad is an LSE Fellow in the Employment Relations and Human Resource Management Research Group at the Department of Management. He is also responsible for class teaching and mentoring students in the MSc in Human Resource Management and Organisations (HRO) programme.

His research is focused on advancing labour standards. His primary research interest revolves around working conditions in global supply chains (GSC). He is particularly interested in worker voice as a solution to improving these conditions, the central subject of his research projects. He also studies how to improve the dignity and justice with which workers are treated in export factories.

A mixed-method and interdisciplinary scholar, Sazid is skilled in both quantitative and qualitative methods. His research interests also include Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), collective voice/worker mobilization, precarity, and organizational justice.

Sazid’s work (with Chunyun Li and Sarah Ashwin) on supervisor interpersonal justice and worker turnover intention has been published in ILR Review. He has also presented papers as the lead author on GSC issues at three conferences of the Labour and Employment Relations Association (LERA) and served as the session chair at one conference of LERA. He also holds an Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.

Expertise

Labour standards in global supply chains; Worker voice; Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR); Organizational justice; Mixed methods

Present Teaching Responsibilities – HRO Programme

Class Teacher

· MG480 - Foundations of Human Resource Management

· MG4PA - People Analytics and Technology

The responsibilities also include supervising dissertations and mentoring students.

Past Teaching Experience

Graduate Teaching Assistant

· MG210- CSR and International Labour Standards (2023, 2024)

· MY451/464-Introduction to Quantitative Analysis (2022-3, 2023-4)