Job quality: the importance of occupational class
Discover the effect of occupational class on job quality
Discover the effect of occupational class on job quality
These authors examine the effect of job quality from the perspective of part-time workers, gender and class. Since the ‘Great Recession’ of 2008, they reveal a stark contrast in the quality of job roles within different occupational classes.
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Jonny’s work centres on conducting applied research in employment and people management, and strengthening links between academia and practice. His research interests include job quality or ‘good work’ and what works in driving employee performance and wellbeing. He leads the CIPD’s work on evidence-based HR and academic knowledge exchange.
Jonny has been conducting applied research in the field of employment and people management for about 20 years, with previous roles at Westminster Business School, the Institute for Employment Studies and Roffey Park Institute. He is an Academic Member of the CIPD, a Fellow of the Center for Evidence-Based Management (CEBMa), Associate Editor at the Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance (JOEPP), and a PhD candidate at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
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