Rosalind SearleUniversity of Glasgow | UofG · Adam Smith Business School
Rosalind Searle
PhD, MBA, BSc. (Hons. 1st) and diploma in occupational psychology
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Publications (51)
This report presents findings of CREST-funded research into organisational change and insider threat. It outlines the individual, social and organisational factors that over time, can contribute to negative employee perceptions and experiences.
These factors can produce a reduction in an employee’s psychological attachment to, and trust in, their...
This toolkit is one of a series of CREST resources for managing organisational change to mitigate the development of Counterproductive Workplace Behaviour. It is available to download in an interactive version and a print version (https://crestresearch.ac.uk/cwb/).
It contains five sections and is designed to be used in conjunction with the Manage...
The guide is one of a series of CREST resources for managing organisational change to mitigate the development of Counterproductive Workplace Behaviour. There are two versions of it available to download – an interactive version and a print version (https://crestresearch.ac.uk/resources/cwb-managers-guide/).
It contains key concepts, practical res...
This study examined how organizational control is related to employees’ organizational trust. We specifically focus on how different forms of control (process, outcome, and normative) relate to employees’ trust in their employing organizations and examine whether such trust in turn relates positively to employee job performance (task performance an...
Work identity is important in the attraction and retention of staff, yet how the facets of such identity relate remains convoluted and unclear despite this being of interest to both scholars and practitioners. We use structural equation modelling to analyse Empirical data from 144 employees in the UK’s Oil and Gas industry, analysing the nature and...
This is a state of the art collection on the topic of trust with worldleading authors reviewing the field and identifying future research agendas
Purpose- Using the concept of disconfirming communication to define interpersonal mistreatment, this study explores the impact of specific negative managerial communication behaviors on employee emotions, while taking into account both leader-member exchange (LMX) and employee trait negative affect (trait NA).
Design/methodology/approach- 275 worki...
Despite the considerable reduction in rates of fire that have been seen in the UK in recent years analysis of three years of service data from a large UK fire service reveals that there continue to be striking inequalities in the way in which fire is distributed through society. The use of principal component analysis (PCA) and ordinary least squar...
The public's perception of the social work profession is a rarely considered perspective and yet a topic that is a concern
to front line professionals. This paper explores how social workers experience and attempt to cope with public perception of their profession. It highlights the impact of these
concerns on social workers' personal experiences a...
Purpose
– Interpersonal trust is often considered as the “glue” that binds supervisors together with their subordinates, and creates a positive organisational climate. The purpose of this paper is to investigate factors affecting subordinates’ trust to their supervisor, and the consequences of such a trusting relationship.
Design/methodology/appro...
Do organizational controls facilitate or hinder employees’ trust in their organization? We addressed this question through a mixed-methods design using three studies. Based on a literature review and an open-response survey study (Study 1), we developed a theoretical model proposing that organizational control is positively related to employees’ tr...
A Chinese proverb contends that ‘fish rot from the head’, implying that those at the top of organisations have a disproportionately high impact on it. In the wake of a series of hospital scandals, issues of governance and the capability and actions (or failure to act) of those at the top of the NHS have highlighted the role those in board level pos...
Top Management Teams (TMT) play a crucial role in the success of an organisation, therefore it is vital to understand how their activities impact on performance of organisations. This paper presents the findings of a systematic literature review of 74 articles from 2000 to 2012 on the consequences of TMT diversity on organisations. The findings of...
Purpose
– Trust in financial institutions has been eroded through the collapse of mortgage-related securities, with confidence further denuded through well publicized cases of rogue traders and rate fixing cases, such as with the Lehman brothers, the Libor rate-fixing scandals, and the hypo real estate breakdown. In response to these events, govern...
Over the last 20 years, HRM has been identified as one of the most influential organisational contexts in which to explore trust, and yet scholars have been slow to look systematically at both the systems and practices that underlie this assertion. Organisations make choices regarding both the design and implementation of HRM policies and practices...
In response to endemic recruitment and retention problems within social work, the West London Social Work Alliance devised an ambitious initiative across eight local authorities creating a career pathway for child and family social workers through to front line team manager level. We examine the impact and effectiveness of two programmes and reveal...
Despite the central role of trust in the organizational sciences, we know little about what makes people trust the organizations they work for. This paper examines the antecedents of employees' trust in their organizations drawing on survey data from over 600 European professional workers and managers. The results revealed direct as well as indirec...
Introduction Human Dynamics within Lean Teams Enablers of Lean Teams Towards More Lean Team Cultures Future Research Directions and Reflections References
Despite the central role of trust in the organizational sciences, we know little about what makes people trust the organizations they work for. This paper examines the antecedents of employees' trust in their organizations drawing on survey data from over 600 European professional workers and managers. The results revealed direct as well as indirec...
'The issue of trust in organizations is an extremely important one, given the global economic situation. This edited collection is outstanding, comprised of the leading academics in the field and highlighting the challenges for HR over the coming decade. A must read for those in HRM, if we are to build trust in organizations in the future.' © Rosal...
Trust has long been considered a crucial determinant of people’s experiences of work and the employment relationship (see, for example, Fox, 1974). Yet a commonplace argument holds that the increasing demands placed upon contemporary organizations (globalized market competition, de-regulation, and re-regulation), as well as trends in workforce comp...
The aim of this paper is to explore whether the organizational control system is positively or negatively related to employees' and managers' trust in the organization. To this end we conduct two studies. In our first survey study among 600 managers and professional employees from several European countries we find organizational control to be stro...
This paper explains how ideas underlying the concept of fit might be used conceptually as a selection paradigm thereby providing an alternative to the dominant psychometric paradigm. This paper describes and critiques the extant selection paradigms before setting out an alternative one based on the concept of fit. Amongst other things, the fit sele...
Purpose
To outline changes in selection attraction, search and assessment processes and examine and compare, using a surveillance perspective, the privacy and equity issues for applicants, organisations and testers.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper begins by reviewing briefly the role of surveillance and identifying the key issues of privacy,...
This paper explores the role of trust in coordinating teams operating at the interface between multiple functions and organisations in strategic alliances. To understand the issues faced by these teams, we study cognitive & relational factors between partners and focus on the process of trust evolution and risk management in the complex interface b...
Diversity has become an important issue at all levels of the company from the boardroom to the back office. It is increasingly apparent that diversity is vital to productivity, with academic research indicating an important link between diverse top management team (TMT) composition and corporate performance. However, the nature of this link remains...
This paper explores the development and maintenance of trust and distrust in an organization undergoing a merger. Using a longitudinal study we examined the sense-making of retained staff by comparing two sets of in-depth interviews with six survivors and detailed field notes. Four central themes were identified revealing differences between trust...
This paper focuses on the relationship between the importance of innovation for organizations and their human resources policy. Drawing on survey findings, we examine the coherence of organizations’ utilization of HR recruitment, training and performance management policies to support and enhance firms’ innovation performance. Through a social–psyc...
The recruitment situation has high stakes both for the potential new employer and candidates. This article highlights the technology-led transformation occurring in organization’s recruitment processes and argues that more attention is needed to assess how far these systems actually widen the applicant pool, or whether they mask the replication of...
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Projects (5)
SUITS takes a sociotechnical approach to capacity building in Local Authorities and transport stakeholder
organisations with special emphasis on the transfer of learning to smaller sized cities, making them more effective and
resilient to change in the judicious implementation of sustainable transport measures. Key outputs will be a validated
capacity building program for transport departments, and resource light learning assets (modules, e-learning material,
webinars and workshops), decision support tools to assist in procurement, innovative financing, engagement of new
business partners and handling of open, real time and legacy data. SUITS argues that without capacity building and
the transformation of transport departments into learning organisations, training materials will not provide the step
change needed to provide innovative transport measures.
