Chris MCLACHLAN

Background

PhD, Work & Employment Relations Division, Leeds University Business School

MSc (Research) Business & Management, Leeds University Business School

BA (Hons) HRM (Industry), Leeds University Business School 

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Leeds University Business School (2013-16)

Senior Lecturer Human Resources, University of Hertfordshire (2016-18)

Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change, University of Leeds (2018-20)

Current activities

My research interests are around the consequences of deindustrialization and restructuring for affected workers and communities, along with the associated industrial relations processes. This has led to an empirical focus on responsible approaches to restructuring in the UK steel industry, examining the different forms of institutional support aimed at ameliorating the negative effects for workers. This research generated insights into the experiences of displaced workers, the role of trade unions in restructuring processes and management strategies.

Publications

• Articles in journals
• Books

Articles In Journals

• McLachlan CJ, MacKenzie R & Greenwood I. (2020) Victims, survivors and the emergence of ‘endurers’ as a reflection of shifting goals in the management of redeployment, Human Resource Management Journal, Available online 10 August 2020.
• McLachlan C (2020) Book Review: Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick and Richard Hyman, Trade Unions in Western Europe: Hard Times, Hard Choices, Work, Employment and Society, Available online 21 May 2020 (6).
• McLachlan CJ (2020) Book Review: Tim Strangleman, Voices of Guinness, Sociology, 54 (4) 860-862.
• McLachlan CJ, MacKenzie R & Greenwood I (2019) The Role of the Steelworker Occupational Community in the Internalization of Industrial Restructuring: The ‘Layering Up’ of Collective Proximal and Distal Experiences, Sociology, 53 (5) 916-930.
• McLachlan CJ & Garcia RJ (2015) Philosophy in practice? Doctoral struggles with ontology and subjectivity in qualitative interviewing, Management Learning, 46 (2) 195-210.

Books

• Smith P, Yellowly W & McLachlan CJ (2020) Organizational Behaviour: Managing People in Dynamic Organizations. London: Taylor & Francis.