Janet Walsh

Janet Walsh is Professor of Human Resource Management. She has a BA (Hons) from the University of Leeds and an MSc and PhD from the University of Warwick. She has held academic appointments at the Universities of Cambridge, Leeds, Melbourne and Royal Holloway. She was Vice-Dean Staffing at King’s Business School from 2017-19.

Janet's principal research activities relate to the changing nature of work and careers, and the consequences for employee well-being. She has undertaken research on female lawyers’ attitudes to their careers and work-life balance in professional law firms. This work was sponsored by the Association of Women Solicitors. Her research has also examined the use and consequences of flexible work practices, including part-time and compressed hours arrangements; gender, the work-life interface and well-being; employees’ experiences of interactive service work; presenteeism and absenteeism and the costs of organisational citizenship behaviour.

She is currently working on research on organisational responses to the UK Gender Pay Gap Regulations in collaboration with Mercer Consulting. She is also undertaking a longitudinal study of business school students’ attitudes towards their careers and internship experiences and the impact on employability.

She has published in leading journals including Human Resource Management (US), the Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Applied Psychology, Work, Employment & Society, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Gender, Work & Organization and the British Journal of Industrial Relations.

Publications

• Working Time and Work-Life Balance 01 January 2019
• Can Dirty Work be Satisfying? A Mixed Method Study of Workers Doing Dirty Jobs 01 August 2019
• The Costs of Exhibiting Organizational Citizenship Behavior 01 November 2017
• Exploring the relationship between compressed work hours satisfaction and absenteeism in front-line service work 01 January 2017
• A moderated mediation analysis of job demands, presenteeism, and absenteeism 01 June 2014
• Why do off-shored Indian call centre workers want to leave their jobs? 01 November 2013
• Gender, the Work-Life Interface and Wellbeing: A Study of Hospital Doctors 01 July 2013
• Not Worth the Sacrifice? Women's Aspirations and Career Progression in Law Firms 01 September 2012
• Workplace aggression: the effects of harassment on job burnout and turnover intentions 01 December 2011
• Coping Strategies in Call Centres: Work Intensity and the Role of Co-workers and Supervisors 01 March 2010