Stephen Bach

Stephen Bach studied Economics at Leeds University and began his career in NHS management, before undertaking his MSc and PhD at the University of Warwick. He has held visiting positions at Cornell University and spent more than a decade at Warwick Business School before joining King’s in 2000. He has held a variety of roles at King’s and in 2017 was appointed the inaugural Dean of King’s Business School. He is leading on building a new kind of business school, from its location in Bush House, one focused on meeting the developing challenges faced by the private, public and third sectors and inspiring a new generation of business leaders. He has led several EU-funded research projects on the consequences of austerity and the role of service users in shaping human resource management practice.

Stephen has acted as an advisor to the International Labour Office, Migration Advisory Committee, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Scottish Office and the World Health Organisation. Stephen's research interests are concentrated on the interface between public and private sector human resource management practice, and especially comparative public service employment relations, the international migration of health professionals, the growth of interim management roles in public services.

Publications

• The Construction of Career Aspirations among Healthcare Support Workers: Beyond the Rational and the Mundane? 18 February 2019
• New Models of Care and Workforce Change in the NHS in England 20 February 2017
• A Tale of Two Cities: Employer and Trade Union Responses to Local Government Retrenchment in Britain 01 January 2017
• Dress codes and appearance at work: Body supplements, body modification and aesthetic labour 21 September 2016
• Britain: Contracting the state: Public service employment relations in a period of crisis 01 July 2016
• The transformation of public service employment relations?: Emerging from the crisis 01 July 2016
• Deprivileging the public sector workforce: Austerity, fragmentation and service withdrawal in Britain 01 March 2016
• Economic crisis and municipal public service employment: comparing developments in seven EU Member States 08 August 2014
• Restructuring UK local government employment relations: Pay determination and employee participation in tough times 08 August 2014
• Public service employment restructuring in the crisis in the UK and Ireland: Social partnership in retreat 01 December 2013