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Professor of Human Resource Management

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
Strand Campus
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
8 Feb 2021

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Based in the heart of London, King's Business School is one of nine faculties integrated within a world-leading institution. The Business School benefits from collaborations across disciplines, working in partnership to find new approaches to business in a rapidly changing world.

The School seeks to recruit a Professor of Human Resource Management (HRM) to join the Human Resource Management & Employment Relations Group, where multi-disciplinary research spans the fields of human resource management, organizational behaviour and employment relations. The successful candidate will be a distinguished scholar with an international profile in the field of human resource management.

The successful candidate will be expected to strengthen the Business School's research capacity and will require a publication list that includes peer reviewed articles published in world-leading, relevant journals. The post holder must have a proven ability to initiate and lead research projects, together with a commitment to launching new ones. The Group hosts a highly successful MSc in HRM and Organisational Analysis, as well as more broadly teaching on a wide range of core and optional modules and the incoming Professor will have scope to shape the future offering.

The post holder will be joining a vibrant and ambitious Business School, where there are additional opportunities to take a major leadership role and enhance the profile of the Group with external stakeholders. An appetite to develop the activities of the Group; notably in building collaborative global networks, supporting the delivery of high performing programmes, promoting interdisciplinarity and research excellence, and ensuring student satisfaction, are highly desirable.

For further information about the role please visit  https://jobs.kcl.ac.uk/gb/en/professor-hrm and to apply for this role, please go to the King's College London Job Opportunities page and submit the specified documentation. Informal enquiries may be made to the King's Search Team; please contact Robyn Eade or Sarah Fraser at kings-search@kcl.ac.uk.

The deadline for applications is Monday 8th February 2021. The selection process will include a presentation and panel interview.

The selection process will include a presentation and panel interview.

King's is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and through this appointment it is our aim to develop candidate pools that include applicants from all backgrounds and communities. We particularly encourage applications from women, people from black and minority ethnic communities, the LGBT+ community and from disabled people.

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King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.

King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.

King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.

King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.

King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.

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