A special issue: human resources and workplace innovations: practices, perspectives and paradigms – a tribute and dedication to Professor Tom Redman
| Date | 16 October 2017 |
| Pages | 1214-1215 |
| Published date | 16 October 2017 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-10-2017-0297 |
| Author | Greg J. Bamber,Timothy Bartram,Pauline Stanton |
| Subject Matter | HR & organizational behaviour,Global HRM |
INTRODUCTION
Guest editorial
A special issue: human resources and workplace innovations: practices,
perspectives and paradigms –a tribute and dedication to Professor Tom Redman
Tom Redman
This special issueis dedicated to the late ProfessorTom Redman (63), who died unexpectedly
on 18 December 2015. He was the Editor of Personnel Review during 1995-2006, when he led
significant improvements to the journal’sq uality and reputation. Tom’s work was innovative
in many ways. We thinkthat he would have appreciated thisspecial issue of Personnel Review
and are very sorry that he is no longer with us in person to discuss it.
Tom was a Professor of Human Resource Management (HRM) at the Durham University;
he spent the early part of his academic career at the Teesside University. He was a very kind
and warm person who will be greatly missed. He was well known in the UK and
internationally not only as an outstanding scholar, but also as a good and modest man.
Although based in the UK for his whole academic career, Tom’s work was international in
scope and he was a frequent visitor to other European countries, as well as to Asia,
Australia, New Zealand and North America. He spent periods as a visitor, for example, in
Hong Kong and Australian universities, where he was well liked and respected, not least for
the time he generously devoted to helping students and junior colleagues.
His research, teaching and service was informed by his earlier experience as a
practitioner. Tom had spent a decade working in industry in quality, production and HRM
positions (mainly with Royal Worcester Porcelain) before he re-entered academic life.
His research interests included industrial relations, union commitment and participation,
employee commitment, age discrimination, and HRM. Most recently he was working on
several projects on employee attitudes and service quality. That Tom’s passing was
premature is illustrated by the fact that he left a significant body of work in progress and
an active research programme. At least some of this work will still be published with
co-authors, but the published work will be poorer for Tom’s absence.
Tom’s research was published in many leading journals including Journal of Applied
Psychology,Journal of Vocational Behavior, British Journal of Management, Journal of
Personnel Review
Vol. 46 No. 7, 2017
pp. 1214-1215
Emerald Publishing Limited
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DOI 10.1108/PR-10-2017-0297
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