Dr. Glenville Jenkins BSc, MSc (Econ), PhD, Chartered Fellow CIPD

Dr Glenville Jenkins is a Principal Lecturer in Management at Swansea Business School. He started his career in management in the National Health Service and progressed to an academic career first in the Department of Management and Industrial Relations at University College, Cardiff and then at Cardiff Business School. He has over 25 years experience as a teacher and researcher in higher education.

He has played an active part in the development of Swansea Business School being the first Course Director of two master programmes in the school: the MBA and the MA HRM; and has also managed both undergraduate and professional programmes together with supervision of research dissertations. He has formerly headed Swansea Business School and been a member of Academic Board at Swansea Metropolitan University. He is presently Head of the Centre for Professional Studies.

As a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, he has been an active participant in the profession for many years firstly as a branch member and then as an examiner and external moderator. He has been a member of the British Academy of Management since its inception and is also a member of the British Universities Industrial Relations Association.

Dr Jenkins has two research degrees. The first, focused on management and industrial relations and inquired into the management information disclosure practices within organisational and industrial relations contexts and the second, focused on the rise of Human Resource Management in the 1990s.

His research interests are broad ranging but centre on the employment relationship in particular, racial discrimination in employment; employee participation; management of information in organisations and managerial attitudes to human resource management.

As well as organising two academic conferences himself, he has attended and presented academic papers at major academic conferences in the UK and abroad including the Annual Conference of the British Academy of Management, Annual Conference of the British Universities Industrial Relations Association, Annual Employment Research Unit Conference at, Cardiff Business School and the World Congress of the International Industrial Relations Association. He has also presented papers to the Economic Development Committee of the Welsh Assembly and to other non-academic conferences such as QUIP.

He has undertaken funded research projects on behalf of the Department of Employment, the Department of Trade and Industry and the Institute of Management. These include a regional household survey of ethnic minority unemployment, discrimination and non-registration; and a national survey of the impact of profit sharing and share ownership schemes on organisational performance and industrial relations; a national evaluation of the processes involved in the introduction of Value Added Data Services (VADS) concentrating on organisational and personnel issues relating to their introduction and a national survey of general management`s attitudes to human resource management in the UK.

The dissemination of research has resulted in international recognition in the fields of human resource management and industrial relations with publications in edited books such as the International Handbook of Participation in Organizations: For the Study of Organizational Democracy, Co-operation, and Self-Management edited by William M. Lafferty and Eliezer Rosenstein. Publications in non-academic journals such as Personnel Management and Management Research News together with publications in a wide range of major national and international academic journals including Journal of General Management, Public Administration, Personnel Review Select, Employee Relations, Industrial Relations Journal, The British Journal of Industrial Relations and International Journal of Human Resource Management and International Journal of Information Resource Management. He is author of (with Michael Poole) The Impact of Industrial Democracy (1990); New Forms of Ownership (1990) and Back to the Line? (1996). In 1998 the Literati Club presented him with an Award for Excellence for the most outstanding academic paper.

As well as writing he is also a referee for a number of journals and publishing companies including: International Journal of Human Resource Management, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Employee Relations, Personnel Review, Routledge and CIPD.