Equality Diversity and Inclusion

Lead: Dr Huiping Xian

Co-lead: Dr Rachel English

ULSB’s Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) research group will support and promote scholarship across business and management disciplines in the areas of equality, diversity, and inclusion at organisational, societal and policy-making levels. 

Current group members include researchers undertaking projects around accounting, work and employment, organisation, marketing, and management, and using a variety of methodologies.

This group will contribute toward expanding the international knowledge around building fairer and more inclusive workplaces, businesses, and societies. We aim to inform wider debates on inclusivity, through engaging in national and international research and exploring intersectionality and differential experience of various minoritized or marginalized groups (in terms of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, and more) in different organisational settings and cultural and institutional contexts.

We particularly focus on the following research themes:

• Developing a diverse and inclusive workplace
• Managing cultural diversity in organisations, markets, and societies
• Supporting marginalised groups in both developed and developing economies
• Engaging diverse student groups and facilitating cross-cultural learning in business education

People

• Dr Huiping Xian
• Dr Dennis Pepple
• Dr Katharine Venter
• Dr Nora Musyoka
• Dr Rachel English
• Dr Lucy Ferdous
• Ololade George-Aremnu
• Muhammad Asad Tahir
• Amna Moeen

Selected publications

Journal articles

Dibben, P., Cunningham, Bakalov, N. and Xian, H.P. (2023) "Conceptualising employee voice in the majority world: Using multiple intellectual traditions inspired by the work of Mick Marchington", Human Resource Management Journal, 33(3) pp. 564-577

Galalae, C., Kipnis, E., Cui, C.C., Johnson, E., Licsandru, T.C., Vorster, L. et al. (2022). A multi-contextual lens on racism and discrimination in the multicultural marketplace, Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, Special Issue on Race and Discrimination in the Marketplace, 95-106.

Kipnis, E., Demangeot, C., Pullig, C., Cross, S.N.N., Cui, C.C., Galalae, C. et al. (2021). Institutionalizing Diversity and Inclusion Engaged Marketing (DIEM) for Multicultural Marketplace Wellbeing. Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, 40(2), pp. 143-164.

Pepple, D.G. and Ambilichu, C.A., (2023). Performance appraisal and employee commitment: The mediating role of job satisfaction. European Management Review. Online first  

Oseghale, R.O., Pepple, D., Ifere, S.E. and Amaugo, A.N., (2023). Organization culture types and the replication of transferred human resource management practices in multinational subsidiaries in Nigeria. Employee Relations: The International Journal, 45(3), pp. 565-584.

Pepple, D., Makama, C. and Okeke, J.P., 2022. Knowledge management practices: A public sector perspective. Journal of Business Research, 153, pp.509-516.

Pepple D. G., Akinsowon, P, and Oyelere M (2021) Employee Commitment and Turnover Intention: Perspectives from Nigeria. Public Organization Review, doi.org/10.1007/s11115-021-00577-7

Xian, H.P. Atkinson, C. and Meng-Lewis, Y. (2022) "How work-life conflict affects employee outcomes of Chinese only-children academics: the moderating roles of gender and family structure", Personnel Review, Vol. 51 No. 2, pp. 731-749

Xian, H.P., Jiang, N. and McAdam, M. (2021) "Negotiating the Female Successor-Leader Role within Family Business Succession in China", International Small Business Journal. Vol. 39, No. 2, pp.157-183 

Venter, K. (2022). Betwixt and Between: The Invisible Experiences of Volunteers’ Body Work. Work, Employment and Society, 36(5), pp. 911-927.

Book chapters

Galalae, C., Licsandru, T. (2023, in press). "A post-socialist reading of displaced images from the Global South: the case of Roma, Eastern Europe’s oriental Other", Postcolonial Marketing Communication: Images from the Global South, edited by Arindam Das, Himadri Roy Chaudhuri and Ozlem Sandikci Turkdogan, Springer Nature.

Pepple, D.G., Davies, E. and Davies, J., (2023). “Bureaucracy and Personality: Does Employee Ethnicity Matter?”. In Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance (pp. 1110-1118). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Xian, H.P. and Jiang, N. (forthcoming), "Daughters’ succession of Chinese family businesses: An examination of cultural and institutional influences", in A Research Agenda for Women in Family Business, edited by Barrett, M. Huybrechts, J. and Lee, J., Edward Elgar.

Xian, H.P. (2022) "Women and Work in China" (Chapter 4), in Working Women in Asia-Pacific: Challenges and Ways Forward, edited by Parker, J., Baird, M., Donnelly, N., and Cooper, R, Massey University Press.

Xian, H.P. and Jiang, N. (2021) "Women's Involvement in Chinese Family Businesses", (Chapter 18) in Women and Global Entrepreneurship: Contextualising Everyday Experiences, edited by McAdam, M. and Cunningham, J., London: Routledge.

Events

To facilitate research development, our proposed activities include regular research seminars presented by group members and invited speakers, research and networking events with other research groups, clusters and centres within the university and external bodies such as British Academy of Management, and research away days.