Professor Keith Whitfield

Articles

• Yunus, S., Whitfield, K. and Sayed Mostafa, A. M. 2023. High‐performance HR practices, job demands and employee well‐being: the moderating role of managerial support. Stress and Health (10.1002/smi.3252)
• Whitfield, K., Pendleton, A., Sengupta, S. and Huxley, K. 2017. Employee share ownership and organisational performance: a tentative opening of the black box. Personnel Review 46(7), pp. 1280-1296. (10.1108/PR-09-2016-0243)
• Davies, R., McNabb, R. and Whitfield, K. 2015. Do high-performance work practices exacerbate or mitigate the gender pay gap?. Cambridge Journal of Economics 39(2), pp. 537-564. (10.1093/cje/bev009)
• Whitfield, K. L. 2012. Good jobs America: Making work better for everyone [Review]. British Journal of Industrial Relations 50(4), pp. 817-819. (10.1111/j.1467-8543.2012.00911_5.x)
• Daley, J., Matthews, K. G. P. and Whitfield, K. L. 2008. Too-big-to-fail: bank failure and banking policy in Jamaica. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money 18(3), pp. 290-303. (10.1016/j.intfin.2006.12.002)
• Bryson, A., Green, F. and Whitfield, K. L. 2008. A quarter century of workplace employment relations surveys. British Journal of Industrial Relations 46(4), pp. 577-586. (10.1111/j.1467-8543.2008.00697.x)
• Delbridge, R. and Whitfield, K. L. 2007. More than mere fragments? The use of the Workplace Employment Relations Survey data in HRM research. International Journal of Human Resource Management 18(12), pp. 2166-2181. (10.1080/09585190701695317)
• Sen Gupta, S., Whitfield, K. L. and McNabb, R. 2007. Employee Share Ownership and Performance: Golden Path or Golden Handcuffs?. International Journal of Human Resource Management 18(8), pp. 1507-1538. (10.1080/09585190701502620)
• McNabb, R. and Whitfield, K. L. 2007. The impact of varying types of performance-related pay and employee participation on earnings. International Journal of Human Resource Management 18(6), pp. 1004-1025. (10.1080/09585190701321542)
• Beynon, M. J. and Whitfield, K. L. 2006. A Fuzzy Decision Support System to Identify Establishments with Low Paid Employees in the British Economy. Fuzzy Economic Review 11(2), pp. 69-88.
• Whitfield, K. L. 2001. Saul A. Rubinstein and Thomas A. Kochan, Learning from Saturn: A look at the boldest experiment in corporate governance and employee relations [Book Review]. International Journal of Human Research Management 12(8), pp. 1384-1386. (10.1080/09585190110085099)
• Delbridge, R. and Whitfield, K. L. 2001. Employee perceptions of job influence and organizational participation Employee Perceptions. Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy & Society 40(3), pp. 472-489. (10.1111/0019-8676.00220)
• McNabb, R. and Whitfield, K. L. 2001. Job Evaluation and High Performance Work Practices: Compatible or Conflictual?. Journal of Management Studies 38(2), pp. 293 - 312. (10.1111/1467-6486.00237)
• McNabb, R. and Whitfield, K. L. 2000. The impact of financial participation and employee involvement on financial performance: A re-estimation using the 1998 WERS: A reply [Letter]. Scottish Journal of Political Economy 47(5), pp. 584-590. (10.1111/1467-9485.00180)
• Whitfield, K. L. and Strauss, G. 2000. Methods matter: Changes in industrial relations research and their implications. British Journal of Industrial Relations 38(1), pp. 141-151. (10.1111/1467-8543.00155)
• Whitfield, K. L. 2000. High performance workplaces, training and the distribution of skills. Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 39(1), pp. 1-25. (10.1111/0019-8676.00150)
• McNabb, R. and Whitfield, K. L. 1998. Testing for segmentation: an establishment-level analysis. Cambridge Journal of Economics 22(3), pp. 347-365.
• McNabb, R. and Whitfield, K. L. 1998. The impact of financial participation and employee involvement on financial performance. Scottish Journal of Political Economy 45(2), pp. 171-187. (10.1111/1467-9485.00088)
• McNabb, R. and Whitfield, K. L. 1997. Unions, flexibility, team working and financial performance. Organization Studies 18(5), pp. 821-838. (10.1177/017084069701800506)
• Whitfield, K. L. and Poole, M. J. F. 1997. Organizing employment for high performance: theories, evidence and policy. Organization Studies 18(5), pp. 745-764. (10.1177/017084069701800502)
• McNabb, R. and Whitfield, K. L. 1995. The business of training: microeconomic and macroeconomic considerations. International Journal of the Economics of Business 2(1), pp. 133-150. (10.1080/758521101)
• Whitfield, K. L., Marginson, P. and Brown, W. 1994. Workplace industrial relations under different regulatory systems: a survey-based comparison of Australia and Britain. British Journal of Industrial Relations 32(3), pp. 319-338. (10.1111/j.1467-8543.1994.tb01007.x)
• Whitfield, K. L. and Wilson, R. A. 1994. Staying on in full-time education: the educational participation rate of 16-year-olds. Economica 58(231), pp. 391-404.
• Whitfield, K. L. and Wilson, R. A. 1991. Forecasting the educational participation rate of 16-year olds in England and Wales: A socio-economic approach. International Journal of Forecasting 7(1), pp. 65-76. (10.1016/0169-2070(91)90034-S)
• Whitfield, K. L. and Bourlakis, C. 1991. An empirical analysis of YTS, employment and earnings. Journal of Economic Studies 18(1), pp. 42-56. (10.1108/01443589110002291)
• Whitfield, K. L. 1988. The Australian wage system and its labor market effects. Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 27(2), pp. 149-165. (10.1111/j.1468-232X.1988.tb00998.x)

Book sections

• Whitfield, K. 2019. The resource-based view approach and human resources. In: Townsend, K. et al. eds. Elgar Introduction to Human Resources and Employment Relations. Edward Elgar, pp. 324-335.
• Whitfield, K. and Yunus, S. 2018. Research methods in employment relations. In: Wilkinson, A. et al. eds. The Routledge Companion to Employment Relations. Routledge, pp. 142-154.
• Whitfield, K. L., Williams, R. and Sengupta, S. 2012. You take the high road: Analysing the ethical dimensions of high performance work systems. In: O'Sullivan, P., Smith, M. M. and Esposito, M. eds. Business Ethics: A Critical Approach: Integrating Ethics Across the Business World. UK: Routledge, pp. 287-302.
• Whitfield, K. L. and Sengupta, S. 2010. Ask not what HRM can do for performance but what HRM has done to performance. In: Blyton, P. R., Heery, E. J. and Turnbull, P. J. eds. Reassessing the Employment Relationship. Management, Work and Organisations Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 97-121.
• Green, F., Huxley, K. L. and Whitfield, K. L. 2010. The employee experience of work. In: Wilkinson, A. J. et al. eds. The Sage Handbook of Human Resource Management. London: Sage, pp. 377-392.
• Green, F. and Whitfield, K. L. 2009. Employees' experience of work. In: Brown, W. et al. eds. The Evolution of the Modern Workplace. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 201-229.
• Whitfield, K. L., Pendleton, A. and Bryson, A. 2009. The changing use of contingent pay at the modern British workplace. In: Brown, W. et al. eds. The Evolution of the Modern Workplace. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 256-284.
• Whitfield, K. L. and Strauss, G. 2008. Changing traditions in industrial relations research. In: Blyton, P. R. et al. eds. The SAGE Handbook of Industrial Relations. London: Sage, pp. 170-186.
• Whitfield, K. L. 2004. And then the justice?: women in the workplace. In: Stewart, I. and Vaitilingam, R. eds. Seven Ages of Man and Woman: A Look at Britain in the Second Elizabethan Era. Economic and Social Research Council, pp. 24-27.
• Whitfield, K. L. and Strauss, G. 1998. Research methods in industrial relations. In: Whitfield, K. L. and Strauss, G. eds. Researching the World of Work: Strategies and Methods in Studying Industrial Relations. UK: ILR Press, pp. 5-30.
• Whitfield, K., Brown, W. and Delbridge, R. 1998. International comparison by means of workplace surveys. In: Whitfield, K. and Strauss, G. eds. Researching the World of Work: Strategies and Methods in Studying Industrial Relations. UK: ILR Press, pp. 193-207.
• Whitfield, K. L. 1998. The use of quantitative methods in industrial relations research. In: Whitfield, K. L. and Strauss, G. eds. Researching the World of Work: Strategies and Methods in Studying Industrial Relations. UK: ILR Press, pp. 65-84.

Books

• Whitfield, K. L., Brown, W., Bryson, A. and Forth, J. 2009. The evolution of the modern workplace. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Ross, R. and Whitfield, K. L. 2008. The Australian labour market: perspectives, issues and policies. 3rd. ed. Sydney: Pearson Education Australia.
• Whitfield, K. L. and Huxley, K. L. eds. 2007. Innovations in the 2004 workplace employment relations survey. WERS/WIRS. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
• Whitfield, K. L. and Strauss, G. 1998. Researching the world of work: strategies and methods in studying industrial relations. ILR Press.
• Whitfield, K. L. and McNabb, R. 1994. The market for training: International perspectives on theory, methodology and policy. UK: Avebury.

Conferences

• Sengupta, S., Whitfield, K. L. and Pendleton, A. 2009. Mediating effect of different types of employee share ownership on performance. Presented at: Employment Relations Unit (ERU) Conference, Cardiff, UK, 2-4 September 2009.
• Sen Gupta, S., Whitfield, K. L. and Pendleton, A. 2009. Employee share ownership and performance: Commitment or entrapment?. Presented at: Fifteenth International Industrial Relations Association (IIRA) World Congress, Sydney, Australia, 24-28 August 2009.
• Whitfield, K. L. and Delbridge, R. 2002. Perceptions of job influence under varying forms of employee participation. Presented at: 12th IIRA World Congress, Tokyo, Japan, 29 May - 2 June 2000 Presented at Hanami, T. ed.Universal Wisdom Through Globalization: Selected Papers from the 12th IIRA World Congress, Tokyo. Tokyo: Japan Institute of Labour pp. 17.
• Beynon, M. J. and Whitfield, K. L. 2001. Fuzzy decision trees: an application to the low pay commission. Presented at: 7th International Conference of the Society for Computational Economics, New Haven, CT, USA, June 2001.

Monographs

• Moore, L. et al. 2007. Social science quantitative methods capacity building in Wales: ESRC/HEFCW scoping study. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
• Daley, J., Matthews, K. and Whitfield, K. 2006. Too-big-to-fail: bank failure and banking policy in Jamaica. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.

• Davies, R., McNabb, R. and Whitfield, K. 2015. Do high-performance work practices exacerbate or mitigate the gender pay gap?. Cambridge Journal of Economics 39(2), pp. 537-564. (10.1093/cje/bev009)
• Whitfield, K. L. 2012. Good jobs America: Making work better for everyone [Review]. British Journal of Industrial Relations 50(4), pp. 817-819. (10.1111/j.1467-8543.2012.00911_5.x)
• Whitfield, K. L., Williams, R. and Sengupta, S. 2012. You take the high road: Analysing the ethical dimensions of high performance work systems. In: O'Sullivan, P., Smith, M. M. and Esposito, M. eds. Business Ethics: A Critical Approach: Integrating Ethics Across the Business World. UK: Routledge, pp. 287-302.
• Whitfield, K. L. and Sengupta, S. 2010. Ask not what HRM can do for performance but what HRM has done to performance. In: Blyton, P. R., Heery, E. J. and Turnbull, P. J. eds. Reassessing the Employment Relationship. Management, Work and Organisations Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 97-121.
• Green, F., Huxley, K. L. and Whitfield, K. L. 2010. The employee experience of work. In: Wilkinson, A. J. et al. eds. The Sage Handbook of Human Resource Management. London: Sage, pp. 377-392.
• Sengupta, S., Whitfield, K. L. and Pendleton, A. 2009. Mediating effect of different types of employee share ownership on performance. Presented at: Employment Relations Unit (ERU) Conference, Cardiff, UK, 2-4 September 2009.
• Green, F. and Whitfield, K. L. 2009. Employees' experience of work. In: Brown, W. et al. eds. The Evolution of the Modern Workplace. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 201-229.
• Whitfield, K. L., Pendleton, A. and Bryson, A. 2009. The changing use of contingent pay at the modern British workplace. In: Brown, W. et al. eds. The Evolution of the Modern Workplace. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 256-284.
• Sen Gupta, S., Whitfield, K. L. and Pendleton, A. 2009. Employee share ownership and performance: Commitment or entrapment?. Presented at: Fifteenth International Industrial Relations Association (IIRA) World Congress, Sydney, Australia, 24-28 August 2009.
• Whitfield, K. L., Brown, W., Bryson, A. and Forth, J. 2009. The evolution of the modern workplace. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Daley, J., Matthews, K. G. P. and Whitfield, K. L. 2008. Too-big-to-fail: bank failure and banking policy in Jamaica. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money 18(3), pp. 290-303. (10.1016/j.intfin.2006.12.002)
• Bryson, A., Green, F. and Whitfield, K. L. 2008. A quarter century of workplace employment relations surveys. British Journal of Industrial Relations 46(4), pp. 577-586. (10.1111/j.1467-8543.2008.00697.x)
• Whitfield, K. L. and Strauss, G. 2008. Changing traditions in industrial relations research. In: Blyton, P. R. et al. eds. The SAGE Handbook of Industrial Relations. London: Sage, pp. 170-186.
• Ross, R. and Whitfield, K. L. 2008. The Australian labour market: perspectives, issues and policies. 3rd. ed. Sydney: Pearson Education Australia.
• Delbridge, R. and Whitfield, K. L. 2007. More than mere fragments? The use of the Workplace Employment Relations Survey data in HRM research. International Journal of Human Resource Management 18(12), pp. 2166-2181. (10.1080/09585190701695317)
• Sen Gupta, S., Whitfield, K. L. and McNabb, R. 2007. Employee Share Ownership and Performance: Golden Path or Golden Handcuffs?. International Journal of Human Resource Management 18(8), pp. 1507-1538. (10.1080/09585190701502620)
• McNabb, R. and Whitfield, K. L. 2007. The impact of varying types of performance-related pay and employee participation on earnings. International Journal of Human Resource Management 18(6), pp. 1004-1025. (10.1080/09585190701321542)
• Whitfield, K. L. and Huxley, K. L. eds. 2007. Innovations in the 2004 workplace employment relations survey. WERS/WIRS. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
• Beynon, M. J. and Whitfield, K. L. 2006. A Fuzzy Decision Support System to Identify Establishments with Low Paid Employees in the British Economy. Fuzzy Economic Review 11(2), pp. 69-88.
• Whitfield, K. L. 2004. And then the justice?: women in the workplace. In: Stewart, I. and Vaitilingam, R. eds. Seven Ages of Man and Woman: A Look at Britain in the Second Elizabethan Era. Economic and Social Research Council, pp. 24-27.
• Whitfield, K. L. and Delbridge, R. 2002. Perceptions of job influence under varying forms of employee participation. Presented at: 12th IIRA World Congress, Tokyo, Japan, 29 May - 2 June 2000 Presented at Hanami, T. ed.Universal Wisdom Through Globalization: Selected Papers from the 12th IIRA World Congress, Tokyo. Tokyo: Japan Institute of Labour pp. 17.
• Delbridge, R. and Whitfield, K. L. 2001. Employee perceptions of job influence and organizational participation Employee Perceptions. Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy & Society 40(3), pp. 472-489. (10.1111/0019-8676.00220)
• McNabb, R. and Whitfield, K. L. 2001. Job Evaluation and High Performance Work Practices: Compatible or Conflictual?. Journal of Management Studies 38(2), pp. 293 - 312. (10.1111/1467-6486.00237)
• Beynon, M. J. and Whitfield, K. L. 2001. Fuzzy decision trees: an application to the low pay commission. Presented at: 7th International Conference of the Society for Computational Economics, New Haven, CT, USA, June 2001.
• McNabb, R. and Whitfield, K. L. 2000. The impact of financial participation and employee involvement on financial performance: A re-estimation using the 1998 WERS: A reply [Letter]. Scottish Journal of Political Economy 47(5), pp. 584-590. (10.1111/1467-9485.00180)
• Whitfield, K. L. and Strauss, G. 2000. Methods matter: Changes in industrial relations research and their implications. British Journal of Industrial Relations 38(1), pp. 141-151. (10.1111/1467-8543.00155)
• Whitfield, K. L. 2000. High performance workplaces, training and the distribution of skills. Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 39(1), pp. 1-25. (10.1111/0019-8676.00150)
• Whitfield, K. L. and Strauss, G. 1998. Researching the world of work: strategies and methods in studying industrial relations. ILR Press.
• Whitfield, K. L. and Strauss, G. 1998. Research methods in industrial relations. In: Whitfield, K. L. and Strauss, G. eds. Researching the World of Work: Strategies and Methods in Studying Industrial Relations. UK: ILR Press, pp. 5-30.
• Whitfield, K., Brown, W. and Delbridge, R. 1998. International comparison by means of workplace surveys. In: Whitfield, K. and Strauss, G. eds. Researching the World of Work: Strategies and Methods in Studying Industrial Relations. UK: ILR Press, pp. 193-207.
• Whitfield, K. L. 1998. The use of quantitative methods in industrial relations research. In: Whitfield, K. L. and Strauss, G. eds. Researching the World of Work: Strategies and Methods in Studying Industrial Relations. UK: ILR Press, pp. 65-84.
• McNabb, R. and Whitfield, K. L. 1998. Testing for segmentation: an establishment-level analysis. Cambridge Journal of Economics 22(3), pp. 347-365.
• McNabb, R. and Whitfield, K. L. 1998. The impact of financial participation and employee involvement on financial performance. Scottish Journal of Political Economy 45(2), pp. 171-187. (10.1111/1467-9485.00088)
• McNabb, R. and Whitfield, K. L. 1997. Unions, flexibility, team working and financial performance. Organization Studies 18(5), pp. 821-838. (10.1177/017084069701800506)
• Whitfield, K. L. and Poole, M. J. F. 1997. Organizing employment for high performance: theories, evidence and policy. Organization Studies 18(5), pp. 745-764. (10.1177/017084069701800502)
• McNabb, R. and Whitfield, K. L. 1995. The business of training: microeconomic and macroeconomic considerations. International Journal of the Economics of Business 2(1), pp. 133-150. (10.1080/758521101)
• Whitfield, K. L. and McNabb, R. 1994. The market for training: International perspectives on theory, methodology and policy. UK: Avebury.
• Whitfield, K. L., Marginson, P. and Brown, W. 1994. Workplace industrial relations under different regulatory systems: a survey-based comparison of Australia and Britain. British Journal of Industrial Relations 32(3), pp. 319-338. (10.1111/j.1467-8543.1994.tb01007.x)
• Whitfield, K. L. and Wilson, R. A. 1994. Staying on in full-time education: the educational participation rate of 16-year-olds. Economica 58(231), pp. 391-404.
• Whitfield, K. L. and Wilson, R. A. 1991. Forecasting the educational participation rate of 16-year olds in England and Wales: A socio-economic approach. International Journal of Forecasting 7(1), pp. 65-76. (10.1016/0169-2070(91)90034-S)
• Whitfield, K. L. and Bourlakis, C. 1991. An empirical analysis of YTS, employment and earnings. Journal of Economic Studies 18(1), pp. 42-56. (10.1108/01443589110002291)
• Whitfield, K. L. 1988. The Australian wage system and its labor market effects. Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 27(2), pp. 149-165. (10.1111/j.1468-232X.1988.tb00998.x)