DAVID E GUEST
PROFESSOR OF ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
AND HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
THE DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT
KING’S COLLEGE, LONDON
EMPLOYMENT
2000 – present: Professor of Organizational Psychology and Human Resource Management, The Department of Management, King’s College, London.
2002 – 2005: Head of the Department of Management
2004-2005 Deputy Head of the School of Social Science and Public Policy, King’s College London
1990 – 2000: Professor and Head of Department of Organizational Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London.
1998 – 2000: Pro-Vice Master of Birkbeck College.
1981 – 1990: Senior Lecturer in Industrial Relations, London School of Economics.
1972 – 1981: Lecturer in Personnel Management, London School of Economics.
1970 – 1972: Behavioural Science Adviser, British Railways Board.
1968 – 1970: Research Officer, Department of Occupational Psychology, Birkbeck College.
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
1966 BA (Hons) Psychology and Sociology, Birmingham University.
1979 PhD Occupational Psychology, London University.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Member of: British Psychological Society
(Member of Division of Occupational Psychology)
European Network of Organizational Psychologists (ENOP)
International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP)
Chartered Institute of Personnel Management
British Academy of Management
American Academy of Management
British Universities Industrial Relations Association
Fellow of the Royal Society
ACADEMIC AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
Editorial Board: Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
Journal of Management Studies.
Human Resource Management Journal.
Management Board:Human Relations.
Trustee: T. Ritchie Rodger Research Fund.
Council Member: Tavistock Institute of Human Relations
Member: Service Delivery and Organization Board, NHS.
Member: Sector Skills Development Agency Research Advisory Panel
Past Editor: Journal of Occupational Psychology
British Journal of Industrial Relations
Examining Since 1993, External Examining: For BA, MBA and PhD at Bradford, Cardiff, Henley, Lancaster, LSE, Manchester Business School, Sheffield, Ulster, Warwick, Erasmus University, Rotterdam and Stockholm Business School.
External Adviser: For Professorial or Fellowship appointments at several universities including Cambridge, LSE, London Business School, Loughborough, Oxford, Open University, Sheffield and UMIST.
RESEARCH GRANTS SINCE 1990
1990 - 1993: British Rail (£130,000). Evaluation of Programmes to Develop Employee Involvement, Commitment and Improved Quality of Work.
1991 - 1993: British Rail (£50,000). Exploring the Concept of A Safety Culture.
1991 - 1992: Department of Health (£25,000). Evaluating the Effectiveness of Personnel/Human Resource Management.
1993 - 1994: Leverhulme Trust (£24,640). What Happens When Greenfield Sites Turn Brown? The Evolution of Human Resource Management.
1994 - 1999: Careers Research Forum (£300,000). The Future of the Career.
1994 - 1995: Centre for Economic Performance. (£9,000). The Impact of Fixed-Term Contracts on Motivation, Performance and Trade Unionism.
1997 -1999: ESRC (£80,448). The Impact of New Forms of Employment Contract on Motivation and Performance.
1997 - 1998: Gatsby Foundation/IPA. (£20,074). The Partnership Company.
1998 - 1999: Institute of Personnel and Development (£35,000). Employers’ Perceptions of the Psychological Contract.
1998 - 2002: ESRC (£214,000). Workplace Re-organization, Human Resource Management and Corporate Performance (ESRC Future of Work Programme) (With Prof. J Michie and Dr M Sheehan)
1999: Institute of Personnel and Development (£48,000). Human Resource Management and Corporate Performance.
1999: NHS Executive (£20,000). Exploring the Feasibility of an Evidence-Based Human Resource Management in the NHS
1999: Association of Graduate Recruiters (£18,000). Determinants of Graduate Retention: a Qualitative Assessment.
1999 - 2001: University of London (£76,000). Exploring the Feasibility of an Electronic Library.
1999 - 2001: ESRC (£105,000). Re-conceptualising the Employment Relationship: The Case of the Knowledge Worker.
2000 - 2001: Institute of Personnel and Development (£34,000). Perceptions of Human Resource Management Among Senior Executives
2000 – 2001: Department of Health (£67,000). A Preliminary Evaluation of the Establishment of the Roles of Nurse, Midwife and Health Visitor Consultants.
2001 – 2002: SALTSA (Swedish Trades Unions) (£10,000). A Pilot Study of Employment Contracts, the Psychological Contract and Worker Well-Being.
2002 – 2004: Department of Health (£123,780). Evidence-Based Human Resource Management.
2002 – 2004 Department of Health (£118,757). A Further Evaluation of the Role and Impact of Nurse, Midwife and Health Visitor Consultants.
2002 – 2005 European Union (213,000 Euros). Psychological Contracts Across Employment Situations.
2003 – 2005 Royal Pharmaceutical Society (DoH) (£65,099). The Supply and Retention of Pharmacists.
2005 Further Education Leadership Foundation (£15,000). Study of HRM and Performance in UK Universities.
2005 Royal Pharmaceutical Society (DoH) (£56,000). The Supply and Retention of Academic Pharmacists
SOME RELEVANT PRE-1990 PUBLICATIONS
Guest, D. (1987). "Human resource management and industrial relations". Journal of Management Studies, 24,5,503-21.
Guest, D. and Dewe, P. (1988). "Why do workers belong to trade unions? A social-psychological study in the UK electronics industry". British Journal of Industrial Relations, 26,2,178-194.
Guest, D. (1989). "Human resource management: its implications for industrial relations and trade unions". In J. Storey (ed) New Perspectives on Human Resource Management. London: Routledge.
Guest, D. (1989). "Personnel and HRM: can you tell the difference?" Personnel Management. 21,1,48-51.
PUBLICATIONS SINCE 1990
1990
Guest, D. (1990). "Human resource management and the American Dream". Journal of Management Studies, 27,4,377-397.
Guest, D. (1990). "Have British workers been working harder in Thatcher's Britain? a re-consideration of the concept of effort". British Journal of Industrial Relations, 28,3,293-312.
Guest, D. (1990). "Goal Setting". In S. Grief, H. Holling and N. Nicholson (eds). European Handbook of Work and Organizational Psychology. Munich: Psychologie Verlags Union.
Dewe, P. and Guest, D. (1990). "Methods of coping with stress at work: a conceptual analysis and empirical study of measurement issues". Journal of Organizational Behaviour, 11,2,135-150.
1991
Guest, D. and Dewe, P. (1991). "Company or trade union; which wins workers' allegiance? A study of commitment in the UK electronics industry". British Journal of Industrial Relations, 29,1,75-96.
Guest, D. (1991). "Personnel management; the end of orthodoxy?". British Journal of Industrial Relations, 29,2,149-175.
1992
Guest, D. (1992). "Employee commitment and control". In J. Hartley and G. Stephenson (eds). Employment Relations. Oxford: Blackwell.
Guest, D. (1992). "Right enough to be dangerously wrong: an analysis of the In Search of Excellence Phenomenon". In G. Salaman (ed). Human Resource Strategies. London: Sage.
Guest, D. (1992). "The Continuing Search for the Happy Productive Worker". Birkbeck Department of Organizational Psychology Working Paper.
Guest, D. and Peccei, R. (1992). "Employee involvement: redundancy as a critical case". Human Resource Management Journal, 2,3,34-59.
Guest, D. (1992). "Human resource management in the United Kingdom". In B. Towers (ed) Handbook of Human Resource Management. Oxford: Blackwell.
Guest, D., Peccei, R. and Rosenthal, P. (1992). "Management development and career success". In K. Bradley (ed). Human Resource Management: People and Success. Aldershot: Dartmouth.
1993
Guest, D. and Rosenthal, P. (1993). Industrial Relations in Greenfield Sites. LSE Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper 127. London: CEP.
Guest, D., Peccei, R. and Fulcher, A. (1993). "Culture change and quality improvement in British Rail". In D. Gowler, K. Legge and C. Clegg (eds). Cases Studies in Organizational Behaviour (2nd edition). London: Chapman.
Guest, D. and Hoque, K. (1993). "The mystery of the missing human resource manager". Personnel Management, June, 40-41.
Guest, D., Peccei, R. and Thomas, A. (1993). "The impact of employee involvement on organizational commitment and on "them and us" attitudes". Industrial Relations Journal, 24,3,191-200.
Peccei, R. and Guest, D. (1993). The dimensionality and stability of organizational commitment. LSE Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper 149. London: CEP.
Guest, D. and Hoque, K. (1993). Are greenfield sites better at human resource management? LSE Centre for Economic Performance Working Paper 435. London: CEP.
Guest, D. and Rosenthal, P. (1993). "Beyond industrial disputes: industrial relations in greenfield sites". In D. Metcalf and S. Milner (eds). New Perspectives on Industrial Disputes. London: Routledge.
Guest, D. (1993). "Current perspectives on human resource management in the United Kingdom". In A. Hegewisch and C. Brewster (eds). European Developments in Human Resource Management. London: Kogan Page.
Guest, D. (1993). "Quality in human resource management". Network, No.2, p.1 Sanders and Sidney.
1994
Guest, D., Peccei, R. and Thomas, A. (1994). "Safety culture and safety performance" Proceedings of the Conference on Changing Perceptions of Risk. Bolton, February 1994.
Guest, D. and Peccei, R. "The nature and causes of human resource management effectiveness". British Journal of Industrial Relations, 32,2,219-242.
Guest, D. (1994). "Human resource management; opportunity or threat?" Educational and Child Psychology, 11,3,5-10
Guest, D. and Hoque, K. (1994). "The good, the bad and the ugly: Human resource management in new non-union establishments". Human Resource Management Journal, 5,1,1-14.
Guest, D. and Hoque, K. (1994). "Personnel does make a difference" Personnel Management, November, 40-44.
Guest, D. "Human resource management, industrial relations and trade unions". in J. Storey (ed). Critical Perspectives on Human Resource Management. London: Routledge.
Guest, D. (1994). "Important players in a different game: 25 years of personnel management and industrial relations". In Personnel Management, December, 27-29.
1995
Guest, D. "Organizational Commitment". In N. Nicholson (ed). Dictionary of Organizational Behaviour. Oxford: Blackwell.
Guest, D. "Dual commitment". In N. Nicholson (ed). op cit.
Guest, D. "Human resource management". In N. Nicholson (ed) op cit.
Guest, D. "Personnel management". In N. Nicholson (ed). op cit.
Guest, D. and Hoque, K. “Personnel management effectiveness: Evidence from the 1990 Workplace Industrial Relations Survey and other sources. In Guest,D., Tyson, S., Doherty, N., Hoque, K. and Viney, C. The Contribution of Personnel Management to Organizational Performance: Moving the Debate On. London: Institute of Personnel and Development.
Guest, D. “Organizational psychology and human resource management: Towards a European approach”. European Work and Organizational Psychologist, 4,3,251-270.
Guest, D. “Focusing on the changing face of career management”. People Management, Nov., 1995, 51.
1996
Guest, D. and Mackenzie Davey, K. (1996) “Don’t write off the traditional career”. People Management, 2,4,22 February, 22-25.
Guest, D. (1996). “Leadership and management”. In P. Warr (ed). Psychology at Work (4th edition). Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Guest, D. and Hoque, K. “Human resource management and the new industrial relations”. In I. Beardwell (ed). Contemporary Industrial Relations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Guest, D. "The influence of national ownership on the nature and effectiveness of human resource management in UK greenfield establishments: The peculiar case of Germany". In P. Drenth, P. Koopman and B. Wilpert (eds). Organizational Decision Making Under Different Economic and Political Conditions. Amsterdam: Royal Dutch Academy.
Rosenthal, P., Guest, D. and Peccei, R. "Gender differences in managers’ causal explanations for their work performance: A study in two organizations”. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 69,2,145-152.
Guest, D. "Human resource management in the United Kingdom". In B. Towers (ed). Handbook of Human Resource Management (2nd edition). Oxford: Blackwell. (pp.7-25)
Mayhew, K., Ingram, P. and Guest, D. “How do we think about pay?”. In H. Murlis (ed). Pay at the Crossroads. London: IPD. (pp39-56).
Guest, D. “Professor Keith Thurley: an intellectual appreciation”. In I. Nish, G. Redding and S-K Ng (eds). Work and Society: Labour and Human Resources in East Asia. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
Guest, D. "Occupational psychology". In M. Warner (ed). Encyclopaedia of Organizational Behaviour. London: Routledge.
Guest, D and Hoque, K. "The impact of national ownership on human resource management practices and outcomes in UK greenfield sites". Human Resource Management Journal
Guest, D., Conway, N., Briner, R. And Dickmann, M. The State of the Psychological Contract London: IPD.
1997
Guest, D. “Human resource management and performance: a review and research agenda”. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 8,3, 263-276.
Proudfoot, J., Guest, D, Carson, J., Dunn, G and Gray, G. “Effect of cognitive-behavioural training on job-finding among long-term unemployed people”. The Lancet, vol.350, July 12, 96-100.
Guest, D. “Occupational Psychology”. In A. Sorge and M. Warner (eds). The Handbook of Organizational Behaviour. London: International Thompson Business Press. (re-print)
Guest, D. and Conway, N. Motivation and The Psychological Contract. London: IPD
Guest, D. “Towards jobs and justice in Europe: A research agenda”. Industrial Relations Journal, 28,4,344-352.
1998
Guest, D., Mackenzie Davey, K. and Smewing, C. “Innovative employment contracts: A flexible friend?” Proceedings of the British Psychological Society Occupational Psychology Conference, Eastbourne. pp.191-196
King, Z. and Guest, D. “A qualitative study of career self-management among graduate employees in early career”. Proceedings of the British Psychological Society Occupational Psychology Conference, Eastbourne, pp. 69-73.
Guest, D. “Beyond HRM: Commitment and the contract culture”. In P. Sparrow and M.Marchington (eds). Human Resource Management: The New Agenda. London: Pitman.
Guest, D. and Peccei, R. The Partnership Company. London: IPA
Guest, D. “The role of the psychological contract”. In S. Perkins and St. J. Sandringham (eds) Trust, Motivation and Commitment: a Reader. London: SRRC.
Guest, D. “Human resource management, trade unions and industrial relations”. In C. Mabey, G. Salaman and J. Storey (eds). Strategic Human Resource Management. London: Sage. (re-print)
Guest, D. “Is the psychological contract worth taking seriously?” Journal of Organizational Behavior, 19, 649-664.
Guest, D. “On meaning, metaphor and the psychological contract: a response to Rousseau”. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 19, 673-677.
Guest, D. and Conway, N. Fairness at Work and the Psychological Contract. London:IPD.
Guest, D. “Combine harvest: The work of Mark Huselid on human resource management and performance”. People Management, 29 October, 1998, 64-66.
1999
Guest, D and Conway, N. “Peering into the black hole: the downside of the new employment relations in the UK”. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 37,3,367-389.
Guest, D. “Human resource management: The workers’ verdict”. Human Resource Management Journal, 9,3,5-25.
Guest, D. and Conway, N. How Dissatisfied are British Workers? A Survey of Surveys. Issues in People Management. London: IPD.
Guest, D. “Managing an insecure workforce: the search for a new psychological contract” In E. Heery and J Salmon (Eds) The Insecure Workforce. London: Routledge.
Sturges, J. and Guest, D. Should I Stay or Should I Go? Issues Relating to the Retention of Graduate Recruits. Association of Graduate Recruiters. London.
2000
Sturges, J., Guest, D. and Mackenzie Davey, K. “Who’s in charge? Graduates’ attitudes to and experiences of career management and their relationship with organizational communication”. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 9,3,351-370.
Guest, D., Michie, J., Sheehan, M., Conway, N. and Metochi, M. Effective People Management: Initial Findings of the Future of Work Survey. London: CIPD.
Guest, D., Michie, J., Sheehan, M. and Conway, N. Human Resource Management, Partnership and Performance. Issues in People Management. London: IPD.
Guest, D. and Conway, N. The Psychological Contract in the Public Sector. London: CIPD.
Guest, D., Michie, J., Sheehan, M. and Conway, N. Getting Inside the HRM – Performance Relationship. ESRC Future of Work Programme Working Paper No. 8.
2001
Guest, D. “Industrial relations, trade unions and human resource management”. In J. Storey (ed). Human Resource Management: A Critical Text. London: Thompson Learning Business Press.