Research
We conduct world-leading research in three core areas: leadership and team processes, quality of working life, and human resource assessment and performance.
Research themes
Human resource assessment and performance
We have advanced technical expertise in recruitment and selection, performance measurement and management, individual differences, and all forms of psychometric and personnel assessment for business, which we apply in published research and projects with organisations:
- Assessment for recruitment and selection
- Employee engagement
- Human resource analytics and evaluation
- Performance measurement and metrics
- Personality assessment and development
- Survey design.
Leadership and team processes
Our world-leading research is applied in our work with students and executive clients:
- Emotions in team processes
- Intuition, decision making and judgement
- Leader-member exchange and relational perspectives on leadership
- Negotiation, conflict management, and conflict resolution
- Personality and leadership behaviour
- The role of leadership in creating positive and rewarding jobs.
Quality of working life
We represent rich and diverse perspectives on the quality of people’s working lives, encompassing psychological, sociological, organisational behaviour and management approaches which we apply to organisations and policy:
- Job quality
- Job satisfaction, motivation, and engagement
- Pay and reward
- Perceptions of injustice in the workplace
- Socio-demography of work
- Work-family interface.
Research projects
Start date: September 2020
End date: September 2021
Research departments
We encourage interdisciplinary collaboration and communication with all interested parties from across the academic and professional communities. Find out more about other research activities within Surrey Business School.
