Professor Paul Sparrow
BSc (Hons) Psychology, MSc Applied Psychology, PhD
Director Centre for Peformance Led HR
Department
Centre for Performance Led HR
Professional Role
Director, Centre for Performance-led HR, a partnership between Lancaster University Management School and major corporations, nominated as one of five Outstanding Employer Engagement Initiatives in the 2009 Times Higher Education Awards
External Roles
Editorial Board Member Academic Journals: Human Resource Management, 2009–to date; British Journal of Management, 1999-to date; European Management Review, 2003-to date; Career Development International, 2003-to date; Cross-Cultural Management: An International Journal, 2007-to date; International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management, 2008-to date; Journal of World Business (formerly Columbia Journal of World Business). 1997-98.
Former Editor of Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 1998-2003
Visiting Faculty: ALBA, Athens November 2011, September 2010, September 2009, October 2008, September 2007, September 2006, December 2005, October 2004, October 2003;
International Academic Advisory Board Member for the Centre for Strategic People Management, City College, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2008 to date.
Visiting International Fellow, Cornell University. USA, Industrial and Labor Relations School April – June 2006.
Invited member to the Guru Group for the Department for Business Innovation and Skills Employee Engagement Task Force - part of the second MacLeod Review, 2011 to date.
Advisory Board for People Management from 2009 to date
Editorial Advisory Board for Kogan Page, from 2010 to date
Advisory Panel Member for the UK’s Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development Shaping the Future research programme 2008-2011.
Member of the Guru Group for the UK Government’s Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform’s (BERR) Macleod Review on Employee Engagement, 2009 – 2010
Expert Advisory Panel member to the UK Government’s Sector Skills Development Agency 2004-2008.
Specialist Advisor to UK Research Assessment Exercise Sub-Panel I36 - Business & Management, 2008
External Assessor for Monash University Research Quality Exercise preparation for the Research Quality Framework assessment, 2008
Elected Member of US Academy of Management HR Division Executive Committee, ChaIr of International Human Resource Management Committee, HR Division, US Academy of Management, 2005-2008.
Research Associate of ESRC Centre for Organisation and Innovation, Institute of Work Psychology, 1999–2006
External Examiner at London Business School, 2005-2009; Birkbeck College, University of London1997-2000; Leeds University, 1997-99
Director and Council Member, Society for the Advancement of Management Studies, 2001-2008
Current Teaching
GUEST MBA, MSc AND RESEARCH PROGRAMME LECTURES
He has been a guest lecturer at a number of institutions including: Athens Laboratory of Business Administration, Greece; Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; Cornell University, US; Rutgers University, US; Hong Kong University; IMD Lausanne, Switzerland; Irish Management Institute, Dublin; MIB School of Management, Trieste, Italy; Leuven University, Belgium; Washington University UK study tour; and London Business School, Cranfield University and Warwick Business School, UK.
EXECUTIVE TEACHING
Paul has taught on executive programmes for many organisations
Research Interests
Through the Centre for Performance-led HR, he focuses on eight areas of research: the nature of strategic competence; HR leadership and boardroom engagement; performance drivers, such as customer service; business model change; the employee engagement-performance link; changing ways in which talent is managed; evaluating and benchmarking the ways in which people improve the capital of an organisation; and future HR trajectories.
Globalisation and the Impact on International HRM: For recent books see: a research handbook Wiley Handbook of International Human Resource Management, an analysis of findings from the research project Globalizing Human Resource Management, an co-edited volume on International HRM: A European perspective and the CIPD teaching text International Human Resource Management 3rd edition.
He has recently worked on GMAC and Brookfield Global Relocation Services reports on International Mobility in the Pharmaceutical and Finance services sectors. The Brookfield Global Relocation Services report was recognized with an Expatica HR Top 5 Industry Survey Award for excellence in HR surveys.
See also the Sector Skills Development Agency report on International recruitment, skills supply and migration, Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development report: International Recruitment, Selection and Assessment
Comparative Human Resource Management Systems and the Impact of National Culture on Employee Behaviour
Organization-Individual Linkages and employee engagement: See The Employment Relationship: Key Challenges Facing HR
Management cognition, Knowledge Management, Organisational Learning and Strategic Competence: See: The Competent Organization: A Psychological Analysis of the Strategic Management Process
Current Research
HR Strategy
Global resourcing and talent management.
Global human resource management,
Research Grants
The Centre for Performance-led HR, 2006-2011, has attracted over £1.2 million industrial funding through the efforts of Professors Cary Cooper, Paul Sparrow, Dr. Anthony Hesketh and Martin Hird. A further £430,000 has been attracted for 2011-2013 by Professor Paul Sparrow and Martin Hird.
Lottery Research Fund, 2009- 2011, £322,000. A collaborative bid with Working Families and Lancaster University Management Schooled with LUMS involvement led by Caroline Gattrell, and involving Cary Cooper and Paul Sparrow). The research investigated and documented the barriers which prevent working fathers’ greater engagement as parents.
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development £30,000 (with Chris Brewster, Henley Management College) Globalizing Human Resource Management: 2007-2008
Department of Health Policy Research Unit £250,000. Improving health through human resource management. 2004-2007.Part of team with Paula Hyde, Mick Marchington, Bonnie Sibbald, Ruth Boaden, Claire Harris and Penny Cortvriend of MBS.
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, £12,000. International recruitment, selection and assessment. 2005-2006. The research examined the impact of four contexts on internationalisation of HR processes at firm-level.
Customer Management Leadership Group, £15,000. Creating and sustaining a customer service based culture. 2004- 2005. Funded study to review the literature on the service-profit chain, employee engagement, role of coaching and selection for customer service
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, £110,000. 2000-2002. Collaborative bid with Professor Chris Brewster and Dr. Hilary Harris of Cranfield University for a two year project to look at the role and contribution of International HR professionals.
Profile
Paul Sparrow is the Director of the Centre for Performance-led HR and Professor of International Human Resource Management at Lancaster University Management School. In 2010 he was voted amongst the Top 15 Most Influential HR Thinkers by Human Resources Magazine.
He has worked as a Research Fellow at Aston University, Senior Research Fellow at Warwick University, Consultant/Principal Consultant at PA Consulting Group, Reader/Professor at Sheffield University and whilst at Manchester Business School he took up the Ford Chair from 2002-2004 and was Director, Executive Education 2002-2005.
He has consulted with major multinationals, public sector organisations and inter-governmental agencies He has published over 100 journal articles and chapters and several books.
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
Journal article (29)
Chapter (peer-reviewed) (4)
Book (23)
Working paper (4)
Scholarly edition (1)
Selected publications (20)
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Publications
- Farndale E, Scullion H and Sparrow Paul, 2010, 'The role of the corporate HR function in global talent management', Journal of World Business, vol 45, no. 2, pp. 161-168.
View details - Sparrow Paul, 2007, 'Globalization of HR at function level: four UK-based case studies of the international recruitment and selection process', The International Journal of Human Resource Management, vol 18, no. 5, pp. 845 - 867.
View details - Sparrow Paul, 2006, 'Global knowledge management and HRM', in Handbook Of Research In International Human Resource Management, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 113-138, ISBN: 1845421280
View details - Sparrow Paul and Brewster C, 2006, 'Globalizing HRM: the Growing Revolution in Managing Employees Internationally', in The Human Resources Revolution: Why Putting People First Matters, Elsevier, London, New York and Amsterdam, pp. 99-122, ISBN: 0080447139
View details - Sparrow Paul, 2006, 'International management: some key challenges for industrial and organizational psychology', in International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Vol. 21, John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Chichester, pp. 189-266, ISBN: 047001606X
View details - Sparrow Paul, 2005, 'Global human resource management', in Developments in Work and Organizational Psychology: Implications for International Business, Elsevier, London, New York and Amsterdam, pp. 105-129, ISBN: 0080444679
View details - Brewster C, Sparrow Paul and Harris H, 2005, 'Towards a new model of globalizing human resource management', The International Journal of Human Resource Management, vol 16, no. 6, pp. 949-970.
View details - Chandrakumara A and Sparrow Paul, 2004, 'Work orientation as an element of national culture and its impact on HRM policy-practice design choices: lessons from Sri Lanka', International Journal of Manpower, vol 25, no. 6, pp. 564 - 589.
View details - Zimmerman A, Holman D and Sparrow Paul, 2003, 'Unravelling adjustment mechanisms: adjustment of German expatriates to intercultural interactions, work, and living conditions in the People's Republic of China', International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, vol 3, no. 1, pp. 45-66.
View details - Sparrow Paul and West M, 2002, 'Psychology and organizational effectiveness', in Organizational Effectiveness: The Role of Psychology, John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Chichester, pp. 13-44, ISBN: 0471492647
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