Professor Jason Heyes
Chair in Employment Relations
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Jason Heyes is Professor of Employment Relations in the School of Management at the University of Sheffield. He is also the director of the School of Management’s Work, Organisation and Employment Relations Research Centre (WOERRC).
Before joining the Management School in 2012 he was a Reader in Human Resource Management and head of the Organisation, Work and Employment group at the University of Birmingham. He has a Ph.D. in Industrial Relations (Leeds), an MA in Industrial Relations (Warwick) and a BA (Hons.) in Economics (Leeds). He is an Associate Editor of the Industrial Relations Journal.
Jason’s main research interest is in the connections between employment relations and HRM, the labour market and public policy. His research has examined the relationship between collective bargaining and vocational training activity and outcomes in the UK and Europe, the impact of the UK's National Minimum Wage legislation on pay, employment and training, and forms of trade union support for migrant workers. Jason regularly engages with practitioner and policy audiences. He has undertaken research projects on behalf of the Low Pay Commission, the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO). He has acted as a technical expert for ILO technical cooperation projects in Turkey, Russia, Azerbaijan and the Ukraine and is regularly invited to contribute to the activities of the ILO’s International Training Centre in Turin.
Current research
Jason is currently researching the consequences of the ongoing economic crisis and widespread austerity measures for employment relations and labour market policy. Specific concerns include the consequences for the European Commission’s flexicurity agenda and the implications of the crisis for our understanding of institutional change and the role of the state in employment relations.
With Dr Paul Lewis (University of Birmingham), Jason is undertaking a British Academy/Leverhulme-funded project that is examining how employment protections have influenced labour market outcomes across Europe since the start of the crisis. A further British Academy/Leverhulme-funded project with Dr Tim Vorley and Dr Ute Stephan (both Sheffield University Management School) is examining influences on the decision by entrepreneurs to take on their first employee. In addition, Jason is collaborating with Paul Lewis and Professor Ian Clark (University of Leicester) in re-evaluating the Varieties of Capitalism approach to comparative institutional analysis in the light of the crisis. A further research project is investigating the implications of austerity for pay, conditions and career paths in the music industry.
Teaching and Ph.D. supervision
Programme Director for MSc Human Resource Management.
Current teaching:
MGT309 Industrial Relations (final year undergraduate module)
MGT659 Industrial Relations (MSc HRM module)
MGT6060 HRM (MBA module)
Postgraduate Research Supervision
I would be interested in supervising doctoral work in the broad fields of Employment Relations and HRM. I would be particularly interested in supervising doctoral work in the following areas: vocational education and training; the state and employment relations; employment and social protection policy and outcomes; governance of the labour market; low-paid work and minimum wages; trade unions; social dialogue; vulnerable workers (e.g. migrants, work in the informal economy)
Selected recent publications
Heyes, J. and Rychly, L. (Eds.) (2013) Labour Administration in Uncertain Times: Policy, Practice and Institutions Since the Crisis. Edward Elgar. Forthcoming.
Heyes, J. and Lewis, P. (2013) ‘Employment Protection Under Fire: Labour Market Deregulation and Employment in the European Union’. Economic & Industrial Democracy. Available online at http://eid.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/07/25/0143831X13491842.
Heyes, J. (2013) ‘Flexicurity in Crisis: European Labour Market Policies in a Time of Austerity’. European Journal of Industrial Relations. 19, 3: 71-86
Heyes, J. (2012) ‘Vocational Training, Employability and the Post-2008 Jobs Crisis: Responses in the European Union’. Economic & Industrial Democracy. 34, 2: 291-311.
Heyes, J., Lewis, P. and Clark, I. (2012) ‘Varieties of Capitalism, Neo-Liberalism and the Economic Crisis of 2008-?’ Industrial Relations Journal. 43, 3: 222-241.
Heyes, J. and Hyland, M. (2012) ‘Supporting, Recruiting and Organizing Migrant Workers in Ireland and the UK: A Review of Trade Union Practices’, in Galcoczi, B., Leschke, J. and Watt, A. (Eds.) Migration and Labour Markets in Troubled Times: Skills Mismatch, Return Migration and Policy Responses. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Heyes, J. and Rainbird, H. (2011) ‘Mobilising Resources for Union Learning: A Strategy for Revitalisation?’ Industrial Relations Journal. 42, 6: 565-579.
Heyes, J. (2011) ‘Flexicurity, Employment Protection and the Jobs Crisis’, Work, Employment & Society. 25, 4: 642-657.
Heyes, J. and Clark, I. (2011) ‘The State and Employment Relations’, in Townsend, K. and Wilkinson, A. (Eds.) The Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Work and Employment Relations. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. pp.69-90.
Heyes, J. and Rainbird, H. (2011) ‘Bargaining for Training: Converging or Diverging Interests?’, in Hayter, S. (Ed.) The Role of Collective Bargaining in a Global Economy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. pp.76-106.
Heyes, J. and Rainbird, H. (2010) ‘The State, Business and Training’, in Coen, D., Wilson, G. and Grant, W. (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Business and Government. Oxford: OUP. pp.544-564.
Heyes, J. and Nolan, P. (2010) ‘The State, Capital and Labour Relations in Crisis’, in Colling, T. and Terry, M. (Eds.) Industrial Relations: Theory and Practice. Third Edition. Basingstoke: Wiley Blackwell. pp.106-124.