Andrew Bratton
Andrew Bratton

Dr Andrew Bratton

Lecturer

 0131 455 4607

  A.Bratton@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

RESEARCH & KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE

My specialist research interests include sustainable human resource management and the management of the employment relationship within the context of organisational change. My research and knowledge exchange work are focused on environmental leadership, employee engagement, technology and action learning. My knowledge exchange activity centres on organisation design in Europe (European Organisation Design Forum) and North America (Organization Design Forum).

ENGAGING & INNOVATIVE

I have over 13 years' academic and practitioner experience as a business school researcher and lecturer in the UK and Singapore, and previously as a change manager in a Microsoft technology consultancy. I have experience working with a range of organisations in higher education, local government, healthcare, transport, energy, construction, information technology, financial services and hospitality.

ENTERPRISING & INTERNATIONAL

I am the Global Online MBA Programme Leader and Lecturer in Human Resource Management. I hold a PhD from the University of Strathclyde. I have been awarded an honorary fellowship at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, and am currently serving as a Researcher in Residence at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

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Esteem

Advisory panels and expert committees or witness

  • Academic Advisor and Placement Consultant at Projekt 42

 

Editorial Activity

  • Guest editor of a journal special issue of Journal of Organisational Effectiveness: People and Performance

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • Chartered Manager (Chartered Management Institute)
  • Research Excellent Awards (University of Strathclyde)

 

Invited Speaker

  • Invited keynote speaker at Jaipuria Institute of Management
  • Invited keynote speaker at Edinburgh Futurists
  • Invited guest lecture at Beyond COP26 Conference

 

Membership of Professional Body

  • Member of the British Academy of Management
  • Member of European Organisation Design Forum
  • Member of Learning for Sustainability Scotland
  • Academic Member of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)
  • Member of British Universities Industrial Relations Association

 

Non-executive Directorship

  • Non-executive Directorship at Snowtraxx International Ltd.

 

Reviewing

  • Ad hoc reviewer – Industrial and Commercial Training
  • Ad hoc reviewer – International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management
  • Ad hoc reviewer – Resources, Environment and Sustainability
  • Ad hoc reviewer – Journal of Organisational Effectiveness: People and Performance
  • Ad hoc reviewer – Online Journal of Applied Knowledge Management
  • Ad hoc reviewer – Employee Relations

 

Visiting Positions

  • Honorary Fellow (Queen Margaret University)

 

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Creating sustainable workplace together? Employment relations and workplace environmental sustainability

Presentation / Conference
Bratton, A. (2022, June)
Creating sustainable workplace together? Employment relations and workplace environmental sustainability. Paper presented at BUIRA Annual Conference 2022, University of Birmingham, Birmingham
Outline - A critique of much research on ‘green’ HRM is that it often assumed an overtly unitarist perspective, generally neglecting trade unions. This empirical paper contrib...

Environmental leadership reconceptualised: The role of employee voice in the emergence of environmental leadership

Presentation / Conference
Bratton, A., Robertson, J., & Paulet, R. (2022, June)
Environmental leadership reconceptualised: The role of employee voice in the emergence of environmental leadership. Paper presented at British Academy of Management (BAM) HRM International Symposium, Monash University Prato Centre, Tuscany, Italy
This empirical paper contributes to the current research on environmental leadership in supporting environmental sustainability in the workplace. Specifically, it examines a v...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Engagement and Remote Work

Presentation / Conference
Hejjas, K., Bratton, A., & Gilek, M. (2022, May)
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Engagement and Remote Work. Paper presented at Council for Hospitality Management Education (CHME) 2022, Edinburgh, Scotland

Leading Pro-Environmental Change

Book Chapter
Bratton, A., Robertson, J., & Paulet, R. (in press)
Leading Pro-Environmental Change. In Organizational Leadership. (2nd). London: SAGE Publications

Chapter case: RailCo

Other
Bratton, A. (2022)
Chapter case: RailCo. [Teaching resource in 'Human Resource Management: A Critical Approach']. London

Global HRM: Can quotas achieve gender equality?

Other
Bratton, A. (2022)
Global HRM: Can quotas achieve gender equality?. [Teaching resource in 'Human Resource Management: A Critical Approach']. London

HRM in Practice: 'Our people are our greatest asset?'

Other
Denham, D., & Bratton, A. HRM in Practice: 'Our people are our greatest asset?'. [Teaching resource in 'Human Resource Management: A Critical Approach']. London

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Denham, D., & Bratton, A. HRM in Practice: 'Our people are our greatest asset?'. [Teaching resource in 'Human Resource Management: A Critical Approach']. London

HRM in Practice: Managers as agents of the HRM function

Other
Bratton, A. (2022)
HRM in Practice: Managers as agents of the HRM function. [Teaching resource in 'Human Resource Management: A Critical Approach']. London

Global HRM: Australian businesses urge green recovery from Covid-19 crisis

Other
Bratton, A. (2022)
Global HRM: Australian businesses urge green recovery from Covid-19 crisis. [Teaching resource in 'Human Resource Management: A Critical Approach']. London

Global HRM: How could a four-day week work for Kiwis?

Other
Bratton, A. (2022)
Global HRM: How could a four-day week work for Kiwis?. [Teaching resource in 'Human Resource Management: A Critical Approach']

Pre-Napier Funded Projects

  • Postdoctoral Research Project in Innovation Management

Current Post Grad projects

Non-Napier PhD or MSc by Research supervisions

  • PhD project: User charges, marketisation of university education and implication for access in developed and developing countries: Case studies of Nigeria and Scotland (1980-2017)
  • PhD project: Exploring Employee Voice in Selected Hotels in Lagos-Nigeria
  • PhD project: An exploration of the impact of Brexit on health and social care workforce in Scotland