Kiri Langmead
kiri langmead

Dr Kiri Langmead

  

Biography

Dr Kiri Langmead is a Lecturer in Human Resource Management at The Business School (TBS). She is currently Programme Leader for the Global Online MSc in Human Resource Management.

Kiri’s research focuses on workplace democracy and non-hierarchical organising, with an emphasis on worker cooperatives. Through this she seeks to extend our understanding of organisational theory and practice to include more empowering, collaborative and participatory forms of organising. By engaging in ethnographic studies and action research her work explores:

- Practices of power and empowerment in non-hierarchical organisations
- Human resource management in non-hierarchical organisations, and practices of Common Good HRM.
- The creation of meaningful and disalienating work.

Alongside the above, Kiri’s research questions the role and responsibilities of critical management scholars. Specifically, she examines how academics can broaden their impact by supporting practitioners to move towards more socially and environmentally responsible form of organising.

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Exploring the Role of Worker Co-operatives in the Co-creation of Meaningful Work

Book Chapter
Langmead, K., & Webster, A. (2023)
Exploring the Role of Worker Co-operatives in the Co-creation of Meaningful Work. In J. Manley, A. Webster, & O. Kuznetsova (Eds.), Co-operation and Co-operatives in 21st-Century Europe (60-77). Bristol: Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529226430.ch004
This chapter argues that, by compelling workers to act in the interests of owners, customers and shareholders, work in hierarchical capitalist organizations frequently disconn...

Realizing the critical performative potential of responsible organizational research through participant action research

Book Chapter
Langmead, K., & King, D. (2020)
Realizing the critical performative potential of responsible organizational research through participant action research. In O. Laasch, R. Suddaby, R. Freeman, & D. Jamali (Eds.), Research Handbook of Responsible Management (700-714). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788971966.00058
Management research, particularly critical management research, has long been criticised for making little impact on practice. One response to this critique has been Critical ...

Can management ever be responsible? Alternative organizing and the three irresponsibilities of management

Book Chapter
Langmead, K., Land, C., & King, D. (2020)
Can management ever be responsible? Alternative organizing and the three irresponsibilities of management. In O. Laasch, R. Suddaby, R. E. Freeman, & D. Jamali (Eds.), Research Handbook of Responsible Management (40-55). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788971966.00007
This chapter argues that management should be understood as a concrete set of institutionally embedded practices, rather than an abstract verb for ‘getting things done’. Manag...

Exploring the Performance of Democracy and Economic Diversity in Worker Cooperatives

Thesis
Langmead, K. Exploring the Performance of Democracy and Economic Diversity in Worker Cooperatives. (Thesis)
Sheffield Hallam University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/3119478
Adopting the lens of diverse economies theory, this thesis explores the role of democratic praxis in supporting a shift from the perceived dominance and homogeneity of capital...

From cooperative practice to research and back: Learning from the emotional experience of ethnography with two social enterprises

Journal Article
Langmead, K. (2017)
From cooperative practice to research and back: Learning from the emotional experience of ethnography with two social enterprises. Social enterprise journal, 13(2), 194-212. https://doi.org/10.1108/sej-07-2016-0028
Purpose This paper aims to explore how experiences and emotions arising from the performance of ethnography shape the construction of knowledge about democratic practice in tw...