Work is not only about tasks — it’s about how work is designed and experienced.
📌For #SafeDay, join the conversation on building healthier psychosocial working environments:
https://ow.ly/PX1H50YIKeF
National Productivity Week is just one month away! 27 Apr–1 May 2026.
This nationwide programme bringing together researchers, policymakers and business leaders to improve outcomes for people, firms and places.
Full programme: www.productivityweek.co.uk/whats-on/
The research raises critical questions about the limits and social consequences of these expectations, contributing to debates on #work, #unemployment and the #politics of #employability.
Read the full article here 👉 bit.ly/4s35fiu
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🔊New article!
WEI lecturer John Foster has published an article in @humanrelationsjnl.bsky.social focusing on a 12-month ethnographic study showing how #employability increasingly demands that unemployed people continually reshape themselves into more "sellable" identities.
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Social security and health are fundamental human rights.
Yet even where laws guarantee equal access to healthcare, labour market inequalities mean women don’t benefit equally in practice.
📖 A new ILO brief explains: https://ow.ly/zxRZ50Yo1Vn
Over 100 million people have benefited from improved social protection coverage through @ilo's support.
Behind these numbers are real lives changed, people better able to retire with dignity, access healthcare & support their families in times of crisis.
https://ow.ly/wWbc50Yws5B
#DecentWork isn’t just about making a living—it’s about living well.
WEI lecturer Imran Saqib has a new article published in
@forbes.com based on a study of a consortium of LLMs.
It shows the strengths and weaknesses of AI vs human decision making and the importance of 'human' in human resource management.
Read more here bit.ly/4ambIhu
📊 Last year's Pankhurst–Fawcett Scorecard showed inequality still touched every area of life for women and girls in #GreaterManchester. What will the 2026 Scorecard reveal?
Join us online, 6 Feb, 12–2pm and be part of the conversation about what happens next: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gm4women20...
Countries face many challenges in achieving #DecentWork for all.
Social dialogue paves the way by fostering collaboration and integrated policymaking.
Learn more: https://ow.ly/KZ5750UoAH7
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Thanks to Virginia Doellgast for sharing in-depth findings, and to all who attended and engaged in this insightful presentation.
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#WorkerVoice #Work #Equalities #Fairness #Employment #WorksCouncils #EqualityinWorkplaces
The German experience highlights the importance of legal frameworks and shared goals for successful worker engagement with AI. Lessons for organisations navigating workplace change!
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Unions and works councils played a crucial role in negotiating AI’s implementation, often blocking or shaping management decisions to benefit workers.
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Strong collective worker voice in German firms – driven by laws, agreements, and shared narratives – led to better outcomes for employees facing AI-driven changes.
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AI in the workplace can automate work & management tasks. Outcomes include job replacement but also empowerment, depending on how technology is implemented.
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Ginny’s study focused on companies like British Telecom, Deutsche Telecom & IBM. She explored how unions & works councils shape AI adoption and workplace practices, especially in German companies.
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Last week WEI & the Manchester Industrial Relations Society hosted Virginia Doellgast (Cornell, US) at @alliancembs.bsky.social
Ginny shared research conducted 2020-2024 on AI’s impact on call centre jobs in the US, Canada, Germany & Norway.
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Job vacancy at @alliancembs.bsky.social to work with the WEI as Professor in Human Resource Management and/or Employment Relations, contributing world-leading research with a strong focus on academic, societal and economic impact
More details here: bit.ly/4q7TDdE
Closing date: 6th January 2026
Human rights have no office hours.
Wednesday is #HumanRightsDay.
📘New article!
Isabel Tavora, Imran Saqib and Saleema Kauser have a new article published in the British Journal of Management
Advancing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Through Voice for All: The Role of Employee Resource Groups
Read the full article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
... with the aim of investigating the conditions for workers to establish collective voice in these decisions.
Virginia Doellgast's research focuses on the comparative political economy of labor markets and labor unions, inequality, precarity, and democracy at work.
Only a few days to go until the lecture!
The talk is titled "Building worker voice and power in AI decisions: Three cases in the German ICT industry"
It is based on a paper comparing works council initiatives to influence the adoption and deployment of AI-based tools in three German ICT companies
1️⃣ One week to go!
📢 WEI Annual Lecture with Professor Virginia Doellgast!
The WEI Annual Lecture 2025 will be co-hosted with the Manchester Industrial Relations Society (MIRS)
📅 Thursday 11th December
🕒 15:00-16:30
📍 Alliance Manchester Business School
Free registration bit.ly/3LskO3L
Forced labour and slavery are not a thing of the past.
🔴 Almost 50 million people were in modern slavery in 2021.
Nothing can justify this human rights abuse today.
#EndModernSlavery
Lots of tickets still available for our annual lecture on Thursday 11th December!
Details and free registration via the link below 👇
Lots of tickets still available for our annual lecture on Thursday 11th December!
Details and free registration via the link below 👇
How will the conclusions of #SocialSummit2025 shape the future of work?
The final episode of our special podcast series looks at what renewed commitments on poverty eradication, #DecentWork and social inclusion mean in practice.
🎧 Listen now: ow.ly/XOL250XvNxz
Today we celebrate International Women’s Entrepreneurship Day!
Women’s entrepreneurship is crucial for social and economic development, and represents a powerful pathway to advance gender equality in the world of work.
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