About King's Business School

Professor of Human Resource Management

King’s Business School

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About King’s Business School
King’s Business School is the ninth and newest faculty at King’s College London, emerging out of the renowned School of Management & Business.

King’s Business School is a research-intensive school, which has the benefit of being integrated within a world-leading, multi-faculty institution. The School is based in the iconic Bush House building in central London, from where it forms a hub for engagement with business, the City, public sector organisations, government and NGOs.

With an emphasis on relevance and diversity, the School fosters an entrepreneurial mind-set in students, equipping them to face the challenges and embrace the opportunities of tomorrow.

The School’s mission is ‘To educate; to challenge; to change’ and its ethos is centred around rigour, relevance, responsibility and ambition.
Students discussing business

Mission and vision


A connected Business School​

We’re more than thought leaders. We’re business activists, developing bold ideas to tackle the world’s major challenges. We foster the knowledge, confidence, and adaptability our students will need to be the right kinds of leaders for the economy and society. ​

We collaborate across disciplines, working together to find new approaches to business in a rapidly changing world. We connect brilliant minds in subjects as diverse as AI, psychology, or defence. And we connect daring organisations with the people who can help them develop and test ideas that will transform the way they work.

Part of a world-class university​

King’s College London has a heritage of pioneering thinking. Centres of excellence from law to medicine are finding innovative ways to build the bright future we all believe in. ​Our culture challenges staff to open themselves up to these new perspectives from across the university, working together on practical applications that will produce real impact.

At the heart of the world’s greatest city

Like the community at King’s, London is diverse, energetic and boundary pushing. We have limitless sources of inspiration to draw on. ​Our people and our ideas are at the heart of  whole worlds of influence. Our work spans multiple sectors, letting us spot common issues,  translate successful ideas from industry to industry and shape new partnerships.
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​Networks across the world​

New ideas formed here have the power to transfer across the world. From collaborations with other leading universities, to networks with our international alumni, our influence spreads far and wide. ​Together, we will tackle the world’s major challenges for the good of the economy, the environment, society – and businesses everywhere.​

Figures and focus

King’s Business School currently comprises a growing body of 140 academic staff and 60 professional services staff and is led by Executive Dean, Professor Stephen Bach. Under Professor Bach, the School is establishing a distinctive approach that reflects the new challenges facing business, government and start-ups in a more volatile and uncertain world.

With over 2,500 students the School delivers a comprehensive education portfolio, from its undergraduate programmes (Business Management, International Management, Economics & Management, Accounting & Finance, Health Care Management, Mathematics with Management & Finance and Economics) to a wide-range of specialist MSc programmes covering Human Resources Management & Organisational Analysis, Accounting, Accountability & Financial Management, Economics & Finance, Executive Management, Finance Analytics, Corporate Finance, Asset Pricing, Banking and Finance, International Marketing, Marketing & Digital Marketing, Strategic Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Management Research, International Management, and Public Services Management. The School has two fully online Master’s programmes, a developing executive education portfolio and a number of collaborative programmes with other faculties. A growing postgraduate research programme with 90 doctoral students spans all of the School’s management disciplines.

In the last Research Excellence Framework exercise (2014) the School was ranked 8th amongst all universities in Britain, with over half of its submitted impact case studies being classified 4*, representing world-leading in terms of originality, significance and rigour. More recently, the School has focused on advancing research on the interdisciplinary themes of Digitalisation, The Future of Work, Global Business Strategy and Governance, Risk and Regulation. The School has now launched four Research Centres in support of this strategic investment, reflecting the most challenging and important issues confronting today’s scholars, practitioners and policy makers.

Research within the School currently falls into seven research groups underpinned by a common set of values – being rigorous, relevant, inclusive and innovative. Each runs a programme of research related activities including seminars, funded projects and engagement with policymakers, practitioners and other scholars from within and beyond King’s College London.

The seven research groups are:
  • Accounting & Financial Management
  • Banking & Finance
  • Economics
  • Human Resource Management & Employment Relations
  • Strategy, International Management & Entrepreneurship
  • Marketing
  • Public Services Management and Organisation (PSMO)

The School currently has four specialist research centres:
  • Consumer and Organisational Digital Analytics Research Centre (CODA)
  • Data Analytics for Finance and Macro Research Centre (DAFM)
  • FinWork Futures: The Future of Financial Work
  • Qatar Centre for Global Banking & Finance

Senior Leadership Team


  • Professor Stephen Bach is the Dean of King’s Business School
  • Professor Ko de Ruyter is the Vice-Dean (Research)
  • Professor Sally Everett is the Vice-Dean (Education)
  • Professor Igor Filatotchev is the Vice-Dean (International)
  • Professor Gulcin Ozkan is the Vice-Dean (Staffing)
  • Professor Damian Grimshaw is the Associate Dean (Impact & Innovation)
  • Professor Crawford Spence is the Associate Dean (Executive Education & Accreditation)
  • Dr Uta Bindll is the Associate Dean (Doctoral Studies)
  • Dr Suzanne Marcuzzi is the Faculty Operating Officer (FOO)


The seven Heads of Group also sit on the Senior Leadership Team.

Human Resource Management & Employment Relations  


About the HRM and Employment Relations Subject Group

The HRM & ER group has responsibility for running the highly regarded MSc in HRM and Organisational Analysis, as well as teaching a very wide range of core and optional modules across generalist UG and PG programmes within the School. We are looking for someone to lead and revitalise modules in HRM and International HRM primarily at undergraduate level. Our group’s multi-disciplinary research spans the fields of human resource management, organizational behaviour and employment relations. We are interested in understanding how the changing nature of work and employment affects individuals, organizations and society.

Employment Relations

Our work on employment relations examines issues around the world, from globalization and industrial relations to the changing role of trade unions and how they can maintain influence. Key themes include:
  • The collective power of trade unions
  • The impact of AI on the organization of work, leadership and the experience of workers
  • Skills and institutions
  • Work-life balance and self-sacrifice
  • Graduate employment and internships
  • Frontline service work
  • Atypical working
  • Critical approaches to understanding managerial strategies

Human Resource Management

Research within the group on HRM focuses on contemporary issues such as careers, retirement, HR systems and strategies, inequality, gender, engagement and meaningful work. Key themes include:
  • HR systems and strategies
  • The role of HRM in workplace inequality and flexibility
  • Careers, callings and occupational regret
  • Retirement
  • Gender in careers and the gender pay gap
  • Employee assessment, selection and development
  • Employee engagement
  • Meaning, purpose and meaningful work
  • Temporality and interstitial times and places in organizations
  • Management practice and pedagogy

Organizational behaviour

Our organizational behaviour research focuses on a range of core topics related to individual attitudes and behaviours at work. In particular, we are currently investigating the following themes:
  • Employee wellbeing and performance
  • Burnout
  • Organizational citizenship behaviour
  • Motivation and proactivity
  • Affect regulation
  • The psychological contract
  • Social exchange relationships
  • Leadership styles and leadership development

For further details on members of the Group please click here.

About King’s College London


King's College London offers an intellectually stimulating environment in which to work, where staff are dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and learning in the service of society. We are a multi-Faculty institution, providing high-quality education, research and innovation across the sciences, humanities, medicine, law, dentistry, and social sciences. As a member of the Russell Group, an association of leading UK research-intensive universities, we are committed to maintaining the highest standards in research and education. King's is the largest centre for the education of healthcare professionals in Europe and is home to five Medical Research Council Centres spread across its three teaching hospitals.

King's is one of the top 10 UK universities in the world (QS World University Rankings, 2020) and the fourth oldest university in England, based in the heart of London. King's has over 31,000 students (including more than 12,800 postgraduates) from some 150 countries, and over 8,500 employees.

King’s provides world-class education and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). King’s is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of c£900 million (2019).

King's Strategic Vision 2029

King’s Strategic Vision looks forward to our 200th anniversary in 2029. It shows how King’s will make the world a better place by focusing on five key strategic priorities: educate to inspire and improve; research to inform and innovate; serve to shape and transform; a civic university at the heart of London; an international community that serves the world.

For further information on our strategic plans please visit our website where you can download the Vision 2029.