1. Leeds University Business School
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Dr Jiachen Shi

  • Position: Lecturer in Human Resource Management (Teaching and Scholarship)
  • Areas of expertise: Rhetorics and realities of HRM; strategic HRM; labour law; economic institutions; HRM reform; transition economies; Chinese approach to HRM; financial services sector; contextual performance
  • Email: J.Shi3@leeds.ac.uk
  • Phone: +44(0)113 343 8517
  • Location: G.01 23 Lyddon Terrace

Responsibilities

  • UG and PG Teaching
  • Dissertation supervisor
  • Personal Tutor

Research interests

Jiachen’s research interests include strategic human resource management, rhetorics and realities of HRM, HRM reform, labour law, economic institutions, external envionmental forces to SHRM, Chinese approach to HRM, contextual performance, personalities, job satisfaction, labour migration, financial services sector, broadcasting industry, transition economies and platform economy.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Work and Employment Relations, University of Leeds
  • MA in Human Resource Management, University of Leeds
  • BSc in Human Resource Management, University of International Business and Economics (China)

Professional memberships

  • Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) Associate Membership

Student education

Jiachen’s teaching is in the areas of

  • Human Resource Management
  • Management, Work and Organisations
  • People Analytics
  • Gender and Equality at Work
  • Economic Institutions
  • Business and Society 
  • HRM Dissertations

 

Conference Papers

Shi, J. (2018) The Development of Strategic Human Resource Management in the Chinese Financial Service Sector: Understanding the roles of external economic factors and the state. Presented at 2018 Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change annual doctoral conference 

Shi, J. (2017) External Economic Factors’ impacts on Employers HRM Decisions in the Chinese Financial Services Sector. Presented at International Labour Process Conference 2017

Shi, J. (2016) The Development of Strategic Human Resource Management in the Chinese Financial Services Sector: Employers’ HR decisions in responding to external environmental changes. Presented at The Work, Employment and Society Conference 2016: Work in Crisis

Shi, J. (2015) Employers’ HRM response to external economic factors in the Chinese Financial Services Sector. Presented at 2015 Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change annual doctoral conference. Leeds, UK and Karlstads, Sweden

Shi, J. (2014a) Employers’ HRM response to external economic factors in China. Presented at White Rose Doctoral Conference 2014

Shi, J. (2014b) Employers’ HRM response to external economic factors in China: A Literature Review. Presented at 2014 Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change annual doctoral conference