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Department of Management
Assistant Professor in Management
(Human Resource Management)
Salary is competitive with Departments at our peer institutions worldwide.
Salary is no less than £58,519 per annum (pay award pending) and the salary scale can be found on the LSE website
In addition, this post will attract a significant market salary supplement which reflects current market conditions.
The Department of Management plays a central role in the LSE, a global, single-faculty, social science university located in the heart of London. The Department’s faculty and research strength is centred in employment relations and human resource management, organisational behaviour, managerial economics and strategy, information systems and innovation, marketing, and operations management. The Department’s faculty members are engaged in research and scholarly activity across LSE, through research centres such as the Centre for Economic Performance, the Behavioural Lab for Research and Teaching, and interdisciplinary Institutes. The Department’s own portfolio of degrees includes the BSc Management, a two-year Masters in Management, and specialist one-year masters programmes.
The post holder will contribute to the intellectual life of the School through conducting and publishing outstanding quality research, engaging in high quality teaching as instructed by the Head of Department, and participating in the School and wider Department activities.
The Department of Management at LSE seeks to hire an outstanding Assistant Professor who will strengthen our internationally renowned, innovative and publicly engaged faculty. Applications will be considered from candidates who investigate HRM foundational domains (e.g., staffing, learning and development, equality, diversity and inclusion, retention, rewards, performance management, voice), as well as areas such as comparative and international HRM and employment relations, strategic HRM, HR analytics, emerging technologies (e.g., AI, algorithms), and the future of work.
Successful applicants will have a PhD or be close to completing a PhD by the post start date in a social science discipline and/or an interdisciplinary field relevant to human resource management. You will have a track record of internationally excellent publications, or a trajectory for achieving this, as well as a well-developed strategy for future outstanding research that has the potential to result in world-leading publications in top journals. You will also have a demonstrable ability to teach on undergraduate, postgraduate, or executive programmes in management.
The other criteria that will be used when shortlisting for this post can be found on the person specification, which is attached to this vacancy on the LSE’s online recruitment system.
In addition to a competitive salary the benefits that come with this job include an occupational pension scheme, a research incentive scheme with personal reward options, generous research leave (sabbatical) entitlement, a collegial faculty environment and excellent support, training and development opportunities.
For further information about the post, please see the how to apply document, job description and the person specification.
To apply for this post, please go to www.jobs.lse.ac.uk. If you have any technical queries with applying on the online system, please use the “contact us” links at the bottom of the LSE Jobs page. Should you have any queries about the role, please email dom.facultyaffairs@lse.ac.uk.
The closing date for receipt of applications is 7 September 2022 (23.59 UK time). We are unable to accept any late applications.