Tom Calvard

Member Since: 11th Feb 2015
Dr Tom Calvard is a lecturer in HR and Organisation Studies at the University of Edinburgh Business School. He has a general interest in research and teaching on diverse perspectives, viewpoints, and boundaries in and across organisations. He has sought to apply this general interest to understanding more specific topics of interest to HR and business, including team working, diversity management, boundary spanning, big data, work place/space, and social media.
Lecturer In Human Resource Management University of Edinburgh Business School
26th Jun 2017
Is there a need for HR to form a strategic partnership with IT to get value from big data?
There is an argument – sometimes called the ‘law of requisite variety’ – that if the technological changes going on outside organisations...
Business
26th Mar 2015
Your total guide to diversity quotas
There’s so much rich insight coming out of the academic sector that HR professionals need to know. At Academics’ Corner we feature the best...
Change
24th Feb 2015
What should we do with the multi-generational workforce?
There’s so much rich insight coming out of the academic sector that HR professionals need to know. At Academics' Corner we feature the best...
Culture
29th Jan 2014
Analysing analytics: what does big data mean for HR?
“The net of delusion is being cast ever wider, as we are bombarded with more and more information masquerading as knowledge, more and more...
Business
18th Nov 2013
Move over teamwork - what about the other forms of co-operative working?
Taken very broadly, there are two kinds of management or business research thinking when it comes to teams: perspectives that think teams...
Managers