Role
As Associate Head of School for Teaching and Learning i have overall School responsibility for :
Quality Assurance, Periodic Review, Programme Development and Approval, Annual Programme Monitoring and liaising with external examiners. I am responsible for leading and coordinating the development of the School curriculum.
I am also responsible for chairing Subject Assessment Panels and both Postgraduate and Undergraduate Award and Progression Boards for the School/Faculty. I chair the Academic Dishonesty/Offences Committee for the School, the student extenuating circumstances committee and i also have a role in ensuring student complaints are addressed appropriately.
I am a member of the School Executive Team and thereby involved in the determination of School policies and strategies across a wide range of subject matter.
I represent the School on Faculty Teaching and Learning Committee.
I act as both Chair and Panel member on Programme Approval events for programmes in other Faculties within the University.
As a separate but current role i am also the Programme Manager for the B.Sc in Business Management. This programme has been accredited by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI).
Qualifications & background
Degrees/Professional Qualification
University College Cardiff. 1964-69
1967 B. Sc. Econ. Obtained Upper Second in 1967. Main subjects: Law and Accountancy
1968 Post Grad. Diploma in Personnel Management, Sept. 1968 which also conferred Graduate Membership of the Institute of Personnel Management.
1973 M.Sc. Econ. by research.
Thesis Title: A study of the levels and sources of job satisfaction among bus drivers and bus conductors. Superviser Prof. George Thomason.
Present and previous positions:
- 2010 Associate Head of School of Management.
· Sept. 2002 Head of Subject Group HRS group.
· Jan. 1999. Appointed Academic Group Leader of the Human Resource Studies Group.
· 1985-present: Plymouth Polytechnic, latterly the University of Plymouth.
Initially temporary and part-time, permanent since 1988-9.
· 1977-82 British Film Institute. Personnel Manager and subsequently Head of Personnel and Administrative Services.
· 1974-77 Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS)-Industrial Relations Officer/Senior Industrial Relations Officer.
· 1973-74 Commission on Industrial Relations (CIR) -Industrial Relations Officer.
· 1970-73 Portsmouth Polytechnic- Lecturer I and II in Economics and Industrial Relations.
Research interests
Currently my main research interests include the;
· EU Social Dimension,
· HRM policies and practices in Egypt and in Multinational Organisations with particular reference to issues of diffusion and convergence
. Issues of Social Sustainability in Supply Chains and with particular reference to MNCs.
Research degrees awarded to supervised students
I have supervised as Director of Studies 5 successful Ph.D and 1 M.Phil. students, topics have included; team effectiveness and quality of work life issues in Egypt, Human resource management practices in Taiwan, employee commitment and trust in the NHS and training needs analysis.
I have also acted as Ph.D. examiner.
Publications
Publications.
Books
Sole Author:
- Leat. M. 2007 Exploring Employee Relations in an International Context. Elsevier.
- Leat. M 2001 Exploring Employee Relations. Butterworth Heinnemann. 440 pp.
- Leat M. 1998 Human Resource Issues of the European Union. Financial Times Pitman Publishing. 380pp. Now available as a print on demand edition.
Joint Author
- Hollinshead G & Leat M. 1995 Human Resource Management : An International and Comparative Perspective on the Employment Relationship. Pitman.
Chapters in Books
- Leat M 2003 The European Union and the impact for employee relations in the UK. in Hollinshead G., Nicholls P. and Tailby S. Employee Relations. 2nd Edit. Pearson.
- Leat M. 2003. Multinationals and Employee Relations. in Hollinshead G., Nicholls P. and Tailby S. Employee Relations. 2nd Edit. Pearson.
- Leat M 1999 The European Union and the impact for employee relations in the UK. in Hollinshead G., Nicholls P. and Tailby S. Employee Relations Financial Times Pitman Publishing.
- Leat M. and Woolley J. 1999 Multinationals and Employee Relations. in Hollinshead G., Nicholls P. and Tailby S. Employee Relations Financial Times Pitman Publishing.
Peer review Journal Articles.
- Ashby. A., Leat. M. and Hudson-Smith. M. Making Connections -
- A Review of Supply Chain Management and Sustainability Literature. Supply Chain Management - an International Journal. Forthcoming.
- Liu.S., Hudson-Smith.M.and Leat.M. State-of-the-art sustainability analysis methodologies for efficient decision support in green production operations. International Journal of Sustainable Engineering. April 2011.
- Leat M. and El-Kot. G. Interpersonal trust at work, intrinsic motivation, work related tension and satisfaction in Egypt. International Journal of Workplace Health Management. Vol. 2. No. 2 pp. 180-194. 2009.
- El-Kot G. and Leat M. Employees perceptions of supervisory facets: an investigation within an Egyptian context. International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management. Vol.1. No. 2.149-165. 2008.
- Leat M.and El-Kot G. A survey of recruitment and selection practices in Egypt. Education, Business and Society: Contemporary Middle Eastern Issues, 1 (3): 200-212. 2008.
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- Leat, M. and El Kot, G. HRM Practices in Egypt: The influence of national context? International Journal of Human Resource Management. Volume 18 Issue 1, pp.147-pp.158. 2007.
- El Kot G. and Leat M. HRM Practices in Egypt: do Egyptian and Foreign owned organisations adopt similar practices and the influence of national context. Arab Journal of Administration, 27 (1): 175-199. 2007.
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- Leat M and El Kot G. Investigating Team Work in the Egyptian Context. Personnel Review. Vol. 34 no.1. 2005.
- El Kot G, Leat M. and Sadler Smith E,. Differentiating Work Autonomy Facets in an Egyptian Context. Journal of Organisational Behaviour. 24, 709-731 (2003).
- Gardiner P, Leat M.J. and Sadler-Smith E. Learning in Organisations: HR Implications and Considerations. Human Resource Development International. 2001 4:3 pp 391-405.
- Hsu, Yu-Ru, and Leat M.J. A Study of recruitment and Selection Policies and Practices in Taiwan. International Journal Of Human Resource Management 11: 2 April 2000 pp. 413-435.
- Sadler-Smith E, Badger B and Leat M. J Physician heal thyself! Tension vs Satisfaction in Personnel practitioners. Human Resource Management Journal. 10. 4. 2000 pp.8-15.
- Leat M. J. and Lovell M.J., Training needs analysis: weaknesses in the conventional approach., Journal of Industrial Training 1997. Vol 21 No. 4, pp.143-153.
