Chidozie Umeh

ORCID: 0000-0001-6816-7788
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Research Areas
  • Management and Organizational Studies
  • Gender Diversity and Inequality
  • Work-Family Balance Challenges
  • Retirement, Disability, and Employment
  • Participatory Visual Research Methods
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
  • Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Islamic Finance and Banking Studies
  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management
  • Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
  • Customer Service Quality and Loyalty
  • Global and Cross-Cultural Management
  • Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
  • Labor Movements and Unions
  • Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
  • Social and Cultural Dynamics

University of York
2022-2024

Queen Mary University of London
2020

Abstract Organisations, worldwide, have introduced human resource management (HRM) and equality, diversity, inclusion (EDI) policies to address the inherent disadvantages experienced by employees with diverse social identities in different national contexts. In this study, we draw on McCall's comparative intersectional framework Chadwick's narrative methodologies materiality voice, investigate employees' experiences of EDI a multiethnic setting. Vignette interview data were obtained from two...

10.1111/1748-8583.12441 article EN Human Resource Management Journal 2022-03-24

Purpose The purpose of the anthology is to explore how major societal shifts or “megatrends” are impacting world work and provide guidance for human resource management (HRM) professionals. Design/methodology/approach adopts a varied approach encompassing literature reviews, empirical research conceptual frameworks offer informed perspectives on identifying interpreting megatrends' impact HRM. Findings synthesis highlights several key impacts future work: transformative power technological...

10.1108/pr-02-2025-0100 article EN Personnel Review 2025-03-21

This article draws on Pierre Bourdieu’s critical sociology to explore the socio-political processes through which social resources or capital are sought and ethnic inequalities negotiated, legitimated enforced in a postcolonial work context. Applying Bourdieusian analysis data from interviews vignettes Nigerian banking sector, constructs ‘ethnicised identity’ ‘symbolic developed show how employees across divides hierarchies use symbolic markers negotiate benefits enforce control as...

10.1177/09500170231173604 article EN cc-by Work Employment and Society 2023-06-21

This study explores how the elements of internal service quality recognised in developed markets can be implemented a culturally diverse emerging market by using context-sensitive approach linked to material experiences employees and customers who deliver consume services, respectively. We draw on profit chain model (S-PCM) semi-structured interviews with 35 two subsidiaries multinational hotel global south country, Nigeria. Our findings extend existing five model, focusing ‘business case’...

10.5465/amproc.2023.16465abstract article EN Academy of Management Proceedings 2023-07-24

Leadership has often been explored as a shared, contextually embedded process contingent on group trust in leader who embodies shared identity. Still, very little is known about the diversifying potential of leadership, specifically what and how new relational formations emerge within existing leadership arrangements are experienced reported by interactants (leaders followers) specific settings. In this study, we draw Social Identity Theory evidence from participant-led photos interview data...

10.5465/amproc.2023.19087abstract article EN Academy of Management Proceedings 2023-07-24

In this article, we examine ethnicity, class/status, (ethnic) identity, and inequality from an intersectional perspective in two organizations a multi-ethnic developing country. Inequalities bounded/literal identity categories - such as gender, race/ethnicity, class/status – their interlinkages have been widely studied the global North. However, how intersecting bounded symbolic may (re)produce legitimise inequalities South, specifically contexts, remain under-researched. From analyzing...

10.5465/ambpp.2020.19559abstract article EN Academy of Management Proceedings 2020-07-29

Although macro-social influences on managerial and international HRM practices have been extensively reported in the literature, alignments contentions between these post-colonial states are, however, poorly understood. This paper examines role of traditional Western-informed, non-traditional, elite managers introducing progressing universal agendas, under a Praetorian regime Pakistan. In-depth interviews were conducted with professionals, union representatives, working Pakistani public...

10.5465/ambpp.2022.16765abstract article EN Academy of Management Proceedings 2022-07-06
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