Dr David Wren PhD, MSc, BSc, ACIPD
Senior Lecturer
Summary
I am a senior lecturer within the business school, and started teaching in 2013.
My PhD in 2016, was on "Cultures of Performance and Reward in UK Employee-Owned Businesses", and researched the organisational culture of different forms of employee ownership within the UK. Since then I have gone on to publish about Employee Ownership.
Previously, I was a customer service manager in Royal Mail and for a privately-owned American multinational, both operating in the IT sector. My interests are responsible management and societal transformation through the social economy.
About
I am course leader across a number of undergraduate courses and teach at both UG and PG levels, as well as for apprenticeships.
My passion in research is to understand how employee ownership influences the workplace, having observed it for my self-funded PhD.
As a PhD supervisor, I have two completions (one as Director of Studies) and I am currently supervising three more PhD students in the Organisational Behaviour area. I have helped to organise both physical and online, international conferences, hosted at Sheffield Hallam university and presented papers in a number of countries.
Teaching expertise
- Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management
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- Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour
Industry Links
- Associate member of the CIPD
Teaching
Sheffield Business School
College of Business, Technology and Engineering
Projects
Co-organiser for EMES conference (2019) and UFHRD conference (2022)
Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource management.
Courses
Business and Human Resource Management
Business Management
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I am currently looking at how being employee owned impacts on recruitment and retention.
Publications
Key Publications
Wren, D. (2016). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Ridley-Duff, R.
Journal articles
Wren, D. (2023). UFHRD Conference Proceedings. UFHRD Conference Proceedings.
Wren, D. (2023). UFHRD Conference Proceedings. UFHRD Conference Proceedings.
Wren, D., & Ridley-Duff, R. (2021). . Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity, 10 (1), 48-72.
Wren, D. (2020). . Employee Relations.
Ridley-duff, R., & Wren, D. (2018). . Japanese Journal of Human Welfare Studies, 11 (1), 23-42.
Ridley-Duff, R., & Wren, D. (n.d.). . .
Bretos, I., Ridley-Duff, R., & Wren, D. (n.d.). Crafting alternative work organisations: Paradoxes of workplace democracy and emancipation in worker-buyout cooperatives. Economic and Industrial Democracy.
Book chapters
Ridley-Duff, R., Wren, D., & McCulloch, M. (2022). . In Yagihashi, K. (Ed.) New Municipalism: a new democracy to transform global capitalism from the local. Akashi Shoten:
Books
Ridley-Duff, R. (Ed.). (2020). . FairShares Association Ltd.
Scholarly editions
O'Leary, C., Wren, D., Fidment, S., & Stokes, P. (Eds.). (2023). UFHRD 2022 Conference Proceedings: Mind the Gap, Bridging Theory and Practice in a Post-Covid Era. SHU Press.
Reports
Ridley-Duff, R., Schmidtchen, R., Arnold-Schaarschmidt, M., Vuković, S., Wendling, N., Klercq, J., ... Károly, J. (2018). . FairShares Labs for Social and Blue Innovation (Erasmus+ Project).
Theses / Dissertations
Connolly, D. (2024). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by O'Leary, C., Ridley-Duff, R., & Wren, D.
Hobbs, R. (2024). . (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Wren, D., Gilligan, C., & Ridley-Duff, R.
Presentations
Bretos, I., & Wren, D. (2019). Participatory governance across large cooperative and mutual social enterprises. Presented at: 7th EMES conference, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, 2019
Bretos, I., & Wren, D. (2019). Participatory governance across large cooperative and mutual social enterprises. Presented at: 7th EMES conference, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, 2019
Wren, D. (2015). Workforce participation: learning from the cooperative sector.
De Normanville, C., Wren, D., & Ridley-Duff, R. (2015). . Presented at: 5th EMES International Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Conference on Social Enterprise, Helsinki
Wren, D. (2013). The interaction between Human Resource practice and Organisational Culture within Employee Owned Businesses.
Other activities
Prize or best paper
- 2011: HRM student of the year 2010/11, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, United Kingdom
Postgraduate supervision
I am currently supervising three PhD students.