Staff Profile:Dr Zella King
- Name:
- Dr Zella King
- Job Title:
- Senior Lecturer
- Responsibilities:
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Senior Lecturer and AIM Innovation Fellow.
Director, PhD programme, School of Management.
- Areas of Interest:
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Career Management; Employability; Collaboration; Interpersonal Networks in organizations.
- Research groups / Centres:
- .Centre for Institutional Performance (CIP)
- Publications:
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Academic Publications
- Della Giusta, M. and King, Z. (2006), 'Enterprise Culture' in Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship, M. Casson et al. (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press pp. 629-650.
- King, Z., Pemberton, J., and Burke, S. (2005) 'The Bounded Career: An Empirical Study of Human Capital, Career Mobility and Employment Outcomes in a Mediated Labour Market', Human Relations, 58(8), 981-1007.
- Guest, D. and King, Z (2005). 'Management Development and Career Management', in Personnel Management (4th edition), S. Bach, (ed.), Oxford: Blackwell pp. 237-265.
- King, Z. (2004) 'Career Self-Management: Its Nature, Causes and Consequences', Journal of Vocational Behavior, 65(1): 112-133.
- Guest, D., and King, Z (2004). 'Power, Innovation and Problem-Solving: The Personnel Manager's Three Steps to Heaven?', Journal of Management Studies, 41(3): 401-424.
- Bradley, L., Gregson G., King, Z., Pate, J., Moslein, K., Neely A. (2004)'The Challenges of Business-University Collaboration: Context, Content and Process', London: AIM Research
- King, Z. (2003) 'New or traditional careers? A study of UK graduates' preferences', Human Resource Management Journal, 13(1): 5-26.
- King, Z. (2001) 'Career Self-Management: A Framework for Guidance of Employed Adults', British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 29(1): 65-78.
Selected Practitioner Publications
- Plastic Electronics: Putting the UK at the Forefront of a New Technological Revolution, (2009), Advanced Institute of Management Research
- Division of Signal Transduction Therapy, University of Dundee, (2007), case study of an exemplary incidence of university-business collaboration.
- Knowledge Production and University Business Interaction in the Life Sciences, (2006), Report to the Department of Trade and Industry.
- CIPD Guide on Career Management(2nd edition), (2004), Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, London.
- Research and Development in the Thames Valley, (2003), report prepared for the Thames Valley Economic Partnership.
- Guest D., King, Z., Conway, N., Michie, J. and Sheehan-Quinn M., (2001), Voices from the Boardroom, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, London.
Background
Zella King is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management and an AIM Innovation Fellow.
She teaches Strategic Human Resource Management and supervises PhD students with interests in: social networks; human capital, career management and employability.
Zella has a BA in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University and a PhD in Occupational Psychology from Birkbeck College, London. Before joining the academic world, she worked for five years as a Consultant for Accenture, and as a Corporate Finance Executive for the investment bank Schroders. After completing her PhD, she was funded by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) as a Research Fellow at King's College, London. She joined the University of Reading in 2002. Between 2005 and 2007 was the Director of a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (visit the Centre for Career Managment Skills). In 2007 she was awarded a Fellowship of the Advanced Institute of Management Research., and is one of a group of Innovation Fellows researching issues relating to the UK's innovation performance.
Zella King has published academic papers in Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Vocational Behavior, and the Human Resource Management Journal, and is on the editorial board of Human Relations.
Research Areas
Dr Zella King's research is based primarily in occupational psychology, drawing on insights from labour economics and HRM. She examines behaviour, attitudes and relationships of individuals at work and relate these to outcomes for the individuals, for their employers or for policy. Her research aims to make a contribution by:
- Advancing knowledge about career self-management, identifying three dimensions of career self-management (positioning strategies, influence strategies and defence of personal time) and examining how career-enhancing relationships are chosen
- Extending knowledge of collaboration choices, focusing on choices of research collaborators by scientists and engineers working in the life sciences and in plastic electronics
- Identifying the effects of interpersonal networks on work attitudes, behaviour, turnover and performance.
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Understanding employment outcomes, looking at the effects of intermediaries, the relationship between human capital investments and labour market outcomes, and the impact of values on labour supply decisions.
Research Funding
- 2007-9 £129,346 from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) for an AIM mid-career Fellowship in Innovation, addressing research networks in emerging technologies
- 2005-8 £110,000 from HEFCE's CETL programme for two PhD studentships examining career education, career management skills and graduate destinations
- 2006-7 £5,000 from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development to investigate investors' perceptions of Human Capital Reporting.
- 2004-6 £49,400 from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and SEEDA to investigate the determinants of localised knowledge exchanges in business clusters
- 2003 £2,500 project co-funded by the University of Reading and Thames Valley Economic Partnership to explore the extent of R&D in the Thames Valley.
- Qualifications:
- BA Cambridge; PhD London
