Dr Zella King
International Business and Strategy
Senior Lecturer
Director, PhD Programme, International Business and Strategy
Email: z.m.e.king@henley.reading.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 118 378 5061
Location: HBS 147, Whiteknights campus
Zella King is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management and Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management Research. She teaches Strategic Human Resource Management and supervises PhD students with interests in social networks, human capital, career management and employability. Her research analyses the strategic choices that people make about their human and social capital; investigates how staffing and recruitment companies affect employment outcomes; and explores how academics and technology entrepreneurs build their social capital through the choice of collaboration partners.
She is fascinated by social networks and their influence on the creation and spread of ideas. Zella has a BA in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in Occupational Psychology from Birkbeck College, London. Before joining the academic world, she worked as a Consultant for Accenture, and as a Corporate Finance Executive for the investment bank Schroders.
By area: Career Management; Human Resource Management; Social Networks; Employability; Staffing agencies; HR function
By industry: Recruitment consultancy; Plastic Electronics
Module convenor on Strategic Human Resource Management (undergraduate course)
CIPD. 2010. Human Capital Reporting: What information counts in the City published by Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, London.
King, Z. 2009. Plastic Electronics: Putting the UK at the forefront of a new technological revolution . Advanced Institute of Management Research, London.
AIM Innovation Fellows. 2009. At the Edge of Innovation: Why Shifts in the Boundaries of Innovation Matter. Advanced Institute of Management Research, London.
CIPD. 2007. Investors' views of human capital, report published by Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, London.
CIPD guide on Career Management (2nd edition), 2004, report published by Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, London.
Bradley L., Gregson G., King, Z., Pate, J., Möslein, K., Neely A. 2004, The Challenges of Business-University Collaboration: Context, Content and Process, Advanced Institute of Management Research, London.
Guest D., King, Z., Conway, N., Michie, J. and Sheehan-Quinn M., 2001, Voices from the Boardroom, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, London.
IPD guide on Career Management (1st edition), 1998. Report published by Institute of Personnel and Development (now CIPD), London.
Faggian, A., Jewell, S. and King, Z. (2010) The effect of term-time employment on UK higher education students. In: Valencia, L. K. and Hahn, B. J. (eds.) Employment and Labor Issues: Unemployment, Youth Employment and Child Labor. Nova Science Publishers, pp. 39-68. ISBN 9781608762828
Della Giusta, M. and King, Z. (2006) Enterprise culture. In: Casson, M., Yeung, B., Bassus, A. and Wadeson, N. (eds.) The Oxford handbook of entrepreneurship. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 629-647. ISBN 9780199288984
Guest, D. and King, Z. (2005) Managing development and career management. In: Bach, S. (ed.) Managing Human resources: personnel management in transition, 4th edition. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 237-265. ISBN 9781405118514