Chairman CIPD
Stephen Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at the Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, a national examiner for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and an HR consultant with Hicks Watson. He previously taught at Manchester Business School and worked in a variety of HR management roles in the hotel industry and in the NHS. He teaches in employment law, employee resourcing, employee relations and the business context at postgraduate and undergraduate level. Research interests include employee retention, occupational pensions and regulatory issues. He is the author / co-author of several books including four editions of "People Resourcing", two editions of "Employment Law: An Introduction" (with Astra Emir), "The Employee Retention Handbook" and five editions of "Human Resource Management" (with Derek Torrington and Laura Hall). A new book by Stephen entitled "HRM: Contemporary Trends and Future Agendas" will be published in 2011. He regularly represents parties in employment tribunals.