School for Business and Society
Sally Exon
- PhD student
Profile
Thesis supervisors
Research topic
Differential treatment in the workplace of employees from radicalised ethnic groups.
Research interests
Disciplinary disproportionality, the overrepresentation of employees from racialised ethnic groups in formal workplace disciplinary processes, has been demonstrated across a range of public sector organisations, over a number of years (eg Archibong and Darr, 2010; RCM, 2012; 2016; Sprinks, 2012; 2014). One mechanism proposed to contribute to disciplinary disproportionality, relates to managers’ differential use and avoidance of informal action with white and BAME staff (Tamkin, 2000; Morris et al, 2004; Archibong and Darr, 2010; Smith et al, 2012). It is not known what role organisational policy and procedure might have in allowing or deterring such differential treatment.
My PhD research explores informal action through deep analysis of local authority (LA) disciplinary, and performance or capability policy and procedure. The conceptual framework for the research includes HRM signalling theory (Bowen and Ostroff, 2004) and disciplinary practice (eg Cooke, 2006; Franklin and Pagan, 2006; Saundry et al, 2015). Emergent findings identify features and differences in the documents in terms of procedural approaches, priorities, and expectations regarding informal action, that have potential to influence its use or avoidance, including differentially.
Biography
Sally is a part-time postgraduate researcher at the University of York School for Business and Society. She has a postgraduate diploma, with distinction, in diversity management from the University of Bradford (2014) and was awarded the Barbara Burford Memorial Prize for her diploma work. She volunteers with Citizens Advice and has previously acted as voluntary research analyst (equality and diversity) for RSPB (2015).
Sally was assistive technology officer for the University of Birmingham (2002-2008). Before this she worked in roles related to archaeological computing at the University of Birmingham Field Archaeology Unit (1993-2002). Sally’s first degree from the University of Birmingham (1992) was in software engineering and computer science.
