Jacqueline Stephenson

BSc.Accounting (1st Class Honours) University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.MSc. Management.University of Lethbridge. Alberta, CANADA


Room: B5 DB
Tel: +44 (0) 115 8231400
Email: lixjs11@nottingham.ac.uk

Current Status: Resubmission
Year of Registration: 2007
Expected Completion Date: /09/2010

Primary Funding Source:
U of N's International Office Tuition fees only scholarship & Self funded

Research Topic:
An Assessment of the age discrimination legislation 2006.

Research Details:
In October, 2006 the British Employment Equality (Age) Regulations, 2006, were passed into law, making illegal in employment and vocational training: discrimination, harassment and victimization of any person as a consequence of their age. This research examines with specific reference to older workers (i.e. defined as those aged 50 and over) the extent to which workplaces in Britain have made changes to their HR practices subsequent to the legislation and the extent to which the changes (or lack thereof) are attributable to the legislation. The specific HR practices explored are: recruitment and selection, training and development and redundancies. The methods to be utilised will be a questionnaire sent to British workplaces (a total of 2,000), followed up with an interview session intended to explore salient issues which responses raise, more fully. The workplaces to be contacted were obtained from Dunn and Bradstreet, and represent a randomly stratified sample, stratified to ensure adequate sample size across countries (Scotland, England and Wales), establishment sizes and industries.

Research Supervisor/s: Nick Bacon and Sue Tempest

Division: Management