Abigail Marks

Abigail Marks, Ph.D. is Professor of Work and Employment and the Director of the Centre for Research on Work and Wellbeing (CROWW) at the School of Management & Languages; Department of Business Management, Heriot-Watt University of Edinburgh in the UK. Abigail’s research interests evolve around social psychology and industrial sociology, and include workplace identities, class and stratification, employability and the construction of professions, in particular in the ICT industry. She has published in a number of leading journals including Work, Employment and Society; Human Relations and the British Journal of Industrial Relations as well as contributing to several edited collections and a research monograph. She was an organizer of the International Labour Process Conference in 2009 and the International Workshop on Teamworking in 2010.

Publications

Managing Dynamic Technology-Oriented Businesses: High-Tech Organizations and Workplaces
Managing Dynamic Technology-Oriented Businesses: High-Tech Organizations and Workplaces
Dariusz Jemielniak, Abigail Marks. © 2012. 331 pages.
Modern workplaces are far more technology-driven than the organizations of a few decades ago, leading to a different set of challenges for employers to keep their employees...