Dr Peter Butler

Job: Reader in Employment Relations

Faculty: Business and Law

School/department: Leicester Castle Business School

Research group(s): Contemporary Work and Employment Relations

Address: The Gateway, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, LE1 9BH

T: +44 (0)116 250 6134

E: pabutler@dmu.ac.uk

W: https://www.dmu.ac.uk/bal

 

Personal profile

Peter Butler is a Reader in Employment Relations in the Department of HRM.  He lectures on employment relations at both undergraduate and post graduate level. 

Key research outputs

Butler, P and Tregaskis O. Workplace partnership and legitimacy: A multi-layered analysis of the shop steward experience, Work, Employment and Society. Accepted September 2014.

Research interests/expertise

Peter Butler has researched and published in the area of non-union industrial relations and partnership working.  His particular areas of interest are the effectiveness of non-union modes of employee representation (NER) and the resilience of workplace partnership in recession.  He has also published on the theme of the management of managers in US multinational companies (OUP Press). 

Areas of teaching

Employment Relations at under graduate and post graduate level.  Dissertation (MA) and PhD thesis supervision     

Qualifications

BSc, MA, PhD (all Warwick)    

Courses taught

Employment Relations (HRMG2203/ HRMG5057)