Dr James Frederick Green

James Green

Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour

Worcester Business School

Department of Management and Finance

Contact Details

email: james.green2@worc.ac.uk

Dr James Frederick Green is passionate about helping students explore the dynamic and complex nature of workplaces and human behaviour. Through his research and teaching, he encourages students to critically engage with module content and apply their learning to real-world challenges.

Effective communication lies at the heart of his teaching practice, he strives to create a supportive and inclusive learning environment where students feel empowered to share their ideas and perspectives. He enjoys seeing students develop their own insights and look forward to guiding them on their academic journey.

I am open to supervising PhD students and collaborating with other academics. Please feel free to reach out if you are interested in exploring potential research opportunities.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Sociology of Work - ºüÀêÊÓƵ College London (UCL)
  • MSc in Social Research - Goldsmiths, university of London
  • BA (Hons) in Sociology - The ºüÀêÊÓƵ of Hull

Teaching

  • Introduction to Business Management
  • Leadership Theory and Practice
  • Fundamentals of Personal Effectiveness
  • International Human Resource Management (HRM)

Research Interests

  • Aesthetic and emotional labour
  • Employment relations
  • Nonstandard work arrangements (shift work, flexible work etc.)
  • Qualitative methods
  • Ethnography
  • Dirty work
  • Gig/platform economy
  • Work-life balance
  • Unions
  • Precarity

Recent Publications

Green, J. F. (forthcoming). (self) Seduction in the Manufacturing of Consent: Exploring Emotional Exploitation in the Service Sector.

Green, J. F. (2025). ‘Emotional Labour: The Management of Feeling and Display in the Workplace’, in Rees, C., Bozkurt, Ö., Limoncelli, S. & J. Perminger (eds) Research Handbook on the Sociology of Work: Edward Elgar

Green, J. F. (2022). ‘. . . It Makes Me Want to Shut Down, Cover Up’: Female Bartenders’ Use of Emotional Labour While Receiving Unwanted Sexual Attention at a Public House. Sociological Research Online. https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804221091573

Green, J. F. (2021). Smashing Backdoors in and the Wandering Eye: An Introduction to Bartenders’ Experiences with Unwanted Sexual Attention while Working in the UK. Feminist Criminology. doi:10.1177/15570851211001922

Membership of Professional Bodies

  • Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)
  • Member of the British Sociological Association (BSA)

External Roles

  • Postgraduate Forum Convenor (Volunteer) - British Sociological Association (BSA)
  • Journal Reviewer for Sociological Research Online and Feminist Criminology