Dr Alhajie Saidy Khan

PhD, PG Cert HE, MSc, BA
Dr Alhajie Saidy Khan

Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management
Location: Lord Ashcroft Building, Chelmsford
Room: MAB 301

UK: 0845 196 6875
International: +44 (0)1245 493131 ext. 6875
Email: alhajie.saidykhan@anglia.ac.uk






Alhajie has worked in senior managerial positions in both public and private sector organisations in Africa for several years. These experiences have helped shape and influence both his Doctoral and post-doctoral research agenda and interests, which centres on the social nature of the labour problems of Sub-Saharan Africa and their implications for the variable efficacy of application of Western management theories and practices in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Alhajie's primary research interests lie in broad areas of comparative Human resource management and Employment Relations. He is particularly interested in African labour history and contemporary Sub-Saharan African Employment relations viewed in the context of developments in African Dock employment relations and trends in the domestication of ILO and other international conventions on employment in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Publications

  • Saidy Khan, A. (forthcoming) "History and Heritage; Contract and Status: indulgency and ambiguities in Gambia employment relations." In A. Saine, E. Ceesay and E. Sall (Eds.) Essays on The Gambia, Lanham, MD: Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
  • Saidy Khan, A. and P.B. Ackers (2004) 'Neo-pluralism as a Theoretical Framework for understanding HRM in Sub-Saharan Africa.' International Journal of Human Resource Management. 15.7 (1330-1353).
  • Saidy Khan, A., review of Green, A., 'British Capital and Antipodean Labour: Working the New Zealand Waterfront, 1915-1951', Labour History Review, 68(2), 2003, pp. 274-275.

Conference Papers

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  • Playing the intimate insider: ethnography of Dock employment relations in The Gambia. (Paper for 4th Annual International Ethnography Symposium, University of Liverpool Management School, August 23rd - 25th 2009)
  • Institutional and procedural Ambiguities, Indulgency and Mimicry: an intimate outsider's account of African employment relations (Paper for IR Theory Study Group, IIRA World Congress, Sydney, August 2009)
  • History and Heritage; Contract and Status in African Employment Relations: the case of The Gambia. 5TH IIRA Africa Regional Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, 26-28 March 2008.
  • 'Translating HR policies across different national and cultural contexts: some cultural & institutional explanations for variations in managerial responses to global economic liberalisation'. Seminar on Career management in emerging economies, Prudential, Mumbai, 9 March 2006.
  • 'Formal Policies and Informal Processes: Developing Industrial Relations Pluralism for African Realities'. Keynote paper, 5th IIRA African Congress, Mauritius, 28 - 30 November 2005.
  • 'African Dockers and the Making of an African Dock Subculture: How Relevant are "Interindustry" and Formal Institutional and Regulatory Factors?' 55th Annual Conference of BURA, Northumbria University, 7th - 9th July 2005.
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