Katie's research currently focuses on meaningful work, callings, craft and temporality. She has also conducted research into work engagement, gender, and human resource management. She has published on these topics in both scholarly peer-reviewed journals and practitioner journals such as the Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review. Katie also regularly speaks at international academic and practitioner conferences and her research features in news outlets such as the Times, Financial Times, Management Today, People Management and Forbes.  Katie is co-author of the textbook Strategic Human Resource Management (OUP, 2019) as well as co-editor of Employee Engagement in Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2015) and the Oxford Handbook of Meaningful Work (OUP, 2019). Her awards include the 2021 5-year Scholarly Impact Award from Human Resource Management Review; the 2020 Elwood F Holton III Research Excellence Award from the Academy of Human Resource Development; and the 2019 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize from the MIT Sloan Management Review. 

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• Experiencing meaningful work through worthwhile contributions: A critical discourse analysis, Bailey, C., Madden, A., Lips-Wiersma, M. 26 Apr 2024, In: Human Relations
• Ethics and the Future of Meaningful Work: Introduction to the Special Issue, Lysova, E., Tosti-Kharas, J., Michaelson, C., Fletcher, L., Bailey, C., McGhee, P. 1 Jul 2023, In: Journal of Business Ethics
• Walking back to happiness: the resurgence of latent callings in later life, Sturges, J., Bailey, K. 1 Aug 2023, In: Human Relations
• What Makes a Great Corporate Purpose Statement, Bailey, C., Tilley, C., Sandoghdar, A. 11 Sep 2023, In: Harvard Business Review
• When time falls apart: recentering human time in organisations through the lived experience of waiting, Bailey, K., Suddaby, R. 1 Jul 2023, In: Organization Studies
• Employee engagement: Do practitioners care what academics have to say – And should they?, Bailey, C. 1 Mar 2022, In: Human Resource Management Review
• Why We Don’t Talk About Meaning at Work, Lips-Wiersma, M., Bailey, C., Madden, A., Morris, L. 7 Jun 2022
• Developing Insights through Reviews: Reflecting on the 20th Anniversary of the International Journal of Management Reviews, Breslin, D., Gatrell, C., Bailey, K. Jan 2020, In: International Journal of Management Reviews
• Expanding the Conversation through ‘Debate Essays’ and ‘Review Methodology’ Papers, Breslin, D., Bailey, K. 1 Jul 2020, In: International Journal of Management Reviews
• Mind the context gap: A critical review of engagement within the public sector and an agenda for future research, Fletcher, L., Bailey, C., Alfes, K., Madden, A. 2 Jan 2020, In: International Journal of Human Resource Management