Conor Cradden
Conor Cradden leads our work on labour standards and industrial relations and is a specialist in workplace democracy.
He led our research for the New Zealand government on the relationship between productivity and workplace democracy in the public sector, and managed our study of labour standards in public procurement, for Britain's Department for International Development (DfID).
Conor has more than 15 years of research and policy development experience in industrial relations, management and employment. His particular areas of expertise are business ethics, partnership forms of industrial relations, and deliberative democracy. He has also undertaken projects for global union federation Education International on academic staff mobility and university terms and conditions of employment in Europe.
Having worked for several years in the education and voluntary sectors, Conor was Head of Research with the Association of University Teachers (now the University and College Union) in Britain. He then went to the European University Institute in Florence, which awarded Conor’s PhD for his study of theoretical approaches to industrial relations and the employment relationship
Now based in Geneva, Conor speaks fluent French, and ‘reasonable’ Italian, as well as his native English. Among his many publications is his book on business ethics, Repoliticizing Management: A Theory of Corporate Legitimacy (Ashgate, 2004).
