Biography
Bex Hewett is an Associate Professor in the Department of Organisation and Personnel Management of Rotterdam School of Management. Her work is driven by a passionate belief that work should make people's lives better.
Bex's research focuses on the interface between HR practices and people's everyday experiences at work. She is interested in how work and employment can be designed to benefit the lives of workers whilst achieving organisational goals. Bex is currently looking at how people management works in self-managing organisations. Her research has been published in journals including Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, Human Resource Management Review and Human Resource Management.
Bex is Academic Director of the part-time PhD programme, and teaches students on the MSc People, Organisations, and Change as well as RSM's Beyond HR programme for experienced HR professionals.
Bex works with organisations to apply research to practice via the Erasmus Centre for HR Excellence. She is currently an Associate Editor of Human Resource Management Review and a member of the Executive Committee of the HR Division of the Academy of Management.
Bex was awarded her PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London. Prior to this she worked for 10 years as an HR professional, finally as Head of HR Operations at Ofcom (the UK's communications regulator).
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
- hewett@rsm.nl
- Room
- T10-41
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- Rebecca Hewett, David Sikora, Jeremy Brees & Rowan Moelijker (2024) - Answerable for what? The role of accountability focus in line manager HR implementation - Human Resource Management, 63 (2), 165-185 - doi: 10.1002/hrm.22189 - [link]
- Rebecca Hewett (2023) - Dissonance, reflection and reframing: Unpacking the black box of motivation internalization - Journal of Management Studies, 60 (2), 285-312 - doi: 10.1111/joms.12878 - [link]
- Rebecca Hewett (2023) - Skills-based pay - [link]
- Rebecca Hewett (2023) - Team pay - [link]
- Karin Sanders, Rebecca Hewett & Huadong Yang (2023) - Looking Back to Move Forward: A 20-Year Overview and an Integrated Model of Human Resource Process Research - Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management, 41, 161–197 - doi: 10.1108/S0742-730120230000041007
- Rebecca Hewett & Amanda Shantz (2022) - The role of line managers in the formation of employees' HR attributions - [link]
- Rebecca Hewett & A Shantz (2021) - A theory of HR co-creation - Human Resource Management Review, 31 (4) - doi: 10.1016/j.hrmr.2021.100823 - [link]
- ME Clinton, Rebecca Hewett, N Conway & D Poulter (2021) - Lost Control Driving Home: A Dual-Pathway Model of Self-Control Work Demands and Commuter Driving - Journal of Management, 48 (4), 821-850 - doi: 10.1177/0149206321997912 - [link]
- Rebecca Hewett (2021) - HR attributions: A critical review and research agenda - [link]
- Janet A Boekhorst, Rebecca Hewett, Amanda Shantz & Jessica R L Good (2021) - The double-edged sword of manager caring behavior: Implications for employee wellbeing - Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - doi: 10.1037/ocp0000313
RSM BV
- Start date approval
- december 2023
- End date approval
- december 2026
- Place
- ROTTERDAM
- Description
- Various exec ed sessions
Strategic People Management
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- BM15HRM
HRM Master Thesis
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- BMMTHRM
Introduction to Academic Writing
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- BPTPHD1103
Introduction to Quantitative Methods
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- BPTPHD1104
Strategic People Management
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- BM01POC
POC Master Thesis
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- BMMTPOC
Front End of Paper
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- BPTPHD2101
Developing Argumentative Writing
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- BPTPHD2103
Finding Scholarly Literature & Data
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- BPTPHD1102
Systematic Literature Review
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- BPTPHD1101
Introduction to Econometrics
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- BPTPHD1203
Systematic Literature Review
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- BPTPHD2104
Philosophy of Science I
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- BPTPHD1201
Developing Theory
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- BPTPHD1202