Staff profile

Peter's main research interests focus around discourse and rhetoric within the processes of employment relations and human resource management. Recent projects have included two research studies based on a series of longitudinal interviews. One concerned furloughed workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, the other was focused on the work of Critical Care Nurses. Peter's previous appointments include Imperial College Management School and the University of Central Lancashire. Prior to that he worked in the National Health Service.

 

• Employment relations
• Rhetoric
• Dignity at work
• Dirty work

Chapter in book

• Hamilton, P. Synecdoche: Another Ubiquitous and Everyday Trope. In O. Ihlen, & R. Heath (Eds.), Handbook of Organizational Rhetoric and Communication: Foundations of Dialogue, Discourse, Narrative and Engagement (257-268). (New ed.). Wiley
• Hamilton, P. (in press). Ethics of Persuasion. In R. Kolb (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society (1261-1264.). (2nd ed.). SAGE Publications
• McMurray, R., Credland, N., Griffin, M., Hamilton, P., Harness, O., & Jamie, K. (2022). Emotional Labor: Concept and Practical Categorizations in Light of COVID Critical Care Nursing. In L. Herzog, & B. Zimmermann (Eds.), Shifting Categories of Work: Unsettling the Ways We Think about Jobs, Labor, and Activities (175-188). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003341321-15
• Hamilton, P. (2018). Uses of Rhetoric. In R. Kolb (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society (2951-2953.). (2nd ed.). SAGE Publications
• Hamilton, P. (2018). Rhetoric. In C. Cassell, A. Cunliffe, & G. Grandy (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Business and Management Research Methods: Methods and Challenges (47-62). SAGE Publications
• Hamilton, P. (2011). Human Resource Management. In S. Miller (Ed.), The Essential MBA (59-80). SAGE Publications
• Hamilton, P. (2005). The mission statement as epideictic rhetoric. In A. Pullen, & S. Linstead (Eds.), Organization and Identity (162-181). Routledge

Journal Article

• Credland, N., Griffin, M., Hamilton, P., Harness, O., & McMurray, R. (2024). The impact of COVID‐19 on mental health and well‐being in critical care nurses – a longitudinal, qualitative study. Nursing in Critical Care, 29(1), 32-39. https://doi.org/10.1111/nicc.12930
• McMurray, R., Credland, N., Griffin, M., Hamilton, P., & Harness, O. (2023). Toxic Absence: Why Leader Presence Matters in Times of Crisis. Journal of Nursing Management, 2023, Article 1315904. https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/1315904
• Griffin, M., Hamilton, P., Harness, O., Credland, N., & McMurray, R. (2023). ‘Running Towards the Bullets’: Moral Injury in Critical Care Nursing in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Management Inquiry, https://doi.org/10.1177/10564926231182566
• Hamilton, P., Harness, O., & Griffin, M. (2022). Life during furlough: Challenges to dignity from a changed employment status. Industrial Relations Journal, 53(6), 523-544. https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12384
• Hamilton, P., Redman, T., & McMurray, R. (2019). ‘Lower than a Snake’s Belly’: Discursive Constructions of Dignity and Heroism in Low-Status Garbage Work. Journal of Business Ethics, 156(4), 889-901. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-017-3618-z
• Aldrich, P., Dietz, G., Clark, T., & Hamilton, P. (2015). Establishing HR Professionals’ Influence and Credibility: Lessons from the Capital Markets and Investment Banking Sector. Human Resource Management, 54(1), 105-130. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.21626
• Redman, T., Hamilton, P., Malloch, H., & Kleymann, B. (2011). Working here makes me sick! The consequences of sick building syndrome. Human Resource Management Journal, 21(1), 14-27. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-8583.2010.00155.x
• Redman, T., Snape, E., Wass, J., & Hamilton, P. (2007). Evaluating the human resource shared services model: Evidence from the NHS. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 18(8), 1486-1506. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585190701502612
• Hamilton, P. (2004). Regeneration, rhetoric and the NHS: The case of 'the vital connection'. International Journal of Public Sector Management, 17(1), 8-23. https://doi.org/10.1108/09513550410515574
• Hamilton, P. (2003). The 'vital connection': A rhetoric on equality. Personnel Review, 32(6), 694-710. https://doi.org/10.1108/00483480310498675
• Hamilton, P. (2003). The saliency of synecdoche: The part and the whole of employment relations. Journal of Management Studies, 40(7), 1569-1586. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6486.00392
• Hamilton, P., & Redman, T. (2003). The rhetoric of modernization and the Labour Government's pay agenda. Public Money & Management, 23(4), 223-228. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9302.00376
• Hamilton, P. (2001). Rhetoric and employment relations. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 39(3), 433-449. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8543.00208
• Hamilton, P. (2000). Attaining agreement: a rhetorical analysis of an NHS negotiation. International Journal of Public Sector Management, 13(3), 285-300
• Hamilton, P. (1999). Persuasion and industrial relations. Industrial Relations Journal, 30(2), 166-176
• Hamilton, P. (1998). Implementing local pay: rhetorically analysing irritation. Personnel Review, 27(6), 433-447
• Hamilton, P. (1997). The rhetorical discourse of local pay. Organization, 4(2), 229-254