University of Surrey – Business Management & HRM degree
6 March 2026Mike Hood, one of our amazing & incredibly experienced associate directors, was delighted to have had the opportunity to deliver a guest lecture on Employee Relations to final year students on the University of Surrey’s Business Management with HRM degree.
Many thanks to Cecile Guillaume for the invitation.
It was an opportunity to tell a few old IR/ER war stories about trade union negotiations? Well, yes possibly, but great also to interact with young people about to enter the HR profession and both share experience with them and learn from their insightful questions about what is often seen as HR’s Cinderella discipline.
And what a time to do it, with the ER discipline about to become much more important again as organizations respond to the generational changes in the UK employee relations framework triggered by the Employment Relations Act 2025.
Great discussion with the class on what this means for both employer and employee choices and tactics in a changing world of work. Thanks to Mike for his time representing Hood People Solutions & Resourceful People Group.
