Hsiao-Hui Tai

PhD student in Employment Relations & Organisational Behaviour

Biography

Hsiao-Hui Tai is a PhD candidate at the Employment Relations and Organisational Behaviour Group at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She holds a MA in Labour Studies and a BA in Labour Relations from the National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan, where she has also worked as a research and teaching assistant prior to her doctoral study.

Research Interests

Subject areas: Taiwanese industrial relations, worker representation, labour process, labour identity. .

Hsiao-Hui developed her PhD project from her MA research of which she examined the workplace relationships between trade union, management and employees. Her current research focuses on the transition of labour identity within the worker representation in Taiwan. She analyses the relationship between Taiwanese worker identity and representation system. Her research interests include Taiwanese industrial relations, trade unionism, labour process, worker representation and labour identity. She aims to contribute to the empirical research on Taiwanese industrial relations.

Supervisors

• Professor Richard Hyman 
• Professor Sarah Ashwin

Publications and Papers

• Tai, Hsiao-Hui. 2009. "Labour Identity in Taiwan: The Impact of Worker Representation." a paper presented at the 27th International Labour Process Conference at the Apex Hotel, Edinburgh, UK, 6-8 April 2009.
• Tai, Hsiao-Hui. 2009. Critical Representations of Work and Organization in Popular Culture. Carl Rhodes and RobertWestwood. Work, Employment and Society, 23(3).[book review]
• Tai, Hsiao-Hui. 2008. "Worker Representation in Taiwan: The Union's Strategies." a paper presented at the Union in the Twenty-First Century and Beyond: The Environment, Politics, and Education Conference at the Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 17-18 November 2008.
• Tai, Hsiao-Hui. 2008. "Representing Workers? A Case of the Workers Represented in Taiwan." a poster presented at the British Universities Industrial Relations Association Conference at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, 26-28 June 2008.
• Tai, Hsiao-Hui. 2008. "Worker Representation in Taiwan: The Impact on Labour Identities." a paper presented at the European Doctoral Workshop in Industrial Relations at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 22-23 September 2008.
• Tai, Hsiao-Hui. 2008. "Worker Identity and Worker Representation in Taiwan." a paper presented at the 26th International Labour Process Conference - Work Matters at the University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, 18-20 March 2008.
• Tai, Hsiao-Hui. 2007. "The Interaction between a Trade Union and its Members in Taiwan." a paper presented at the Lancaster Sociology Summer Conference at the University of Lancaster, Lancaster, UK, 6-7 July 2007.
• Tai, Hsiao-Hui. 2007. "Conflict or Cooperation: the Interactive Nature of Trade Unions and Management in Workplaces in Taiwan." a paper presented at the Fourth European Association of Taiwan Studies Conference at the University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden, 20-22 April 2007.
• Tai, Hsiao-Hui. 2004. "The Interaction Process between the Labour Union and the Management in the Workplace." a paper in Chinese presented at the 6th Conference on Sustainable Development for Management 2004 at National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan, 10 December 2004. (ISBN: 9570194650)
• Tai, Hsiao-Hui. 2003. "Labour-Management Interaction Processes in the Workplace Relations." a paper in Chinese presented at the Conference of Humanity, Technology and Human Resources Development in the E-Generation at National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 24 October 2003.