Professor Stephen Bach
Biography
Stephen Bach is Executive Dean and Professor of Employment Relations at King’s Business School. His research interests include: public service employment relations in comparative perspective; international migration of health professionals and new ways of working in the public services. His books include: The Modernisation of the Public Services and Employee Relations: Targeted Change (with Ian Kessler), Palgrave-Macmillan, 2012, Managing Human Resources, fifth edition (edited with Martin Edwards) Wiley, 2013 and Public Service Management and Employment Relations in Europe: Emerging from the Crisis, (edited with Lorenzo Bordogna) Routledge, 2016. His research has been funded by the ESRC, EU, Home Office, OECD, Leverhulme Foundation and the NHS.
Stephen has been Executive Dean of King’s Business School since 2017 and during 2023 also undertook the role of Vice President (People and Talent) at King’s College London. King’s Business School is a ‘triple crown’ accredited school, based in the former BBC building, Bush House, in central London. The School comprises over 170 academic staff and 3,500 students. KBS was placed in the top 10 business and management schools in the UK in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021. Stephen worked at Warwick University Business School and prior to that in the NHS.
Appointed February 2024 – End term February 2027
NHSPRB Member
The NHS Pay Review Body (NHSPRB) provides independent recommendations on the remuneration of all staff paid under Agenda for Change (AfC) and employed in the NHS. The NHSPRB’s recommendations apply to all staff in the NHS, with the exception of doctors, dentists and very senior managers. The remit group includes all staff in NHS England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and accounts for just under 1.5 million NHS staff (headcount). NHSPRB’s annual reports are submitted jointly to the Prime Minister, the Secretary of State for Health, and Ministers of the Scottish Government, the Welsh Assembly Government and the Northern Ireland Executive.