About
Hadar has spent her post-doctoral career in management and health studies holding posts in Cardiff, Bristol and Lancaster. Before joining academia she worked as an employment specialist, supporting job seekers with disabilities and health conditions return to work.
Her scholarship evolves around two principle areas of interest: marginalisation within the workplace, especially in the context of mental health conditions (MHCs); and the relation between intersectionality and ableism within high-performing work organisations. Her scholarshig brings the study of MHCs to critical management studies in such a way that is shifting debates around MHCs at work within management scholarship, advancing knowledge and contributing to policy and practice.
Her research streams effectively integrate ideas on how the study of marginalisation is associated with broader organisational theory through a combination of various bodies of critical discourse theory and rich empirical studies. Her work on MHCs draws upon cutting-edge thinking within critical work in order to explore how marginalised selves or identities are constructed. Such work is vitally important for challenging the types of simplistic assumptions that characterise much of the work on “managing diversity”. Similarly, her work on how self-management functions as a form of resistance also constitutes a critically important component of a more enlightened approach to HRM, thus developing a more informed understanding of how employees protect their working rights, conditions and experiences. Whilst, in the past, this has taken the form of collective resistance and unionism, intensified neoliberalism, and political, workplace and global changes have severely reduced the incidence of such forms of resistance. Accordingly, her research highlights how employees themselves, often individually, develop their own coping mechanisms to feel included within their workplaces. Such insights have provided new ways of understanding how self-management in the workplace has informed theory and practice through better insights into how marginalised populations cope in the light of growing workplace expectations. New developments from her research are ongoing, having received funding and considerable interest from scholars, and policymakers.