CHRIASTIANA IEORODIAKONOU
Ph.D. Business & Economic Studies (Work & Employment Relations), University of Leeds, UK.
MSc Human Resource Management (Distinction), IDPM, University of Manchester, UK.
BSc Public and Business Administration, Major: Marketing/ Management, University of Cyprus.
I specialise in Human Resources Management and teach relevant courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including Human Diversity and Inclusion Management, Human Resources Management, Business Communication, Organisationl Behaviour, and Qualitative Research Methods. My research focuses on exploring individual employees within the broader organisational and social contexts, and specifically on the following topics:
- Career sustainability and inequalities
- ‘Others’ in organisations
- Workplace inclusion
- Critical diversity management studies
- Comparative HRM practices
My research adopts an interdisciplinary approach and focuses on issues related to workplace inequality and inclusion, both at the individual level of navigating one's career and at the broader organizational and institutional levels. At the organizational level, I study diversity management policies and flexibility/ support practices in relation to organizational performance from a comparative perspective. At an individual level, I focus on the notions of preference and choice and consider how individual career trajectories are situated within structural contexts of welfare and patriarchy that frame social inequalities.
I am interested in supervising students working in the following areas. If interested, please contact me via email:
- Workplace inclusion
- Career sustainability and inequalities
- Gender and work/ career
- Occupational gender segregation
- Flexible work arrangements and employers of choice
- Critical approaches to diversity and inclusion
Ierodiakonou, C., Stavrou, E., & Kounna, R. (2024). Contextual and temporal effects on diversity action programmes in organisations. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 1–35. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2024.2397376.
Christofidou, A., & Ierodiakonou, C. (2024). An inherently reflexive habitus: Navigating lesbian, gay and bisexual lives in Cyprus. The Sociological Review, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261241261478.
Maestripieri, L. and Ierodiakonou, C. Editorial: The intersections of economic insecurity, non-standard employment and gender in southern Europe, Frontiers in Sociology, July 2021, https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.730671.
Stavrou, E., and Ierodiakonou, C. (2018). Expanding the work–life balance discourse to LGBT employees: Proposed research framework and organizational responses. Human Resource Management, 57(6): 1355-1370, https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.21910.
Ierodiakonou, C., and Stavrou, E. (2017). Flexitime and employee turnover: The polycontextuality of regulation as cross-national institutional contingency. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 28(21): 3003-3026, DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2017.1362658.
Stavrou, E., and Ierodiakonou, C. (2016). Entitlement to work-life-balance support: Do differences in the perceptions of managers and employees affect outcomes? Human Resource Management, 55(5): 845-869, https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.21745.
Ierodiakonou, C., and Stavrou, E. (2015). Part time work, productivity and institutional policies. Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, 2 (2): 176-200, https://doi.org/10.1108/JOEPP-07-2014-0030.
Stavrou, E., Casper, W., and Ierodiakonou, C. (2015). Support for part time work as a channel to female employment: The moderating effects of national gender empowerment and labour market conditions. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 26 (6): 688-706, DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2014.971847.
Ierodiakonou, C. (2014). Change and continuity in women’s work-family preferences and choices in Cyprus. EDAMBA Journal: Thesis Competition 2013 Summaries: 119-134.
Stavrou, E., and Ierodiakonou, C. (2013). Flexibility for women returners in Cyprus: A competency-based approach. Gender in Management: An International Journal, 28 (1): 6-27, https://doi.org/10.1108/17542411311301547.
Stavrou, E., and Ierodiakonou, C. (2011). Flexible work arrangements and intentions of unemployed women in Cyprus: A planned behaviour model. British Journal of Management, 22 (1): 150–172, doi:10.1111/j.1467-8551.2010.00695.x.