Academic Staff

Advanced Organizational Behavior

September-October

Eleni Stavrou is a Professor at the Department of Business and Public Administration and the Director of MScHRM of the University of Cyprus. She has studied BSc (Specializations: Management, Marketing, Minor: Psychology) at the State University of New York at Albany, USA, MBA (Specialization: HRM, HRIS) at the State University of New York at Albany and PhD in Management at George Washington University. She taught at George Washington University (USA) and was a founding member and the Director of Programs and Operations of the Center for Family Enterprise at the same University. She has been involved in various projects in the US, including developing a standardized pay and benefits structure for the financial division of organizations, researching the needs of the Academy of Management personnel division and designing a database to increase efficiency, and on a one-year human resource management consulting project with Tiffany & Co, New York. Her work has been published in various outlets, such as book chapters and conference proceedings, as well as in a number of international scientific journals, such as Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of International Business Studies, British Journal of Management, Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management Journal, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Business Ethics, and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice.. Professor Stavrou is a member of “CRANET”, the largest international research network on human resource management. She serves as a management organizational consultant and trainer on issues related to human resource management and family business succession. Her research interests focus on strategic human resource management in a comparative international context, flexible work arrangements, work-life balance and intergenerational transitions in family firms.

https://www.ucy.ac.cy/directory/en/profile/eleni1

Dr. Daina Nicolaou is a full-time teaching staff at the Department of Business and Public Administration of the University of Cyprus.  She has a BSc in Public and Business Administration from the University of Cyprus with specialization in Marketing and Management and an MBA from the Cyprus International Institute of Management (full scholarship). She continued her studies at Warwick Business School where she attained a PhD in Strategy, Marketing and Management. She then proceeded with post doc studies in meta-analysis at the University of Oxford. Dr. Nicolaou has taught Management, Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Research Methods related courses since 2003 at several institutions both in Cyprus and abroad. She has also worked for the Ministries of Labor and Social Insurance and Education and Culture, in Cyprus. Dr. Nicolaou is a mentor at the Centre for Entrepreneurship of the University of Cyprus. She is also a registered ISO Quality Assessor and a certified trainer by the Human Resource Development Authority. Additionally, she has the Postgraduate Award of Professional and Academic Practice of the University of Warwick. Her research on employee behavior and performance metrics has been presented at prestigious conferences abroad.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/daina-nicolaou-01a71645/

Dr. Christiana Ierodiakonou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Business and Public Administration of the University of Cyprus. She studied BSc Public and Business Administration, (Major: Marketing/ Management), University of Cyprus, MSc Human Resource Management (Distinction), IDPM, University of Manchester, UK, and Ph.D. Business & Economic Studies (Work & Employment Relations), University of Leeds, UK. She specializes in Human Resources Management and teaches relevant courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including Human Resources Management, Business Communication, Organizational Behavior, Principles of Management, Diversity Management, Gender and Work. Her research adopts an interdisciplinary approach and focuses on work life balance (WLB), flexibility, careers and gender. From a management perspective, she investigates these issues at the organizational level, focusing on practices that support employee WLB and their links to firm effectiveness. She does research on links between individual perceptions/preferences, organizational practices, organizational outcomes and the broader institutional context. Dr. Ierodiakonou is a member and the Cypriot coordinator of “CRANET”, the largest international research network on human resource management. She is also the AOM Ambassador of Cyprus. She has published in various peer-reviewed journals, such as Human Resource Management, People and Performance and International Journal of Human Resource Management.

http://www.ucy.ac.cy/dir/en/cb-profile/ierodiak

George Kassinis is a Professor of Strategy at the Department of Business & Public Administration of the University of Cyprus, where he teaches strategic management to graduate and undergraduate students. He was educated at Princeton University (MA, PhD), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/MIT (Master in City Planning/MCP) and Cornell University (AB and BS). His research focuses on the strategic choices organizations make in dynamic environments and the implications of these choices on competitiveness and performance.

Specific research interests include: Strategy, Sustainability, Social Entrepreneurship, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Energy, Health Care Management, Social Networks, Industrial Ecology.. He taught at Princeton and MIT as a graduate teaching fellow, held research positions at Princeton and consulted for the World Bank and a variety of private, public-sector, and non-profit organizations, in Cyprus and abroad. He has published in various peer-reviewed journals such us European Management Review, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, Operations Management Research.

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Dr. Andreas Michael is a Special Scientist in the Department of Business and Public Administration of the University of Cyprus. He obtained his BA in Economics from the University of Lowell, Massachusetts, and his MA in Economics with a specialization in Public Finance from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. His Ph.D. in Business Administration with a specialization in HRM is from Northcentral University, Prescott, Arizona, USA.

He has taught and developed new courses for various universities in the United States and Cyprus including online courses for Grand Canyon University, Regis College, Bethel University, Fitchburg State University, and Southern New Hampshire University. His work has been published in academic journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. His research interests focus on compensation and benefits, employment relations, job satisfaction, person-environment fit, social entrepreneurship, and macroeconomics. He has also managed small non-profit youth organizations and businesses.

Professor Michael Morley holds the Chair in Management at the Kemmy Business School, where he also serves as Assistant Dean for Research. He teaches management in undergraduate programs and international and cross-cultural management on MSc and Executive MBA programs. He also mentors a cohort of doctoral candidates pursuing programs of research on expatriate management, psychological contracts, global careers and new forms of organizing, several of whom are scholarship holders. In conjunction with his collaborators, he has authored several books and curated and edited several volumes which have been published by, among others, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Butterworth-Heinemann and Palgrave Macmillan. His research interests include International, Comparative and Cross-Cultural Management; Expatriate Assignments, Global Mobility and Intercultural Competence; Person-Environment Fit, Psychological Contracts and Trust Dynamics. His research has appeared in leading journal outlets such as Journal of International Business Studies, International Journal of Human Resource Management and the Journal of Managerial Psychology. He has received several best paper awards and has been presented with the University’s Research Excellence Award on three separate occasions (1999; 2006; 2010). He was elected to serve as the 2007-2010 Chair of the Irish Academy of Management, and the 2012-2013 President of the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management.  In 2013, he was elected to Fellowship of the Irish Academy of Management, and in 2024 to Fellowship of the European Academy of Management for his contributions to the discipline and to the Academy.

https://pure.ul.ie/en/persons/michael-morley/

Mr. Orfeas Stavrou is a Chartered Psychologist with a specialization in the division of Occupational Psychology. He holds a BSc Degree in Psychology and an MSc Degree in Business Psychology. He is a founder of Evalion-SHL Cyprus and Evalion Maritime, supporting organizations to improve their HR processes through consulting, provision of psychometric tools and other services. He is the instructor of some of Evalion’s training courses such as “Psychometric Tools” and “Career Guidance for teenagers and adults”. On the academic side, Orfeas is an instructor at the MSc in HRM of the University of Cyprus and the MSc in Business Psychology of the Metropolitan College of Athens (University of East London program). His teaching approach is more practical, using engaging exercises from real-life scenarios. His main research interest is the analysis of human behavior usually with the use of scientific assessment methods. He also trains and certifies students of MSc in HRM at the Athens University of Economics and Business and MSc in Occupational Psychology at Deree College. Through his role as a Research Fellow of CMMI Orfeas supports the design and development of innovative scientific solutions focused on the Human Element of the maritime sector.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/orfeas-stavrou-377896a4/

Dr. Vicky Katsioloudes received her Ph.D. in Human Resource Leadership Development from Louisiana State University and her M.Sc. in Social Organizational Psychology from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has experience teaching courses in the areas of training and development, leadership, management, and human resources at the graduate, undergraduate, and executive education level. She thoroughly enjoys designing and teaching face-to-face, online, and blended courses. Her current research interests lie in two streams: employee training and development with a focus on learning transfer from workplace training, and the pedagogy of leadership development. Her research has been published in outlets such as The Leadership Quarterly and The Journal of Leadership Education. She is actively involved in the Academy of Human Resource Development. Besides her academic experience at West Chester University of Pennsylvania as an Assistant Professor of Management, Vicky has extensive industry experience in the Human Resource Development field and has worked in diverse cultural settings including the United Kingdom, different parts of the United States, Greece, and Cyprus. Previous positions she has held include that of an E-learning Program Coordinator at a major bank in Athens, Greece; a Training & Development Manager at Louisiana Workforce Commission in Louisiana, United States; and, more recently, an HR Manager of a newly founded research center in Nicosia, Cyprus.

https://euc.ac.cy/en/faculty-profiles/vicky-katsioloudes/

Ioannis Nikolaou is a Work & Organizational Psychologist, Professor of Organizational Behavior & Human Resources Management and past Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal International Journal of Selection & Assessment (2018-2024). Prof. Nikolaou studied Psychology at the University of Crete and carried out his postgraduate studies (MSc, PhD) at Manchester School of Management, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). He has written the books “Organizational Psychology & Behavior” and “Managing Human Capital – Greek Case Studies” (in Greek) and co-edited with Janneke Oostrom the book Employee Recruitment, Selection, and Assessment. Contemporary Issues for Theory and Practice. (Routledge/Psychology Press). His research interests focus mostly on employee recruitment, selection and assessment and more recently on the use of social media and serious games/gamification. He teaches courses in undergraduate (Organizational Psychology and Personal Skills Development) and post-graduate level (Employee Selection, Performance Appraisal and Development, Organizational Behavior & Human Resources Management, Personal Skills Development) at Athens University of Economics and Business and the University of Cyprus, as guest instructor. He is a member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology and the International Association of Applied Psychology. He is the co-founder of the European Network of Selection Researchers (ENESER), has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (2013-2017), and since 2017 he represents Greece in the European Network of Organizational Psychologists (ENOP).

https://about.me/nikolaou

Dr. Nemanja Berber an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics in Subotica, University of Novi Sad, specializing in Human Resource Management, Management, and Organizational Behavior. He served as the Vice Dean for PhD Studies and Scientific Research at the Faculty of Economics in Subotica, and as a member of the Council of the University of Novi Sad. With over 15 years of academic experience, he has held visiting professorships at the University of Cyprus in 2024 and 2025, and editorial roles in respected journals, including Sustainability and Annals of the Faculty of Economics in Subotica. He has also visited several universities all around the world via exchange programs, like the Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China, in 2014, the University of Graz, Austria, in 2019, the West University in Timisoara, Romania in 2022, and the University of Pecs, Hungary, in 2024. He has coordinated and participated in numerous international Erasmus+ and IPA projects, managing funds exceeding €2 million. His research has been published in leading international journals such as Employee Relations and The International Journal of Human Resource Management. He is an active member of the CRANET and CEEIRT research networks.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nemanja-Berber

Maria Vakola is an organizational psychologist currently working as a Professor at the Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece. She obtained her BSc (honors) in Psychology at the Psychology Department, National University of Athens, her Master’s in Organizational Psychology at Manchester School of Management and PhD in Business Process Re-engineering and Organizational Change at the School of Business and Informatics, University of Salford, UK. Prof. Vakola has published in highly esteemed academic journals such as the Journal of Applied Psychology and European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. Her research interests mainly focus on Organizational Change. She is the co-founder of a newly created international forum for psychology of organizational change (IFPOC) aiming at bringing together researchers of this field. She has published four books, and she is the editor the HR Case Study Series aiming at bridging the gap between academia and industry. Prof. Vakola has delivered many in-house training programs, and she has received awards for teaching excellence from both undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

https://www.aueb.gr/en/faculty_page/vakola-maria

Philippos Philippou is co-founder and Director of RED HR Solutions, a company that provides consulting services in organizational, strategic and human resources management.  He specializes in HR analytics and HRIS. He has over 30 years of experience across various industries. He has played a leading role in major projects of organizational productivity and efficiency and human resource management in Cyprus and abroad (Greece, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine). Philippos holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Manchester Business School & University of Wales and a professional diploma in ACIB Banking from the Chartered Institute of Bankers (UK).  He is a member of the Cyprus Human Resource Management Association and a Certified Industrial Relations Officer by the Cyprus Ministry of Labour, Welfare and Social Insurance.

http://redhrsolutions.net/

Dr. Christos Nicolaides is an Assistant Professor in Information Systems at the Department of Business and Public Administration of the University of Cyprus and a Digital Fellow at the Initiative on the Digital Economy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He earned his BSc in Physics (Distinction – highest GPA in department’s history 9.88/10) at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR), an MSc in Applied Mathematics (Distinction) at Imperial College London (UK) and his PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (USA). Before joining UCY, Dr. Nicolaides was working as a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT Sloan School of Management funded by the James McDonnell Foundation. Currently, he is a Digital Fellow of the Initiative on the Digital Economy from the same School. His research focuses on applying mathematical, statistical, and computational tools to large-scale empirical and data-driven research questions, with applications in the identification of social influence mediated, amplified, or directed by interactive technologies. He has collaborated with global firms on realizing business value from social media and information technology investments. His research has been published in leading scientific journals, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications, and has been featured in outlets such as The New York Times, CNN, and the Los Angeles Times. In 2020, Christos was named “Professor of the Week” by Poets & Quants. He is the principal institutional investigator on research projects funded by the European Commission, industry, the Cyprus Innovation and Research Foundation, and the Cyprus Ministry of Health, attracting more than €1M in research funding for his institution.

http://ucy.ac.cy/dir/en/component/comprofiler/userprofile/cnicol01

Dr. Demetris Hadjimichael is a Lecturer in Management at the University of Cyprus. He holds a PhD in Business and Management from the Warwick Business School in 2020, a MSc in Managerial Psychology (Distinction) from the University of Manchester and a BA in Public and Business Administration (Excellent) from the University of Cyprus. Demetris has taught across undergraduate and postgraduate programs in both the United Kingdom (University of Warwick) and Cyprus (University of Cyprus).  While working as an Assistant Professor for Warwick University (2019-2022) he received several awards for his contributions to teaching. During his time at Warwick, Demetris also became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK). Demetris’ research centers around understanding how improvisation, knowledge, emotions and judgment enable work, by utilizing phenomenology, process and practice theories, as well as qualitative research techniques. His research interests include Organizational improvisation, Organizational knowledge and learning, Organizational Judgment, Philosophy and organization studies (especially phenomenology, process and practice theories) and Business Ethics. His research has been published in leading journals including Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Review, Organization Studies, and Management Learning.

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Dr. Seraphim Voliotis holds a BA, MA & MA in Theoretical Mathematics from the University of Cambridge and a PhD from Imperial University while at the same time he completed a law degree at the University of Law, City Law School and Cardiff Law School (LLM). His teaching and research activity ranges between mathematics, philosophy, psychology and law, while he has published in reputable scientific journals such as the Journal of Operator Theory, Journal of Business Ethics and Frontiers in Organizational Psychology. He teaches, among others, at the Athens University of Economics and Business, the University of Cyprus, the University of Bremen and the War College of the Hellenic Air Force. He has also authored/directed Negotiations & Conflict Management and Leadership & Ethical Decision Making in the global MBA of the University of London. Dr. Voliotis has been professionally involved in Negotiations and Mediation since 2003 and has trained over 6500 business executives and lawyers in more than 4500 hours of professional training, in negotiations, conflict management, business ethics and critical thinking, independently or in collaboration with the leading Said Business School of the University of Oxford in Europe.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Seraphim-Voliotis

Angelos Louis is co-founder and Director at RED HR Solutions, a company which provides consulting services in organizational effectiveness, HR and recruitment. He has over 30 years professional management experience in Cyprus and abroad (USA, Canada and Romania), particularly in the financial and banking sector. During the last few years he has worked with various companies consulting them on strategy, policies & processes and human resources. He holds an MBA and a first degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California in the USA. He is a member of the Cyprus Human Resource Management and a Certified Industrial Relations Officer by the Cyprus Ministry of Labour, Welfare and Social Insurance.

http://redhrsolutions.net/