At the same time, the Department will bring in world renowned academics that teach and conduct state of the art research in the field of HRM to teach a number of the specialized courses for the Program. These academics will add value to the courses they teach, not only from a specialty perspective but also from a multi-cultural perspective as well.
Finally, the Department also has established links with HRM practitioners and specifically with a network of local professionals. These professionals are invites to lead the Program’s professional workshops. They will be a valuable source in helping students translate the theories and concepts they learn into practice.
Below you will find a list of all of our people. Both academic instructors, as well as practitioners for the workshops.
White background is for Academic Instructors and light blue background is for Practitioners.
Name | Course Name | Course Period | Short bio | |
1 | Professor Eleni Stavrou |
Advanced Organizational Behavior |
September-October |
Eleni Stavrou is Professor at the University of Cyprus. She has taught at the 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 consulting project with Tiffany & Co, New York, on human resource management needs.
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, Human Resource Management, British Journal of Management, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Business Ethics and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice. She serves as a management organizational consultant and trainer on issues related to human resource management and family business succession. http://ucy.ac.cy/dir/en/component/comprofiler/userprofile/eleni1 |
2 | Dr. Daina Nicolaou | Principles of Management and Work | September-October | Dr. Daina 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. She holds BSc in Public and Business Administration, MBA and PhD in Strategy, Marketing and Management from the Warwick Business School.
Daina teaches Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Management and Research related courses since 2003 at several institutions both in Cyprus and abroad. She has also worked for the Ministries of Labour and Social Insurance and Education and Culture, in Cyprus. Her research on employee behaviour and performance metrics has been presented at prestigious conferences abroad. |
3 | Dr. Christiana Ierodiakonou | Human Resource Management & Strategic HR | September-October | Dr. Christiana Ierodiakonou is an Assistant Professor of management at the University of Cyprus, teaching HRM, OB, diversity management and business communication. Her research interests include work life balance, flexible work and careers from a gender perspective.
She currently does research on social inequalities and their manifestations in the labour market and the society, exploring issues related to gender, sexuality and other aspects affecting individual working lives. She has presented her work in various international conferences and published in journals such as Human Resources Management, The International Journal of Human Resources and the British Journal of Management. |
Managing Workforce Diversity, Theory and Practice | May-June | |||
4 | Dr. Alexia Panayiotou | Leading People | November-December | Dr. Alexia Panayiotou is an Associate Professor in the Department of Business and Public Administration at the University of Cyprus. She has a Bachelor’s and a Master’s from Stanford University, a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a doctorate in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. Her research interests include the representation of management and organizations in popular culture; organizational space and symbolism; gender and work; feminist analysis of organizations; and visuality and organizational narratives.
Her work has appeared, amongst others, in the Academy of Management Learning and Education, Management Learning, Strategic Organization, Organization, and the Journal of Management Inquiry. Her article “Paradoxes of Change” (co-authored with G. Kassinis) received the 2016 Best Paper Award in the Academy of Management Organizational Development and Change division and was a finalist for the all-Academy Dexter Award. The TedX talk titled “Beyond a Binary World” which she gave for the 2014 Limassol event “Everything you Know is Wrong,” highlights some of her research interests (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI65O8AtWjM). http://ucy.ac.cy/dir/en/component/comprofiler/userprofile/alexiap |
5 | Professor George Kassinis | Strategic Management |
September-October | 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: corporate social responsibility; sustainability; corporate governance; social entrepreneurship; 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. http://ucy.ac.cy/dir/en/component/comprofiler/userprofile/kassinis |
6 | Dr. Andrie Michaelides | Compensation and Rewards Management | March-April | Dr. Andrie Michaelides is a visiting lecturer at the Department of Business & Public Administration of the University of Cyprus, where she teaches principles of management, organizational behavior, cross-cultural management and HRM. She was educated at Cranfield University in the UK (PhD in Management and Leadership) and Indiana University in Bloomington, USA (BSc., MBA). Her research interests include gender inequality in management positions, women in leadership, gender and career success, flexible working programs and their role in leveraging women’s career advancement and sustainability. She currently researches the determinants of flexible and sustainable careers through synergies between society, organization and family and has presented her work in various international conferences in Europe and the US.
With extensive practitioner experience as Human Resources Director of a multinational organization for many years in Europe and the Middle East, she combines research with knowledge acquired from practice in order to contribute to pervasive issues within the field HRM. https://www.cranfield.ac.uk/som/people/dr-andrie-michaelides-29906836 |
7 | Prof. Chris Brewster | Comparative and International Human Resource Management | November-December | Professor Chris Brewster has had substantial industrial experience and got his doctorate from the London School of Economics before becoming an academic. He is now a part-time Professor of International Human Resource Management at Vaasa University in Finland; Henley Business School, University of Reading in the UK; and Radboud University in the Netherlands, specializing in international and comparative HRM.
He has been in involved as author or editor in the publication of more than 30 books, more than 100 chapters in other books and well over 200 articles. He has taught, presented and consulted in many countries around the world. HE is among the most influential academics in the field. https://www.henley.ac.uk/people/person/professor-chris-brewster |
8 | Orfeas Stavrou
Founder of Evalion-SHL Cyprus and Evalion Maritime |
Workshop on Structures, Job Design and Workforce Planning | January-February | Orfeas Stavrou 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. Furthermore, he is the instructor of some of Evalion’s training courses like ”Psychometric Tools” and ”Career Guidance for teenagers and adults”. He holds a BSc in Psychology and a MSc in Business Psychology.
Mr Stavrou is a tutor at the MSc in Business Psychology of Metropolitan College and teaches the course of Personnel Assessment & Development which covers topics like: Competency Models Design, Psychometric Tools, Structured Interviews, Assessment Centers, etc. His teaching approach is more practical, using engaging exercises from real-life scenarios. On the academic side, my main research interest is the analysis of human behavior usually with the use of scientific assessment methods. |
Workshop on Psychometric Measurements | ||||
9 | Dr. Irini Nikandrou | Employee Training and Development | January-February | Irene Nikandrou is Assistant Professor of Human Resource Management (HRM) at the Department of Marketing & Communication of the Athens University of Economics & Business (AUEB). Since January 2018, she is the scientific coordinator of the Career Office of the University.
She has a wide teaching experience both in the academic field and in business, where she teaches Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior, Positive Organizational Scholarship and Training and Development at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She is a member of CRANET project team in Greece and GNOSIS 2020 network. She has done extensive research in the field of HRM and OB and her current research interests focus on the fields of positive organizational scholarship, art-based learning and career management. Her work has been published in leading journals like The International Journal of HRM, Journal of Managerial Psychology, Management Decision, Personnel Review, Human Resource Management Journal, Human Resource Development International. Parallel to her research activities she has worked as management consultant in numerous HRM projects. |
10 | Dr Ioannis Nikolaou | Employ Selection and Succession Planning | January-February | Dr Ioannis Nikolaou is Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Director of the MSc in Human Resources Management at Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece and Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal International Journal of Selection & Assessment. Ioannis has gained working experience is PricewaterhouseCoopers, Greece and Egnatia Bank before starting his academic career.
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 maintains active links with the industry through Human Resource consulting projects (GaiaOSE, PeopleCert, Public Power Corporation, National Bank of Greece, Emporiki Bank, Kantor Management Consulting, Attika Bank, etc.) and executive training (e.g., Menarini, Groupama, Metro, OTE Academy, EFG Eurobank, Ethniki Asfalistiki, Misko-Barilla, Lion Hellas, Pfizer, SEAT, Infote, Dodoni, OSE, Metaxas Diagnostics, Intracom, AB Vasilopoulos, etc.). |
11 | Professor Koen Dewettinck | Performance Management | March-April | Professor Koen Dewettinck is partner, MBA director and professor of HRM at Vlerick Business School. He obtained his Master’s in Organizational Psychology and PhD in Applied Economics at Ghent University. He has been an ICM doctoral fellow and was research fellow at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University.
His main teaching and research interests are employee motivation, performance management and strategic HRM. He is also director of CEPP, the Centre for Excellence in People Performance, in which he collaborates with public and private companies. As academic director, Koen is also responsible for the EMBA programmes at the Ghent and Leuven campus. He is a frequently asked speaker on HRM, performance management and people management topics, across the globe. https://www.vlerick.com/en/research-and-faculty/faculty/koen-dewettinck |
12 | Professor Maria Vakola | Managing Change | November-December | Maria Vakola is an organisational psychologist currently working as a Professor at the Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece. Maria has published in highly esteemed academic journals such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology.
She is the co-founder of an 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. Maria has delivered many in-house training programs and she has received awards for teaching excellence from both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. |
13 | Professor Marios Katsioloudes | Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation | March-April | Professor Marios Katsioloudes holds a Ph.D. in Strategy and International Business from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently the founding Dean, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, and Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the American University of Cyprus, and former professor of Management at Qatar University, where he taught strategic management, international business, and entrepreneurship courses at the undergraduate, MBA and doctoral levels.
Professor Katsioloudes is a researcher and consultant in strategic management and planning in both small and medium enterprises or entrepreneurships and in international business. His research focuses on the strategic planning process in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, entrepreneurship, as well as on the management of change and innovation. He is a visiting professor to the University of Cyprus, Galen University in Belize, Linkoping University in Sweden, EDHEC Business School in France, Mediterranean School of Business in Tunisia, Arabian Gulf University in Bahrain, Tulane University in the USA, and The Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, Greece. https://aucy.ac.cy/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Professor-Marios-Katsioloudes.pdf |
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Mr Philippos Philippou Red HR Solutions |
Workshop on Human Resource Information Systems | March-April | 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 29 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. |
Workshop on HR Analytics and Evidence-Based HRM | ||||
15 | Dr. Christos Nicolaides | Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods | November-December | Christos Nicolaides is a Lecturer in Information Systems at the Department of Business and Public Administration at University of Cyprus (UCY) and a Digital Fellow at the Initiative on the Digital Economy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Before joining UCY, Christos was working as a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT Sloan School of Management funded by the James McDonnell Foundation. His research focus on applying mathematical, statistical and computational tools to large-scale empirical and data driven research questions with applications in identification of social influence that is mediated, amplified, or directed by interactive technologies. http://ucy.ac.cy/dir/en/component/comprofiler/userprofile/cnicol01 |
16 | Dr. Andria Christofidou | Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methods | November-December | Andria Christofidou received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Glasgow in 2017. She currently works as a Researcher on the programme ‘Developing Equality Allies: An Innovative WorkplaceInclusion Programme’ (funded by the Research Promotion Foundation, Social Innovation, Cyprus Restart Programme 2016-2020) and teaches at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cyprus. Andria’s research involves qualitative methods of analysis and falls under sociology of gender and sexuality. Her work has been published in the Journal of Gender Studies.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andria_Christofidou |
17 | Prof. Paul Gooderham | Employment Systems and Institutions | May-June | Paul N. Gooderham is Professor of International Management at NHH: Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen and an adjunct Professor at Middlesex University Business, London.
His research interests are primarily concentrated on international and comparative management. He has published books as well as numerous articles in highly prestigious journals such as Journal of World Business, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal, Human Relations and Administrative Science Quarterly. Among his books are a co-authored textbook, International Management: Theory and Practice (Edward Elgar) published in 2013. His research has attracted substantial funding from Norwegian multinationals. |
18 | Dr. Seraphim Voliotis | Workshop on Negotiations and Conflict | May-June | Dr Seraphim Voliotis [BA, MA, MMath (Cambridge); MBA (ALBA at ACG); CPE, BVC (London); PhD (Imperial)] is a professional Negotiator, Mediator and a member of the Bar of England and Wales since 1995. He also teaches at ALBA Graduate Business School at the American College of Greece and visits the University of Cyprus and the Hellenic Naval and Air Force War Schools. His main research interests lie in Negotiation, the Management of Conflict, Game Theory, Ethics and Corruption.
For the last 18 years, he has delivered numerous professional seminars in all aspects of negotiation and mediation for executives and lawyers. He has negotiated or mediated numerous multimillion-pound commercial disputes. He is also interested in the strategic aspects of law and has devised legal strategies for particularly complex legal conflicts. |
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Prof. Richard Croucher | The Regulatory Framework of HRM | May-June | Richard Croucher is Professor of Comparative Employment Relations and was until recently Director of Research, at Middlesex University Business School, London. He is Visiting Professor at Cranfield School of Management and Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian National Business School.
He has acted as consultant to companies such as McBride, Volkswagen and Kellogg. He is co- author of the major HR textbook HRM: A Case Study Approach published by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. He is a member of the editorial committee of the British Journal of Management. He has published over one hundred articles in leading journals including Journal of Management, Human Relations and Industrial Relations. He has carried out research funded by the International Labour Organisation, the UK Low Pay Commission, the Leverhulme Trust, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Nuffield Trust and other bodies. https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/profile/croucher-richard |
20 | Prof. Nancy Papalexandri | Business Ethics and CSR | September-October | Nancy Papalexandris is Professor Emeritus in Human Resource Management and founder of the MSc Programme in Human Resource Management of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB). She has served as Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs and Personnel at her University for the period 2001-2007.
She has studied Business Administration and obtained a Master’s Degree from New York University and a Ph.D. from the University of Bath in the U.K. She has taught at the undergraduate and post-graduate programs in AUEB and in various E.U. Universities. Also, she conducted post-training and management development seminars in Greece and abroad. She has served as University evaluator and PhD examiner in various Universities outside Greece. She has published books and articles in esteemed international journals and has organized and participated in many international conferences. She is member of the editorial board of various academic journals and President of the Greek Association of Women University Professors. |
21 | Mr. Angelos Louis Red HR Solutions |
Workshop on HR Business Partnering | September-October | 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 25 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. |