Professor Dora Scholarios
Work, Employment and Organisation
Area of Expertise
- Human Resource Management, employee wellbeing and performance
- Recruitment, assessment and selection
- Careers and employability
- Youth employment and vocational psychology
Prize And Awards
- Featured case study in the Business School’s Employability Showcase
- Recipient
- 2023
- Shortlisted for Celebrating Innovation and Resilience at Strathclyde award
- Recipient
- 2021
Qualifications
Associate Fellow and Chartered Psychologist, British Psychological Society
PhD, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., Industrial/Organizational Psychology (1990)
MPhil (Distinction), The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Industrial/Organizational Psychology (1987)
MA (Honours), University of Glasgow, Psychology (1985)
Publications
- 'If he just knew who we were' : Microworkers' emerging bonds of attachment in a fragmented employment relationship
- Panteli Niki, Rapti Andriana, Scholarios Dora
- Work, Employment and Society Vol 34, pp. 476-494 (2020)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017019897872
- What are the career implications of "seeing eye to eye"? Examining the role of leader-member exchange (LMX) agreement on employability and career outcomes
- Epitropaki Olga, Marstand Anders Friis, Van der Heijden Beatrice, Bozionelos Nikos, Mylonopoulos Nikolaos, Van der Heijde Claudia M, Scholarios Dora, Mikkelsen Aslaug, Marzec Izabela, Jędrzejowicz Piotr
- Personnel Psychology Vol 74, pp. 799-830 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12432
- A multilevel examination of skills-oriented human resource management and perceived skill utilization during recession : implications for the well-being of all workers
- Okay-Somerville Belgin, Scholarios Dora
- Human Resource Management Vol 58, pp. 139-154 (2019)
- https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.21941
- The (dis)connected intern : career preparation in a remote landscape
- Luchinskaya Daria, Tzanakou Charikleia, Cattani Luca, Pedrini Giulio, Fasone Vincenzo, Manitiu Dorel, Hunt Wil, Scholarios Dora
- Higher Education: A Place for Activism and Resistance? (2024)
- Financial stress and sustainable start to graduate careers during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Okay-Somerville Belgin, Scholarios Dora, Luchinskaya Daria, Anderson Pauline, Hurrell Scott
- Academy of Management Proceedings Vol 2024 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.5465/amproc.2024.21561abstract
- Virtually the same thing as in-person internships? : Mapping the virtual internship landscape and exploring intern and employer experience in the UK and Italy.
- Luchinskaya Daria, Tzanakou Charoula, Cattani Luca, Pedrini Giulio, Manitiu Dorel, Hunt Wil, Scholarios Dora
- Digit Papers in Progress Series (2024)
Teaching
My areas of teaching expertise cover work psychology, organisational behaviour and HRM generally, but with specific specialism in recruitment, assessment and selection, employee wellbeing and stress, research methodology and statistics.
Research Interests
My research activity has focused on:
HRM, work design and employee wellbeing, including the psychological effects of new technology, shiftwork, different types of work (e.g. microworkers, call centres, software, police), and the impact of HRM practices on employee outcomes (e.g., skill, attitudes). For recent work see:
- Industry 5 and the human in human-centric manufacturing. Sensors
- Migrant worker well-being as a struggle for meaningful work: Evidence from Bangladeshi migrants in a developing country. Organization
- ‘If he just knew who we were’: Microworkers’ emerging bonds of attachment in a fragmented employment relationship. Work, Employment & Society
- A multilevel examination of skills-oriented HRM and perceived skill utilization during recession: Implications for the wellbeing of all workers. Human Resource Management
- Unpredictable working time, wellbeing and health in the police service. International Journal of HRM
Careers and employability, with a focus on youth employment/underemployment. See for example:
- 2020-2021 Survey Study: Graduating in a pandemic Careers, well-being and hopes for the future.
- What are the career implications of ‘seeing eye to eye’? Examining the role of leader-member exchange (LMX) agreement on employability and career outcomes. Personnel Psychology.
- Supervisor-subordinate age dissimilarity and its impact on supervisory ratings of employability: Does supportive learning context make a difference? Frontiers in Psychology.
- Focused for some, exploratory for others: job search strategies and successful university-to-work transitions in the context of labour market ambiguity. Journal of Career Development.
- Position, possession or process? Understanding objective and subjective employability during university-to-work transitions. Studies in Higher Education.
- Young workers’ job satisfaction in Europe. In Furåker, B. & Håkansson, K. (Eds.) Work Orientations: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Findings. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, pp.193-218.
- Coping with career boundaries and boundary-crossing in the graduate labour market. Career Development International.
- Learning climate perceptions as a determinant of employability: an empirical study among European ICT professionals. Frontiers in Psychology.
- Shades of grey: Underemployment and job quality across graduate occupations. Human Relations.
Professional Activities
- Human Resource Management Journal (Journal)
- Editor
- 7/2015
- Initial Training Networks (ITN) (Journal)
- Editor
- 2014
- External DBA Examiner, Herriot-Watt University
- Examiner
- 7/2024
- International Labour Process Conference 2023
- Organiser
- 12/4/2023
- AI and workplace cultures. Unpacking the Human in Industry 5
- Chair
- 29/3/2023
- AI and workplace cultures: Scottish AI summit 2023
- Participant
- 28/3/2023
Projects
- University-to-work transitions: the role of career self-management in graduate employability and employment success
- Okay-Somerville, Belgin (Principal Investigator) Scholarios, Dora (Co-investigator)
- This is a two-year, longitudinal research project funded by a British Academy Small Grant which will examine the associations between career self-management, employability and employment success during university-to-work transitions. Waves I and II measure career self-management, intentions and job search strategies during the last year of university and immediately upon graduation, respectively; and Wave III examines employment quality (e.g., skill use), attitudes and well-being six months after graduation. The research will contribute to a more detailed understanding of graduate employability and employment success at a time of increasing uncertainty, and have implications for policymakers, employers, universities and graduates.
- 01-Sep-2014 - 31-Aug-2016
- Employee Turnover in Voluntary Sector Social Care
- Cunningham, Ian (Principal Investigator) Scholarios, Dora (Co-investigator)
- 01-Mar-2018 - 30-Sep-2018
- Effective Voice in Scottish Social Care Workplaces – A Mixed Methods Study
- Scholarios, Dora (Principal Investigator) Briken, Kendra (Co-investigator) Cunningham, Ian (Co-investigator) Johnstone, Stewart (Co-investigator) McCarthy, Tony (Research Co-investigator) Nikolova, Marina (Researcher)
- 19-Aug-2024 - 18-Aug-2025
- Cracking the Code: Can Objective Personality Tests combat Social Desirability Responding, Impression Management and Faking?
- Butler, Joanna (Principal Investigator) Scholarios, Dora (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jul-2024 - 30-Jun-2025
- Amplifying Employee Voice and Hearing the Unheard: A Multidisciplinary Study of Contemporary Working Lives in Deindustrialised Communities
- Johnstone, Stewart (Principal Investigator) Briken, Kendra (Co-investigator) Cunningham, Ian (Co-investigator) Hadjisolomou, Tasos (Co-investigator) McCarthy, Tony (Co-investigator) McIntyre, Stuart (Co-investigator) Scholarios, Dora (Co-investigator) Taylor, Philip (Co-investigator)
- 01-Oct-2022 - 30-Sep-2025
- Industry 4.0: Can AI ethics be embedded in the innovation lifecycle?
- Briken, Kendra (Principal Investigator) Rose, Emily (Co-investigator) Scholarios, Dora (Co-investigator)
- 01-Feb-2022 - 31-Jan-2023
Contact
Professor
Dora
Scholarios
Work, Employment and Organisation
Email: d.scholarios@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3135