Professor Dora Scholarios

Work, Employment and Organisation

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Personal statement

I teach and research in several areas of work psychology, organisational behaviour and HRM. I am currently Co-Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, and past Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Human Resource Management Journal (2016-2020). I am also a member of several journal editorial boards, such as the Journal of Management Studies, and a panel reviewer for national research councils; e.g., ESRC, Dutch Research Council (NWO).  

My research has been funded by UK and international institutions; e.g. the Economic and Social Research Council (most recently, for the project Ampifying Employee Voice and Hearing the Unheard 2022-2025 with Co-I the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development), The Leverhulme Trust, the European Commission, and the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. 

I am currently Associate Dean (Research) for Strathlcyde Business School. Previous roles include: Business School Associate Dean for Postgraduate Research (2010-2013); Deputy Head of Department of HRM (2009-2014); member of the Strathclyde team co-ordinating the Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) The changing nature of employment in Europe in the context of challenges, threats and opportunities for employees and employers (2012-2016); and member of the Supervisory Board of the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science & ESRC Doctoral Training Centre (Scotland) (2014-2016). 

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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
Nominated for Work, Employment & Society Sage Prize 2021
Recipient
2020
Best Paper Award in Human Relations 2011
Recipient
2011

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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)

 

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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
Recruitment
Bhoj Niyati, Hurrell Scott, Scholarios Dora
Contemporary Human Resource Management Text and Cases (2025) (2025)
Selection
Scholarios Dora, Whetzel Deborah L, Leaman Julia A
Contemporary Human Resource Management Text and Cases (2025) (2025)
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)

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Teaching

I'm Academic Director of Strathclyde's MSc Occupational Psychology - the only such Masters in Scotland accredited by the British Psychological Society as a training route to chartership in occupational psychology - and the MSc Work and Organisational Psychology, both established in 2022.

My areas of teaching expertise cover work psychology, organisational behaviour and HRM generally, but with specialisms in recruitment, assessment and selection, employee wellbeing and stress, research methodology and statistics.

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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 PhD Examiner IIM Mumbai
Examiner
11/2024
European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology (Journal)
Editor
9/2024
Occupational Psychology in Scotland: Showcase
Organiser
22/8/2024
External DBA Examiner, Herriot-Watt University
Examiner
7/2024

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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-Jan-2014 - 31-Jan-2016
Employee Turnover in Voluntary Sector Social Care
Cunningham, Ian (Principal Investigator) Butler, Joanna (Academic) Scholarios, Dora (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2018 - 30-Jan-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-Jan-2024 - 18-Jan-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-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-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-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-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-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2023

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Professor Dora Scholarios
Work, Employment and Organisation

Email: d.scholarios@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3135