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Leadership and Leadership Styles:
Investigating various conceptualisations of leadership, such as leader competence, transformational, transactional, paternalistic, leader-member exchange, and shared leadership. Special focus is given to shared leadership in contexts like entrepreneurial teams and student teams, exploring antecedents such as transactive memory systems, trust, and outcomes like team learning and creativity.
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Team Dynamics and Behaviour:
Examining critical aspects of teams including values, roles, interdependencies, performance, communication, cohesiveness, bonding, conflicts, collaboration, decision making, collective thinking, accountability, and the effectiveness of virtual and cross-functional teams.
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Organisational Behaviour:
Delving into a wide array of behaviours from prosocial to counterproductive work behaviours, including teamwork, non-violence, compassion, cyberloafing, and deviant behaviours. The research also covers attitudes and behaviours such as job satisfaction, turnover intention, productivity, psychological capital, perceived trust, loyalty, and engagement.
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Workplace Well-being:
Focusing on psychological and emotional aspects within the workplace, including emotional intelligence, emotional labour, burnout, workplace bullying, and even unique areas like dental health and consciousness.
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Diversity and Inclusion:
Exploring diversity and inclusion in the workplace, with particular attention to gender and emotional diversity, and related interventions aimed at fostering an inclusive work environment.
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Human Resource Development and Organisational Change:
Researching HR development areas such as training, coaching, mentoring, change management, and organisational development. This includes investigating strategies that enhance flexibility, adaptability, innovation, competitive advantage, and organisational performance, particularly in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs).
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Sustainable HR Practices:
Scholars will also explore the integration of sustainable HR practices in MSMEs, focusing on areas such as training need analysis, person-organisation fit, and the utilisation of emotional and artificial intelligence in recruitment strategies.
