Nikolaou Ioannis

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. He has written the books "Organizational Psychology & Behaviour" 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). He has also published in international peer-reviewed academic journals (e.g. Applied Psychology: An International Review, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, International Journal of Human Resources Management, Personnel Review, International Journal of Selection and Assessment, Personality & Individual Differences, Employee Relations, Stress & Health, Journal of Managerial Psychology, etc.), while 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.). He is a member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology and the Society for Human Resource Management. 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). He is also the co-founder of the NGO Job-Pairs, supporting young graduates via mentoring and Chief Science Officer of Owiwi, a Greek based start-up company specialized in the field of gamified assessment.