Jennifer Okolai
Lecturer in HRM
School of Marketing and Management
Coventry Business School
Faculty of Business and Law
Email: jennifer.okolai@coventry.ac.uk
LinkedIn Profile
Biography
- Delivering and teaching of human resource management from a global perspective
- Development and delivery of teaching and assessment of both undergraduate and postgraduate levels
- Module leadership and management
- Undertake internal and external research for publication & to promote University’s profile
- Administrative and research role prior to delivery of lectures
- Liaising and relating with other members of staff
- One-to-one mentoring sessions with students
- Dissemination of research output
- Supervision of research students
- Responsible for advising, guiding and supporting students
- Mark, assess and moderate students course works and exam scripts
- Attend exam board and necessary board meetings
Qualifications
- Coventry University (2012-2016) - PhD Strategy and Applied Management (Organisational Change & Gender Management)
- Coventry University (2009- 2010) - MA Human Resource Management
- Rivers State University of Science and Technology (2002- 2006) - B.sc (Hons) Business Management
Research
- Gender leadership differences in organisational change management
- International recruitment and selection criteria
- The impact of organisational change implementation on employee performance
- The impact of employee change resistance on overall organisational performance
- Work-life balance, research and classroom management
- Expatriate Training and Development
- Intercultural teams
- The influence of national culture on organisational practices
- Organisational change management and its influence on Psychological contract breach
Output and Publications
- Okolai, J., and Auluck, R. (2016) ‘Managing Organisational Change from a Gendered Approach: Findings from the Public Sector’. Proceedings of the 2016 Joint Congress of IIAS-IASIA ‘. Held 19-23rd September 2014 in Chengdu, China, 1-42
- Okolai, J. (2016) ‘The Gendered Nature of Organisational Change Management’. Proceedings of the 2016 FBL Internal Research Conference. Held 30th June 2016 in Coventry, UK, 1-8
- Okolai, J., and Stevens, K. (2016) ‘The Gendered Nature of Organisational Change in Management Theory and Practice: Differences in the Way Men and Women Manage Organisational Change in Nigeria’. Gender in Management International Journal 4 (9), 20 – 46.
- Okolai, J., and Stewart, J. (2014) ‘Gendered Approach to Organisational Change Management: Differences in the Way Men and Women Manage Organisational Change in Nigeria: Preliminary Findings from the Healthcare Sector’. Proceedings of the 17th Irish Academy of Management Conference, ‘IAM 2014’. Held 3-5th September 2014 in Limerick, Ireland, 1-20
- Okolai, J., and Stewart, J. (2013) ‘A Gendered Approach to Organisational Change Management: Differences In The Way Men And Women Manage Organisational Change In Nigeria’. Proceedings of the UFHRD 2013 Conference, ‘HRD In Turbulent Seas’. Held 5- 7 June 2013 in Brighton, UK, 1-8
Teaching
- M12HRM
- 305HRM
- M57HRM
- A200HRM
- A137HRM
- 148HRM
- 203HRM
- 300HRM
- M07HRM
Areas of expertise:
- International Human Resource management
- Organisational Leadership and Management
- Organisational Development and Resourcing
- Research Methods
- Conflict management
- International Human Resource Management
- Managing in a Strategic Business Context
- Managing in a cross-cultural or diverse workforce
- Change Management
- Business & leadership Skills
- Recruitment & Selection
- Performance Management
- Add-vantage modules
- Leading and Inspiring People
- Health and Welfare
- People Management
- Employee Relations
