Nikolaou Ioannis

Dr Ioannis Nikolaou is a Work & Organizational Psychologist, Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources Management and past Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal International Journal of Selection & Assessment (2018-2024). Dr Nikolaou studied Psychology at the University of Crete and carried out his postgraduate studies (MSc, PhD) at Manchester School of Management, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). He has gained wide working experience as an Assistant Manager for PricewaterhouseCoopers, Greece at the department of Global Human Resources Solutions and as Head of the Training Department at 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. Computers in Human Behaviour, 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 teaches courses in undergraduate (Organisational Psychology and Personal Skills Development) and post-graduate level (Employee Selection, Performance Appraisal and Development, Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources Management, Personal Skills Development) at Athens University of Economics and Business, while maintaining active links with the industry through Human Resource consulting projects (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 International Association of Applied Psychology. 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.