
Fida AfiouniAmerican University of Beirut | AUB · Olayan School of Business
Fida Afiouni
Doctor of Philosophy in HRM
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Introduction
Fida Afiouni is a full Professor of Human Resource Management at the Olayan School of Business, American University of Beirut, Lebanon. She obtained her PhD in Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and was the recipient of the Sharjah Prize for the best doctoral thesis in administrative sciences in the Arab world for the year 2005. Her current research focuses on the interplay of HRM, careers, and gender in the Arab Middle East.
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September 2007 - August 2015
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September 1998 - December 2013
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Publications (63)
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Paid parental leave and externally provided childcare are social policies designed to enhance parents' labour force participation. These policies influence not only men's and women's decisions regarding their labour market activity but also organisational decision makers' (ODMs) expectations about their employees' availability to work and thus, the...
Beverly Dawn Metcalfe*, Yasmeen Makareem, Fida Afouni
Forthcoming International Journal of HRM, January 2021, SSCI Impact Factor, 3.04, Scopus Q1
'Macro Talent Management Theorizing: Transnational Perspectives of the Political Economy of Talent Formation in the Arab Middle East
Correspondence', Prof Metcalfe, ESA Business School Lebanon, Metcalfe....
This paper explores how context shapes the career constructions of 40 Lebanese female professionals. Starting with Career Construction Theory (CCT), we leverage Feminist Standpoint Theory (FST) to propose a hybrid analytic framework. With this framework, we invite CCT researchers to theorize career constructions as situated. The situatedness of car...
Informal networking can be seen as a positive activity with beneficial outcomes for individuals, firms, and society as a whole, but informal networking can also lead to collusion, cliques, nepotism, and other forms of unethical or corrupt conduct-largely related to research on emerging markets. To date, the construction of informal networks and the...
Attracting and retaining the right talent in the right places is considered by GTM scholars as one of the key success factors for multinational corporations. However, research has privileged the role of MNCs, and not considered other stakeholders in building human capacity and skills. Consequently, there is a need to explore myriad actors in TM, an...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to introduce this special issue about the “Impact of the Global Refugee Crisis on the Career Ecosystem” and summarise the key contributions of the included practitioner and scholarly papers which examine refugee business and labour market experiences. The paper also examines the impact of media reports to provid...
Much of the research on talent management (TM) is positioned within Western constructions of knowledge. Global practice is dominated by the promotion and the propagation of neoliberal approaches that put women at a disadvantage and do not reflect the realities of development in diverse geo-political contexts. In this paper we offer a transnational...
Our aim is to contribute to a better understanding of the contextual embeddedness of women's careers. To do this, we leverage feminist relational theory (a) to understand the relational context of women's careers in Lebanon, with a particular focus on working‐self and career investments, and (b) to trace the gendered power dynamics of career invest...
QUESTIONING THE MASCULINIST LOGIC OF TALENT MANAGEMENT THEORIZING THROUGH A FEMINIST POSTSTRUCTURALIST APPROACH
ABSTRACT
Talent Management (TM) as a field has been growing over the last couple of decades and much theoretical and methodological progress has been made in an effort to better conceptualize the field. Despite these efforts, one particu...
The current study explores the relationship between contextual hardships and women's career calling. We examine how the formation of career calling drive is linked to how an individual perceives and affectively reacts to forms of oppression within and across institutional subsystems. In conceptualizing career calling formation, we attempt to broade...
Management and Organization Review Special Issue ‘Social Networks ‒ The Dark and Bright Sides of Informal Networks’ - Volume 14 Issue 4 - Sven Horak, Fid Afiouni, Yanjie Bian, Alena Ledeneva, Maral Muratbekova-Touron, Carl Fey
Research on the mechanisms of organizing and managing via interpersonal relations has a rich history in the management and organization-oriented literature. So far, however, the informal dimension of managing and organizing by drawing on informal networks in an international context has received comparably less attention. Recent research has pointe...
Research on the mechanisms of organizing and managing via interpersonal relations has a rich history in the management and organization-oriented literature. So far, however, the informal dimension of managing and organizing by drawing on informal networks in an international context has received comparably less attention. Recent research has pointe...
Submission Deadline (full paper): 31 January 2019
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore how public (i.e. culture, state, paid work) and private (i.e. household) patriarchal structures work to shape a woman’s own legitimacy judgments concerning not engaging in paid work. The authors trace the intersection and interaction of legitimacy logics at both the collective (i.e. validity) and indi...
In this chapter, and stemming from our position as academic researchers and as women living and working in the Arab Region, we engage in a critical reflexive exercise that echoes our feminist standpoint. We aim to tackle and debunk some of the assumptions that often underpin research on women's careers in our region. Such assumptions may find stron...
In this chapter, and stemming from our position as academic researchers and as women living and working in the Arab Region, we engage in a critical reflexive exercise that echoes our feminist standpoint. We aim to tackle and debunk some of the assumptions that often underpin research on women’s careers in our region. Such assumptions may find stron...
A notable phenomenon in the Middle East is the growing number of educated and skilled women who are unemployed at disproportionate rates when compared to their male compatriots (Karam and Afiouni, 2014; Karam and Jamali, 2013; Moghadam, 2004; ILO, 2016). In contrast to the Leaking Pipeline described in many national contexts in Europe and North Ame...
The global refugee crisis is currently at the centre of much public and scholarly debate with concerns about its potential impact on national labour markets and social systems. The magnitude of this situation is clearly reflected in the UN Refugee Agency’s report that “one in every 122 humans is now either a refugee, internally displaced, or seekin...
This special issue aims to broaden the governance debate by providing multilayered critiques, the complexity of power relations between diverse stakeholders, through insights from developing economies. In doing so, we want to provide a forum to advance knowledge, and for scholars and practitioners to rethink a global ‘relational ethic’, one that is...
Considering the intersection between gender, public/private patriarchy and governance, this paper explores the legitimacy justifications of female unemployment in the Arab Middle Eastern country of Lebanon. Our analytic framework integrates institutional theory’s notions of legitimacy (i.e., validity and propriety) with notions of public/private pa...
The present symposium is interested in exploring the different forms of gender mainstreaming that are derived from the different visions and theories for promoting gender equality, in different developing countries and different policy domains, in order to push forward the theoretical debates on that front. More specifically, the symposium explores...
The paper aims to shed light on how contextual realities shape/ bind women’s career choices and career patterns in academia in the Arab Middle East. By doing so, this paper hopes to bring new insights to the current academic career literature debate and the career debate more generally in regards to the bounded/ boundaryless nature of contemporary...
A notable phenomenon in the Arab Middle East is the growing number of educated and skilled women who are unemployed at disproportionate rates when compared to their male compatriots In contrast to the Leaking Pipeline described in many national contexts in Europe and North America, it appears that in the Arab world the pipeline is experiencing ever...
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to explore notions of career success from a process-oriented perspective. The authors argue that success can be usefully conceptualized as a subjectively malleable and localized construct that is continually (re)interpreted and (re)shaped through the interaction between individual agency and macro-level struct...
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to examine how women academics from the Arab Middle East enact their careers with reference to double-bounded contexts: academia as an institution encoding organizational career scripts and gender as another institution encoding specific gender roles. It is hoped that this cross-cultural perspective would broa...
This article explores the localized experiences of women at work in higher education in the under-researched context of the Arab Middle East and North Africa. Our main research questions are: What is the current status of academic women between and across the countries of this region? How can human resources play a developmental role for women at w...
Since the publication of the first special issue on human resource management (HRM) in the Middle East in this journal in 2007, the last seven years have witnessed a significant increase in the volume and breadth of topics relating to HRM in the region. Our aim in this special issue is to contribute to a greater understanding of HRM research and pr...
Recent focus on the Arab Middle East in research and on the news often highlights the multitude of challenges faced by individuals, groups, companies and governments aiming to revive economic growth in the region after the onset of the current uprising and institutional changes taking place (de Soto, 2011; Witts 2010). Two symposia on women at work...
The aim of this paper is to investigate the existence or absence of an Arab Middle Eastern (AME) human resource (HR) model. The paper adopts the HR value proposition model (VPM) introduced by Ulrich and Brockbank (2005, The HR Value Proposition, Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press) as a conceptual framework and examines the role of HR along t...
The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of human capital management (HCM) and to make a case that it is much more than a new name for human resource management (HRM). The paper reviews the theoretical and empirical human capital (HC) literature, as well as the literatures regarding strategic human resource management (SHRM),...
The aim of this chapter is to provide a critical assessment of SHRM, shedding
light on its differentiating attributes and theoretical foundations, as well as the
persistent gaps and challenges in this rapidly growing field. SHRM undoubtedly
presents significant advances and new insights in relation to people management,
but it is not a panacea and...
Knowledge Management (KM) is typically defined as the holistic combination of measures for managing people, processes and technology. However, most of the KM literature focuses on the technology part, and the explicit integration of Human Resource Management (HRM) into KM initiatives is seldom examined. Thus, shedding light on how HRM practices com...
Combining Human Resources Management, finance and strategy, this research, organized in three sections, seeks to highlight the importance of people in the process of value creation.
The first section introduces the theoretical foundations of the research. Composed of six chapters, it retraces the value creation theory since its beginnings, shows th...