Facets of Managing in Cross-Cultural Diversity

Udaya Mohan Devadas, PhD, senior lecturer (grade 1) at the department of human resource management, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, and consultant in HRM and HRD. He earned his PhD in human resource development from the Universiti Putra Malaysia in 2013 and his Master of Business Administration degree from the Post Graduate Institute of Management (PIM) of the University of Sri Jayawardenepura, Sri Lanka, in 2005. His research interests include national human resource development, corporate HRD and HRM, women in leadership, qualitative research methods, and grounded theory research. He has published international book chapters with Springer links and Pearson’s publishers, and articles in indexed and international academic journals. He is currently the editor-in-chief in the Kelaniya Journal of Human Resource Management, and the coordinator of the Faculty’s staff development. He was a visiting researcher in 2017 and 2018 at the University of Lodz, Poland and has been the former head of the department of HRM, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka while holding many administrative positions, including chair and co-chair in international and national conferences.

Joanna Sośnicka, PhD, lecturer of the Department of Humanities at the Faculty of Management and Production Engineering at Lodz University of Technology; scholarship holder and graduate of the Internationale Akademie für Philosophie im Fürstentum Liechtenstein; her research interests include the phenomenological tradition, ethics, anthropology and philosophy of technology. She is the author of numerous articles and books including: (2008) Bariery Człowieczeństwa [Barriers of Humanity]; (2015) Phenomenology of Love; (2016) Nie warto żyć bezmyślnym życiem [The unexamined life is not worth living]; (2019) An Engineer with a Humanist’s Soul. Humanistic Issues of technological World.

Dr. Angela Diehl-Becker has been with Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Karlsruhe since 2011 where she is the director of a study programme in the area of economic studies focusing on particularities in German-French business environments. She started her career as a researcher at Saarland University, Saarbrucken, where she was part of the team of Peter Orlik in social psychology and worked with Robert F. Bales and his colleagues at Harvard University. After having completed her PhD she gathered more than 25 years of practical experience in international H.R. management positions like e.g. with Merck & Co. Her research interests are centered around international topics of cooperation and social psychology, particularly German-French.

Artur Modliński is an assistant professor in the Department of Management at the University of Łódź, Head of Center for Artificial Intelligence and Cyber-communication Research. He is an expert in IRIS-ALKONA Institute (Latvia) and Researcher in CITAD Research Center (Portugal). Artur is interested in autonomous technologies, algorithmic management, posthuman management, and human-computer interactions.

Marcin Bartosiak is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Pavia. He holds a PhD in Economics and Management of Technology. Marcin is a member of Digital Data Streams Lab, digITA- 4Good Lab, and the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Cyber-communication Research. He was a visiting scholar at Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. Marcin is interested in the design of persuasive technology, digital nudging, and artificial intelligence. He is also interested in studying these topics in the context of management and sustainable development.

Omar H. A. Shaheen PhD student in the Faculty of Management University of Lodz, Poland. His research interests are social capital and community of practice. On a daily basis employed in multinational outsourcing company.

Katarzyna Gadomska-Lila – Associate professor at the Department of Organization and Management, Faculty of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Szczecin, Poland. Author of publications and research in the field of organizational alignment, organizational culture, human resources management and organizational behaviour.

Viktoriia Moskalenko – Assistant Professor at the Department of Labour Economics and Management, National University of Food Technology in Kiev, Ukraine. Author of publications and research in the field of human resources management, leadership, organizational behaviour and modern management.

Katarzyna Januszkiewicz – M.A. in Psychology (2003), PhD, D.Litt. in economics in management sciences (2018). Professor at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, head of the Department of Management. She specializes in organizational behavior, professional employees development and methodology of scientific research. Author of over 50 publications on social aspects of management. She has managaed research teams in national projects (such as Multidimensional Analysis of Organizational Behaviors. Methodology and measurement tool sponsored by National Center for Science) as well as international (e.g. Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, HELPcare – Health and socialcare workers: Employability Learning and Professionalisation). Twice appointed by Barbara Kudrycka, the Minister of Science and Higher Education, as member of the Council of Young Scientists of the Minister of Science and Higher Education (Council of Young Scientists of the 2nd and 3rd term).

Justyna Wiktorowicz – associate professor of economic sciences in economics. Professor at the Department of Economic and Social Statistics at the Faculty of Economics and Sociology at the University of Lodz. Her scientific interests focus on the situation of older persons on the labour market, lifelong learning, competences and knowledge management, as well as the application of statistical methods in social and economic research. Author, co-author or co-editor of about 160 publications, such as Multigenerational transfer of knowledge and extending working life (2016), Generations. What is changing? Compendium of multigenerational management (2016). Coordinator, expert, researcher in approx. 50 national and international projects, including issues related to the situation of people aged 50+ on the labour market, age management, generations, knowledge.

Marta Borkowska – Fourth year PhD student at the Faculty of Management, University of Lodz. M.A. in Psychology (2014). Her doctoral research focuses the HR processes maturity and overall HR effectiveness. She works as an HR Business Partner for a multinational IT company.

Tyanai Masiya – Dr Tyanai Masiya is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Public Management and Administration, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria. Dr Masiya’s areas of interest include public service delivery, municipal management and citizenship and democracy. He has written extensively around issues of public service delivery. Of specific interest to his research work are institutional innovations that enhance public participation for improved service delivery.. 2 University of Pretoria, Faculty of Economic

Herbert Kanengoni – Associate Professor and Industrial Psychologist at the Department of HRM, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria. He received a PhD degree in Industrial Psychology in 2015, and joined the University of Pretoria as Faculty member in 2015. Programme Manager of Master of Commerce in Industrial Psychology University of Pretoria. His career highlights in research and academic leadership include positions at various universities in South Africa and at Vrije University Amsterdam in the Netherlands as a visiting scholar. His is involved in expert panels dealing with people management matters. His research interests are broadly premised on positive organisational behaviour, mainly how employees use their psychological resources to persevere in stressful work environments and complexities. He is a publisher of numerous primary articles and regularly presents papers at international conferences.