Dr. Amani Shajera

Assistant Professor

All Academic Staff Profiles

2021	PhD Business and Management, The University of Nottingham, UK
2008	MSc, Total Quality and Performance Management, Bradford University, UK
2005	BA Multimedia Computing, The University of Sunderland, UK.

2022	Associate Fellow, Higher Education Academy, UK
2022	Certificate in Tertiary Teaching and Learning, Bahrain Polytechnic, Bahrain
2010	Certified EFQM Assessor Trainer, Awarded by EFQM, Brussels
2008	Certified Black Belt in Six Sigma Quality, Harrington Institute Inc, USA.
2008	Certified Green Belt in Six Sigma Quality, Harrington Institute Inc, USA.

2021-Present	Assistant Professor Bahrain Polytechnic (Management/HR)
2020 –2021	Instructor (Part-time)-Organisational Behaviour , University of Bahrain
2020	Guest Lecture, International HRM (MSc), Loughborough University.
2019- 2020	Teaching assistant, Organisational Behaviors and International Business, The University of Nottingham.
2019	Teaching assistant, MBA program, London Business School (LBS).
2018-2019	Guest Lecture, International Business (MSc), The University of Nottingham.
2013- 2017	Lecturer Teaching and marking (Introduction to Business Administration- Organisation and Management- Marketing Management ), University of Bahrain

2014-2018	Head of Studies and Research Department, Supreme Council for Women, Bahrain.
2009-2014	Head of Quality Assurance Unit, QAAC, University of Bahrain, Bahrain.
2005-2009	Multimedia Specialist, Ministry of Education, Bahrain.

Areas of Research Interest

The context

Edited Book:

AlBastaki, Y., Shajera, A., 2013, Edited Book, “Building Competitive Public Sector with Knowledge Management Strategy”, IGI Publisher, USA.

Book chapters

Shajera, A., Kamoche, K., and Feng, Y. 2022, Chinese MNCs in the UK: Current and Future Directions of IHRM, Forthcoming Handbook of Chinese Business and Management, Routledge, London
Shajera, A., Y. AlBastaki, Y. (2013), Organisational Readiness for Knowledge Management” in Building a Competitive Public Sector with Knowledge Management Strategy, Yousif AlBastaki, Amani Shajera Eds, IGI Global, pp. 104-117, 2014

Conferences paper

Shajera, A., Kamoche, K., and Feng, Y. 2020, HRM Practices orientations in ‎Chinese Multinational Corporations in the UK, IHRM 2020, Paris
Shajera, A. 2019, ‘Institutional and subsidiaries actors: A multilevel analysis of HRM practices in Chinese MNCs in the UK’, working paper BAM Conference, Birmingham, UK.
Shajera, A. 2019, Actors and HRM practices in emerging market MNCs’, 35th European Group for Organization studies annual conference, Edinburgh, UK.
Shajera, A. 2019, ‘Actors and HRM practices in Chinese MNCs subsidiaries: A Conceptual Model’, 3rd HR Division International Conference 2019 (AoM), Dublin, Ireland.
Shajera, A. 2018, ‘Institutional and subsidiaries actors: A multilevel analysis of HRM practices in Chinese MNCs in the UK’, British Academy of Management Conference and Doctoral Symposium, Bristol, UK.
Shajera, A., 2013, The relationship between the human resource management practices and employees’ performance, Joint Congress of IIAS-IASIA, Manama, Bahrain.
Al-Bastaki, Y., Shajera, A. 2012, Organisational readiness for knowledge management: University of Bahrain case study. Proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management, ECKM, 1, pp. 28–36

Jury member

Advisory committee

2016-2017: Program Advisory Committee, Department of Management and Marketing, College of Business Administration, University of Bahrain.

Lecturer

Consultant

Academic And Professional Membership

Academy of Management (2018- present)
European Group for Organizational Studies (2018- present)
British Academy of Management (2018- present)
Academy of International Business (2018- present)
The British Universities Industrial Relations Association (2018- present)
Member of Rising Talents Network Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society, France (2016- present)