Faculty Member, Human Resource Management
Professor of Human Resource Management
Thesis Title: Careers of Skilled Immigrants: A Study of the Capital Accumulation and Deployment Experiences of the Lebanese in France
About
Akram Al Ariss, PhD, is professor of Human Resource Management (HRM) at Toulouse Business School (France). He is affiliated with DECEre, Norwich Business School (United Kingdom) and with the Pennsylvania State University (USA) where he occasionally lectures international and comparative HRM. He was Head of the HRM Departement at Champagne School of Management from 2009 till 2012. Having Lebanese and French citizenships and cultural backgrounds, he has a Masters from Ecole des Mines (France) and a PhD from Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia (UK).
Akram is interested in interdisciplinary approaches to researching and teaching IHRM. His interests include Diversity, Career, and International Mobility. He has written several book chapters, journal articles, and book reviews on HRM in journals such as Academy of Management Learning and Education, Thunderbird International Business Review, British Journal of Management, Career Development International, Work Employment and Society, and Personnel Review. Akram is co-authoring Dessler’s book Human Resource Management for the Arab World, (published by Pearson). He has written also in international professional magazines.
Akram seves as member of the Editorial Board of Journal of World Business, British Journal of Management, and Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. He reviews for more than 14 journals including British Journal of Management, International Journal of Human Resource Management, International Journal of Management Reviews, Personnel Review, among many others. He has a guest editorial experience in journals like Journal of Managerial Psychology and Journal of Management Development.
He has an experience in management consultancy and training in multinational organisations such as Projacs (Middle East), Hewlett-Packard (Beirut), Alcatel-Lucent (Paris), Assad Said Corp (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), and RATP (Paris). Akram speaks fluently English, French, and Arabic and has lectured internationally in graduate/executive programs in Europe, USA and the Middle East. He has research visited Brunel Business School (London) in 2011 is visiting London School of Economics in 2012.





