Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour
Staff: Professor Donald Hislop, Dr Scott Allan, Dr Cheryl Dowie, Dr Shainaz Firfiray, Dr Elham Moonesirust, Dr Peter Morgan, Dr Trevor Morrow, Dr Nicola Naughton
Providing expertise across a wide range of management topics and approaches, including strategic management; entrepreneurship; innovation; international management; corporate governance; organisational behaviour; technology and work; gender, work and organisations; consumer behaviour; operations research and business data analytics; critical marketing and critical management studies.
Management Studies is located within an integrated Business School which allows it to draw upon relevant core disciplines for research and teaching.
Research programmes have been funded by the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC), Nuffield, Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Scottish Home and Health Department, DTI and by a range of industrial and commercial sponsors.
Our department provides research expertise on a wide range of management topics and approaches. These include strategic management; entrepreneurship; innovation; international management; corporate governance; organisational behaviour; technology and work; gender, work and organisations; consumer behaviour; operations research and business data analytics; critical marketing and critical management studies. Find out more about our staff research interests on our departmental pages.
Management studies research is integrated across five distinct research themes in our Business School. These themes are carried through into our Research Centres and current research projects. Find out more about our staff research interests on our departmental pages.
Staff: Professor Donald Hislop, Dr Scott Allan, Dr Cheryl Dowie, Dr Shainaz Firfiray, Dr Elham Moonesirust, Dr Peter Morgan, Dr Trevor Morrow, Dr Nicola Naughton
Staff: Prof. Ignacio Canales, Prof. Zaheer Khan, Prof. Jie Wu, Prof. Haina Zhang, Dr Alan Ahi, Dr Ali Bayat, Dr Jing Cai, Dr Cheryl Dowie, Dr Yanghong Hu, Dr King Omeihe, Dr Xiaohui Shi, Dr Carol Smith
Staff: Dr Xiaoqing Chen, Dr Yanghong Hu, Dr Huda Khan, Dr Tim Stone, Dr Hemamali Tennakoon
Staff: Professor Pervaiz Akhtar, Professor Donald Hislop, Professor Zaheer Khan, Dr John Lamb, Dr Hemamali Tennakoon
Staff: Professor Ignacio Canales, Dr Scott Allan, Dr Jing Cai, Dr Cheryl Dowie, Dr Elham Moonesirust, Dr Tim Stone
Further details of current staff and research interests are available here.
Eligible self-funded international Postgraduate Research Masters' students starting in September 2025 will receive the Aberdeen Global Scholarship. Explore this Global Scholarship, including eligibility details, on our dedicated page.
Aberdeen Global ScholarshipAll applicants must have at least a good Honours degree in Management or a related subject; if English is not their first language they must also show evidence of attaining standards in English. Details of English language criteria
Applicants for the PhD should have prior training in research methods, they must also provide a detailed research proposal and two academic references from their most recent academic institution.
International Applicants
Eligible self-funded international Postgraduate Research Masters' students starting in September 2025 will receive the Aberdeen Global Scholarship. Explore this Global Scholarship, including eligibility details, on our dedicated page.
To see our full range of scholarships, visit our Funding Database.
Graduates have been successful in establishing careers in a wide range of industries and sectors and can be found in many leading industrial and financial organisations as well as universities.
Many of our overseas students return to senior positions in their own country.