Dr Kleio Akrivou
Leadership, Organisations and Behaviour
Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour/ Programme Director of International Management
Director of MSc. in International Management
Email: k.akrivou@henley.reading.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 118 378 6475
Location: HBS 241, Whiteknights campus
Kleio is an Assistant Professor in Organisational Behaviour and Management and has a Ph.D in Organizational Behaviour (Cognitive Moral / Psychosocial Development) by Case Western Reserve University in the U.S.A. Kleio is an EGOS member since 2008, and a member of the Academy of Management since 2003. Her research focuses in adult psychosocial and cognitive moral development and theory building theory on self-integration, drawing from a number of related lines of research and philosophical work on morality/ethics. Kleio's theoretical research and writing aim to influence business views as to what is required for success in executive appointments and policy design to transcend aspirational ideals of narrowly self-interested citizens and actors with a focus on understandings of self that enable dialogic moral sentiments of actors. Her teaching focuses on ethics in International Management, Corporate Responsibility and Organisational Behaviour.
Kleio is Director of the MSc in International Management and an elected member of the Editorial Board of the Academy of Management Learning and Education. Her research includes a monograph, and articles in 'Journal of Business Ethics' and the 'Leadership Quarterly'. Past career includes being research fellow in the Prefecture of Strasbourg, informing policy on cross-regional multi-stakeholder dialogic engagement. She has previously taught in the United States of America and has been a Senior Consultant in a global consulting firm in Singapore and Greece.
By area: Adult Development, Cognitive Moral Development, Post-Conventional Development Theory, Ethics and Morality in Business and Management, Subjective Meaning Making and Communication, Business and Society, Corporate Responsibility, Executive Leadership in contexts of complexity, Ethics and Corporate Governance, Ethical Theory
Programme Director for the MSc in International Management. Module convenor for Corporate Social Responsibility in the MSc. Programs. Lecturing for the Leadership and Advanced Policy elective in the MSc programs. Module convenor for the Organisational Behaviour for the part 1 module on the Undergraduate Programmes.
Journals
Akrivou, K., Bradbury-Huang, H. (2011) – Executive Catalysts: Predicting Sustainable Organizational Performance Amid Complex Demands, (The) Leadership Quarterly (LQ – An international journal of Political, Social, and Behavioural Science), Issue 22 (5), pp.995-1009. 2.
Akrivou, K., Bourantas, D., Mo, S., Papalois, E. (2011) – The Sound of Silence: A space for morality? The role of solitude for Ethical Decision Making, Journal of Business Ethics (JBE), Vol.102 (1), pp.119-133. 3.
Akrivou, K., Boyatzis, R. E., & McLeod, P. L. (2006). The evolving Group: Towards a Theory of Prescriptive Group Development, Journal of Management Development, 25(7), 689-706.
Boyatzis, R. E., & Akrivou, K. (2006). The Ideal Self as driver of intentional change. Journal of Management Development, 25(7), 624-642.
Monographs
Akrivou, K. (2009), Differentiation and Integration in Adult Development: The Role of Self-Complexity and Integrative Learning in Self-Integration, Mongraph; Munich: VDM Verlag (ISBN 978-3-639-15116-9).
Akrivou, K., Akrivou, K. (2009), Self-Ideal Congruence and Self Complexity: The Constructs, their positive role in adult Ego development and their relationship, in A.-S. Antonio (Eds.), Current Perspectives in Occupational Health Psychology (Vol. II), Athens: Paschalidis Medical Publications.