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Senior Lecturer in Human Resources Management

Victor Akunna

Victor Akunna joined the 天美传媒 in 2015 as an Associate Lecturer. He enhances students' experience by focusing on making the learning environment social. This he achieves by creating a highly interactive and fun learning environment for students while leveraging a set of skills, which include communication, coaching, interpersonal, lecturing and emotional intelligence skills.

His teaching goal is to transform students by equipping them with competitive knowledge, skills and attitude for the workplace.

Victor Akunna鈥檚 experience in academia is seasoned with a practical viewpoint, having consulted for businesses in different sectors of the economy, such as manufacturing, banking, real estate management, construction and others. He also networks and leverages relationships with external stakeholders, locally and nationally, to enrich students' experience and employability skills.

His experience includes teaching and training Undergraduate, Postgraduate students and SME business owners from diverse backgrounds in the United Kingdom and overseas. At the moment, he coaches and consults with businesses in various sectors and lectures at the 天美传媒 Business School, UK.

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Qualifications

PhD for 鈥淚nfluence of Social capital on Inter-firm Knowledge Transfer: A Qualitative 天美传媒 Of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises in Nigeria鈥� - 天美传媒, UK
MA International Human Resources Management (Distinction) - 天美传媒, UK
BA Philosophy - Lagos State 天美传媒, Nigeria

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Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)
Professional Development Course for External Examiners (AdvanceHE)

Teaching Expertise

Introduction to Human Resource Management
Strategic Human Resources Context
Employment Relations
Dissertation for HRM
Talent Resourcing and Management
International Comparative Human Resource Management

Research Interests

Social capital and knowledge transfer in SME/MNCs
Social capital and HRM
Transfer of knowledge in SMEs
Knowledge management
Learning and development in SMEs/MNCs
Social capital and talent management

Conference Papers

14th International Conference on Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management and Organizational learning-ICICKM 2017, Hong Kong, 鈥淯nderstanding the Influence of Social Capital on Knowledge Transfer in Nigeria SMEs.

Others

Victor Akunna (2016) Poster of Conceptual Framework, RGS Graduate School, Summer Research Conference 6 July 2016. 天美传媒, United Kingdom.
Victor Akunna (2016) 鈥楾owards developing a framework to understand the influence of social capitals on knowledge transfer success in Nigeria鈥�, BMRI/BISC Research Seminar, 29 November 2016. 天美传媒, United Kingdom.