A, Embarak. PhD

Analytical and dedicated professional with extensive experience in teaching and research. Adept at designing, developing, and maintaining course materials, curriculum, and validation activities to measure learning attainment of course objectives. Instrumental in improving and delivering learning opportunities, executing teaching approaches, and enhancing students’ performance.

Teaching & Learning

• Online, blendid & bybrid teaching
• Course syllabus design and planning
• Instructional design and development
• Learning need and behavior assessment
• Assessment & evaluation resources
• Student Motivation

University services and contribution

• Research, Enterprise and Scholarly Activities
• People and Resources Management
• Pastoral Care
• Liaising and Networking

• Post Graduate Certificate, PhD, University of Hull, Hull, UK - 2018
• Postgraduate Certificate, MSc, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt - 2009

Research Fellow, Faculty of Business, Cairo University

Researcher, Faculty of Business, Law and Politics, Hull

Research Assistant, Faculty of Business, Cairo University

• A. Embarak; S. Armstrong. Towards a better understanding of the formation of individuals’ perception of leadership behaviors.2022. The Leadership Quarterly (Progressing).
• A. Embarak; S. Armstrong. Leaders’ Intuitions to Act: What the motivational orientation, identity levels, and assumptions about their followers tell? European Journal of Organizational Psychology (under review)
• Team work diversity, organizational bureaucracy, creativity or intra-team conflict? (Progressing)
• Expatriates’ commitment to work place: citizens, regional and global work-force. (Progressing)
• Team climate and the mixed blessing of diversity. (Progressing)

• Leaders’ Intuitions to Act: What the motivational orientation, identity levels, and assumptions about their followers tell? 3rd interdisciplinary perspectives in leadership symposium. Chania, Greece, 2018.
• How the multi-attitudinal perception of leadership, individual motivational orientation differences interact to induce work-related attitudes and outcomes. Strategic Leadership with Measurable Outcomes, Washington.

• Professional seminar on “Career and professional development” for post-graduate students. {Develop application materials: academic career, beyond academia; prepare for interviewing, and negotiate job offers}
• Workshop about “Neoteric trends in leadership and business practices” {contemporary leadership models, digital age and big-data, business analytics, and artificial intelligence}

• Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, UK (currently progressing).
• The Academy of Management Membership.
• Chartered Management Institute (CMI) - friend.
• Effective Presentation, FLDC.
• The implementation and usage of Technology in Education, FLDC.
• International publishing of Research, FLDC.
• Interactive communication skills, FLDC.

• E-Learning and technologies - Blackboard, Connect, Canvas, Aula, badlet.
• Blended teaching - Develop e-learning content; case scenarios; project based learning; press articles.
• Communication and networking - Effective team work, professional relationships, act with honesty, integrity, and ethics.
• Advanced statistical analysis - EVIEWS - SPSS – MINITAB – PLS SEM.
• Research Methods - Quantitative, survey design, panel data, cross section data, critical realism and mixed methods.
• Critical thinking & analytics - Assess situation, identify problems, and propose solutions

Full-time scholarship for 4-years (150,000 $) to study PhD at the University of Hull - England

Teaching Interests

Experienced assistant professor and professional trainer in the delivery of various subjects in business and management for major and non-major learners.

• Leadership and change management.
• Human resources management
• Organizational behavior
• Business statistics and analytics.
• International business management
• Sustainability and innovation
• Strategic management.
• Operation management & logistics

Research Interests

My research projects and interests originate from organizational behavior theory, leadership theory, social cognition theory, identity theory, implicit followership theory, motivation theory.

I'm particularly interested in the following areas of research

• Leadership effectiveness.
• Individual’s psychology and differences.
• Team management
• Organizational creativity and innovation.