Research Focus:

Strategic HRM, employee engagement, technology and HR, an employee-being

Biosketch:

Kolawole Sunday AJIBOLA, Ph.D., joined Osun State University, Osogbo, on the 22nd October, 2007, as  Administrative Officer and rose through the ranks to become the Principal Executive Officer in October 1, 2010. He was the pioneer University Examination Officer in charge of Exams and Records from October, 2010 to 27th August, 2013. As an administrative staff member, he served in several committees. He assumed duty as an academic staff member on the 28th August, 2013, as a Graduate Assistant and became an Assistant Lecturer in January, 2016, Lecturer I in October, 2022.

He earned a Higher National Diploma (Statistics) with Upper Credit, from The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria,  B.Sc. Industrial Relations and Personnel Management  with First Class Honours from Osun State University, Osogbo;  M.Sc. Industrial Relations and Personnel Management at the University of Lagos, Master of Personnel Psychology from the University of Ibadan and Ph.D. in Human Resource Management from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Kenya. He won the best graduating student departmental award during 2011/2012 academic session.

He serves as the 300 Level Staff Adviser for B. Sc. Industrial Relations and Personnel Management students. He also coordinates the Part-Time Degree Programme for the Department. He is the currently sub-Dean students' Affairs (Okuku campus).

He has over twenty five publications to his credit. He has delivered papers at both local and international conferences, and has attended various workshops with travel grants and sponsorships from the University. His research areas are Strategic Human Resource Management, employee engagement, workforce planning, technology and HR, and employee well-being.

He is a member of the Nigeria Institute of Management (NIM) and Association of University Administrators (AUA), United Kingdom.

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