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Lina Daouk-Öyry

Associate Professor - Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour

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Biography

I am an Associate Professor of Organizational Psychology, interested in bridging between academia and practice, and utilizing academic knowledge in the service of society. My research lies at the intersection of people, management, organization and society. As a Scholar-Activist, my approach to research is inter-disciplinary and translational, focused on partnering with researchers and practitioners across fields and creating multiple forms of scholarly outputs to better integrate research and societal impact.

I am a 'context sensitive' researcher with expertise in the cross-cultural context of the Arab MENA, the context of the Healthcare sector, and Extreme contexts where crises and disasters predominate. I have led the team that developed the first indigenous model of personality for the Arab world; published extensively on individual differences and evidence-based management in healthcare; and organizing in extreme contexts. I am also interested in the context of migration in the Nordics, and am currently the supervisor of Dr Sahizer Samuk, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) postdoctoral fellow, after securing this prestigious EU-funded project (14% success rate) which focuses on career adaptability and career sustainability of the spouses of highly skilled migrants in Europe. This INSKILLS project directly informs migration policies and workplace integration strategies.

I am the recipient of the 2020 Distinguished Scholar Award from the Arab for Social and Economic Development and my scholarly activism work with my colleagues in the aftermath of the Beirut blast was also recognized by AACSB as innovations that inspire. I am an advocate of women's and other minority groups rights and have collaborated on several projects to advance workplace inclusion of women and minority groups. I am also an adjunct professor at the American University of Beirut, currently serving as co-PI, on the SAWI Project, a multi-million USD project funded from the U.S. Department of State Middle East Partnership Initiative , which focuses on mobilizing decision makers and leaders for building more inclusive HR systems and workplace cultures across 8 Arab MENA countries.

Publications

Daouk-Öyry, Lina; Afiouni, Fida, Ghazzawi, Rawan & Alhaffar, Huda (2025)

The Role of HRM in Building Resilience: The Relationality Imperative in Times of War

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12597

Ghazzawi, Rawan; Bender, Michael, He, Jia, Daouk-Öyry, Lina & Heijden, Beatrice I.J.M. Van der (2025)

Examining the interplay between job crafting and job satisfaction: A cross-cultural investigation

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/14705958251340537

Karam, Charlotte; DeJordy, Rich, Creed, Douglas, Daouk-Öyry, Lina, Scott, Shawn, Geha, Carmen & Daou, Alain (2024)

Resourcing Agency for Sustained Collective Action Amid Creeping Crises

, s. 1- 28. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406241295485 - Full text in research archive

In the wake of the Beirut blast, we use Lebanon as an empirical context to examine how a group of scholar-activists organized to support ongoing collective action in the context of creeping crisis. Using the lens of resourcing theory, we provide a process model of resourcing agency as a fractal and embodied form of critical action, augmented and transformed by critical reflection, and collective healing and striving. We make four contributions. First, we demonstrate why organizational scholarship needs to attend to the increasing relevance of creeping crises and we model an approach to understanding both the lived experience of creeping crises and the implications for the situated cultivation of agency. Second, we extend resourcing theory by uncovering resourcing agency as an integral, embodied process in the context of crisis, particularly creeping crises, and show how it is itself a vital instantiation of agency. Third, further extending resourcing and process theories, we identify two types of ampliative cycles (sustaining and transformative cycles) implicated in resourcing agency when organizing in support of collective action amid creeping crises. Finally, our findings demonstrate the benefits of using a processual approach that attends to the embodied and fractal nature of action in creeping crises and other extreme contexts. We close with a discussion of the implications for engaged scholarship as a framework for action.

Ghazzawi, Rawan; Chasiotis, Athanasios, Bender, Michael, Daouk-Öyry, Lina & Baumann, Nicola (2024)

Up for the challenge: Power motive congruence drives nurses to craft their jobs and experience well-being

19(10) Doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310717 - Full text in research archive

Job crafting is the behavior that employees engage in to create personally better fitting work environments, for example, by increasing challenging job demands. To better understand the driving forces behind employees’ engagement in job crafting, we investigated implicit and explicit power motives. While implicit motives tend to operate at the unconscious, explicit motives operate at the unconscious level. We focused on power motives, as power is an agentic motive characterized by the need to influence your environment. Although power is relevant to job crafting in its entirety, in this study, we link it to increasing challenging job demands due to its relevance to job control, which falls under the umbrella of power. Using a cross-sectional design, we collected survey data from a sample of Lebanese nurses (N = 360) working in 18 different hospitals across the country. In both implicit and explicit power motive measures, we focused on integrative power that enable people to stay calm and integrate opposition. The results showed that explicit power predicted job crafting (H1) and that implicit power amplified this effect (H2). Furthermore, job crafting mediated the relationship between congruently high power motives and positive work-related outcomes (H3) that were interrelated (H4). Our findings unravel the driving forces behind one of the most important dimensions of job crafting and extend the benefits of motive congruence to work-related outcomes.

Daouk-Öyry, Lina (2023)

Call of duty: When scholars organize in extreme contexts

44(2) , s. 337- 340. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/01708406221131421 - Full text in research archive

Sahakian, Tina; Daouk-Öyry, Lina, Kroon, Brigitte, Dorien, Kooij & Alameddine, Mohammad (2022)

The neglected contexts and outcomes of evidence-based management: a systematic scoping review in hospital settings

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/JHOM-03-2021-0101

Rice, Julie; Daouk-Öyry, Lina & Hitti, Eveline (2021)

It’s time to consider national culture when designing team training initiatives in healthcare

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2020-010918

Ghazzawi, Rawan; Bender, Michael, Daouk-Öyry, Lina, Vijver, Fons van de & Chasiotis, Athanasios (2021)

Job crafting mediates the relation between creativity, personality, job autonomy and well‐being in Lebanese nurses

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jonm.13357

Daouk-Öyry, Lina; Sahakian, Tina & Vijver, Fons van de (2020)

Evidence‐based management competency model for managers in hospital settings

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12434

Daouk-Öyry, Lina; Alameddine, Mohamad, Hassan, Norr, Laham, Linda & Soubra, Maher (2018)

The catalytic role of Mystery Patient tools in shaping patient experience: A method to facilitate value co-creation using action research

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205262

Daouk-Öyry, Lina; Mufarrij, Afif, Khalil, Maya, Sahakian, Tina, Saliba, Miriam, Jabbour, Rima & Hitti, Eveline (2017)

Nurse-Led Competency Model for Emergency Physicians: A Qualitative Study

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2016.11.023

Zeinoun, Pia; Daouk-Öyry, Lina, Choueiri, Lina & Vijver, Fons van de (2017)

A mixed-methods study of personality conceptions in the Levant: Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank.

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000148

Zeinoun, Pia; Daouk-Öyry, Lina, Choueiri, Lina & Vijver, Fons van de (2017)

Arab‐levantine personality structure: A psycholexical study of modern standard Arabic in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and the West Bank

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12324

Daouk-Öyry, Lina; Zeinoun, Pia, Lina, Choueiri & Fons, van de Vijver (2016)

Integrating global and local perspectives in psycholexical studies: A GloCal approach

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2016.02.008

Daouk-Öyry, Lina; Zaatari, Ghazi, Sahakian, Tina, Alameh, Bouchra Rahal & Mansour, Nabil (2016)

Developing a competency framework for academic physicians

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159X.2017.1270429

Dumit, Nuhad Yazbik; Baydoun, Mohamed & Daouk-Öyry, Lina (2015)

What do nurse managers say about nurses’ sickness absenteeism? A new perspective

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jonm.12277

Daouk-Öyry, Lina; Anouze, Abdel-Latif, Otaki, Farah, Dumit, Nuhad Yazbik & Osman, Ibrahim (2014)

The JOINT model of nurse absenteeism and turnover: A systematic review Author links open overlay panel

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2013.06.018

Daouk-Öyry, Lina & McDowal, Almuth (2012)

Using cognitive interviewing for the semantic enhancement of multilingual versions of personality questionnaires

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2012.735300

Ghazzawi, Rawan & Daouk-Öyry, Lina (2025)

Horizontal vs. Vertical Job Crafting Motives: A Cross-Cultural Lens on Job Crafting Theory

[Conference Poster]. Event

Meouchy, Axelle; Daouk-Öyry, Lina & Kroon, Brigitte (2025)

Beyond The Void: Examining Equality Discourse in The Middle East and North Africa Region

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Daouk-Öyry, Lina & Ly, Annelise (2025)

Hvordan kan jeg bidra til en økt følelse av inkludering i et flerkulturelt arbeidsmiljø?

Daouk-Öyry, Lina & Ly, Annelise (red.). Hvordan kan jeg bidra til en økt følelse av inkludering i et flerkulturelt arbeidsmiljø?

Ly, Annelise & Daouk-Öyry, Lina (2025)

Hva kan jeg gjøre for å øke mangfoldet blant de ansatte?

Ly, Annelise & Daouk-Öyry, Lina (red.). Hva kan jeg gjøre for å øke mangfoldet blant de ansatte?

DeJordy, Rich & Daouk-Öyry, Lina (2025)

Participatory Action Research: Insider Social Change (Double) Agents

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Meouchy, Axelle; Daouk-Öyry, Lina & Kroon, Brigitte (2025)

Beyond The Void: Examining Equality Discourse in The Middle East and North Africa Region

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Daouk-Öyry, Lina; Heikkinen, Suvi & Karam, Charlotte (2025)

Reimagining Migration Through a Holistic Lens

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Daouk-Öyry, Lina & Samuk, Sahizer (2024)

Responsible Leadership for Inclusive Migration Policies: Cultivating Sustainable Careers for Spouses of Highly Skilled Migrants Authors

Daouk-Öyry, Lina & Samuk, Sahizer (red.). Responsible Leadership for Inclusive Migration Policies: Cultivating Sustainable Careers for Spouses of Highly Skilled Migrants Authors

Karam, Charlotte; Geha, Carmen & Daouk-Öyry, Lina (2024)

Supporting Women’s Workplace Inclusion in the MENA Region

[Professional Article].

Daouk-Öyry, Lina (2023)

Vroom’s expectancy theory

[Textbook].

Academic Degrees
Year Academic Department Degree
2009 City University of London PhD
2004 City University of London Master of Science
2002 American University of Beirut BA in Psycology
Work Experience
Year Employer Job Title
2022 - Present BI Norwegian Business School Associate Professor

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