Dr. Grace Dagher

Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Management Studies

Bio

Dr. Grace K. Dagher is an Associate Professor of Management at the Adnan Kassar School of Business (AKSOB), where she currently serves as Chairperson of the Department of Management Studies. With a strong academic and research background, Dr. Dagher specializes in organizational behavior, human resource management, and cross-cultural management.

Her research explores a diverse range of contemporary topics including self-leadership, employee engagement, artificial intelligence in the workplace, wasta, constructive deviant behavior, cultural intelligence, green behavior, and gender dynamics. She has presented her work at numerous international conferences and published in leading academic journals such as the International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management, Journal of Business Research, Personnel Review, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Employee Relations, Journal of Management History, Journal of Consumer Behavior, Management Research News, and Journal of Advertising Research, among others.

Dr. Dagher is committed to fostering academic excellence and innovation in management education, while actively mentoring students.

Teaching Interests

International Human Resource Management
International Management
Cross-cultural Management
International Organizational Behavior
Organizational Behavior
Human Resource Management
Managing Multinational Corporations

Research Interests

Employee Engagement
Proactive Personality
Cultural Intelligence
Personality
Emotional Intelligence
Career Commitment
Self-efficacy
Stress
Gender & Diversity
Deviant Behaviors
Cross-cultural Studies & Cross-cultural Adjustment
Expatriates

Executive Training

Presented at the “Research and Teaching Collaborations with Colleagues in Underrepresented Nations” workshop session at the Academy of Management conference in Boston, on August 4, 2012.

Consulting Activities

1999-2000 Research Assistant-Tourism Industry in Lebanon Sponsored by USAID.

Selected Publications

Articles in Refereed Journals:

Dagher, G. K., Stefanidis, A., & Banai, M. (2025). Fall seven times and stand up eight: grit, ethical idealism and work engagement. International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPPM-05-2024-0317

Dagher, G. K., Stefanidis, A., El-Kassar, A.-N., & Malaeb, M. (2025). Workplace leadership sentiments and employee engagement. International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management, 25(1), 113–133. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14705958251316714

Aad, S., Dagher, G. K., & Hardey, M. (2024). How Does Cultural Upbringing Influence How University Students in the Middle East Utilize ChatGPT Technology? Administrative Sciences, 14(12), 330. https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci14120330

Malaeb, M., Dagher, G. K., & Canaan Messarra, L. (2023). The relationship between self-leadership and employee engagement in Lebanon and the UAE: the moderating role of perceived organizational support. Personnel Review, 52(9), 2284–2303. https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-12-2021-0862

Stefanidis, A., Banai, M. and Dagher, G.K. (2023), Socio-cultural capital in the Arab workplace: wasta as a moderator of ethical idealism and work engagement, Employee Relations, Vol. 45 No. 1, pp. 21-44. 10.1108/ER-05-2021-0227

Abdul-Nasser Kassar, G. K. Dagher, Sophie Lythreatis & Mohamad Azakir. (2022). Antecedents and consequences of knowledge hiding: the roles of HR practices, organizational support for creativity, creativity, innovative work behaviour, and task performance. Journal of Business Research, 140, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2021.11.079

Dagher, G. K., Chapa, O & Junaid, N. (2015). The historical evolution of employee engagement & self-efficacy constructs. Journal of Management History, 21(2), 232 – 256.

Dagher, G. K., Itani, O.S & Kassar, A. (2015). The Impact of Environment Concern & Attitude on Green Purchasing Behavior: Gender as the Moderator. Contemporary Management Research, 11(2), 179-206

Dagher, G. K, & Itani, O.S (2014). Factors influencing green purchasing behaviour: Empirical evidence from the Lebanese consumers”. Journal of Consumer Behaviour, 13(3), 188-195.