Hannah Vivian Osei

Hannah Vivian Osei

25 Publications14 Research Themes6 Open Access
Research Overview & Focus

The researcher's work explores the complex interplay between personal, organizational, and external factors that shape human behavior across various domains. This includes examining how personality traits, leadership styles, and individual characteristics influence outcomes such as technology adoption, entrepreneurship, career success, and work-related challenges like burnout. The research also considers the broader economic impacts on organizations and social sciences themes related to employee well-being, organizational diversity, and global trade. By synthesizing these areas, the study highlights the multifaceted nature of human behavior in shaping workplace dynamics and societal outcomes.

Faculty Biography

Hannah Vivian Osei is an Associate Professor at the Department of Human Resource and Organization Development at the KNUST School of Business. Prof. Osei has been very much involved in Training and Development Consultancies among executive teams such as directors and top management in organizations such as Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, and Ashanti Regional House of Chiefs. Prof. Osei also engages in Middle-level Training such as Yaa Asantewaa Rural Bank in Ghana. She holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration (HRM), and an MBA in Employees Relations, UK. She is a certified Prince 2 project manager and has been trained in Person-centered counseling and Labour Laws in Ghana. Her first degree was in Economics and Law, from KNUST. Prof. Osei is the coordinator for the Doctor of Business Administration and the Bachelor of Business Administration (HRM and Management). She is the Coordinator for Research Programmes at School of Business.  She is currently coordinating the AMBITION Project under the ERASMUS Plus which involves grooming Ph.D. students from 8 institutions in Europe and Africa as green energy ambassadors. Her research area includes human capital development, e-learning adoption, social norms, leadership, abusive supervision, burnout, cyberloafing, and psychological safety. Her passion is to influence the next generation and groom them for the future workplace.

Key Research Themes (14)
Social Sciences

Career Development and Diversity

Social Sciences

Customer Service Quality and Loyalty

Social Sciences

Cyberloafing and Workplace Behavior

Social Sciences

Economic and Business Development Strategies

Social Sciences

Emotional Intelligence and Performance

Social Sciences

Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences

Social Sciences

Family Business Performance and Succession

Social Sciences

Global trade and economics

Social Sciences

Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation

Health Sciences

Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout

Social Sciences

Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior

Social Sciences

Leadership and Management in Organizations

Social Sciences

Technology Adoption and User Behaviour

Social Sciences

Workplace Spirituality and Leadership

Publications (25)

Ditch or Bump? Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth: Evidence from the OECD Economies

Open Access
2025Global trade and economicsDOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17222477

When and how does creativity influence performance? An examination of SMEs in an emerging economy

2025Entrepreneurship Studies and InfluencesDOI: 10.1080/23322373.2025.2500919

Innovative Work Behavior in Response to Technology Readiness: The Role of Career Adaptability in the Ghanaian Public Sector

2024Career Development and DiversityDOI: 10.1142/s0219877024500524

The mediation role of innovation in the relationship between total quality management and performance of small and medium scale enterprises

2024Economic and Business Development StrategiesDOI: 10.1108/ijqrm-12-2021-0427

The joint impact of burnout and neurotic personality on career satisfaction and intention to leave among health workers during the first 2 years of COVID-19

2024Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnoutDOI: 10.1108/jhom-03-2023-0089

The impact of technology readiness and adapting behaviours in the workplace: a mediating effect of career adaptability

Open Access
2024Career Development and DiversityDOI: 10.1186/s43093-024-00355-z

Health workers’ career satisfaction and intention to leave: The moderated moderation of burnout and gender

2023Job Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorDOI: 10.1080/20479700.2023.2217566

Technological Readiness, Career Adaptability, and Job Satisfaction Among Public Sector Employees: A Moderating Effect Study

2023Grit, Self-Efficacy, and MotivationDOI: 10.1504/ijbex.2023.10065813

Work intensity, burnout and quality of work life in the hotel industry: The moderating role of psychological detachment

2022Job Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorDOI: 10.1080/15332845.2023.2126929

The role of prescriptive social norms on employees' cyberloafing: the moderating effect of power distance and co-workers' interdependency

2022Cyberloafing and Workplace BehaviorDOI: 10.1108/ijotb-11-2021-0210

Effects of cognitive-person factors on career choice of tertiary students: the moderating role of chance events

2022Emotional Intelligence and PerformanceDOI: 10.1108/jarhe-04-2022-0115

The effects of leaders’ abusive supervision on employees’ work engagement: a moderated-mediation model of employees’ silence and employees’ proactive personalities

2022Job Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorDOI: 10.1108/lhs-03-2022-0021

The relationships between team burnout and team psychological safety and civility among hospital nurses during the covid-19 pandemic: The mediating role of team thriving

2022Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnoutDOI: 10.1080/20479700.2022.2085847

Entrepreneurial orientation, sustainability practices and performance of small and medium enterprises: evidence from an emerging economy

2022Entrepreneurship Studies and InfluencesDOI: 10.1108/ijppm-06-2021-0325

Integration of personality trait, motivation and UTAUT 2 to understand e-learning adoption in the era of COVID-19 pandemic

Open Access
2022Technology Adoption and User BehaviourDOI: 10.1007/s10639-022-11047-y

Employee’s Performance in the Service Sector: Should an Individual’s Spirituality and Employment Status Make Any Difference?

2021Workplace Spirituality and LeadershipDOI: 10.1080/15228916.2021.1924571

The fish rots from the head down: a test of the trickle-down model of abusive supervision

Open Access
2020Job Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorDOI: 10.1108/omj-11-2018-0635

Tribute to a true and loyal friend

Open Access
2019

Re-examining the link between occupational stress and burnout in a Sub-Saharan African nation: the precursor and moderating roles of organisational and social support

2019Job Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorDOI: 10.1504/ijbex.2019.10020540

Re-examining the link between occupational stress and burnout in a Sub-Saharan African nation: the precursor and moderating roles of organisational and social support

2019Job Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorDOI: 10.1504/ijbex.2019.099121

The moderated mediation processes in firm-specific human capital development and task performance relationship

2018Job Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorDOI: 10.1108/ijoa-11-2017-1274

SERVICE QUALITY IN PUBLIC SERVICE: A CASE OF GHANA NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME

2017Customer Service Quality and Loyalty

The effects of individual mechanisms on work self-efficacy of nurses: The mediating role of organisational commitment

2016Job Satisfaction and Organizational BehaviorDOI: 10.1080/20479700.2016.1268798

MARKETING CAPABILITY, COMPETITIVE STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE OF MICRO AND SMALL FAMILY BUSINESSES IN GHANA

2015Family Business Performance and SuccessionDOI: 10.1142/s1084946715500260

Organizational Communication in Public Health Institutions

Open Access
2014Leadership and Management in OrganizationsDOI: 10.5539/ijbm.v9n11p179
Academic Metrics
DepartmentDepartment of Human Resource and Organisational Development
Total Publications25
Research Themes14
Open Access Papers6

Department of Human Resource and Organisational Development

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

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