Dr. Hayfaa Tlaiss joined King Fahd University for Petroleum and Minerals Business School (KBS) as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Management and Marketing. In addition to a BBA and an MBA, she has a PhD from University of Manchester, UK and a Diploma of University Teaching from University of New Brunswick, Canada. Prior to joining KBS, Dr. Tlaiss held academic posts at the University of Windsor and the University of New Brunswick in Canada as well as Alfaisal University in Saudi Arabia. She is an experienced educator and her teaching excellence has been recognized by several teaching awards including “Woman Role Model Award” from the Arabian Society for Human Resource Management. As a nationally and internationally recognized scholar, Dr. Tlaiss was named to “Stanford University’s World Top 2% Scientists’ List” for research impact, was a recipient of “Prince Faisal Bin Fahad Global Prize for Sport Research” from Ministry of Sport, Saudi Arabia, and won several research awards including the Literati Network Awards for Excellence. Her scholarly work has been published in Financial Times Top 50 journals and other top-tier journals.

Diploma of University Teaching, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, Canada

PhD, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

MBA, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon

BBA, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon

Career Studies

Human Resource Management

Entrepreneurship and Family Business

Diversity Management

Ethics

• Tlaiss, H.(Published online: 20 April, 2022) Caught in the eye of the perfect storm: Lebanese women human resource managers coping with macro-level turbulence. Journal of Human Resource Management (UK) . https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12444
• Tlaiss, H. and Al Waqfi, M. (2022). Human resource managers advancing the careers of women in Saudi Arabia: Caught between a rock and a hard place. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 30(9), 1812-1847.
• Tlaiss, H. (Publication online: 1 February 2022). Entrepreneurship, Gender and Success in Lebanon. International Journal of Emerging Markets. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOEM-01-2021-0145.
• Tlaiss, H. and McAdam, M. (2021). Unexpected Lives: The Intersection of Islam and Arab Women’s Entrepreneurship. Journal of Business Ethics, 171 (2), 253–272.
• Tlaiss, H. and McAdam, M. (2021). Islam, Arab Women’s Entrepreneurship and the Construal of Success. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, 27(3), 821–844.
• Al-Asfour, A., Tlaiss, H., and Shield, SW (2021). Work Experiences of Native Americans: A Qualitative Study. Journal of Career Development, 48(2), 105–119.
• Tlaiss, H. (2021). “Exploring talent management in practice: an Arab country-specific empirical investigation”, Employee Relations, 43(1), 63–81.
• Tlaiss, H. (2019). Contextualizing the career success of Arab women entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, 31(3–4), 226–241.
• Tlaiss, H. and Kauser, S. (2019). Entrepreneurial Leadership, Patriarchy, and Gender, and Identity in the Arab World: Lebanon in Focus, Journal of Small Business Management, 57 (2), 517–537.
• Al-Asfour, A., Tlaiss, H., Khan, S., and Rajasekar, J. (2017). Saudi Women’s Work Challenges and Barriers to Career Advancement, Career Development International, 22 (2), 184–199. University Research Excellence Award from Deanship of Scientific Research King Abdulaziz University, KSA.
• Tlaiss, H., Martin, P., and Hofaidhllaoui, M. (2017). Talent retention: Evidence from a multinational firm in France, Employee Relations, 39, (4), 426–445. Highly Commended Paper Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2018