Having two doctoral degrees - in Psychology and Business Administration - Elena Lvina strives to take the best from the both worlds. She sees raising students’ degree of self-awareness and ensuring their personal development as one of her main professional objectives. Her next-most-important goal is to bridge the gap between what science knows and what managers do. She strongly believes in the value of education for real life so she works to convince students that, while studying in a non-theory-based fashion is possible and useful, educating oneself is the surest way to success. Her point is that personal experience is usually time-consuming, subjective, sometimes hurtful, and always based in the past, while applying the knowledge distilled from research and gained in the classroom is not. In graduate classes, much of her effort goes into helping the students resolve their current career or managerial issues in a scientific manner, and develop an action plan while “being consultants” for themselves. Elena Lvina’s own industry and administrative experience, such as being a private consultant and a top level administrator in Higher Education, serves to this point and brings some “personal touch” to the classroom activities. For further idea of who she is, you may read her publications and see that her main research interest is in teams, social skills, trust, and cross-cultural management. Elena Lvina is a recipient of several awards, including recent SJU Faculty Research award and Middle Atlantic Association of Colleges of Business Administration (MAACBA) Innovative Teaching Award in the graduate category.
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PhD in Business Administration from John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montreal Canada
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- 2011-2012 Post doctoral researcher at HEC (Hautes Etudes Commerciales), Montreal, Canada. Funded by FQRSC (Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture).
- 2012 Research associate at Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Canada.
- 2006-2007 External grants facilitator for Office of the Associate Dean, Research (JMSB, Concordia).
- 2006-2011 Part-time faculty, teaching Organizational Behavior at Concordia University, John Molson School of Business, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- 2008-2011 Part-time faculty, teaching Cross-Cultural Management at McGill University, Desautels Faculty of Management, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- 2003-2004 Member of Dissertation Committees, awarding PhD degrees in Social Psychology at Samara State Pedagogical University (Russia).
- 2001-2004 Head of the International Office, Samara State Pedagogical University, Russia.
- 1996-2004 Assistant and Associate professor of Psychology, Psychology Department, Samara State Pedagogical University (Russia).
- 2001-2004 Founder and consultant, Center of Personnel Management, Ltd. Supervised and conducted psychological assessment of more than 1000 financial crisis-prevention managers across Russia. License granted by the Federal Service of Financial Health, Russian Federation.
- 1998-2001 Founder and consultant at MPIKO, Ltd. (Medicine, Psychology: Research, Consulting, Education), a research and consulting center of the Psychology Department at Samara State Pedagogical University, Russia.
- 2000-2001 Visiting scholar at Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA.
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- Lvina, E., Maher, L.P., & Harris, J.N. (2017). Political Skill, Trust, and Efficacy in Teams. Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 24(1), 95-105. doi: 10.1177/1548051816657984
- Mach, M. & Lvina, E. (2016). When Trust in the Leader Matters: The Moderated-Mediation Model of Team Performance and Trust. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology. Published online before print June 14, 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10413200.2016.1196765
- Tetrault-Sirsly, C.-A. & Lvina, E. (2016). From Doing Good to Looking Even Better: The Dynamics of CSR and Reputation. Business and Society. Published online before print February 9, 2016, doi: 10.1177/0007650315627996
- Bérubé, N., Donia, M.B.L., Gagné, M., Houlfort, N., Lvina E. (2016). Validation Evidence for the Work Domain Satisfaction Scale in Two Languages. International Journal of Psychological Studies, 8 (3). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijps.v8n3p26
- Lvina, E., Johns, G., Vandenberghe, C. (2015). Team Political Skill Composition as a Determinant of Team Effectiveness. Journal of Management, first published online on August 26, 2015. doi: 10.1177/0149206315598371
- Atay, S., Lvina, E., Cırakoglu, B., Dogan, A., Gulmez, N. (2014). Eastern Culture-Oriented Leadership Competency Scale. Journal of Strategic and International Studies, 9(3), 100-111.
- Sur S., Lvina E. & Magnan, M. (2013). Why do boards differ? Because owners do! Corporate Governance: An International Review, 21(4), 373-389.
- Lvina, E., Johns, G., Treadway, D., Blickle, G., Atay, S. & Liu, Y., Liu, J., Zettler, I., Solga, J., Noethen, D., & Ferris, G. Measure invariance of the Political Skill Inventory (PSI) across five cultures. (2012). International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management, 12 (2), 171-192.
- Ratiu, C., Lvina, E. & Berte, E. (2011). Matchmaking and the multinational enterprise: How individual motivation and international strategy interact to affect expatriate adjustment. International Journal of Human Resources Development and Management, 11, 274-289.
- Boies, K., Lvina, E. & Martens, M.L. (2010). Shared leadership and team performance in a business strategy simulation. Journal of Personnel Psychology: 9(4), 195-202.
- Lituchy, T.R., Reavley, M.A., Lvina E. & Abraira, R.J. (2006). Success factors of Aboriginal women entrepreneurs: A study of Mohawk community in Canada. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business: 3(6), 760-778.
- Moghaddam, F.M., & Lvina, E. (2002). Toward a psychology of societal change and stability: The case of human rights and duties. International Journal of Group Tensions: 31, 31-51.
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- 2017 MAACBA (Middle Atlantic Association of Colleges of Business Administration) Innovative Teaching Award in the graduate category
- 2017 SJU Faculty Research Award, Saint Joseph’s University
- 2017 Michael J. Morris Grant for Scholarly Research, Saint Joseph’s University
- 2015 Fellowship, Arrupe Center for Business Ethics, Saint Joseph’s University
- 2014 Summer Research Grant, SJU, Saint Joseph's University
- 2013 Summer Research Grant, HSB, Saint Joseph's University
- 2013-2014 Michael J. Morris Grant for Scholarly Research, St. Joseph’s University
- 2011-2013 FQRSC (Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture) Post-Doctoral scholarship
- 2009-2010 Commerce and Administration Students Association, Concordia University, Research grant
- 2008-2009 FQRSC (Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture) Doctoral scholarship
- 2007-2009 Hydro Quebec Doctoral scholarship
- 2005-2007 Concordia University Graduate entrance fellowship
- 2003 Individual Mobility Grant for partner University exchange in European Union, “Tempus,” held in Germany
- 2000-2001 Junior Faculty Development Program (American Councils. ACTR/ACCELS, US State Department) Grant for undertaking a training program at U.S. host institutions
- 2000-2001 Russian Scientific Humanities Fund. Financial support as co-investigator for the research of the influence of computers and the Internet on teenagers