Dr Eugene Ohu is a senior lecturer in the Department of Organisational Behaviour/Human Resource Management. His teaching areas include Management Communication, Human Behaviour in Organisations, Digital Marketing and predictive HR Analytics, in the MBA and Executive Education programs of the Lagos Business School. He is an External Examiner for the Arthur Lok Jack Global School of Business of the University of the West Indies.

His current research interests are on the psychology of human-computer interactions in the workplace, in order to promote individual wellbeing and organizational productivity. He is the principal investigator at the Virtual Human Computer Interaction (VHCI) Lab at the Lagos Business School. At the lab, he is exploring the character and wellbeing associations of Virtual Reality (VR). He is also working with his team to develop VR solutions for training and simulations.

He is also intrigued by how people navigate their multiple roles across work and non-work domains. As technology introduces flexibility in the nature, design and how work is done, Dr. Ohu studies the implications for work-life balance that this permeability introduces. Finally, as computers now make it easier to collect and analyse behavioural data about people and business processes, he uses “Big Data” to provide insights useful for human resource and marketing communications decisions.

Eugene belongs to the following professional associations: American Psychological Association (APA), Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology (SIOP); Academy of Management (AOM) and the Association for Business Communication (ABC). For all, he regularly serves as peer reviewer. He also regularly reviews for the Journal of Business Ethics (JBE). He consults with Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) companies on gaining management and marketing insights from digital data. He also assists HR departments on the High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) that motivate employees for increased productivity through work-life balance. He is also involved in some workplace safety studies.

Dr. Ohu is on the executive board of the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA), the managers of the .ng country code domain. He is also an entrepreneurship mentor on the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) entrepreneurship programme. Eugene speaks and writes Italian and Spanish fluently, and has a fair mastery of French. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy from the University of Benin, is a registered pharmacist and a member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN). He has a postgraduate diploma in education from the University of Calabar, and a PhD in Institutional/Social Communications from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome, Italy.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1135-267X

Publications
Cases
Ohu, E. (2018). The Marriage: A Story of Four Mergers (A). The Case Center Lagos Business School.

Ohu, E. (2018). The Marriage: A Story of Four Mergers (B). The Case Center Lagos Business School.

Ohu, E. (2017). Frabho: The Cassavapreneur. The Case Center (pp. 7). Lagos Business School

Ohu, E. (2017). Terragon: Just Getting Started. The Case Center (pp. 9). Lagos Business School.

Ohu, E. (2015). Terragon: The Future is Mobile. The Case Center (pp. 9). Lagos Business School.

Ohu, E. (2015). The Cassava Processor. Association of African Business Schools (pp. 16). AABS Agribusiness Consortium (AAC).

Ohu, E. (2015). Nollyflix. Open School of Management (pp. 9). Open School of Management.

Books and Book Chapters
-Ohu, E. (2012). Organizational Culture and Communication in Edgar Schein. Application to Non-Profit Organizations.

Ohu, E., Laguda, E., Ogunyemi, K. Mindfulness and Stress Reduction: Managing Workplace Stress. In The Palgrave Handbook of Workplace Spirituality and Fulfillment (in press).

– Laguda, E., Ogunyemi, K. & Ohu, E. From Success to Significance: Transforming Your Job Into a Calling. In The Palgrave Handbook of Workplace Spirituality and Fulfillment Page 5 of 6

Adeola O., Ohu, E. The Board in the Financial and Social Performance of Firms. In Enhancing Board Effectiveness in Developing and Emerging Markets, Routledge (in press).

Conferences Attended with Papers Presented/Read
Ohu, E., Ohu, I., Laguda, E (2018, June). Linking Smartphone Notifications, Wellbeing and Productivity: The Roles of Stress and Mindfulness. 2018 Academy of Management Specialized Conference on Big Data and Managing in a Digital Economy, Surrey, United Kingdom.

Ohu, E., Zhang, J., Thomas, C., Spitzmueller, C., Anwuzia, E., Mazara, K. (2018, June). Low-Income Nigerian Worker Work–Family Conflict and Child Family Satisfaction. 2018 SIOP Annual Conference, Chicago, United States of America.

Yu, J., Zhang, J., Ohu, E., Kazmi, M., Tsao, A., Fedorowicz N., Osezua, A., Spitzmueller, C (2017, June). Beyond Work-Family Conflict of Working Parents: The Influence of School-family Conflict and Facilitation. Work, Stress, and Health Conference, in Minneapolis, United States of America.

Ohu, E., Zhang, J., Osezua, A. A., Thomas, C. L., & Spitzmueller, C. (2016, April). Parental Work-Family Conflict and Child Health. 2016 SIOP Annual Conference, Anaheim, Southern California, United States of America.

Thomas, R., Osezua, A., Ohu, E. A., Thomas, C., & Spitzmueller, C. (2015, July). Work-Life Balance And Adolescent Aggression. VI International Conference of Work and Family (VI ICWF) “Balance, Technology, and Globalization, Barcelona, Spain.

Ohu, E. (2015, May). Cultural Intelligence Sounding the Death Knell for Stereotypes in Business Communication. 7th Tricontinental Conference on Global Advances of Business and Communication, Michigan, United States of America.

Ohu, E. (2014, October). Towards a Culture-Centric Approach to Business Communication. 79th Annual Conference of the Association for Business Communication, Philadelphia, United States of America.

Ohu, E. & Onobhayedo, P. (2014, October). Online Behavior of Mobile Internet Users in a Developing Economy: Implications for Audience Engagement in the Digital Space. 79th Annual Conference of the Association for Business Communication, Philadelphia, United States of America.

Ohu, E. A. & Ohu, I. P. (2014, August). Effects of Terrorism and Insurgency on the Internationalization of Firms. Academy of International Business Sub-Saharan Africa Chapter Inaugural Conference, Nairobi, Kenya.

Ohu, E. (2008). Beyond First Love: Catching and Keeping Media Attention The Model of the United Nations, World Food Programme. Bi-Annual social communications conference of the University of the Holy Cross, Rome, Italy, Rome, Italy. ​

Major Conferences attended with papers read.

Ohu, E. (2017, June). Beyond Work-Family Conflict of Working Parents: The Influence of School-family Conflict and Facilitation. Work, Stress, and Health Conference, in Minneapolis, United States of America.

Ohu, E., Zhang, J., Osezua, A. A., Thomas, C. L., & Spitzmueller, C. (2016, April). Parental Work-Family Conflict and Child Health. 2016 SIOP Annual Conference, Anaheim, Southern California, United States of America.

Thomas, R., Osezua, A., Ohu, E. A., Thomas, C., & Spitzmueller, C. (2015, July). Work- Life Balance And Adolescent Aggression. VI International Conference of Work and Family (VI ICWF) “Balance, Technology, and Globalization, Barcelona, Spain.

Ohu, E. (2015, May). Cultural Intelligence Sounding the Death Knell for Stereotypes in Business Communication. 7th Tricontinental Conference on Global Advances of Business and Communication, Michigan, United States of America.

Ohu, E. A. & Ohu, I. P. (2014, August). Effects of Terrorism and Insurgency on the Internationalization of Firms. Academy of International Business Sub-Saharan Africa Chapter Inaugural Conference, Nairobi, ​Kenya​

Articles
Ohu, E. (2016). Cultural Intelligence Sounding the Death Knell for Stereotypes in Business Communication. Global Advances in Business Communication Journal, 5 (1).

Ohu, E. (2016). Ibrahim – The Cassava Starch Processor. Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies, 7 (1).

Ohu, E., Laguda, E., & Ogunyemi, K. (2018). Mindfulness and stress reduction: managing workplace stress. The Palgrave Handbook of Workplace Spirituality and Fulfillment, 237-267.

Laguda, E., Ogunyemi, K., & Ohu, E. (2018). From Success to Significance: Transforming Your Job into a Calling. The Palgrave Handbook of Workplace Spirituality and Fulfillment, 629-657.

Adeola O., Ohu, E. The Board in the Financial and Social Performance of Firms. In Enhancing Board Effectiveness in Developing and Emerging Markets, Routledge (in press).

Ohu, E. A., Spitzmueller, C., Zhang, J., Thomas, C. L., Osezua, A., & Yu, J. (2018). When work-family conflict hits home: Parental work-family conflict and child health. Journal of occupational health psychology.