TITLE (PROF/DR/): Professor

NAME: Chidi Odogwu Christopher

POSITION: Professor                SPECIALISATION: Human Resource Management, Employment/Industrial Relations, Comparative HRM, Organisational Behaviour, & Research Methods

EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with Bachelor’s degree or other initial professional education, such as nursing, include postdoctoral training and residency training if applicable. Add/delete rows as necessary.)

INSTITUTION AND LOCATION

DEGREE

Completion Date

MM/YYYY

FIELD OF STUDY

University of Lagos, Akoka-Yaba, Lagos State

Ph.D.

April/2014

Industrial Relations and Personnel Management

University of Lagos, Akoka-Yaba, Lagos State

M.Sc.

Feb/1998

Organisational Behaviour

University of Lagos, Akoka-Yaba, Lagos State

B.Sc.

Nov/1992

Industrial Relations and Personnel Management

Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (CIPMN), Lagos State.

Associate

August 2000

Human Resource Management

Personal Statement

Professor Christopher Chidi is currently the Head of Department of Employment Relations and Human Resource Management, Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Lagos, Nigeria. He is an alumnus of the University of Lagos. Prof. Christopher possesses considerable experience in Employment Relations and Human Resource Management in both the private and public sectors. He is currently a member of the University of Lagos Senate. He was the Postgraduate Programme Coordinator of the Department of Employment Relations and Human Resource Management from August, 2017 to July, 2021.  He was appointed Assistant Coordinator, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Programme of the University of Lagos from the 1st of August, 2015 to the 31st of July, 2017.

Outside the University of Lagos, Prof. Christopher has rendered several consultancy services for numerous organisations. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (CIPMN); and a member of the Nigerian Industrial and Employment Relations Association. He has contributed to the CIPMN and participated in the conduct of professional examinations of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria which are held bi-annually (February and August Diets) for over 10 years. Prof. Christopher was a member of the research team that compiled the CIPMN history and strategic book to mark the CIPMN 50 years of excellence from 1968-2018. He is widely published in reputable national and international journals and has attended numerous learned conferences locally and overseas.

Positions, Scientific Appointments and Honours

  • Head, Department of Employment Relations & Human Resource Management (August, 2024 to Date)
  • Reviewer: UNILAG Journal of Employment Relations (UJER).
  • Reviewer: UNILAG Journal of Humanities (UJH)
  • Reviewer: UNILAG Journal of Business (UJB).
  • Reviewer: Nigerian Journal of Management Studies (NJMS).
  • Lagos State Safety Commission Award for my contributions to the Lagos Vision Zero Conference, from 26th to the 28th of June, 2018
  • The Lagos Studies Association Fellowship Award made possible by a grant from the British Academy, 2018
  • Department of Industrial Relations and Personnel Management Graduating Class of 2009 Award in Recognition of my Great Performance and Contributions as Course Adviser, 16th June, 2009.

Selected most recent publication/contributions to knowledge

  1. Badejo, A.E., & Chidi, O.C. (2025). Entrepreneurship education as a precursor for sustainable eenterprise development and youth employment in Nigeria. Francis Anyim’s Festschrift: Employment and Management Issues: Recent Local and Global Developments and Emerging Challenges (pp. 472-482).
  2. Chidi, O. C., & Badejo, A. E. (2024). Emerging issues in the development of Lagos as a mega-city. UDS International Journal of Development, 11(1), 1092–1104. https://doi.org/10.47740/617.UDSIJD6i.
  3. Chidi, O.C., Badejo, A.E., & Ofuani, A.B. (2023). Strike as trade unions’ survival strategy in a capitalist economy: The Nigerian experience. UNILAG Journal of Employment Relations (UJER), 1(1), 50-59.
  4. Chidi, O.C. & Ideh, D. A. (2021). Occupational health and safety in Nigeria: Managing employees’ well-being in the post-COVID-19 world of work. E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies, 10(2), 76-94.
  5. Chidi, O.C. (2019). Challenges besetting the sustainability of higher education in Nigeria: The case of the University of Lagos. E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies, 8(3), 162-192.

Collaborators/Networks

  1. Professor J.G.N. Onyekpe. Department of History and Strategic Studies, University of Lagos, Nigeria.
  2. Mustapha Olarenwaju Aliyu (PhD). University of Ilorin, Nigeria.
  • Emmanuel Rusibamayila (PhD). Open University of Tanzania, East Africa
  1. Kabiru Oyetunde. Loughborough University, United Kingdom.
  2. Nuha Salihu Aremu (PhD). University of Ilorin, Nigeria.