Doctoral Research

Workforce Capability, Fit & Performance

My doctoral research examines workforce capability and employee performance within software-development organizations.

The research explores relationships among hard skills, soft skills, person–job fit, person–organization fit, and employee performance, including task, adaptive, and contextual dimensions of performance.

Dissertation

The Contingent Effect of Job Fit on the Relationship between Skills Gap and Employee Performance in Nigerian Software Development Firms

Strategy and Innovation

Status
DBA Candidate / Doctoral Researcher
Institution
SBS Swiss Business School
Programme
Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)
Area
Strategy and Innovation

This work is particularly relevant at a moment when software engineering itself is changing rapidly. AI-assisted development tools are altering how technical work is performed, raising new questions about what competence means, how capability should be evaluated, and how organizations align evolving skills with changing work.

It forms part of a broader intellectual platform connecting workforce capability, organizational readiness, technology strategy, and future-of-work questions. The aim here is to make the research context public without claiming findings that the ongoing study has not yet established.

As the doctoral research continues, I will share its intellectual context and evolving questions here. Dissertation data and any findings will remain private until they are ready for formal publication, and my status remains that of a doctoral researcher.

Related research interests

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Future of Work
  • Skills and Capability
  • Strategy and Innovation
  • Competitive Advantage
  • Human Value