Maja Vidovic - Featured Faculty 2017

Maja obtained her B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business, with all three degrees focusing on HRM. She worked as an assistant/senior assistant at the same university for 12 years. Continued her career as faculty at the Penn State University on a post-doctoral teaching fellow position, and later as an adjunct instructor at their online program. Since Fall 2015, she has been employed as a Lecturer at RIT Croatia.

At RIT Croatia Maja teaches introductory course Business 1, as well as courses Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management, with the latter two also being offered as an online option. At Penn State, she is teaching International Human Resource Studies online course. In her classroom (both real and virtual one) Maja focuses on developing critical thinking and understanding by encouraging students to re-think the concepts they encounter through her courses. In her in-class courses, she applies flipped classroom approach and has received a recognition for her work in the form of The Best Teacher Award in 2017.

Maja Vidovic has been a member of organizing committees for several scientific conferences, both in Croatia as well as in the US, and is the author of several book chapters and many scientific papers. In the year 2016/2017, Maja has authored four book chapters (one of them published by Pearson, and one by Routledge), has been a guest editor for a special issue in the Current Contents listed journal, published one paper in the CC listed journal, and presented one paper at a conference.

Maja Vidovic
Assistant Professor
RIT Croatia