Kerstin Alfes

Kerstin Alfes is a Professor of Organisation and Human Resource Management at ESCP Europe’s Berlin campus. Before joining ESCP, she served as a Senior Lecturer at Kingston University in London, where she led the Employee Engagement Consortium, and as an Assistant Professor at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. She earned her PhD from the University of Bern in Switzerland. Kerstin teaches courses on human resource management and organizational behavior at undergraduate, postgraduate, and executive levels. Her research focuses on employee engagement, strategic HR management, volunteering, and over-qualification, and she has published in leading journals such as Human Resource Management and European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. Additionally, she serves as Associate Editor of the International Journal of Human Resource Management and Co-Chair of Social Media for the HR division at the Academy of Management.