Prof. Dr. Rūta Kazlauskaitė

Rūta Kazlauskaitė
Prof. Dr. Rūta Kazlauskaitė

Baltic Journal of Management Editor, Professor

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Dr. Ruta Kazlauskaite is Professor at ISM University of Management and Economics. Her research interests focus on socially responsible and sustainable human resource management, social and individual wellbeing, work environment effects on staffs, international and comparative human resource management. She has presented her research findings at international conferences (Academy of Management, EURAM, International HRM, Dutch HRM network, etc.) and published in international scientific journals (Academy of Management Journal) and books published by international publishing houses (Oxford University Press, Routledge, Edward Elgar Publishing). She participates in and leads national and international research projects and conducts research for companies.She is Chairwoman of ISM Institutional Review Board, member of ISM Doctoral Committee of the Doctoral Programme in Management, ISM Senate member (2017-2022). She is also Editor-in-Chief of the Baltic Journal of Management and editorial board member of the International Journal of Human Resource Management, and Advisory group member at Cranet global HRM research network.

Awards

  • ISM Research Communicator Award (2019).
  • Emerald Citations of Excellence Award (2015).

Research areas

  • Socially responsible and sustainable human resource management
  • Social and individual wellbeing
  • Work environment effects on staffs
  • International and comparative human resource management

Publications

Augutytė-Kvedaravičienė, I., & Kazlauskaitė, R. (2018). Physical environment impact on staff well-being and performance. In 25th Annual European Real Estate Society (ERES) Conference, June 27-30. Reading, United Kingdom.
Augutytė-Kvedaravičienė, I., & Kazlauskaitė, R. (2019). What makes staffs in modern offices happy and productive: the effects of internal and external office environment. In 26th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference (pp. 1-1). Cergy-Pontoise: ERES
Aušvicaitė, V., Bučiūnienė, I., & Kazlauskaitė, R. (2012). Corporate social responsibility at Kraft Foods Lietuva: to be or not to be socially responsible?: case study. Poznan : Leonardo da Vinci Transfer of innovation project.
Aušvicaitė, V., Bučiūnienė, I., & Kazlauskaitė, R. (2015). Corporate social responsibility at Kraft Foods Lietuva: to be or not to be socially responsible? In J. Poór, & A. D. Engle (Eds.), Internationalisation and Globalisation in Human Resource Management – Focus on Central and Eastern Europe (pp. 225-236). Nova Science Publishers Inc. 
Baršauskas, P., Kriščiūnas, K., Jesen, H. P., Kazlauskaitė, I., Lanskoronskis, M., Markevičienė, R., Ramonienė, L., & Turauskas, L. (2007). Aukštojo mokslo tarptautiškumo skatinimo pasaulinė praktika ir jos taikymo Lietuvoje gairės. Kaunas: ISM Vadybos ir ekonomikos universitetas.
Bučiūnienė, I, Kazlauskaitė, R., & Turauskas, L. (2005). Employee empowerment as a factor enhancing organizational commitment and reducing staff turnover in the Lithuanian upscale hotel industry. EABIS 4th Annual Colloquium: Corporate Responsibility & Competiteveness: Developing Human Capital for Sustainable Growth (pp. 1-27)
Bučiūnienė, I., & Kazlauskaitė, R. (2010). Disclosing the meaning of responsible human resource management. In R. Springer, & P. Chadraba (Eds.), Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference on Marketing and Business Strategies for Central & Eastern Europe (pp. 51-60). Vienna: Inst. of Internat. Business, Vienna Univ. of Economics and Business Administration.
Bučiūnienė, I., & Kazlauskaitė, R. (2012). The linkage between HRM, CSR and performance outcomes. Baltic Journal of Management, 7(1), 5-24. https://doi.org/10.1108/17465261211195856
Bučiūnienė, I., & Kazlauskaitė, R. (2015). Įmonių socialinės atsakomybės ir socialiai atsakingo žmogiškųjų išteklių valdymo sąsajos: koncepciniai pagrindai. In S. Žičkienė (Ed.), Socialinė atsakomybė versle ir viešajame sektoriuje (pp. 109-121). Šiauliai : Šiaulių universiteto bibliotekos Leidybos skyrius.
Bučiūnienė, I., Kazlauskaitė, R., & Bigelienė, K. (2008). The role of the HR function in Lithuania and its linkage with organisational performance. 23rd Workshop on Strategic Human Resource Management, April 3-4. Bled, Slovenia.
Bučiūnienė, I., Kazlauskaitė, R., & Serarols, C. (2011). E-admin: case study. In T. M. Cooney (Ed.), Cases in European Entrepreneurship (pp. 85-96). Dublin: Dublin Institute of Technology.
Bučiūnienė, I., Malčiankina, S., Lydeka, Z., & Kazlauskaitė, R. (2006). Managerial attitude to the implementation of quality management systems in Lithuanian support treatment and nursing hospitals. BioMed Central, 6, 120-128. http://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-6-120
Bučiūnienė, I., Stonienė, L., Blaževičienė, A., Kazlauskaitė, R., & Škudienė, V. (2006). Blood donors’ motivation and attitude to non-remunerated blood donation in Lithuania. BMC Public Health, 6, 166, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-6-166
Colovic, A., Henneron, S., Huettinger, M., & Kazlauskaitė, R. (2019). Corporate social responsibility and SMEs: Evidence from a transition and a developed economy. European Business Review, 31(5), 785-810. https://doi.org/10.1108/EBR-01-2017-0022
Dwertmann, D. J. G., Goštautaitė, B., Kazlauskaitė, R., & Bučiūnienė, I. (2020). Customer reactions to staffs with disabilities: Opportunity for increased corporate reputation? In D. Baldridge, M. Kulkarni, S. Bruyere, & L. Schur (Eds.), Broadening our Sight: New Directions in Disability Research, Symposia. Academy of Management Proceedings..
Dwertmann, D., Goštautaitė, B., Kazlauskaitė, R., & Bučiūnienė, I. (2023). Receiving service from a person with a disability: Stereotypes, perceptions of corporate social responsibility, and the opportunity for increased corporate reputation. Academy of Management Journal, 66(1), 133-163. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2020.0084
 Goštautaitė, B., Kazlauskaitė, R. & Bučiūnienė, I. (2018). Customer reactions to service staffs with disability: A field quasi-experiment. In S. Taneja (Ed.), Proceedings of the 78th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Chicago, IL, United States.
Auruskeviciene, V., Salciuviene, L., & Kazlauskaite, R. (2005). Identification of Critical Success Factors in the Lithuanian Printing Industry. In J. Kolenak, L. Masterova, & M. Mihalisko (Eds.), The 13th Annual International Conference: Business and Economic Development in Central and Eastern Europe: Conference proceedings (pp. 237-242). Brno University of Technology
Auruskeviciene, V., Kazlauskaite, R., Salciuviene, L., & Trifanovas, A. (2006). A comparison between recent and prospective critical success factors for Lithuanian printing industry. Managing global transitions: international research journal, 4(4), 327-346.
Buciuniene, I., & Kazlauskaite, R. (2010). Integrating people with disability into the workforce: the case of a retail chain. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, 29(5), 534-538. https://doi.org/10.1108/02610151011052816
Kazlauskaitė, R. (2007). Employee Empowerment in the HRM-Performance Paradigm [Doctoral dissertation]. ISM University of Management and Economics
Kazlauskaitė, R. (2010). Personalo valdymas. Vilnius: ISM Vadybos ir ekonomikos universitetas.
Kazlauskaitė, R., & Augutytė-Kvedaravičienė, I. (2020). Does giving more always equal getting more: A longitudinal study of office relocation. In Transdisciplinary Workplace Research 2020, September 16-19th (pp. 1-1). Frankfurt.
Kazlauskaitė, R., & Augutytė-Kvedaravičienė, I. (2020). Fizinės darbo aplinkos ir darbuotojų gerovės sąsajos. In X-oji Mokslinė-Praktinė Organizacinės Psichologijos Konferencija: Kai visi trys svarbūs: darbas, darbuotojas ir organizacija. Lietuvos psichologų sąjunga, p. 14
Kazlauskaitė, R., & Bučiūnienė, I. (2005). Factors enhancing staff customer-oriented behaviour and organizational commitment in the Lithuanian upscale hotel industry. In P. Chadraba, & R. Springer (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference on Marketing and Business Strategies for Central & Eastern Europe (pp. 112-121). Institute of International Business
Kazlauskaitė, R., & Bučiūnienė, I. (2008). The role of human resources and their management in the establishment of sustainable competitive. Engineering economics, 5(60), 78-84
Kazlauskaitė, R., & Bučiūnienė, I. (2010). Towards an understanding of responsible human resource management. In Baltic Management Research Academy International Conference BMRA2010: Innovation Driven Entrepreneurship, October 14-16. Vilnius, Lithuania.
Kazlauskaitė, R., & Bučiūnienė, I. (2011). Attitudinal and behavioural outcomes of responsible human resource management. In The 1st Israeli Global Human Resource Management Conference (GHRM), November 23-25. Karmiel, Israel.
Kazlauskaitė, R., & Bučiūnienė, I. (2011). Exploring the link between CSR formalisation and responsible HRM practices. In 11th International human resource management conference. Aston Business School, the UK, 9-12 June (pp. 1-12). Aston.
Kazlauskaitė, R., & Bučiūnienė, I. (2011). Responsible human resource management and its outcomes in the private and public sector organisations. In The 7th International Conference of the Dutch HRM network: Evidence based HRM, November 10-11. Groningen, The Netherlands.
Kazlauskaitė, R., & Petrylaitė, E. (2023). The test of COVID 19: a make or break for CSR. In Proceedings of the British Academy of Management Conference, 1 September (virtual day) & 5-6 September (in-person) (pp. 1-8). British Academy of Management
Kazlauskaitė, R., & Pletscher, M. (2023). Chapter 9 Communication: Cranet executive report on international human resource management: Summary and analysis of 2021-2022 survey data. State College: The Pennsylvania State University. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4647015
Kazlauskaitė, R., Abramavičius, Š., Šarapovas, T., Gelbūda, M., & Venciūtė, D.  (2015). Network research on internationalisation of firms form the emerging economies: Literature review and propositions. European Journal of Business and Economics, 10(1), 26-30. https://doi.org/10.12955/ejbe.v9i2.548
Kazlauskaitė, R., Autio, E., Gelbūda, M., & Šarapovas, T. (2015). The resource-based view and SME internationalisation: An emerging economy perspective. Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review, 3(2), 53-64. https://doi.org/10.15678/EBER.2015.030205
Gelbūda, M., Kazlauskaitė, R., & Venciūtė, D. (2015). Towards the vernonian model: Internationalization process of the pure internet firm from one emerging economy to another. In Proceedings of 4th European business research conference (pp. 1-25). Londonas: Imperial College.
Gelbūda, M., Kazlauskaitė, R., Šarapovas, T., & Abramavičius, Š. (2014). Bounded sociality view of internationalization of firms and its key concepts. In Competitiveness of the CEE Region in the Global Economy: 1st AIB-CEE Chapter conference, October 9-11. Budapest, Hungary.
Gelbūda, M., Kazlauskaitė, R., Židonis, Ž., & Verseckaitė, E. (2019). The self-fulfilling prophecy of implementing a quality management system: A study of two government organizations in a post-socialist European country. In 33rd Annual Conference of the British Academy of Management BAM 2019, September 3-5. Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Janutėnienė, J., Braziulienė, A., Cibulskienė, J., Berkmanas, T., Kližentis, V., Kazlauskaitė, R., Žilinskaitė, V., Vaičaitis, V. ir Toleikienė, R. (2020). Seksualinio priekabiavimo prevencijos ir atvejų nagrinėjimo gairės. Vilnius: LURK
Kazlauskaite, R., & Buciuniene, I. (2010). Disclosing HRM-performance linkage: Current research status and future directions. HR function developments in Lithuania. Transformations in Business & Economics, 9(2), 303-317.
Kazlauskaite, R., & Buciuniene, I. (2010). HR function developments in Lithuania. Baltic Journal of Management, 5(2), 218-241. https://doi.org/10.1108/17465261011045133
Kazlauskaitė, R., Autio, E., Šarapovas, T., Abramavičius, Š., & Gelbūda, M. (2015). The speed and extent of new venture internationalisation in the emerging economy context. Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review, 3(2), 41-52. https://doi.org/10.15678/EBER.2015.030204
Kazlauskaitė, R., Autio, E., Gelbūda, M., Šarapovas, T., & Venciūtė, D. (2014). Internationalisation process in emerging economy contexts: a meta-synthesis. In Enrepreneurial endeavours: aprofusion of research, policy and practitioner practices: RENT conference XXVIII, November 19-21. Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Kazlauskaitė, R., Bučiūnienė, I., & Bigelienė, K. (2008). Development of human resource management in Lithuania. In International Conference: New Trends and Tendencies in Human Resource Management – East Meets West, June 13-14. Pécs, Hungary.
Kazlauskaitė, R., Bučiūnienė, I., & Goštautaitė, B. (2014). Diversity-related human resource management and performance linkage: Does acting responsibly help organisations perform better? In 13th International Human Resource Management Conference: Uncertainty in a Flattening World: Challenges For IHRM, June 24-27. Krakow, Poland.
Kazlauskaitė, R., Bučiūnienė, I., & Kazlauskas, D. (2010). Drivers and performance outcomes of Responsible Care: The case of Lithuanian Chemical Industry. Economics and Management, 15, 597-604.
Kazlauskaitė, R., Bučiūnienė, I., & Turauskas, L. (2007). Managing staff-organization relationships in the hotel industry. In 22nd Workshop on Strategic Human Resource Management. Brussels, Belgium
Kazlauskaitė, R., Bučiūnienė, I., & Turauskas, L. (2012). Organisational and psychological empowerment in the HRM-performance linkage. Employee Relations, 34(2), 138–158. https://doi.org/10.1108/01425451211191869
Kazlauskaitė, R., Bučiūnienė, I., & Turauskas, L.(2006). Building staff commitment in the hospitality industry. Baltic Journal of Management, 1(3), 300-314. https://doi.org/10.1108/17465260610690944
Kazlauskaitė, R., Bučiūnienė, I., Poór, J., Karoliny, Z., Alas, R., Kohont, A., & Szlávicz, Á. (2013). Human resource management in the Central and Eastern European region. In E. Parry, E. Stavrou, & M. Lazarova (Eds.), Global Trends in Human Resource Management (pp. 103-121). Palgrave Macmillan London.
Kazlauskaitė, R., Bučiūnienė, I., Turauskas, L., & Šalčiuvienė, L. (2009). A comparative study of staff empowerment in Danish and Lithuanian hotels. Transformations in Business & Economics, 8(2), 66-85.
Kazlauskaitė, R., Bučiūnienė, I., Turauskas, L., & Šalčiuvienė, L. (2007). Cross cultural aspects of staff empowerment: A comparative study between two European countries. In P. G. Benson, A. Mahajan, R. Alas, & R. L. Oliver (Eds.), Proceedings of the 9th International Human Resource Conference (pp. 1-19). Tallinn, Estonia.
Kazlauskaitė, R., Martinaitytė, I., Lyubovnikova, J., & Augutytė-Kvedaravičienė, I. (2022). The physical office work environment and staff wellbeing: Current state of research and future research agenda. International Journal of Management Reviews, 25(3), 413-442. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12315
Kazlauskaitė, R., Poškutė, V., Matonytė, I., & Ramonienė, L. (2019). NGOs and stakeholder cooperation in LTC organising and delivery: An equal player or a stranger? In Transforming Care Conference, Changing priorities: the making of care policy and practices: books of abstracts (p. 89). Copenhagen, Denmark
Kazlauskaitė, R., Pupienienė, I., & Bučiūnienė, I. (2016). Employability of older workers in a changing labor market: The case of a post-soviet country. In H. Merchant (Ed.). Handbook of Contemporary Research on Emerging Markets (pp. 174-195). Edward Elgar Publishing. 
Korzynski, P., Mazurek, G., Altmann, A., Ejdys, J., Kazlauskaitė, R., Paliszkiewicz, J., Wach, K., & Ziemba, E. (2023). Generative artificial intelligence as a new context for management theories: Analysis of ChatGPT. Central European Management Journal, 31(1), 3-13. https://doi.org/10.1108/CEMJ-02-2023-0091
Matonytė, I., Kazlauskaitė, R., & Poškutė, V. (2019). Ilgalaikė senyvo amžiaus asmenų globa Lietuvoje: visuomenės nuostatos ir paslaugų teikėjų požiūriai. Socialinė teorija, empirija, politika ir praktika, 18, 74-95. https://doi.org/10.15388/STEPP.2019.5
Morley, M. J., Kohont, A., Poór, J., Kazlauskaitė, R., Kabalina, V., & Blštáková, J. (2021). Human resource management in the postsocialist region of Central and Eastern Europe. In E. Parry, M. J. Morley, & C. Brewster (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Approaches to Human Resource Management (pp. 239-264). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190861162.013.11
Neciunskas, P., Tomaševičiūtė, L., Kazlauskė, D., Gineikienė, J., & Kazlauskaitė, R. (2017). Uniqueness perception and willingness to buy protected geographical origin versus doppelgänger brands. Organizations and Markets in Emerging Economies, 8(2), 193-206. https://doi.org/10.15388/omee.2017.8.2.14188
Poškienė, E., & Kazlauskaitė, R. (2019). HR practices design aimed at staff well-being. In The Societal Impact of HRM: 11th Biennial International Conference of the Dutch HRM Network (pp. 18-18). Tilburg
Poskiene, E., & Kazlauskaite, R. (2015). Translating sustainability principles into HRM. In D. Dobija (Ed.), 15th European Academy of Management Annual Conference (pp. 1-33). Kozminski University.
Poškienė, E., & Kazlauskaitė, R. (2020). Organizational caring for staff wellbeing through performance management. Human Resource Management (Zarzadzanie Zasobami Ludzkimi), 136(5), 13-34.
Poškienė, E., Coudounaris, D. N., & Kazlauskaitė, R. (2020). The relationship between caring for staffs and the well-being of the organisation. Management of Organizations: Systematic Research, 84(1), 45-60. https://doi.org/10.1515/mosr-2020-0012
Poškutė, V., Kazlauskaitė, R., & Matonytė, I. (2021). Stakeholder collaboration in long-term care of older people in Lithuania. Health and Social Care in the Community, 30(1), 193-202. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13389
Poškutė, V., Kazlauskaitė, R., Liubertė, I., & Matonytė, I. (2021). Improvement of long-term care for older people via inter-sectoral and inter-organizational collaboration. In 5th International Conference on Public Policy, Barcelona, 05-09, July (pp. 1-1). International Public Policy Association
Poškutė, V., Kazlauskaitė, R., Matonytė, I., & Ramonienė, L. (2018). Stakeholder engagement and collaboration in long-term care of older persons in Lithuania: Key stakeholders perceptions of synergy possibilities and barriers. In ILPN Conference 2018: Book of abstracts (pp. 127-128). Viena: The International Long-term care Policy Network
Poškutė, V., Kazlauskaitė, R., Matonytė, I., & Ramonienė, L. (2019). Caring is sharing: stakeholder collaboration in long-term care of older persons in Lithuania. In 4th edition of the International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP4), June 26-28. Montreal, Canada.
Poškutė, V., Kazlauskaitė, R., Matonytė, I., & Ramonienė, L. (2019). Improving long-term care for the elderly: A multi-level framework for inter-sectoral and organisational collaboration. In Aging & Social Change: Ninth Interdisciplinary Conference (pp. 1-1). Champaign: Common Ground Research Networks
Poškutė, V., Kazlauskaitė, R., Matonytė, I., & Ramonienė, L. (2019). Reducing social exclusion by meeting long-term care needs for the elderly: enhancement of stakeholder collaboration and engagement. In Social Citizenship, Migration and Conflict: Equality and opportunity in European welfare states (pp. 38-38). University of Sweden
Preidienė, J., & Kazlauskaitė, R. (2016). How does career capital influence academic staff performance and perceived marketability in the context of international mobility? In Xth International Workshop on HRM (Human Resource Management), October 27-28. Cadiz, Spain.
Preidienė, J., Kazlauskaitė, R., & Preidys, S. (2018). International academic mobility – who, why and how? 15th International HRM conference: IHRM, June 13-15. Madrid, Spain.
Tauginienė, L., Cibulskienė, J., Berkmanas, T., Janutėnienė, J., Braziulienė, A., Kazlauskaitė, R., Kližentis, V., Toleikienė, R., Zamokas, G., Sipavičienė, S., Vaičaitis, V. ir Marozas, V. (2019). Publikavimo etika: gairės. Vilnius: LURK
Škudienė, V., & Kazlauskaitė, R. (2006). Management studies in undergraduate education: competitive advantage creation. International Journal of Learning, 13(3), 29-40. https://doi.org/10.18848/1447-9494/CGP/v13i03/44844
Židonis, Ž., Gelbūda, M., Kazlauskaitė, R., & Daunienė, E. (2018). Lean implementation in the public service institution in Lithuania: A study of staff responses to experimental modernization of management. In EURAM (European Academy of Management) Conference 2018, June 19-22. Reykjavik, Iceland.
Bučiūnienė, I., Kazlauskaitė, R., Yerlitas, T., & Kušlys, M. (2024). Working from where? The dynamics of workplaces. In P. Holland, C. Brewster & N. K. Kougiannou (Eds.), Work, Employment and Flexibility (pp. 73–94). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035309368.00012
Farndale, E., Brewster, C., Lazarova, M. B., Morley, M. J., Peretz, H., Reichel, A., Lieberman, L., Olivas-Lujan, M. R., Madero, S., Amorim, W. A. C. D., Bévort, F., Einarsdottir, A., Buchelt, B., Poór, J., Zaharie, M., Kazlauskaitė, R., Bučiūnienė, I., & Piyanontalee, R. (2024). Comparative human resource management: Extending beyond national comparisons. In Academy of Management Proceedings (2024, 1, pp. 1-1). Valhalla, NY: Academy of Management. https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2024.12517symposium