Sandra Penger, PhD

Full Professor 

  • Academic Unit for Management and Organisation (Regular Member)
  • Office Hours
  • Wednesday at 13:30 in P-348
Curriculum Vitae
Sandra Penger, Ph.D., is Full Professor of Management and Organization at the Academic Unit for management and organization at the School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana, with more than 25 years' working experience in higher education, research, and consulting. Her research interests primarily focus on leadership, management, authentic leadership, positive psychology in leadership, employee motivation, and advanced management concepts in the era of complexity (time management, self-organization, empowerment, mindfulness, workplace wellbeing …). She has published over 100 original scientific papers/scientific conference contributions/scientific monographs/reviewed university books and participated in national and international projects. She has also published her work in scientific journals (also SCI and SSCI ranged) and presented her scientific research at foreign and local conferences. She teaches in both graduate and undergraduate courses related to management and leadership principles in general. Her full personal bibliography is available at Slovene Cobiss.si on-line bibliographic system (https://bib.cobiss.net/biblioweb/biblio/si/slv/conor/854883)She obtained her Ph.D. degree from the School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana, in 2006. Since October 1999, Dr. Penger has been employed at the School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana, since May 2014 as Associate Professor in Management and as a full member of the Academic Unit for Management and Organization. During her academic career at the School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana she served as Vice-Chair of the Academic Unit for Management and Organization (2009-2011, 2011-2013). In the periods of 2013-2015, 2015-2017, 2017-2019, and 2019- she has been serving as the member of the Committee for Student Affairs at the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana. Since 2017 Dr. Penger has been director of the Leadership Academy, at the Centre of business excellence. Management and leadership: research work that focuses on advanced management concepts, authentic leadership, sustainable leadership, positive psychology in leadership, management and economics of education, and public sector management. Incudes scientific monograph Authentic leadership (2009), scientific monograph Advanced management (2013), and scientific monograph Advanced Management and Leadership Practice, as well as SSCi articles. Positive organizational behavior and learning organization: research work that focusses on positive psychology, positive organizational behavior, and learning organization. Includes SSCi articles and scientific monographs. Dr. Penger has published in established international SSCI research journals, including Journal of East European management studies, European Journal of Innovation Management, Australian journal of management, Economic and business review, Economic Research, and Proceedings of Rijeka Faculty of Economics, as well as scientific monographs in established international publishing companies (Pearson Education and Emerald Publishing). She has submitted indicators of international recognition, where dr. Penger has demonstrated her ability of research in the international context, in sum, as of November 1, 2018, Dr. Penger’s listed work activities and total academic rating points (as cited in the Slovenian national work review system – Cobiss) amount to 780 works, (173 works in the last election period) and these amount to 606,67 points (190,84 points in the last election period). Dr. Penger’s works and points by activity, as of November 1, 2018, include: (1) for scientific research works: altogether 106 works (31 works in the last election period) and these amount to 83,06 points (35,49 points in the last election); (2) for educational activities/works: altogether 635 works (128works in the last election period) and these amount to 498,32 points (135,83 points in the last election.
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