Global Research Program and Network
FLIGBY’s academic publications: The Leadership & Flow Global Research Network promotes academic cooperation, research, and publication in the broader fields related to Flow and Leadership theory, as well as the usage of Serious Games in teaching and training, skills measurement and HR predictive analytics. Most publications below are also enabled and driven by FLIGBY, Prof.…
Title: Strategic HRM Maturity in Higher Education: A Comparative Study of Hungary, Turkey, and Kazakhstan By: Saule Zhardayeva (Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary), Zoltan Buzady (Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary), Ainur Abdrazakova (SDU University, Kaskelen, Kazkahstan) Abstract This paper explores the maturity of Human Resource (HR) practices in the skills development across selected Turkic countries,…
Authors: Gavkhar Turaeva (Corvinus University of Budapest) and Zoltan Buzady (Corvinus University) Presented at: EAWOP congress of the European Academy of Work and Organizational Psychology, Transforming Working Environments: Challenges & Opportunities, Prague, 2025 May 21-24 Gavkhar Turaeva shared with us her professional impressions: I had the privilege of participating in the 22nd European Congress of…
Cross-Cultural Leadership Styles in the Turkic World: A FLIGBY Simulation Study of Hungary, Turkey, and Kazakhstan By: Gavkhar Turaeva, Zoltan Buzady ABSTRACT This research examines the leadership styles and skills of managers from Hungary, Turkey, and Kazakhstan—three different cultural Turkic nations—utilizing the serious game simulation FLIGBY (Flow Is Good Business for You). This study employs transformational,…
The Ph.D. draft thesis defense by Gavkhar Turaeva (Uzbekistan) was organized at Corvinus University of Budapest on April 4th, 2025. Investigating Leadership Styles and Skills Across the Turkic Nations: The Case of Hungary, Turkey, and Kazakhstan.Unveiling Leadership Styles and Skills Through FLIGBY Serious Game Methodology Dr. Zoltan Buzady, academic director of the Leadership & Flow…
By: Lipovka A.V., PhD., associate professor, AlmaU, Kazakhstan (a.lipovka@almau.edu.kz) ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0471-2040 and Buzady Z., PhD, associate professor (zoltan@buzady.hu) ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9992-1744 In: “Turan” University Scientific Journal FULL-TEXT , 2024. No. 3(103)DOI: https://doi.org/10.46914/1562-2959-2025-1-1-71-83 Abstract: The significance of contemporary managers’ leadership competencies is steadily growing. After over thirty years of economic and social transition, Kazakhstani managers’ leadership…
By: Lipovka A.V., PhD., associate professor, AlmaU, Kazakhstan (a.lipovka@almau.edu.kz) ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0471-2040 and Buzady Z., PhD, associate professor (zoltan@buzady.hu) ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9992-1744In: “Turan” University Scientific Journal, 2024. No. 3(103)DOI: https://doi.org/10.46914/1562-2959-2024-1-3-35-98-112 Abstract The requirements for today’s leaders have become more comprehensive and multifaceted due to increasing international labor migration, dynamic organizations’ digitalization, and penetration of generative artificial…
By: Jane Terpstra-Tong, et al. (Zoltan Buzady).(2024).In: Journal of Vocational Behavior, Volume 138, (Q1 category journal)DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2022.103773 Highlights Abstract We investigate the relationships between gender-role-orientation (i.e., androgynous, masculine, feminine and undifferentiated) and subjective career success among business professionals from 36 societies. Drawing on the resource management perspective, we predict that androgynous individuals will report the…
By: Almeida, F., & Buzady, Z. (2024).In: Technology, Knowledge and Learning (D1 category Journal) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10758-024-09729-2 Abstract This study explores the contribution of serious game teaching technology, such as FLIGBY, to the development of entrepreneurial learning outcomes in the context of an entrepreneurship course in higher education. The sample is composed of 551 students through the…
A New Approach to Promoting Flow in the Workplace Today’s leaders face an insurmountable challenge of retaining high-quality employees. Not only are volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) situations arising, the workforce is embarking on a generational shift with significant implications for the effectiveness of more traditional and transactional leadership styles. When observing the sustainable…