Email: basil.john@eiu.edu.vn
Dr Basil John Thomas is an award-winning academic and Senior Fellow (SFHEA) of Advance HE, UK, with over two decades of international experience in business management education, research leadership, curriculum innovation, and institutional governance across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. He maintains a strong record in postgraduate supervision, accreditation engagement, and program development, contributing strategically to assurance-of-learning processes and continuous academic enhancement. He actively contributes to the global academic community as a member of the Academy of Management, USA.
Dr Thomas is a Chartered Management Consultant and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Consultants, Canada, bringing an applied and practice-oriented perspective to management education. With an emphasis on research-informed academic impact demonstrated through publications in high-indexed, peer-reviewed international journals, his research portfolio integrates the domains of organizational and financial behavior. He is also the inventor of an innovation patent granted by IP Australia, reflecting his commitment to impactful research aligned with emerging global business challenges.
His academic leadership has been internationally recognized through the Global Educational Leadership Award conferred by CMO Asia in association with the World Federation of Academic & Educational Institutions (2019), among other distinctions. Having delivered internationally benchmarked curricula affiliated with the University of Sunderland, UK, and Bond University, Australia, Dr Thomas advances the strategic vision of the Business School through assurance-of-learning alignment, accreditation engagement, and the cultivation of ethically grounded, analytically rigorous, and globally competent business leaders.
- Doctor of Philosophy, Mahatma Gandhi University, India
Thomas, B. J., Ruqiya, J. A. (2023) “HR practices and their effectiveness during the Post-Omanization phase: A critical review”, Balkans Journal of emerging trends in Social sciences (Balkans JETSS), Vol 6(1), 49-64, July 2023.
Thomas, B. J., Tarek, K., Ruqiya, J. A. (2022) “Do Occupational Stress Affect Employee Performance? The Case of Middle East Organizations”, Eurasian Journal of Business and Management, Vol 10(4), 222-238, Dec 2022.
Valiyeva, A., & Thomas, B. J. . (2022). Successful Organizational Business Communication and its Impact on Business Performance: An Intra- and Inter-Organizational Perspective. Journal of Accounting, Business and Finance Research, 15(2), 83–91.
Thomas, B. J., Valiyeva, A ., Rasna, T. (2022), “Emotional Intelligence and Stress Coping: An Organizational Perspective”, Journal of Positive School Psychology, Vol. 6, No. 5, 7677–7690.
Thomas, B. J., Tarek, K. (2022) “Innovation and creativity among individuals in work environments: The effect of personality, motivation, psychological, and task-oriented factors”, In: Bilgin, M.H., Danis, H., Demir, E., Mustafa, G. (eds) Eurasian Business and Economics Perspectives. Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics, vol 22, pp 37-50, Springer, Cham.
Thomas, B. J., Tarek, K., Nisha, J. (2020), “The role of educational technologies in CSR perception of tourism education: The comparative analysis of e-learning and m-learning tools as moderators”, Journal of Risk and Financial Management, Vol 13(12), 318.
Thomas, B. J., & Jeyhun, H. (2020) “The Direct and Indirect Effects of Personality on Data Breach in Education Through the Task-Related Compulsive Technology use: M-Learning Perspective”, International Journal of Computing and digital Systems, Vol. 9(3).
Thomas, B. J., Salah, A. (2020),“Business Intelligence Tools and Team Performance of Oil and Gas Industries”, Journal of Advanced Research in Dynamical and Control Systems, Vol 12(4), pp 1045-1059.
Thomas, B. J. (2020), “Organizational resilience of NGOs in Oman”, GIS Business, Vol. 14(6), 1097-1117,
Thomas, B. J. (2020), “Investment Objectives of Mutual fund investors”, International Journal of Economics, Business and Management Studies, Vol 7 Issue 1, 167-175.
Thomas, B. J. . (2020). Leadership Style and Employee Performance: The Case of Oil and Gas Industry. American Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 5(2), 286–301.
Thomas, B. J. (2019), “Optimal block-chain based crypto currency selection for remittance transaction: An MCDM approach”, Journal of Advanced Research in Dynamical and Control Systems, Vol 11, Issue 11.
Thomas, B. J., Saed, A. M., Hamed, S. (2019), “Effectiveness of Entrepreneurial ecosystem in Oman” Test Engineering and Management, Vol 81, 4266.
Thomas, B. J. (2019), “Product performance satisfaction level of Mutual fund investors”, International Journal of Business and Applied Social Sciences, Vol 5, Issue 12.
Issa, M., Thomas, B. J. (2018), “A Review of the Entrepreneurship Ecosystem of Oman”, International Journal of Professional management, Volume 13, Issue 2.
Thomas, B. J. (2018), “Risk tolerance profile of investors in the Gulf states”, International Journal of Economics, Commerce and Management, Vol. 6, (11).
Thomas, B. J., Sulaiman, E. (2016) “Fund Preference of Mutual Fund Investors”, Research Bulletin, ICMAI, Vol 42, Issue 01.
Research Projects:
Emotions at Work: An Organizational Context.
Emotional Intelligence and Financial risk tolerance, A review. The after effects of COVID 19 on Financial risk tolerance.
Do Personality traits influence Financial risk tolerance? Evidence from the Gulf Market.
Awards & Honors:
SFHEA, Senior Fellow, Professional Standards Frame work for teaching
and learning in Higher education, Advance HE, United Kingdom.
FCIMC, Fellow-Chartered Institute of Management Consultants, Canada.
Asian Education Leadership Award, CMO Asia.
Research Publication Award, Sur University College, Sultanate of Oman.
GCC Educational Leadership Award, Professorship, World Federation of Academic and Educational Institutions.
Oman Education Leadership Award.
Events & Conferences:
2nd Annual conference on Banking Finance and Money, ACBFM 2023, Oman College of Management and technology, May 2023.
Asia International Conference, 8th AIC 2022, Malaysia, organized by Connecting Asia, December 2022.
8th International Scientific Business Conference LIMEN 2022, Budapest, Hungary, organized by Association of Economists and Mangers of the Balkans, UdekoM Balkan, December 2022.
International Conference on Research in Business, Management and Finance (ICRBMF) Brussels, Belgium, organized by Global Knowledge Sharing, GKS, September 2022.
International Conference on latest advancements in Science, Management, Commerce and Educational Research (LASMCER), Silicon City College, Bangalore, India, organized by Institute for Engineering Research and Publication, IFERP, June 2022.
2021 International Conference, The Role of Oil prices in the future economy of the
GCC region, organized by Mazoon College, Muscat, Oman, May 2021.
International Conference, 35th EBES, Sapienza University of Rome, organized by Eurasia Economics and Business Society, EBES, April 2021.
International Conference on Communication (UTAS-ICCS), organized by University of Technology And Applied science, Salalah, Oman, March 2021.
Twelfth International Conference on Emotions and Work life, EMONET XII. http://www.emotionsnet.org/conferences/emonet-xii/conference-program/
International Conference on Teaching, Education & Learning, JGH Hauptbahnhof, Berlin, Germany.
International Conference on “Opportunities and Challenges in Business
Management”, MAHE Dubai.
Fourth International Scientific Conference EMAN2020, 3rd September 2020. https://eman-conference.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/EMAN_2020_BoA-DRAFT.pdf
