Ilke Inceoglu is a Professor in Management at UQ Business School. She joined UQ in 2026 from the University of Exeter Business School, where she was Professor of Organisational Behaviour and HR Management and Director of the Exeter Centre for Leadership. Before Exeter, she held an academic post at Surrey Business School. Earlier, she was Managing Scientist R&D at SHL, a global psychometric assessment and consultancy firm. There she led the UK R&D team and was responsible for SHL’s personality and motivation assessments, and for its tools measuring leadership potential and employee engagement.
Ilke’s research looks at how leadership and technology shape employee well-being and behaviour at work. Her work also examines age, motivation and career transitions in the multi-age workforce. Ilke is Vice-Leader of Working Group 1 of the European COST Action LeverAge (CA22120), a European Network to LeverAge the Multi-Age Workforce (leverage-workforce.eu). Working Group 1 focuses on work and organizational practices for a multi-age workforce.
Her research has appeared in journals including The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of VocationalBehavior, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Organizational Research Methods, International Journal of Management Reviews, Applied Psychology, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Human Resource Management and Work, Employment and Society. She is an Associate Editor of Organizational Psychology Review and serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management Studies and Personnel Psychology.
