1993 - University of Haifa, Awarded for Excellency: Undergraduate Studies.

1994 - Best Masters Thesis - The Foundation for the Encouragement of Research of the "Histadrut"‑ the New General Federation of Labor in                     Israel, for the Master Thesis.

1994 - University of Haifa, Awarded for Excellency: Graduate Studies.

1997 - Best lecturer award: Best lecturer at the University of Haifa.

1998 - The "British Council in Israel" Chevening Scholarship for Post-Doctoral studies in Britain.

1999 - Postdoctoral Scholarship from the Department of Political Science at the University of Haifa

2001-2002 - Post-doctoral fellowship – The Koret Foundation

2004 - Best book award by the Israeli Association for Political Sciences for: "Managing Collaboration in Public Administration", Praeger Press.

2004 - Best paper award for a journal article in "International Journal of Public Sector Management" for the year 2003: Paper's title: Managerial                quality, administrative performance, and trust in governance revisited: A follow-up study of causality, the Literati Club, Emerald Publishing.

2009 - Supervisor of the Best Masters Thesis (2009) written by a graduate student (Mrs. Hana Levi) - a Prize by the Israeli Association for Labor                 Relations.

2010 - Supervisor of the Best Doctoral Dissertation (2010) written by a doctoral student (Dr. Galit Meysler) - a Prize by the Israeli Association for             Political Science.

2010 - Supervisor of the Highly Commended Award for a Doctoral Dissertation (2010) written by a doctoral student (Dr. Haim Cohen) – a Prize by the Israeli Association for Political Science.

2010 - Research Fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Boston MA, USA

2010 - Research Fellowship at the University of Massachusetts, McCormak School of Public Policy, Center for Public Management, Boston MA,                 USA.

2012-2013 - Research Fellowship at the University of Leuven, Belgium, under the Erasmus Mundus Program of the European Commission.

2013 - Best Paper Award, PNP Division of the Academy of Management, for the paper: “Assessing Performance: The Impact of                                     Organizational Climates and Politics on Public Schools’ Performance” (updated name: “Multiple-climates, politics, and performance in the public sector. A two-level model and empirical examination”). Public Administration, 91, 135-158.” With Dana R. Vashdi and Dvir Shlomi,

2014 - Honorable Mention from the Best Article Award Committee of the Public and Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management (AOM-PNP), for the article in American Review of Public Administration, “Engage Them to Public Service: Conceptualization and Empirical Examination of Employee Engagement in Public Administration".  With Liat Eldor.

2015 - Honorable Mention for Best Book from the Israeli Association for Political Science for “Managing Democracies in Turbulent Times”,  Springer.

2023- Israel Institute Fellowship for teaching an international course in UNINOVE-Universidade Nove de Julho, Sao Paolo, Brazil.

2023- Best Reviewer of 2022 -International Journal of Public Sector Management