Dr. Erika Varga is a habilitated associate professor at the Institute of Rural Development and Sustainable Economy. She has served as chair of multicultural conferences in the 2010s and an active member of the editorial board of Regional and Business Studies of MATE University. 

Her research focuses on the economic and educational aspects of competences, green HR, management and leadership issues. / Her expertise lies in analysing economic phenomena from multicultural and intercultural aspects. 
Dr. Erika Varga’s work contributes to questions of how we can meet sustainability goals in education, management and green HR via transformational leadership.
Her theoretical work examines how the efficiency of other resources in the resource system of business organizations are largely dependent on the human factor that drives companies forward and enhances their efficiency. Her empirical work has assessed these theories in settings ranging from human psychological aspects, motivation, performance, encouragement, and continuous learning, training, adult education, further training, personality development and lifelong learning as well as maintaining the competitiveness and sustainability issues of the company as well as in the paradigm of economics.
Across her research, she analyses factors that are needed for companies to have excellent, above average, competent employees (and thus efficient organizations). 
Dr. Erika Varga designed and executed several research into economic, sociological, psychological, marketing, PR, pedagogical, management theories and some andragogical aspects of human resource management. 
Her findings are instrumental in selection, training, performance appraisal, and remuneration (incentives) within human resource management.  She made significant contributions in how human and organisational issues help and support corporate competitiveness. 
She authored and co-authored eight research articles in high-impact scientific journals.
Dr. Erika Varga has collaborated with three V4 research groups across Europe and worldwide, and she has successfully applied for Erasmus+ academic grants nationally and internationally. She was awarded the laurel wreath for her accomplishments by the rector of MATE university.