Faculty profiles
Nigel Nicholson
BA (Cardiff) PhD (Wales)
Professor of Organisational Behaviour
- Subject area:
- Organisational Behaviour
- Research activity:
- Family Business Research Initiative
- Personal site:
- Personal web page
Publications
The ‘I’ of Leadership: Strategies for seeing, being and doing (Jossey-Bass, 2013); Family Wars (Kogan Page, 2008); Traders: Risks, Decisions and Management in Financial Markets (Oxford University Press, 2005); Encyclopedic Dictionary of Organisational Behavior (Blackwell 2nd ed., 2004); ‘How to Motivate Your Problem People’, Harvard Business Review (2003); Executive Instinct (Crown Business, 2000); UK title: Managing the Human Animal (Thomson/Texere, 2000); ‘How Hardwired is Human Behavior?’, Harvard Business Review (1998).
Professional qualifications
CPsychol FBPsS FBAM
Research interest
Leadership, business applications of evolutionary psychology, family business, personality and management development, personality, risk and decision-making in finance, and careers.
Other activities
Director of executive education custom and open enrolment programmes: High Performance People Skills, the Proteus Programme; Advisory Board member, Institute of Family Business; consultant on leadership, management development and change.
Formerly
Research Team Leader, Social and Applied Psychology Unit, University of Sheffield.