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Organisational Behaviour

Understanding what shapes the way organisations work

Business is about people. From the smallest enterprise to the largest corporation, organisations are created and designed by people to fulfil human objectives.

Organisational behaviour (OB) seeks to understand how we can best do this. The OB group aims to provide high impact scholarship and teaching, leading to a better understanding of human behaviour in organisations.

What we do

The research interests of our faculty and PhD students involve:

• Micro themes - the psychological principles that govern leadership, motivation, decision-making, negotiation and creativity. 
• Macro themes - the sociological, cultural and institutional factors shaping organisational structures and systems, inter-organisational relationships and networks.
• Meso factors - these focus on teamwork, group dynamics, organisational culture and personal identity.

Our core research faculty

Click on the name of the faculty member to see their profile.
Dr Gabrielle Adams
Prof Daniel Cable 
Dr Andrew Carton
Dr Ena Inesi
Prof Lynda Gratton
Dr Selin Kesebir
Dr Gillian Ku
Dr Celia Moore
Prof Nigel Nicholson
Dr Margaret Ormiston
Prof Randall Peterson
Prof Madan Pillutla
Dr Niro Sivanathan
Dr Stefan Thau
Dr Xi Zou

Organisational Behaviour Seminars 2012/13

OB Seminars for 2012/13:

Professor Maurice Schweitzer
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Thursday 13^th September
Title: Social Comparisons and Trust
PLG02
11am to 12.30pm

Professor Jean-Pierre Benoit
Economics Department
Thursday 4th October
Title:  Apparent bias: What does attitude polarization show?
LT2
11.30 to 1pm

Professor Xiao-Ping Chen
University of Washington
Thursday 11^th October
Title: Why are employees afraid of speaking up? A multi-level study of upward prohibitive voice
Fairbairn Room
11am to 12.30pm

Professor Rick Larrick
Duke University Fuqua School of Business
Thursday 4^th April 2013
Title: TBC
LT: TBC
11am to 12.30pm

Professor Don Conlon
Michigan State University
Thursday 25^th April
Title: TBC
LT TBC
11am to 12.30pm

Professor Bill Bottom
Olin Business School at Washington University
Thursday 23rd May
Title: TBC
LT TBC
11am to 12.30pm

Professor Scott Wiltermuth
USC Marshall School of Business
Thursday 6^th June, 2013
Title: TBC
LT: TBC
11am to 12.30pm