Gabriele
Morandin
Full Professor of Organizational Behavior University of Bologna Core Faculty
Professor of Organizational Behavior and Associate Dean for Faculty & Research at Bologna Business School.
He is also the Delegate for Teaching and member of the Faculty Board of the Ph.D in Management at the Department of Management and member of the Expert Panel for University Research Evaluation at the University of Bologna.
Yet, he is a member of the International Network on Technology, Work, and Family (INTWAF) at the Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada).
Gabriele Morandin has been President of the School of Economics and Management of the University of Bologna (2023-2024), Visiting Professor at Kedge Business School (France, 2022) and at the Suliman S. Olayan School of Business of the American University of Beirut (Lebanon, 2024).
He received the Ph.D in Management in 2005 at the University of Bologna and he has been Visiting Scholar and Research Assistant from 2004 to 2006 at the Ross School of Business of the University of Michigan (MI, USA). In 2015 he gained the ‘Certification for 360-degree Assessments’ from the Center for Creative Leadership (NC, USA).
He studies leadership and its interconnections with work and non work domains, as well as with information and communication technologies. His publications appeared among others on the Academy of Management Annals, Computers in Human Behavior, Employee Relations, European Journal of Marketing, European Management Review, Financial Accountability & Management, Harvard Business Review, Human Resource Management Journal, Human Resource Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Management Inquiry, MIT Sloan Management Review, Scandinavian Journal of Management, and Stanford Social Innovation Review. He sits on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Vocational Behavior. He gained national and international awards for research and teaching.
He has collaborated and collaborates with companies and other institutions on innovation and people management – e.g., Angelini, Carraro Group, Coesia, Ducati, Enel, Faac Technologies, Ferrarelle, Ferrari, Ferretti Group, Lamborghini, Maserati, Stellantis (Fiat), and UniCredit.
COURSES
The power to choose, motivate and lead people is one of the key skills required to “make things happen” in business. This course aims at developing self-awareness among participants about their leadership styles through experiential learning. Sessions will alternate among completion of tasks, behavioral self awareness, and interaction with professionals and managers who have guided companies and organizations to excellence.
Recent research in neuroscience points out that human behaviour is driven by different emotions that activate different cognitive areas in our brain (Panksepp, 2005). One of the primary instincts is called ‘seeking’ and represents our tendency to feel enthusiasm and curiosity about those activities that allow us to achieve the resources we need to survive. Daniel Cable, in his latest book “Alive at work”, points out that the activities that create the greatest enthusiasm at work are those in which we feel we can express our talents (self-expression), learn (experimentation) and identify the meaning of our work (purpose). Although these concepts are widely described in the literature as fundamental to increase individual motivation, modern organisations often inhibit such states with strict rules and an uninnovative internal culture, inducing a feeling of helplessness and resignation among workers, which can have significant repercussions on health and performance. The objective of this course is to analyse possible strategies to prevent this from happening and to guide employees to achieve high levels of engagement and enthusiasm at work.
