Organisational Behaviour

The OB area has 32 permanent faculty members. Every year we also welcome visiting professors from other universities.

We offer courses for MBAs, EMBAs, MiMs, PhDs, and Executives.

We conduct research on a variety of phenomena including discrimination, decision-making, leadership, dispute resolution, negotiations, creativity, teams, careers, identity, diversity, networks, innovation, change, culture, hierarchy, organisational structure and design, inequality, status, and power. We also study meta-science and methodological issues.

Our MBA & EMBA courses include core courses on Organisational Behaviour and electives on Negotiations, Power and Politics, Psychological Issues in Management, Embracing Complex Change, Advanced Group Dynamics, LEAN Networking, Leadership and Communication and Conducting Business Across Cultures.

Our MiM courses include LEAD, Working in Teams, Diverstity Equity & Inclusion and Paths to Power.

Our PhD courses include Introduction to Social Psychology, Introduction to Organisational Behaviour, Organisational Theory, Organisational Psychology, Organisational Sociology, Social Networks, Experimental Design, and others.

Faculty Recruitment

The Organisational Behaviour Area at INSEAD invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Macro Organisational Behaviour, based at INSEAD’s Europe Campus in Fontainebleau, France.

INSEAD’s Organisational Behaviour Area has faculty members based in Fontainebleau and Singapore and examines diverse micro, meso, and macro topics. Examples include research on discrimination, decision-making, leadership, dispute resolution, negotiations, creativity, teams, careers, identity, diversity, networks, innovation, change, culture, hierarchy, organisational structure and design, inequality, status, and power. We also study meta-science and methodological issues. We have a collegial environment that encourages both disciplinary and interdisciplinary research, using all methodologies. We are interested in candidates that can further enrich, expand, and integrate the diverse research portfolio of the OB group and INSEAD.

We welcome applicants with backgrounds in sociology, organisation theory, management, or other relevant fields examining macro phenomena. Candidates should hold a PhD or be at the dissertation completion stage of a doctoral programme, have demonstrated solid skills in their respective areas, and have a promising research pipeline and a track record in publishing. We will consider both PhD candidates as well as early-career Assistant Professors.

If you are interested, please send your application materials to [email protected]. Applications should include a cover letter, a CV, research and possible teaching statements, examples of representative research papers, teaching evaluations if available, and three letters of recommendations sent directly to us. Please direct any questions to the Chair of the recruitment committee, Prof. Kaisa Snellman.

Applications should be completed by 11:59 pm on 1 October 2022 (U.S. Eastern Standard Time).

Teaching & Research

Resident Faculty

Standing & Affiliate Faculty

Jose-Luis Alvarez

Senior Affiliate Professor of Organisational Behaviour

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