The Organisational Behaviour specialisation

What is organisational behaviour?

Organisational Behaviour (OB) is an applied science aimed at understanding individuals and groups in organisations by drawing from various related disciplines such as social and organisational psychology, behavioural economics and management. OB researchers adopt a micro-perspective, looking into individual psychology and behaviour as well as group processes and emergent states, to understand how they contribute to organisational success and survival. The OB research at Cambridge Judge Business School encompasses a range of topics, including creativity, innovation, psychometrics, big data, the future of work, human-AI (artificial intelligence) collaboration, personality, diversity, decision-making, social networking, culture, helping behaviours, and voice behaviour. These subjects should be familiar and relevant to any individuals working within organisations.

The faculty at Cambridge Judge Business School comprises leading scholars in the world. They publish in various top journals, such as the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and the Academy of Management Annals. They currently hold leadership positions in these prestigious journals, such as Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editor, Consulting Editor, and membership on Editorial Boards.

The OB specialisation of the MPhil in Strategy, Marketing, Operations and Organisational Behaviour is an important part of the Organisational Behaviour PhD pathway.

Learn more about our supervising faculty’s research interests

Vincent Mak

Professor of Marketing & Decision Sciences

About Vincent’s research

Vincent’s research lies in how people and firms make strategic decisions as they interact with each other, and what economic and psychological factors influence those decisions. The topics of his research include pricing, search behaviour, decisions in networks, and competitive strategies. He typically employs the insights and methods of experimental economics, game theory, and psychology to investigate his research questions.

Prithviraj Chattopadhyay

Professor in Organisational Behaviour

About Prithviraj’s research

Professor Chattopadhyay’s research mainly focuses on how team members react to working with teammates who differ on demographic attributes such as race or ethnicity, sex, education, profession, work status and age. Past projects have used a quantitative approach to examine how team dynamics associated with demographic dissimilarity, social identification and status affect team member trust, citizenship, emotions and the extent to which they wield influence in the team. He has served as Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Journal (2016-2019) and is currently Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Discoveries.

Elizabeth George

KPMG Professor in Organisational Behaviour

About Elizabeth’s research

Professor Elizabeth George has 2 main research interests. The first is the consequences of alternative or non-standard work arrangements on the work experiences of individuals. She focuses on how individuals make sense of different types of temporary work or remote, and consequences of this for individuals and organisations. The second area she is working on is how dissimilarity between individuals affects how they view themselves and others at work. In both research areas she is interested how individuals’ views of work arrangements and dissimilarity change over time. She is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Academy of Management Annals.

Yeun Joon Kim

Associate Professor in Organisational Behaviour

About Yeun’s research

Dr Yeun Joon Kim’s research focuses on creativity, culture creation, and artificial intelligence (AI). In his work on creativity, Dr Kim explores how work-relevant information, such as feedback and information structure, impacts employee creativity. In the area of culture creation, he investigates why leaders often fail to create functional cultures and how organisations can create functional cultures. His interest in AI centres on human-AI collaboration. Specifically, he investigates the kinds of people who would benefit the most from collaborating with AI, and whether such collaboration has an impact on human psychology. Dr Kim has published academic articles in diverse academic outlets, such as the Academy of Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and the Journal of Management. He currently serves on Editorial Board of the Academy of Management Journal.

Andreas Richter

Professor of Organisational Behaviour

About Andreas’ research

Professor Richter’s research interests include creativity and innovation in teams, team processes and dynamics. Within these broader themes, he is particularly interested in how perceptions of time and temporal dynamics affect creativity and innovation. He applies a variety of research methods in his studies, including surveys and interviews, experiments, and meta-analysis. Andreas has previously served as Associate Editor for Applied Psychology: And International Review, and currently serves as Consulting Editor for the Journal of Applied Psychology, as well as on the editorial board of the Academy of Management Journal. Prior to joining Cambridge Judge, he worked for Instituto de Empresa Business School.

David Stillwell

Professor of Computational Social Science

Academic Director of the Psychometrics Centre

About David’s research

Professor Stillwell’s research uses big data to understand psychology. He published papers using social media data from millions of consenting individuals to show that the computer can predict a user’s personality as accurately as their spouse can. Follow-up research found that personalising an advert to the recipient’s psychology is more effective than generic ads. Given that a large part of our lives is mediated through digital devices which collect big data about us, how can we use this data to better understand customers, employees or managers from behavioural traces like their social media activity, emails, or purchase records?

Patrizia Vecchi

Assistant Professor in Organisational Behaviour

About Patrizia’s research

Dr Vecchi’s research interests include interpersonal relationships in organisations, social networks, interpersonal cognition, and teamwork. She taught professionals and executives around the world in topics such as negotiation, and power and politics. She is currently the Academic Programme Director for the Cambridge Rising Women Leaders Programme.

Curriculum

By default, a student on the Organisational Behaviour specialisation of the MPhil in Strategy, Marketing, Operations and Organisational Behaviour writes a dissertation, and takes 6 modules, of which the 5 below are core modules:

Core modules

One of the following 2 courses, depending on year:

Electives

The elective modules for the Organisational Behaviour specialisation of the MPhil in Strategy, Marketing, Operations and Organisational Behaviour are:

Offered biennially:

One of the following 2 courses, depending on year:

One of the following 2 courses, depending on year:

Students who do not write an MPhil dissertation may, after consultation with the programme director, take nine modules in total and will need to replace one of the elective modules with an individual research project.

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