Courses a.y. 2024/2025
Biographical note
I am a Full Professor in the Department of Management and Technology at Bocconi University where I am also the Director of the PhD program in business administration and management and a fellow of the Invernizzi Center for Research on Innovation, Organization, Strategy and Entrepreneurship (ICRIOS). Before moving to Bocconi in 2021, I was Provost’s Chair and Full Professor of Management and Organisation at The National University of Singapore (NUS) for 10 years, and currently I am a Visiting Professor at NUS. Before 2011, I was the Gary Valade Research Fellow and Full Professor of Management at Michigan State University where I started my academic career as an Assistant Professor in 2003.
Research interests
My research focuses on employee well-being, work-family processes, attitudes, and leadership and motivation, with a particular interest in understanding the role of emotional processes in explaining outcomes relevant to these research topics.
Selected Publications
Why does using personal strengths at work increase employee engagement, who makes the most out of it, and how?
JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY, 2024
Crafting well-being: employees can enhance their own well-being by savoring, reflecting upon, and capitalizing on positive work experiences
ANNUAL REVIEW OF ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR, 2024
What we are pushed to do versus what we want to do: comparing the unique effects of citizenship pressure and actual citizenship behavior on fatigue and family behaviors
JOURNAL OF VOCATIONAL BEHAVIOR, 2023
How and when service beneficiaries’ gratitude enriches employees’ daily lives
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY, 2022
Dispositional empathy, emotional display authenticity, and employee outcomes
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY, 2020
Emotional resources link work demands and experiences to family functioning and employee well-being: the emotional resource possession scale (ERPS)
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WORK AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, 2020
Happy but uncivil? Examining when and why positive affect leads to incivility
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS ETHICS, 2020
Why do employees have better family lives when they are highly engaged at work?
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY, 2017
Is it better to give or receive? the role of help in buffering the depleting effects of surface acting
ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 2017
Intraindividual models of employee well-being: what have we learned and where do we go from here?
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WORK AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, 2015
Work-family interpersonal capitalization: sharing positive work events at home
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND HUMAN DECISION PROCESSES, 2011
The spillover of daily job satisfaction onto employees' family lives: the facilitating role of work-family integration
ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL, 2009