Michael Morley

Michael Morley

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1992 …2024

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Research Interests

International, Comparative and Cross Cultural Management; Expatriate Assignments, Global Mobility and Intercultural Competence; Person-Environment Fit, Psychological Contracts and Trust Dynamics.                       

Teaching Interests

Management; International Management. 

Biography

Professor Michael Morley holds the Chair in Management at the Kemmy Business School, where he also serves as Assistant Dean for Research.

He teaches management on undergraduate programmes and international and cross-cultural management on MSc and Executive MBA programmes. He also mentors a cohort of doctoral candidates pursuing programmes of research on expatriate management, psychological contracts, global careers and new forms of organising, several of whom are scholarship holders.

Previously, he held various leadership roles including Head of the Department of Management and Marketing, Head of the Department of Personnel and Employment Relations, Assistant Dean for Research, and Director of the Graduate Centre of Business. In addition, he has led several curriculum initiatives at the School including the establishment of the Master of Science in Work and Organisation Psychology and the Master of Science in International Management and Global Business and he served as Course Director for the latter programme.

In conjunction with his collaborators, he has authored several books and curated and edited several volumes which have been published by, among others, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Butterworth-Heinemann and Palgrave Macmillan. His research has appeared in leading journal outlets such as Journal of International Business Studies, Human Relations, Personnel Psychology, British Journal of Management, Journal of Business Research, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Group and Organization Management, Human Resource Management Review, Journal of World Business, International Business Review, International Journal of Human Resource Management and the Journal of Managerial Psychology. He has received several best paper awards and been presented with the University's Research Excellence Award on three separate occasions (1999; 2006; 2010).

He was elected to serve as the 2007-2010 Chair of the Irish Academy of Management, and the 2012-2013 President of the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management

In 2013, he was elected to Fellowship of the Irish Academy of Managementand in 2024 to Fellowship of the European Academy of Management for his contributions to the discipline and to the Academy.

He is currently serving as Co-Editor-in-Chief (with Professor Anna Grandori from Bocconi University) of European Management Review, the journal of the European Academy of Management. 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 1 - No Poverty
  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
  • SDG 13 - Climate Action
  • SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

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