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Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Western University

Dr. Monzani is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at Ivey Business School (Western University). Previously, he was a lecturer in Leadership at the Graduate School of Management of Plymouth University (United Kingdom). Also, he is an associate researcher at both the Institute for Organizational Development and Quality of Work Life of the University of Valencia (Spain) and the and Center for Leadership and Behavior in Organizations at Goethe University (Frankfurt, Germany). Dr. Monzani completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership at the Ivey Business School of Western Ontario University (Canada). He holds a Ph.D. in Psychology of Human Resources by the University of Valencia and is an Erasmus Mundus Master in Work, Organizational, and Personnel Psychology.

His research interest lies within advanced concepts in organizational behavior, such as exemplary leadership, commitment to lead, and other topics bridging neuropsychology with Organizational behavior. Whenever possible, Lucas Monzani combines his research activities with his professional practice as an executive consultant. As a consultant, Dr. Monzani contributed to several leadership development projects within the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) of the United Nations.

Experience

  • –present
    Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Western University
  • 2016–2017
    Lecturer, Plymouth University (UK)

Education

  • 2014 
    Universidad de Valencia (Spain), P.hD in Psychology of Human Resources
  • 2008 
    Universidad de Valencia (Spain), Master Erasmus Mundus in Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology
  • 2005 
    Universidad del Salvado (Argentina), Degree in Clinical Psychology

Publications

  • 2022
    A trouble shared is a trouble halved: The role of family identification and identification with humankind in well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic, British Journal of Social Psychology
  • 2021
    The Effects of Character on the Perceived Stressfulness of Life Events and Subjective Well-Being of Undergraduate Business Students, Journal of Management Education
  • 2021
    Identity Leadership, Employee Burnout, and the Mediating Role of Team Identification: Evidence from the Global Identity Leadership Development Project, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • 2021
    Reducing the cost of being the boss: Authentic leadership suppresses the effect of role stereotype conflict on antisocial behaviors in leaders and entrepreneurs, Frontiers in Psychology
  • 2021
    Blending Mindfulness Practices and Character Strengths Increases Employee Wellbeing: A second-order meta-analysis and a follow-up Field Experiment, Human Resource Management Journal
  • 2021
    International Differences in Employee Silence Motives: Scale Validation, Prevalence, and Relationships with Culture Characteristics across 33 Countries, Journal of Organizational Behavior
  • 2021
    Character matters: The network structure of leader character and its relation to follower positive outcomes, PLOS One
  • 2020
    The Beneficial Effects of Therapeutic Craniofacial Massage on Quality of Life, Mental Health and Menopausal Symptoms and Body Image: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial, Complementary Therapies in Medicine
  • 2020
    Cross-cultural adaptation of the de Body Satisfaction and Global Self Perception questionnaire for patients with nonspecific musculoskeletal disorders., Indian Journal of Science and Technology
  • 2019
    Between a rock and a hard place: Direct and combined effects of authentic leadership, organizational identification, and team prototypicality on Managerial voice, Spanish Journal of Psychology
  • 2019
    Coping in the final frontier: An intervention to reduce spaceflight-induced stress, Psychologica
  • 2018
    Identity leadership going global: Results from an international validation study of the Identity Leadership Inventory, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
  • 2018
    Anxiety and the severity of Tension-Type Headache mediate the relation between headache presentism and workers’ productivity, PLOS One
  • 2017
    The Workplace Bullying Scale—Reduced (EAPA-T-R): A Useful Instrument for Daily Diary and Experience Sampling Studies, Work and Stress
  • 2017
    Toward a Framework of Leader Character in Organizations, Journal of Management Studies
  • 2017
    The role of the brain in financial decisions: A review of the neuroeconomics field, Mètode Science Studies Journal-Annual Review
  • 2016
    The moderator role of organizational identification in the relation between authentic leadership and followers’ silence intentions, German Journal of Human Resource Management
  • 2016
    Efficacy of manual therapy on anxiety and depression in patients with tension-type headache. A randomized controlled clinical trial, International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine
  • 2016
    The effect of manipulation plus massage therapy versus massage therapy alone in people with tension-type headache. A randomized controlled clinical trial, European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
  • 2016
    La importancia de los equipos de trabajo en las Organizaciones: Modelos de efectividad grupal, Anuari de Psicologia
  • 2016
    Beautiful Rivals May Undermine Outcome Expectancies and Enhance Jealousy in Work Settings: An Experimental Study, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
  • 2016
    Manual Therapy for Tension-type Headache related to Quality of Work Life and Work Presenteeism: A secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial, Complementary Therapies in Medicine
  • 2015
    Winning the hearts and minds of followers: The interactive effects of follower’s emotional competencies and goal setting types on trust in leadership, Revista Latinoamericana de Psicología
  • 2014
    The synergistic effect of prototypicality and authenticity in the relation between leaders' gender and their organizational Identification, Journal of Business Ethics
  • 2014
    The moderator role of followers’ personality traits in the relation between leadership styles, two types of task performance and work result satisfaction, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
  • 2014
    Followers’ agreeableness and extraversion and their loyalty towards authentic leadership, Psicothema
  • 2014
    Loafing in the digital age: The role of computer-mediated communication in the relation between perceived loafing and group affective outcomes, Computers in Human Behavior
  • 2012
    Un nou enfocament en el lideratge del segle xxi [A NEW APPROACH TO LEADERSHIP FOR THE XXI CENTURY], Anuari de Psicologia

Grants and Contracts

  • 2020
    Career empowerment and leadership: Maintaining sustainable careers in light of the COVID-19 pandemic
    Role:
    Co-Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • 2019
    Developing and Embedding Leader Character in Organizations for Sustained Excellence
    Role:
    Co-Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • 2018
    Corporate Governance and Managerial Opportunism: The Moderating Effect of Leader Character
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Western University
  • 2018
    Best practices for mentoring Ph.D. students: Similarities and differences between Germany and Canada
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Western University
  • 2018
    Regenerative Enterprise in Fragile Ecosystems
    Role:
    Co-Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • 2017
    Towards a framework of Commitment to lead: Exploring individual, team and organizational outcomes
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • 2017
    The physiological correlates of leader character and its influence on power and economic behavior
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Western University
  • 2016
    Enhancing and implementing knowledge-based ICT solutions within high risk and uncertain conditions for agriculture production systems (RUC-APS)
    Role:
    Co-Investigator
    Funding Source:
    European Commission under Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange
  • 2015
    Partnering to prevent workplace bullying using international and integrative perspectives
    Role:
    Co-Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • 2013
    Authentic leadership, Prototypicality, and Organizational Identification
    Role:
    Principal Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva

Professional Memberships

  • Academy of Management
  • Sigma Xi The Scientific research honor society