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Faculty Profile

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Nina Sirola is an award-winning scholar in organizational behaviour whose research bridges crisis management, macroeconomic influences, and workplace dynamics, with a strong record of impactful publications and teaching excellence.

Recognized for integrating psychological and legal perspectives to address real-world organizational challenges; research has influenced understanding of workplace behaviour during economic cycles and crises; recipient of multiple teaching and research awards; active in editorial and professional service roles.

Focused research areas include Examines how macroeconomic conditions and crises shape organizational behaviour, employee well-being, job insecurity, discrimination, and adaptivity, integrating perspectives from psychology, management, and law.
Areas of Expertise
Crisis managementOrganizational and individual adaptivityChange managementJob insecurity

Education

2018 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
INSEAD
2014 Ph.D. in Business Law
University of Zagreb

Current Appointment(s)

Jul 2018 - Now Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

Research Interests

  • Economic crises
  • Employee psychology in conditions of threat and crisis
  • Crisis management
  • Social Ecology

Selected Journal Articles (Refereed)

  • Sirola, N. (2024). Job insecurity and well-being: Integrating life history and transactional stress theories. Academy of Management Journal.
  • Sirola, N. (2023). Going beyond the call of duty under conditions of economic threat: Integrating life history and social dilemma perspectives. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
  • Kniffin, K. et al. (2021). COVID-19 and the workplace: Implications, issues, and insights for future research and action. American Psychologist.
  • Sirola, N. (2020). Individuals’ responses to economic cycles: Organizational relevance and a multilevel theoretical integration. Academy of Management Annals.
  • Sirola, N. (2019). Economic cycles as a source of social influences on individuals. Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
  • Sirola, N., Pitesa, M. (2018). The macroeconomic environment and the psychology of work evaluation. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
  • Sirola, N., Pitesa, M. (2017). Economic downturns undermine workplace helping by promoting a zero-sum construal of success. Academy of Management Journal.