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Professional Background

Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology and Education and Strategy and Change Executive, IBM Corporation Associate Professor, Department of Organization & Leadership

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Social-Organizational Psychology, GSAS, Columbia University, NYC
  • M.Phil., Social-Organizational Psychology, GSAS, Columbia University, NYC
  • M.A.., Personnel Psychology, GSAS, New York University, NYC
  • B.A.., Psychology, Dyson School of Arts and Sciences, Pace University, NYC
  • Stuyvesant High School, NYC 

    • Scholarly Interests

    Employee engagement
    Organizational development
    Workforce management and planning
    Leadership competencies
    Sales force effectiveness
    Upward feedback / 360-degree feedback
    Effect of technology on socio-organizational processes

    Selected Publications

    Letter to the Editor: "How to Change the Way Detroit Does Business", The New York Times, Dec. 24, 2008. URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/opinion/l24detroit.html

    Letter to the Editor:  "Moment of Decision: The Vote on China Trade" on the implications of e-business for trade relations with China, The New York Times, May 24, 2000. URL: http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70611FA3C590C778EDDAC0894D8404482

    "Go Global or Go Home: Investment Management Strategies for Globalization", PwC Consulting global web publication, July 2000.

    "GeoMetric", a company-level instrument to assess degree of globalization across 12 organizational factors. PricewaterhouseCoopers, 2000. Based on publication, "Global Stars Take All", 2000. URL: www.pwcglobal.com/gx/eng/ about/svcs/sc/pdfs/pwc_globalstars.pdf

    The Relationship of Upward Feedback Disparities to Leader Performance: Understanding Overestimation'. (1999). Dissertation at Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University. UMI #9930682.

    Theory orientations of organization development (OD) practitioners. Group and Organization Management, September 1997. (Article awarded "Excellence" citation by Anbar, the online strategy journal rating association.) 

    Understanding the management of change. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 1995. URL: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/ViewContentServlet?Filename=Published/EmeraldFullTextArticle/Articles/0230090605.html

    "Partnership dynamics in practice" (1995) in Staying in School: Partnerships for Educational Change (Evans, I., et al, Eds.) Baltimore, MD: Brookes Publishing Co.

    Over 35 competitively funded grant proposals, refereed publications and presentations in academia. Citations appear in the next tab, under "Grants" and "Professional Presentations."


    Michael Bazigos

    Michael N. Bazigos

    Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology and Education

    Strategy and Change Executive, IBM Corporation Associate Professor, Department of Organization & Leadership

    Phone: 212-678-8109
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    Office Hours: By appointment.

    Office Location: 226 Thompson