Dr. Sari Mattila current research interests include: Enlightened Organizations, Wisdom and Knowing in Organizations; Spirituality and Organizations; Psycho-Social life in Organizations. She is interested in FiloCafes, Socratic Dialogue and its applications, group dynamics, psychodrama and organisational development, mindfulness, organisational chaos, psychosocial realities and applications of fiction in real life (and vice versa).
Research
Dr Mattila's ongoing research are in the areas of Leadership, Psycho-social life in organisations, Spirituality and Traditional Wisdom, and Organizational Enlightenment.
Research projects:
- Organizational Enlightenment (June 2018-)
- Wisdom and knowing in organizations (2015-2017)
- Management challenges and business ethics in the dynamic environments in Finland and India (2012-2014), funded by Liikesivistysrahasto (the Foundation for Economic Education)
Recent Publications and Conferences:
Journal articles:
- Mattila, Sari (2018). Understanding the Dynamics of Difference: How ethics and self-awareness can illuminate choices, pp. 208-225. Organizational and Social Dynamics 18(2).
Chapters in a book:
- Mattila, Sari S. A. (2018). Human Experience as Mysterious: The confluence of Spirituality, Education and Fantasy in Two Trilogies, pp. 241-270. In Unbundling the Sixth Sense: Explorations in Spirituality and Management, Eds. Ramnath Narayanswamy, Yochanan Altman, Sunita Singh Sengupta, Sampada Publications.
Working Papers:
- Mattila, Sari S. A. (2016) Wise Organizations? Aggregated and Distributed Wisdom in Organizations, IIM Bangalore Research Paper No. 506, Indian Institute of Management (IIMB): SRRN
Paper presentations in the following conferences:
- Belgirate VI, AK Rice Institute, OFEK, The Tavistock Institute, Belgirate, Italy, 2018
- TIHR 70 Years Festival, The Tavistock Institute, UK, 2017
- ISPSO Annual Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017
- ISPSO Annual Meeting, Granada, Spain, 2016
- International Conference on Spirituality and Management, IIMB, India, 2016
- Nordic Conference in Philosophical Practice, Aalborg University, Denmark, 2015
- EGOS Colloquium, Athens, Greece, 2015
- EIBA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2015
- ETMU Days, Rovaniemi, Finland, 2015
- Nordic Conference in Philosophical Practice, Critical Academy, Finland, 2014
Non-paper presentation conferences:
- Creating Connections, Efterling, Netherlands, 2015
Earlier conferences in EGOS (2013, 2012, 2010), Golden Jubilee of Bihar School of Yoga & World Yoga Convention (2013), EBEN (2010, 2011), Finnish Anthropology Conference (2011), 2nd International Conference in Corporate Governance (2010), Power and Knowledge (2010), TCI Annual Global Conference (2010), APROS (2009), EDI (2009), ICICKM (2007), 3rd International Conference on Intercultural Communication Competence (2006), GRCs (2005, 2008, 2012)
Dr Mattila has taught at FLAME, IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Trichy, IIM Visakhapatnam, Nirma University, Antarnad Foundation, CEPT, Tampere University of Technology, School of Business - University of Turku
Current courses:
- Organizational Behavior
- Advanced Business Ethics
- Ethical Practices in Management
- Wisdom and Knowing in Organizations
- Philosophy for Managers
- Mentoring and Coaching
- Workshops on Socratic Dialogues , Mindfulness, Innovation & Creativity, Organizational Behavior
- Ethical Practices for Managers (MOOCS, forthcoming)
Executive Education (EEP) programmes in 2018-19
- Team Collaboration for Results (with Raffaella Bossi Fornarini), IIM-B, February 2019
- Nurturing Creativity and Excellence (with Ramya Ranganathan), IIM-B, March 2019
- IIMA Workshop on Signs of Organisational Toxicity, Health and Enlightenment (SOOTHE), August 2018
- OB-HRM Area FPM Coordinator (Nov 2015-March 2018)
- Ad-hoc reviewer IIMB Review, AOM Annual Meeting, Journal of Business Governance and Ethics, European Management Review
Current academic memberships:
- Academy of Management (AOM)
- European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS)
- International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO)
- PhD (Industrial Management), Tampere University of Technology, Finland
- MSSc (Philosophy), University of Joensuu, Finland
- Business Diploma (Marketing), Institute of Marketing, Finland
Other courses / education (representative):
- Certified Psychodrama Practitioner (CPP), Moreno-Institute
- OPUS Advanced Training in Small Group Processes
- Yoga Teacher Training, Bihar School of Yoga
- Best Professors in Human Resource Management tribute by World HRD Congress 2018
- Outstanding Reviewer (AOM 2017, MSR Interest Group)
- Liikesivistysrahasto Scholar (Foundation for Economic Education), Conference Travel Grant (2015, 2016, 2018)
- Liikesivistysrahasto Scholar (Foundation for Economic Education), 2012-2014.
- UGC Scholar (Indo-Finnish Bilateral Cultural Exchange Programme), at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and New Delhi Institute of Management, 2006-2007.
- Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation Scholar, 2006.
