Dr. Federico Magni
Dr. Federico Magni
Lecturer at the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics
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Research area
After some experience in consulting, I decided to engage in academic research because I wanted to better understand individual and interpersonal workplace dynamics. My motivation stems from a desire to empower people to perform at the best of their possibilities, and this has led me to engage in research projects on several topics:
Creativity. Being especially curious about how artistic and business logics can interact and synergise, I am studying how people and teams can be more creative in organisations and how creativity is evaluated. In my research on workplace creativity, I study how sense of power impacts employee creativity; how the occurrence of errors in healthcare teams impacts these teams' creativity; how conformity and creativity can co-exist at work (Magni & Manzoni, 2020); and how uncertainty regulation can facilitate creativity in individuals and teams. Together with Beatrice Manzoni and Pier Vittorio Mannucci, I also wrote a book on creativity in organizations (in Italian) published by Egea in 2021. Relatedly, I also study organizational dynamics in the creative industries, and specifically value creation in the live music industry (Magni, 2022).
Artificial Intelligence. The introduction of AI is disrupting the workplace and will do so more and more. Taking a humanistic approach to AI, I study how people interpret and react to the actions and work of AI, and how the usage of AI affects their behaviours at work. With my research I aim to understand how organizational processes are changing as AI takes over tasks that were previously carried out by humans. In particular, I study how people evaluate the creativity of AI productions and how they assess the utilization of AI in organizational processes, such as recruitment and selection.
Diversity. I am interested in how diverse people can get to work together and I am driven to help workers perform at their best. I believe in empowering individual differences rather than standardising one's personality to conform. I have conducted research on age diversity, in particular studying how the psychological contract differs across generations (Magni & Manzoni, 2020), as well as generational differences in learning styles (Manzoni et al., 2020). I am expanding my research to the analysis of deep-level diversity and its impact on team dynamics and processes, creativity, and performance.
Learning. Workers are more and more required to be engaged in continuous learning to maintain their skills updated and to keep up with ever faster technological advances. With my research collaborators, I studied the usage of web-based simulations (Caporarello et al., 2020), as well as how different goal orientations reciprocally relate to performance and thus potentially create virtous cycles over time (Magni et al., 2021).
Federico Magni is a post-doctoral researcher at the Chair of Work and Organizational Psychology in the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics at ETH Zürich since 2021. He obtained his PhD in Management (Organizational Behavior track) at the Honk Kong University of Science and Technology in 2021 with a dissertation entitled "Three essays on Artificial Intelligence and Creativity in Organizations". Previously, he obtained a Bachelor in International Economics, Management, and Finance (2012) and a Master of Science in Economics and Management in Arts, Culture, Media & Entertainment (2014) at Bocconi University. He worked as an SAP consultant before starting his doctoral degree.
CV PDFMembership
| Since | Membership |
|---|---|
| 2022 | European Academy of Management (EURAM) |
| 2021 | Association for Psychological Science (APS) |
| 2019 | Academy of Management (AOM) |
| 2018 | European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) |
Honours
| Year | Distinction |
|---|---|
| 2020 | HKUST Dean's PhD Fellowship for Research Excellence |
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ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Magni, F. (2022). Value creation and appropriation in the live music industry: a population ecology analysis of live music ticket pricing. Journal of Media Business Studies.
Magni, F., Chao, M.M. & Gong, Y. (2021) A Longitudinal Examination of the Reciprocal Relationship between Goal Orientation and Performance: The Mediating Role of Self-efficacy. Personality and Individual Differences.
Magni, F. & Manzoni, B. (2020). Generational Differences in Workers’ Expectations: Millennials Want More of the Same Things. European Management Review, 17(4), 901-914. [Top cited article 2020-2021 in European Management Review (Wiley)]
Magni, F. & Manzoni, B. (2020). When Thinking Inside the Box is Good: The Nuanced Relationship between Conformity and Creativity. European Management Review, 17(4), 961-975.
Manzoni, B., Caporarello, L., Cirulli, F. & Magni, F. (2020). The preferred learning styles of Generation Z: do they differ from the ones of previous generations? In Metallo, C., Ferrara, M., Lazazzara, A., & Za, S. (eds) Digital Transformation and Human Behavior – Innovation for People and Organizations. Springer.
Caporarello, L., Cirulli, F., Magni, F., Manzoni, B. (2020). When Something Useful Is Also Enjoyable: An Empirical Study on the Intention to Use Web-Based Simulations in Higher Education. In: Vittorini P., Di Mascio T., Tarantino L., Temperini M., Gennari R., De la Prieta F. (eds) Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning. Springer.
BOOKS
Manzoni, B., Magni, F. & Mannucci, P.V. (2021). Creativity in Organizations: Strategies and Techniques to Produce Original and Useful Ideas (in Italian). Egea.
BUSINESS ARTICLES
Magni, F., Manzoni, B., Tang, G., & Caporarello, L. (2020). Calm or anxious? Life and work in the era of lockdowns (in Italian). Harvard Business Review Italia.
Magni, F. & Manzoni, B. (2020). The advent of Generation Z (in Italian). Harvard Business Review Italia.
Magni, F. & Manzoni, B. (2019). The emphasis on Millennials is making us lose sight of the others (in Italian). Harvard Business Review Italia.
Media coverage:
Più carriera e flessibilità, ecco cosa vogliono i Millennial (28/04/2019 – La Repubblica)
Magni, F. & Manzoni, B. (2019). What different generations want from employers (in English and Italian). Economia & Management.
PEER REVIEWED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Magni, F.*, Gong, Y. (2022). Warmth Matters, Not Competence: AI Recruiting and Applicants' Organization Attraction. Paper presentation at the Academy of Management 2022. [Best paper nomination, HR Division.]
Magni, F.*, Tang, G., Manzoni, B., Caporarello, L. (2022). Managing Boundaries while Working Remotely: The Interactive Effect of Temporal and Physical Tactics. Paper presentation at the Academy of Management 2022 and at EURAM 2022 [Best paper award at EURAM 2022 - OB General Track].
Gerlach, A., Magni, F. (2022). Feedback-related uncertainty as possible driver of feedback seeking and role ambiguity. Paper presentation at the Academy of Management 2022.
Magni, F.*, Mannucci, P. V., & Manzoni, B. (2022). Not just information: The influence benefits of network centrality for employee creativity. Paper presentation at the EGOS Colloquium 2022.
Magni, F.*, Chao, M.M., & Park, J. (2021). The Bias in Creativity Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence. Paper presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2021.
Magni, F.*, Gong, Y. How using Artificial Intelligence as a recruiter impacts applicants’ perception of the organization. Paper presentation at the EGOS Colloquium 2021.
Magni, F.*, Chao, M.M., & Park, J. (2021). The Bias in Creativity Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence. Paper presentation at the Association for Psychological Science Convention 2021.
Magni, F., Tang, G., Manzoni, B., & Caporarello, L. Can family-to-work enrichment decrease anxiety and benefit daily effectiveness in remote workers? The unlocking effect of work-life balance. Academy of Management – OB Covid-19 Rapid Research Plenary (2020).
Magni, F., Gong, Y., & Jie, L. The Paradoxical Relationship between Sense of Power and Creativity. In Lee, C., Individual Differences in Context: Different Paths to Effect Individual and Team Creativity. Symposium at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2020.
Magni, F.*, Chao, M.M., & Park, J. Creativity evaluation of Artificial Intelligence products. Paper presentation at the EGOS Colloquium 2020.
Magni, F.* A cross-lagged analysis of the reciprocal effects of goal orientation and performance. Paper presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2019.
Choi, Y., Magni, F.*, & Manzoni, B. The Effects of Family-to-work Enrichment on Creativity. Paper presentation at the EGOS Colloquium 2018.
Magni, F.* The Lucretian swerve debate on free will: implications for creativity. Poster presentation at the Fourth Israel Organizational Behavior Conference (2018).
*Presented at conference