Mayowa Babalola, PhD
Professor, Stan Perron Chair in Business Ethics, The University of Western Australia
Advisor, leadership and AI ethics
Professor, Stan Perron Chair in Business Ethics, The University of Western Australia · Perth, Australia
Areas of expertise
- Leadership
- AI ethics
- Organisational culture
- Workplace research
Research focus
Mayowa Babalola's research is about leadership, behavioural business ethics and work and family relationships: how leaders promote ethical conduct in organisations, how workers and their families are affected by what happens at work, and how to build a healthier and more productive workforce. More recently he has been studying leadership and AI in the workplace.
His work is published in the Journal of Management, the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, the Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, the Journal of Organizational Behavior and the Journal of Business Ethics. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Business Ethics and Human Relations, and an Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Management.
In 2019 his research on preventing abusive supervision won the Best Paper with Outstanding Practical Implications for Management Award at the Academy of Management conference in Boston.
Selected experience
- Professor, Stan Perron Chair in Business Ethics, UWA Business School, The University of Western Australia, Perth
- Associate Editor, Journal of Business Ethics and Human Relations
- Editorial Board Member, Journal of Management
Education
- PhD, Psychology, KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Belgium
Selected publications
- Whatever it takes: how and when supervisor bottom-line mentality motivates employee contributions in the workplace. Journal of Management, 2021. doi.org/10.1177/0149206320902521
- How and when perceptions of top management bottom-line mentality inhibit supervisors' servant leadership behavior. Journal of Management, 2023. doi.org/10.1177/01492063221094263
- Does competitive action intensity influence team performance via leader bottom-line mentality? A social information processing perspective. Journal of Applied Psychology, 2024. doi.org/10.1037/apl0001166
- Moral burden of bottom-line pursuits: how and when perceptions of top management bottom-line mentality inhibit supervisors' ethical leadership practices. Journal of Business Ethics, 2021. doi.org/10.1007/s10551-020-04546-w
- A closer look at how managerial support can help improve patient experience: insights from the UK's National Health Service. Human Relations, 2021. doi.org/10.1177/0018726720938834
- Being aware of death. Journal of Management Studies, 2025. doi.org/10.1111/joms.13051
How Prof. Babalola strengthens PollsAfrica studies
On a PollsAfrica study, an advisor is a named person who answers for the work, not a name on a list. Mayowa Babalola advises on studies of leadership, workplace culture and AI ethics.
Leadership and workplace studies
Mayowa Babalola advises on how a survey asks about leaders, ethical conduct and workplace behaviour, drawing on his research on how leaders shape ethics at work.
AI ethics
He advises on studies of how organisations and workers use AI, and on how responsible use is measured.
Culture and well-being
He advises on studies of organisational culture and the effect of work on workers and their families.
The aim is questions and findings that an organisation, a researcher and a funder can all rely on.
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