Tobias Dennerlein
Assistant Professor
Education
Ph.D. in Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam and HEC Lausanne
M.Sc. in Business and Economics (Dipl.-Kfm.), University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Dr. Tobias Dennerlein is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Department of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management at the Mitch Daniels School of Business at Purdue University. He serves on the Editorial Review Board of Human Relations and as an ad hoc reviewer for highly ranked management journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Journal of Management. In recognition of his service to the field, he received a Best Ad Hoc Reviewer Award from the Journal of Applied Psychology.
Dr. Dennerlein’s research examines how managers’ leadership styles and behaviors—such as empowering leadership—shape employee motivation and downstream outcomes, including job performance, creativity, and unethical behavior. He uses both experimental and field-based methods in his research and is open to collaborating with corporate partners to help address leadership- and people-related challenges. His research has been published in premier academic journals, including the Journal of Applied Psychology. His work has also received attention in the popular press, with features in The Economist, The Conversation, and Forbes. Dr. Dennerlein regularly presents his work at internationally renowned conferences, including the Academy of Management Annual Meeting and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference.
Before joining Purdue, Dr. Dennerlein was an Assistant Professor at IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain, where he taught classes and workshops on leadership, teams, motivation, conflict, and power at the executive and MBA levels.
