Rate My Professor Marjo=Ritta Diehl

Marjo-Riitta Diehl serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Management Studies at Aalto University School of Business. She earned her PhD in Management from the London School of Economics in 2006. Her early academic training included studies in educational sciences, master's degree studies in Jyväskylä, and an exchange year at Lancaster University where she was awarded as the best exchange student. Diehl's career encompasses international roles, including six years at the International Labour Organization headquarters in Geneva preparing background materials on working conditions and employee rights; researcher at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health in Helsinki; lecturer and acting assistant professor at Hanken School of Economics; and nearly thirteen years at EBS Business School in Wiesbaden, Germany, where she progressed to teacher, researcher, Academic Director of the MBA and MSc in Management Programs, Head of Department, and Vice Dean of Research.

Diehl's research focuses on organizational justice, examining fairness judgments in workplaces and their effects on trust, commitment, performance, well-being, and cooperation, particularly during organizational changes, hybrid work, and platform economy. She also studies social exchange theory, psychological contracts, leadership, gender homophily in networking, and human resource management-innovation linkages. Key publications include 'A review of employee well-being and innovativeness: An opportunity for a mutual benefit' (2007), 'Perceptions of and reactions to workplace bullying: A social exchange perspective' (2010), 'Why women build less effective networks than men: The role of structural exclusion and personal hesitation' (2019), 'Three Paths to Feeling Just: How Managers Grapple with Justice Conundrums During Organizational Change' (2023), and her co-editorship of the 'Handbook of Social Exchange Theory in Organizations' (2026). With more than 4,700 citations on Google Scholar, she serves as principal investigator on projects such as the Research Council of Finland-funded 'Fair Play – Better bosses, better workplaces, resolving conundrums in justice enactment' (2025-2029) and holds an elected position in the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management.