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Michele Rigolizzo
Associate Professor, Management
- Email:
- rigolizzom@montclair.edu
- Degrees:
- BA, The College of New Jersey
- EdM, Harvard Graduate School of Education
- DBA, Harvard Business School
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Bio
Dr. Rigolizzo earned a doctorate degree from Harvard Business School in 2017, following a master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2010. She researches the ways in which working adults are empowered to learn thorough the challenges they face in their everyday work. She has developed new models and methodologies to study how employees can learn to learn in dynamic business environments. She also brings her professional training background, along with deep expertise in adult learning, to help her students become better professionals and better learners.
Expertise
Organizational Behavior, Human Resources, Adult Learning, Training and Development, Workplace Learning, Learning Behaviors
Research
- Collaboration with Vodafone to examine the learning behaviors of 18-24 year-olds who are undergoing a game-based training on enhancing digital skills.
- Evaluating biases in hiring process of student athletes through the HALO project
- Working Paper: Leading Learning: A field experiment
- Working Paper: Learning Attitudes Mediate Perceptions of Past School Experiences and Current Learning Behavior.
- Collaboration with Martha Jeong (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) on learning from patterns of success and failure
- Collaboration to evaluate changes in perspective taking of volunteers in a pen-pal program with incarcerated individuals
Professional Experience
- Manager - Learning & Development, Bristol-Myers Squibb (2007 - 2009)
- Project Analyst - Strategy & Analysis, Bristol-Myers Squibb (2000 - 2006)
- Research Assistant III, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Learning Innovations Laboratory (LILA) (2012 - 2013)
- Learning Advisor, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield NJ (2010 - 2011)
- Assistant Professor, Montclair State University (2017 - Present)
- Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Learning Innovations Laboratory (LILA) (2013 - Present)
Refereed Published Articles
- M. Rigolizzo (2018). The LABS (Learning As Behaviors) Framework for Higher-Order Learning. The Learning Organization
- M. Rigolizzo (2019). Ready and Willing to Learn: Exploring Personal Antecedents to Taking on Learning Challenges. Journal of Workplace Learning
- M. Rigolizzo, Z. Zhu (2020). Motivating Reflection Habits and Raising Employee Awareness of Learning. Evidence-based HRM
- M. Rigolizzo (2022). Learning in a hybrid world: New methods for a new Workplace. Journal of Business Strategy
- M. Rigolizzo, Z. Zhu, J. Harvey (2022). Leader Humility, Perceived Leader Authenticity and Informal Learning: How Humble Leaders Model Everyday Workplace Learning. Journal of Workplace Learning
- M. Rigolizzo, Z. Zhu, A. Cruz (2021). The Influence of Past Situations on Present Behaviors: How School Life Predicts Managerial Learning. Journal of Workplace Learning
- M. Rigolizzo, Z. Zhu (2021). The Ebb and Flow of Learning Motivation: The Differentiated Impact of the Implicit Theory of Intelligence on Learning Behaviors. Human Resource Development Quarterly
Published Proceedings
- M. Rigolizzo (5s). 2019. The Learning Behaviors Measure: A Behavioral Measure of Self-Directed Learning Academy of Management Proceedings
- M. Rigolizzo, K. Roloff (5s). 2018. The Role of Learning Orientation in the Process of Learning Academy of Management
- M. Rigolizzo, Z. Zhu (5s). 2020. The Ebb and Flow of Learning Motivation Academy of Management Proceedings
- M. Rigolizzo, Z. Zhu (5s). 2021. Leading Employee Learning Academy of Management Proceedings
Books & Chapters
- M. Rigolizzo, T. Amabile (2015). Entrepreneurial Creativity: The Role of Learning Processes and Work Environment Supports..