Sari S A Mattila

Dr. Sari Mattila is a full-time visiting faculty and OB-HRM Area FPM Coordinator at IIM Bangalore. She received her Ph.D. degree from Tampere University of Technology in the field of Management and OB/HR after an integrated Master''s Degree in Philosophy from the University of Joensuu (now part of the University of Eastern Finland). Before her academic career, she has worked in industry in various positions of responsibility. Prior to that she was into competitive professional horseback riding. She has herself been engaging variety of practices as part of her interest in experiential learning and pedagogies, psychoanalysis, psychodrama, counselling and therapy, yoga, mindfulness and vipassana. 

Dr. Sari Mattila current research interests include: Enlightened Organizations, Wisdom and Knowing in Organizations; Spirituality and Organizations; Psycho-Social life in Organizations. She is interested in FiloCafes, Socratic Dialogue and its applications, group dynamics, psychodrama and organisational development, mindfulness, organisational chaos, psychosocial realities and applications of fiction in real life (and vice versa).

Dr Mattila's ongoing research are in the areas of Leadership, Psycho-social life in organisations, Spirituality and Traditional Wisdom, and Organizational Enlightenment.

Research projects:

• Organizational Enlightenment (June 2018-)
• Wisdom and knowing in organizations (2015-2017)
• Management challenges and business ethics in the dynamic environments in Finland and India (2012-2014), funded by Liikesivistysrahasto (the Foundation for Economic Education)
• Recent Publications and Conferences:

Journal articles:

• Mattila, Sari (2018). Understanding the Dynamics of Difference: How ethics and self-awareness can illuminate choices, pp. 208-225. Organizational and Social Dynamics 18(2).

Chapters in a book:

• Mattila, Sari S. A. (2018). Human Experience as Mysterious: The confluence of Spirituality, Education and Fantasy in Two Trilogies, pp. 241-270. In Unbundling the Sixth Sense: Explorations in Spirituality and Management, Eds. Ramnath Narayanswamy, Yochanan Altman, Sunita Singh Sengupta, Sampada Publications.

Working Papers:

Mattila, Sari S. A. (2016) Wise Organizations? Aggregated and Distributed Wisdom in Organizations, IIM Bangalore Research Paper No. 506, Indian Institute of Management (IIMB): SRRN

Paper presentations in the following conferences:

• Belgirate VI, AK Rice Institute, OFEK, The Tavistock Institute, Belgirate, Italy, 2018
• TIHR 70 Years Festival, The Tavistock Institute, UK, 2017
• ISPSO Annual Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017
• ISPSO Annual Meeting, Granada, Spain, 2016
• International Conference on Spirituality and Management, IIMB, India, 2016
• Nordic Conference in Philosophical Practice, Aalborg University, Denmark, 2015
• EGOS Colloquium, Athens, Greece, 2015
• EIBA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2015
• ETMU Days, Rovaniemi, Finland, 2015
• Nordic Conference in Philosophical Practice, Critical Academy, Finland, 2014

Non-paper presentation conferences:

• Creating Connections, Efterling, Netherlands, 2015
• Earlier conferences in EGOS (2013, 2012, 2010), Golden Jubilee of Bihar School of Yoga & World Yoga Convention (2013), EBEN (2010, 2011), Finnish Anthropology Conference (2011), 2nd International Conference in Corporate Governance (2010), Power and Knowledge (2010), TCI Annual Global Conference (2010), APROS (2009), EDI (2009), ICICKM (2007), 3rd International Conference on Intercultural Communication Competence (2006), GRCs (2005, 2008, 2012)

Awards

• Best Professors in Human Resource Management tribute by World HRD Congress 2018
• Outstanding Reviewer (AOM 2017, MSR Interest Group)
• Liikesivistysrahasto Scholar (Foundation for Economic Education), Conference Travel Grant (2015, 2016, 2018)
• Liikesivistysrahasto Scholar (Foundation for Economic Education), 2012-2014.
• UGC Scholar (Indo-Finnish Bilateral Cultural Exchange Programme), at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and New Delhi Institute of Management, 2006-2007.
• Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation Scholar, 2006.

Education

• PhD (Industrial Management), Tampere University of Technology, Finland
• MSSc (Philosophy), University of Joensuu, Finland
• Business Diploma (Marketing), Institute of Marketing, Finland

Other courses / education (representative):

• Certified Psychodrama Practitioner (CPP), Moreno-Institute
• OPUS Advanced Training in Small Group Processes
• Yoga Teacher Training, Bihar School of Yoga