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Babatunde Ogunfowora

PhD
Pronouns: He/Him

Positions

Future Fund Professor in Behavioural Business Ethics

Haskayne School of Business, Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources [OBHR]

PhD Program Director

Haskayne School of Business, Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources [OBHR]

Adjunct Professor

Faculty of Arts, Department of Psychology

Contact information

Email

togunfow@ucalgary.ca

Web presence

Google Scholar

Phone number

Office: +1 (403) 220-8352

Location

Office: SH446

Background

Educational Background

Doctor of Philosophy Industrial/Organizational Psychology, The University of Calgary, 2009

Masters of Arts Psychology, McGill University, 2006

BSc Honours Psychology, The University of Calgary, 2004

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Biography

Dr. Tunde (roughly pronounced Toon-day) Ogunfowora is a Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources (OBHR) at the Haskayne School of Business (2013-present) and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Calgary. He earned his BSc from the University of Calgary, his Master’s degree from McGill University, and his PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Calgary. Prior to joining Haskayne, Tunde was an assistant professor of Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour at the Faculty of Business Administration, University of Regina and the Goodman School of Business, Brock University. Tunde’s Haskayne teaching portfolio includes courses in organizational behaviour, talent management, and organizational leadership. He regularly teaches in the MBA and executive MBA programs. He also teaches advanced applied statistics (linear and multilevel modeling in Mplus) in the PhD program. 

Research

Areas of Research

Current Research Interests

Tunde's research falls under the broad umbrella of Behavioral Business Ethics. He has researched morally oriented leadership (positive and negative) and individual differences in moral character (moral personality, moral cognitions, and moral emotions) in the workplace.

 In the leadership stream, he has examined the implications of ethical leadership and abusive leadership for understanding employee attitudes and behaviors at work. He is currently researching gaslighting in the workplace, including the tactics that gaslighters deploy and targets' psychological experiences of being gaslit.

In the moral character stream, Tunde is interested in understanding the underlying structure of moral character traits (e.g., Honesty-Humility, Moral Identity) and dark traits (e.g., moral disengagement propensity, narcissism, psychopathy) and their impact on moral conduct at work. He also examines the roles of moral cognitions (e.g., state moral disengagement, moral courage and moral ownership) and moral emotions (e.g., envy, resentment, guilt, and shame) in explaining employee ethical behavior and decision making.

The intersect among his lines of research entails understanding how external (leadership) and internal (personality, moral emotions, moral cognitions) factors interact to shape employee moral conduct.

His work has been published in mainstream organizational behavior journals, such as the Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Human Relations.

 

 

 

Courses

Course number Course title Semester
MGST 756 Advanced Linear and Multilevel Modeling (PhD)
MGST 795A/B Research Development (PhD Summer Research Course)
OBHR 601 Organizational Behaviour (MBA and executive MBA)
OBHR 621 Advanced Leadership (MBA and executive MBA)
OBHR 559 Talent Management: Recruitment and Selection (BComm)

Awards

  • Eyes High Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship, The University of Calgary. 2021
  • Dean's Research Grant, The University of Calgary. 2017
  • Vice President's Research Grant, The University of Calgary. 2015

Publications

  • Moral disengagement and the triple bottom line: The roles of disengagement tactics in understanding employee reactions to People, Planet, and Profit corporate initiatives. . Ogunfowora, B., Morgan, J., Khalilinejad, M., & Nguyen, V. Q. . Journal of Business and Psychology. (2025)
  • Social exchange theory and (un)ethical behaviors at work. Ogunfowora, B., Maerz, A., & Li, Y.. In Diehl, M.-R., Coyle-Shapiro, J., & Cropanzano, R. (Eds.), Handbook of Social Exchange Theory. . (2025)
  • CEO ethical leadership as a unique source of substantive and rhetorical ethical signals for attracting job seekers: The moderating role of job seekers’ moral identity. Ogunfowora, B., Andiappan, M., Stackhouse, M., & *Varty, C. T.. Journal of Organizational Behavior. (2023)
  • Do Moral Disengagers Experience Guilt following Workplace Misconduct? Consequences for Emotional Exhaustion and Task Performance. Ogunfowora, B., Nguyen, V. Q., Lee, C. S., Babalola, M. T., & Ren, S.. Journal of Organizational Behavior. 476-494. (2023)
  • A meta-analytic investigation of the antecedents, theoretical correlates, and consequences of moral disengagement at work. Ogunfowora, B., Nguyen, V.Q., Steel, P., Hwang, C. C. Journal of Applied Psychology, 107(5). 746-775. (2022)
  • Stronger together: Understanding when and why group ethical voice inhibits group abusive supervision.. Babalola, M., Garcia, P., Ren, S., Ogunfowora, B., Gok, K. Journal of Organizational Behavior. (2021)
  • How do leaders foster morally courageous behavior in employees? Leader role modeling, moral ownership, and felt obligation.. Ogunfowora, B., Maerz, A., & Varty, C. T.. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 42(3). 483-503. (2021)
  • Abusive supervision differentiation and employee outcomes: The roles of envy, resentment, and insecure group attachment.. Ogunfowora, B., Weinhardt, J. M., & Hwang, C. C.. Journal of Management, 47(3). 623-653. (2021)
  • The impact of team moral disengagement composition on team performance: The roles of team cooperation, team interpersonal deviance, and collective extraversion. Ogunfowora, B., Stackhouse, M., Maerz, A., Varty, C., Hwang, C., & Choi, J.. Journal of Business and Psychology, 36. 479-494. (2020)
  • The mind is willing, but the situation constrains: Why and when leader conscientiousness relates to ethical leadership. Babalola, M. T., Bligh, M. C., Ogunfowora, B., Guo, L., & Garba, O. A.. Journal of Business Ethics, 155 (1). 75-89. (2019)
  • Media depictions of CEO ethics and stakeholder support of CSR initiatives: The Mediating Roles of CSR Motive Attributions and Cynicism.. Ogunfowora, B., Stackhouse, M., & Oh, W.. Journal of Business Ethics, 150 (2),. 525-540. (2018)
  • Targeted workplace incivility: The roles of belongingness, embarrassment, and power. . Hershcovis, M. S., Ogunfowora, B., Reich, T. C., & Christie, A. M.. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 38. 1057-1075. (2017)
  • Safety in the c-suite: How chief executive officers influence organizational safety climate and employee injuries. . Tucker, S., Ogunfowora, B., & Diekrager, D.. Journal of Applied Psychology, 101(9). 1228-1239. (2016)
  • The impact of ethical leadership within the recruitment context: The roles of organizational reputation, applicant personality, and value congruence.. Ogunfowora, B.. The Leadership Quarterly, 25 (3). 528-543. (2014)
  • It’s all a matter of consensus: Leader role modeling strength as a moderator of the links between ethical Leadership and employee outcomes.. Ogunfowora, B. Human Relations, 67 (12). 1467-1490. (2014)
  • When the abuse is unevenly distributed: The effects of abusive supervision variability on work attitudes and behaviors.. Ogunfowora, B. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 34(8). 1105-1123. (2013)
  • No person is an island: The effects of group characteristics on individual trait expression.. Schmidt, J., Ogunfowora, B., & Bourdage, J. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 33(7). 925-945. (2012)
  • Similarity and assumed similarity in personality reports of well-acquainted persons.. Lee, K., Ashton, M. C., Pozzebon, J.A., Visser, B. A., Bourdage, J. S., & Ogunfowora, B.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96(2). 460-472. (2009)
  • Personality traits beyond the Big Five: Are they within the HEXACO space? . Lee, K., Ogunfowora, B., & Ashton, M. C.. Journal of Personality, 73(5). 1437-1463. (2005)

More Information

Research Grants

SSHRC Insight Grant ($233,435)   April 2025 – May 2029

  • Principal Applicant: Piers Steel; Co-applicants: Fariborzi, Hadi and Babatunde Ogunfowora
  • Title:  Should Intelligence Factor into Modern Hiring Decisions? A Systematic Review of General Mental Ability Testing in Personnel Selection and Its Adverse Impact.

SSHRC Insight Development Grant ($68,539)  April 2024 – March 2026
 .  Principal Applicant: Yanhong Li; Co-investigators: Addison Maerz; Babatunde Ogunfowora
 .  Title: The ebb and flow of workplace moral courage: A diary study unveiling within-person fluctuations.

SSHRC Insight Grant ($71,794) April 2023 – March 2028
• Principal Applicant: Lucas Dufour; Co-investigators: Babatunde Ogunfowora; Meena Andiappan
• Title: Socializing scruples: The effects of morally oriented socialization on newcomer’s unethical pro-organizational behavior over time.

SSHRC Insight Grant (173,634) April 2020 – March 2025
• Sole Applicant: Babatunde Ogunfowora; Collaborator: Piers Steel
• Title: Construct clean up time: Moral character traits and their cognitive-emotional links to moral and immoral employee behaviours at work.

SSHRC Insight Development Grant ($51,794) June 2020 – May 2022
• Principal Applicant: Meena Andiappan; Co-applicant: Babatunde Ogunfowora
• Title: When doing good becomes doing bad: The effects of repeated necessary evil enactment on moral disengagement.

SSHRC Insight Grant ($131,272) July 2018 – June 2022
• Principal Applicant: Joshua Bourdage; Co-applicants: Babatunde Ogunfowora; Nicolas Roulin.
• Title: Manipulation and Influence in the Workplace

SSHRC Insight Development Grant ($72,372) June 2014 – May 2016
• Principal Applicant: Babatunde Ogunfowora; Co-applicant: Meena Andiappan.
• Title: CEO ethical leadership and the recruitment process: Cultivating an ethical workforce by attracting ethical job seekers.

SSHRC Insight Development Grant ($66,609) June 2014 – May 2016
• Principal Applicant: Joshua Bourdage; Co-applicant: Babatunde Ogunfowora.
• Title: Understanding workplace impression management: The role of target characteristics.

SSHRC Standard Research Grant- 4A ($9800) April 2011 - March 2012
• Sole applicant: Babatunde Ogunfowora.
• Title: An investigation of the effects of ethical leadership on the attraction of organizational insiders and outsiders.

 

Jessica Baer (Sept 2025 - )

Farzam Khalilinejad (Jan 2022 - )

Viet Quan Nguyen (graduated July 2025)

Madelynn Stackhouse (graduated 2017)