luigi maria sicca

Professor of Organization Studies and Human Resources Management since 2001.
After graduating in Economics (University of Naples) he studied at the Scuola Sant’Anna in Pisa. He held a CNR scholarship before becoming a PhD student in Public Management at the University of Salerno. He then won another CNR scholarship for post-doctoral studies and research. In this period he came into contact with teachers and students representing a range of methodologies and research contexts, attending the Department of Arts Policy and Management, City University, London, the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, Warwick University and in Spain the Escuela Superior d'Administración y Direción de Empresas. The outcome of these experiences is an on-going production in national and international scientific journals with to date three monographs to his name.
Since the mid-1990s he has favoured the critical management approach focusing on two key concepts: listening ability and managerial rhetoric. He is particularly interested in decodifying the symbols and artefacts involved in “structure design- organizational behaviour”. This has led to research into such apparently “specialist” organizations as opera houses, theatres, festivals, orchestras, and research institutes in both sciences and humanities. In-depth study of these organizations can stand as an exemplum for students of organization because it makes visible - as under a microscope or camera lens - modalities of organizational action with traditions going back over millennia, and which are nonetheless present in the organizations which have made the history of industrial capitalism.
University lecture halls are themselves formal organizations, if not (yet) in an industrial sense, and represent learning communities displaying precisely the dynamics which students will come across in in professional enterprises. The commitment to research has its counterpart in an intensive teaching activity: involving first and second level degree and masters courses, advanced studies and PhD courses.
He lives with a ginger tom called Carmelo and their friend Rita.