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Rita Cunha is Full Professor of Human Resource Management at Nova School of Business and Economics(Nova SBE). Rita has a B.A. in Psychology, from ISPA, an M.A. in Human Resource Management, from New York University, a PhD. in Management, from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and Agregação, in Human Resource Management, from Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She is the author and co-author of several books, text-books, book chapters and articles in academic journals, such as Human Resource Management, International Journal of HRM; Journal of Organizational Change Management; European Management Journal; Leadership; International Business Review; or Journal of Managerial Psychology. Her published research, over time, focuses on the impact of privatisations on organizational culture, HRM and individual stress, on change management and on impact of HRM on organizational performance, both from a content and a process perspective. Examples of her publications in these areas are: Cunha, R. & Cooper, C.L. (2002) “Does privatization affect corporate culture and employee wellbeing?”, Journal of Managerial Psychology, vol.17 (1), 21-49 Cunha, M.P. & Cunha, R. (2003) “The Interplay of Planned and Emergent Change in Cuba”, International Business Review, vol. 12 (4) 445-459 Alcaraz, J. M., Susaeta, L., Suarez, E., Colón, C., Gutiérrez-Martínez, I., Cunha, R., Leguizamón, F., Idrovo, S., Weisz, N., Correia, M.F., & Ramón Pin, J. R. (2019). The human resources management contribution to social responsibility and environmental sustainability: explorations from Ibero-America. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 30(22), 3166-3189. Sanders,K., Jorgensen, F., Shipton, H., van Rossenberg, Y., Cunha, R., Li, X., Rodrigues, R., Wong, S. & Dysvick, A. (2018) “Performance Based Rewards and Innovative Behavior”, Human Resource Management, Vol. 57: 1455–1468. Dibben, P., Brewster, C., Brookes. M.l, Cunha, R., Webster, E. & Wood, G. (2016) “Institutional legacies and HRM: similarities and differences in HRM practices in Portugal and Mozambique”, The International Journal of Human Resource Management. Her current research interests are related to the impact of HRM on organizational performance, from a process approach, as well as the impact of work transitions in individual identity. She was Vice-President of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management, and Editor-in-chief of Management Research, as well as member of editorial boards and reviewer of several national and international academic journals, such as Human Resource Management, Journal of Managerial Psychology, European Journal of International Management, British Journal of Management, Revista Portuguesa de Gestão. She extensively presented her research in national and international symposia and academic conferences, such as the meetings of the Academy of Management, the Iberoamerican Academy of Management, EAWOP. She was Program Chair and Member of the Scientific Committee of the 4th International conference of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management, Faculdade de Economia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon. She created and managed the first university career management service in Portugal and was Academic Director of the MBA, coordinator of the international office, and Academic Director of the CEMS MIM. She was Deputy Dean, Pre-Experience Studies and Academic Director of the Master in Management and Master in Business Analytics. Her teaching, both at degree programs and executive education, are concentrated in Strategic Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior, Change Management, Team Leadership.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Rita Maria Ferreira Duarte de Campos e Cunha

Citation names

  • Cunha, Rita

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
9513-52CB-9569
ORCID iD
0000-0003-2399-7424

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • 965059715 (Personal)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Economics and Business - Business and Management

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2004
Concluded
 Rita Maria Ferreira Duarte de Campos e Cunha (Título de Agregado)
Major in Gestão de Recursos Humanos
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Economia e Gestão, Portugal
1997
Concluded
 Management (Doutoramento)
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, United Kingdom
1984
Concluded
 Graduate School of Arts and Science (Mestrado)
Major in Human Resource Management
New York University, United States
1977
Concluded
 Psicologia (Licenciatura)
Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, Portugal
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020 - Current Full Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Economia e Gestão, Portugal
2004 - 2020 Associate Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Economia e Gestão, Portugal
1998 - 2004 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Economia e Gestão, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Cunha, Miguel Pina e; Rego, Arménio; Cunha, Rita; Cabral-Cardoso, Carlos; Neves, Pedro. Manual de comportamento organizacional e gestão. Editora RH.. 2014.
  2. Gomes, Jorge; Cunha, Miguel Pina e; Cunha, Rita; Rego, Arménio; Cabral-Cardoso, Carlos; Marques, Carlos. Manual de Gestão de Pessoas e do Capital Humano. Edições Sílabo,Lda. 2008.
  3. Cunha, Miguel Pina e; Rego, Arménio; Cunha, Rita. Organizações Positivas. Publicações D. Quixote. 2008.
  4. Rego, Arménio; Cabral-Cardoso, Carlos; Cunha, Miguel Pina e; Cunha, Rita. Comportamento Organizacional e Gestão, Casos Portugueses e Exercícios. Editora RH. 2003.
  5. Cunha, Miguel Pina e; Cunha, Rita; Rego, Arménio; Cabral-Cardoso, Carlos. Manual de Comportamento Organizacional e Gestão. Editora RH. 2003.
  6. Cunha, Rita. A Gestão de Recursos Humanos na Estratégia da Empresa. Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional. 1992.
Book chapter
  1. Cunha, Rita. "Gestão de recursos humanos ou gestão de pessoas? Que futuro?". In Encruzilhadas e Desafios da GRH, edited by Gonçalves, Sónia P.; PALMA, Patrícia; Lopes, Miguel, 44-56. Edições Sílabo, Lda., 2021.
  2. Cunha, Rita. "O que é uma boa conclusão?". In Investigação em GRH: Um Guia de Boas Práticas,, edited by Gomes, Jorge; Cesário, Francisco. Escolar Editora, 2014.
  3. Gomes, Jorge; Chaves, F; Coelho, Joaquim Pinto; Cunha, Rita. "The missing link: How HRM systems relate to how people look to the organization". In Recursos humanos. Das teorias às boas práticas. Os artigos de investigação e intervenção. 2010.
  4. Cunha, Rita. "La gestion de los recursos humanos en Portugal". In La gestion de los recursos humanos, edited by Dolan, S; Cabrera, R; Jackson,; Schuler, R, 397-399. McGraw-Hill/Interamericana de España, 2007.
  5. Nikandrou I; Cunha, Rita; Papalexandris, N. "HRM and organizational performance: universal and contextual evidence". In Managing Human Resources in Europe,, edited by Larsen, H. Routledge, 2006.
  6. Cunha, Rita. "Flexibilidade dos Recursos Humanos". In Comportamento Organizacional e Gestão, 21 Temas e Debates para o Século XXI, edited by Gomes, Jorge; Cunha, Miguel Pina e; Rego, Arménio, 289-300. RH Editora, 2006.
  7. Cunha, Rita; Obeso Carlos; Cunha, Miguel Pina e. "Spain and Portugal: different paths to the same destiny". In Human Resource Management in Europe, Evidence of Convergence?, edited by Brewster, Chris; Mayrhofer, W; Morley, M. 2004.
  8. Cunha, Rita. "Privatization and Outsourcing". In The New World of Work, edited by Cooper, Cary ; Burke, R, 29-46. Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 2002.
  9. Cunha, Miguel Pina e; Cunha, Rita; Cunha, João V. "Improvisation and Learning: Soulmates or Just Friends?". In Innovative Theories, Tools and Practices in Work and Organizational Psychology, edited by Vartiainen; Avallone, 307-320. Hogrefe & Huber Publishers, 2000.
  10. Cunha, Rita. "Impact of privatization in Portugal". In The Organization in Crisis, downsizing, restructuring and privatization, edited by Burke, R; Cooper, Cary. Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 2000.
  11. Cunha, Rita. "Mudanças nas Empresas Privatizadas: A Cultura Empresarial". In Privatizações e Regulação, A Experiência Portuguesa. Ministério das Finanças, 1999.
  12. Cunha, Rita. "O Lado Humano das Privatizações". In Teoria Organizacional, Perspectivas e Prospectivas, edited by Cunha, Miguel Pina e. Publicações D. Quixote, 1999.
  13. Cunha, Rita. "Avaliação de Desempenho". In Recursos Humanos, Colectânea de Textos, edited by Lopo, T. T.; Clemente, V. CIDEC, 1999.
  14. Cunha, Rita. "Grupos nas Organizações, Uma Perspectiva de Gestão". In Comportamento Organizacional e Gestão de Empresas, edited by Marques, Carlos; Cunha, Miguel Pina e. Publicações D. Quixote, 1996.
  15. Cunha, Rita. "Human Resources Management in Portugal". In Human Resource Management in Western Europe. Walter de Gruyter & Co, 1995.
  16. Cunha, Rita. "Women in Business and Management, Portugal". In European Women in Business and Management, edited by Davidson, M; Cooper, Cary. Paul Chapman Publishing, Ltd, 1993.
Book review
  1. Cunha, Rita. "Preventing Stress, Improving Productivity: European Case Studies in the Workplace, Book Review". Review of Preventing Stress, Improving Productivity: European Case Studies in the Workplace 15, 4 (1999): 261-261.
Conference paper
  1. Correia, Anabela; Gomes, Jorge; Coelho, Joaquim Pinto; Cunha, Rita. "Does human resource management (HRM) really matter in tourism organizations? Strength of HRM systems from a managerial perspective". Paper presented in International Conference on Tourism Development and Management, 2009.
Dictionary entry
  1. Cunha, Rita. "Procrastination". In International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies. SAGE Publications Inc, 2008.
Journal article
  1. Ibarreche, Santiago. "Rita Campos e Cunha: a professor, mentor and colleague who ends up being a friend for life". Management Research: Journal of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management 16 3 (2018): 302-314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/mrjiam-08-2018-0855.
    10.1108/mrjiam-08-2018-0855
  2. Sanders, Karin; Jorgensen, Frances; Shipton, Helen; Van Rossenberg, Yvonne; Cunha, Rita; Li, Xiaobei; Rodrigues, Ricardo; Wong, Sut I.; Dysvik, Anders. "Performance-based rewards and innovative behaviors". Human Resource Management 57 6 (2018): 1455-1468. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hrm.21918.
    Published • 10.1002/hrm.21918
  3. Alcaraz, José M.; Susaeta, Lourdes; Suarez, Esperanza; Colón, Carlos; Gutiérrez-Martínez, Isis; Cunha, Rita; Leguizamón, Francisco; et al. "The human resources management contribution to social responsibility and environmental sustainability: explorations from Ibero-America". The International Journal of Human Resource Management 30 22 (2017): 3166-3189. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2017.1350732.
    10.1080/09585192.2017.1350732
  4. Dibben, Pauline; Brewster, Chris; Brookes, Michael; Cunha, Rita; Webster, Edward; Wood, Geoffrey. "Institutional legacies and HRM: similarities and differences in HRM practices in Portugal and Mozambique". The International Journal of Human Resource Management 28 18 (2016): 2519-2537. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2016.1164225.
    10.1080/09585192.2016.1164225
  5. Coelho, Joaquim Pinto; Cunha, Rita Campos; Gomes, Jorge F.S.; Correia, Anabela Gomes. "Strength of the HRM system: The development of a measure". Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management 8 4 (2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.3926/jiem.1432.
    10.3926/jiem.1432
  6. Faro Albuquerque, Isabel; Campos Cunha, Rita; Dias Martins, Luís; Brito Sá, Armando. "Primary health care services: workplace spirituality and organizational performance". Journal of Organizational Change Management 27 1 (2014): 59-82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jocm-11-2012-0186.
    10.1108/jocm-11-2012-0186
  7. Correia, Manuela Faia; Cunha, Rita Campos e; Scholten, Marc. "Impact of M&As on organizational performance: The moderating role of HRM centrality". European Management Journal 31 4 (2013): 323-332. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2013.01.004.
    10.1016/j.emj.2013.01.004
  8. Pina e Cunha, Miguel; Campos e Cunha, Rita; Rego, Arménio. "Exploring the Role of Leader—Subordinate Interactions in the Construction of Organizational Positivity". Leadership 5 1 (2009): 81-101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1742715008098311.
    10.1177/1742715008098311
  9. Campos Cunha, Rita; Cunha, Miguel Pina e. "Impact of strategy, strength of the HRM system and HRM bundles on organizational performance.". Problems and Perspectives in Management 7 1 (2009): 46-58.
  10. Cunha, Miguel Pina e.; Cunha, Rita Campos e.. "The role of mediatory myths in sustaining ideology: the case of Cuba after the ‘special period’". Culture and Organization 14 3 (2008): 207-223. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14759550802270643.
    10.1080/14759550802270643
  11. Cunha, Miguel Pinae; Cunha, Rita Campose; Rego, Arménio. "Toward a cross-cultural theory of “exemplary organizations”: Evidence from Cuba". Thunderbird International Business Review 49 5 (2007): 545-565. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tie.20158.
    10.1002/tie.20158
  12. Cunha, Miguel; Wood, Thomaz; Cunha, Rita; Cabrera, Elizabeth. "Guest Editors' Introduction to The Special Issue on Organizations, Organizing, and Organization Studies in Ibero-America". Management Research 4 3 (2006): 149-154. http://dx.doi.org/10.2753/jmr1536-5433040301.
    10.2753/jmr1536-5433040301
  13. Cunha, Miguel Pina e; Cunha, Rita; Rego, Arménio. "Organizações: Uma Perspectiva Positiva". Comportamento Organizacional e Gestão 11 1 (2005): 111-114. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/4689.
  14. Pina E. Cunha, Miguel; Campos E. Cunha, Rita. "Changing a cultural grammar?". Journal of Managerial Psychology 19 8 (2004): 795-808. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/02683940410568266.
    10.1108/02683940410568266
  15. Cunha, Miguel Pina e; Cunha, Rita Campos e. "The dialectics of human resource management in Cuba". The International Journal of Human Resource Management 15 7 (2004): 1280-1292. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0958519042000238455.
    10.1080/0958519042000238455
  16. Kamoche, Ken; Cunha, Miguel Pina e; Cunha, Rita. "Preface: Improvisation in Organizations". International Studies of Management & Organization 33 1 (2003): 3-9.
  17. Cunha, Miguel Pina e; Kamoche, Ken; Cunha, Rita. "Organizational improvisation and leadership: A field study in two computer-mediated settings". International Studies of Management & Organization vol.33 1 (2003): 34-57.
  18. Cunha, Miguel Pina e; Cunha, Rita. "The interplay of planned and emergent change in Cuba". International Business Review 12 4 (2003): 445-459.
  19. Cunha, Rita; Cunha, Miguel Pina e; Morgado, António; Brewster, Chris. "Market Forces, Strategic Management, HRM Practices and Organizational Performance, a model based in a European sample". Management Research, The Journal of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management 1 1 (2003): 79-91.
  20. Cunha, M.P.; Cunha, R.C.. "The interplay of planned and emergent change in Cuba". International Business Review 12 4 (2003): 445-459. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0037971169&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/S0969-5931(03)00038-6
  21. Cunha, Rita. "In Memoriam – Frederick Herzberg, um humanista". Comportamento Organizacional e Gestão 7 2 (2001): 207-208.
  22. Cunha, Rita. "Aproximações Mútuas". Cadernos de Economia 14 (2001): 25-26.
  23. Gomes, Jorge; Cunha, Miguel Pina e; Cunha, Rita. "Recursos Humanos e Vantagem Competitiva: A Perspectiva da Organização Baseada nos Recursos". Revista Portuguesa de Gestão 1 (1999): 57-66.
  24. Cunha, Rita; Cooper, Cary. "Does privatization affect corporate culture and employee wellbeing". Journal of Managerial Psychology 17 1 (1998): 21-49.
  25. Cunha, Rita; Cooper, Cary. "Privatisation and the human factor". Journal of Applied Management Studies 7 2 (1998): 201-210.
  26. Cunha, Rita; Cooper, Cary ; Moura, M; Reis, M; Fernandes, P. "Portuguese Version of the OSI: A Study of Reliability and Validity". Stress Medicine 8 (1992): 247-251.
Magazine article
  1. Bentes, L; Cunha, Rita. "No tecto do mundo. Uma abordagem ambiciosa e ganhadora da GRH", 2010
  2. Cunha, Rita; Cesário, Francisco. "Avaliação de Desempenho, a tradição já não é o que era", Pessoal, 1999
Preface / Postscript
  1. Cunha, Rita. "Preface to the book". Preface to Gestão por Valores, edited by Dolan, Si; Garcia, Salvador. Biorumo. 2006.
  2. Kamoche, Ken; Cunha, Miguel Pina e; Cunha, Rita. "Preface, Improvisation in Organizations". Preface to International Studies of Management & Organization, 3-9. 2003.
  3. Cabral-Cardoso, Carlos; Cunha, Rita. "Organizational behaviour and its contribution to human resource management". Preface to Comportamento Organizacional e Gestão:, 205-206. 2001.
  4. Cabral-Cardoso, Carlos; Cunha, Rita. "Organizational behaviour and its contribution to human resource management: Introduction to the special issue". Preface to Comportamento Organizacional e Gest\ao, 155-160. 2000.
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2014 - 2017 Performance of healthcare organizations: contributing variables to efficiency and quality,
Supervisor
 Comportamento Organizacional (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Economia e Gestão, Portugal
2010 - 2014 Changing Organizations in the Public Sector: Individual and Organizational Strategies towards Perceived Performance Improvement
Supervisor
 Psicologia - Comportamento Organizacional (PhD)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
1999 - Current Iberoamerican Academy of Management. Member
1997 - Current Academy of Management Member
2004 - 2015 Iberoamerican Academy of Management Vice-President

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2017 - 2017 10th International conference of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management
2005 - 2005 4th International conference of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management - Program Chair Faculdade de Economia da UNL
2003 - 2003 3rd International Conference - Iberoamerican Academy of Management Fundação Getulio Vargas

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2009 - 2014 Management Research, the Journal of the Iberoamerican Academy of Management. ( 1536-5433) Emerald Publishing
2008 - 2010 Cross Cultural Management, an International Journal. (1352-7606) Emerald Insight
2002 - 2007 Comportamento Organizacional e Gestão ( 0872-9662) ISPA
1999 - 2005 Revista Estudos de Gestão ISEG
Distinctions

Award

2015 Carolyn Dexter Award Nominee for the paper “Innovative Behavior: HPWSs, HR System Strength and Country values” with K. Sanders,Y. Wang, H. Shipton, Y. Rossenberg, F. Jorgensen, J. Gomes, R. Rodrigues and S. Humborstad,
2001 Honorary Mention Award
Iberoamerican Academy of Management, United States